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devoid of coal, oil, gas, stone or some other resource which would bring him 

 gold. When a few hundred men and women desire to keep for the "glory 

 of the past," these spots as they are, the men to whom gold is god, step in, 

 seize control and demand !ii>10,000 ransom for the release to the nature lovers. 

 The first settlers, the pioneers of a century ago, were content with little. 

 They came, they saw, they conquered a few acres from Mother Nature. 

 Building their cabins wherever a spring purled forth from a hillside to furnish 

 water, they raised their meagre crops, planted orchards for their posterity, 

 hunted, fished, trapped and lived their days in peace and content. But soon 

 westward the wave of civilization found its way, bringing with it desire, 

 greed, discontent, demand for the luxuries as well as for the necessities of 

 life. Then it was that our citizens began to ask "what is there beneath the 

 surface that will bring us wealth?" To answer that question David Dale 

 Owen, Ryland T. Brown, Richard Owen, E. T. Cox, John Collett, Edward 

 Orton and a score of others whom I have mentioned, gave their knowledge 

 and the best years of their lives. All honor, then, to the memory of the 

 geologists of the century that has gone — to the men who were the pioneers 

 that pointed out where the stored resources of a great commonwealth could 

 be found. 



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