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Excerpt from Nevada County, State of California: The Home of Deep Producing Gold Mines and Prolific Fruit Orchards
In this brief sketch of modern Nevada County, it is considered proper to speak of two specific instances, of soil development, which are typical of many. One is that of Mr. Horace V. Winchell, a mining engineer of national reputation, whose training and travel gave him a wide knowl edge of what constitutes profitable investments. Coming here in a professional capacity two or three years ago, after a brief visit he departed a farmer, having instructed his agents to purchase 400 acres of land upon which he is spending thousands of dollars, plant ing it to fruit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
