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Ghost Mines of Yosemite (1958) by Douglass Hubbard

3. SPECULATION

EXCITEMENT RAN HIGH on Tioga Hill during these times and claims were changing hands like cards in a poker game. Shortly before his untimely death Brusky and several of the Sonora friends who owned the adjoining claims on the Sheepherder Lode attempted to incorporate as The Consolidated Lake, Summit and Sonora Claims, while the High Rock was transferred to the Mount Dana Mining Company and then to the Great Sierra Mining Company, both California corporations.⁵

[click to enlarge] LIFTING WINCH, DANA VILLAGE

[click to enlarge] GREAT SIERRA HOISTING WORKS

[click to enlarge] GREAT SIERRA CABIN, TIOGA HILL

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