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 Rh apart from that of the mines, of $1,050,980. A desirable lot of 30 by 80 feet, on Allen Street, between Fourth and Sixth—such was the business–like nomenclature used already in this settlement of yesterday—was worth $6000.



A shanty that cost $50 to build rented for $15 a month. A nucleus of many blocks at the centre consisted of substantial, large-sized buildings, hotels, banks—Schieffelin Hall, for meetings and—amusements and stores stocked with goods of more than the average excellence in many older and larger towns.