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0052
Predicting the Blackfoot Mines Stampede
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Predicting the Blackfoot Mines Stampede

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STAMPEDE OF MINERS. – The people of Portland expect to reap a fine harvest in the coming spring out of the miners en route to the Montana mines.  A private letter says 20,000 are expected to pass through, but this we discredit as the mines will be chiefly peopled and supplied from the other side of the mountains.  From all the accounts hitherto received it is fair to say that the miners on this coast will have a fairer field before them in the recently discovered rich mines on the Columbia.

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Title: Predicting the Blackfoot Mines Stampede
Internal ID: 0052.0007
Medium: Newspaper
Date: January 10th 1866
Collection: 0052
Publisher: Victoria Daily Colonist
Pages: 3
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Newspaper article Portland expects 20,000 people to pass through on their way to the Montana mines.
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