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...when Evalyn Walsh was ten, her tough, Tipperary-born father struck gold at Ouray, Colo. Tom Walsh had lived in a boxcar, tended store in Deadwood, and hammered outcroppings for fruitless decades. But when the millions rolled in he twirled the ends of his handlebar mustache, hustled his family off to Washington and swore that his daughter was going to be a lady. Evalyn promptly swore that she wouldn't. She didn't. But in the next 50 years she proved that with $100 million, a wild Irish miner's daughter could do almost everything else under...
...fabulous Telluride-Ouray-Silverton mining district of Colorado's San Juan mountains, the world's fastest tunnel builder was hard a-boring once more last week. The man: 6-ft.-8-in. John Raymond Austin, 56, whose straggly grey hair and long, lined face give him the melancholy look of a bloodhound. The job: adding 6,200 ft. to an abandoned tunnel under La Plata divide, to make it possible to get zinc, lead and copper out of some lately unworked gold & silver mines...
Preserve. In Ouray, Colo., citizens were forbidden to hunt elk on Main Street...
Died. A. C. ("Uncle Billy") Hildreth, 100, "oldest B. P. O. Elk in the world," Civil War veteran and Indian scout, at Ouray, Colo...
...estimated that the camp expenses for the eight weeks, which will include an individual saddle horse for the last two weeks, will be $150. Tuition fee will be $30, and the travelling expenses to Ouray, Colorado, and return bring the total up considerably...