Borax Wagon pulled by 20 MULE TEAM Photo 6
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OUTWEST PHOTOS 20 MULE TEAM Photo 6 Two men played roles in bringing borates from the desert floor to industries and households around the world. The first was Francis M. "Borax" Smith. Smith established the first successful borax mining operation in 1872 at Teel's Marsh, Nevada. The second was borax pioneer William T. Coleman. In 1881, Coleman filed claims on the richest fields of crude ore yet discovered âe" hundreds of glistening, isolated acres of cottonball in formidable Death Valley. By the early 1880s, he established the Harmony Borax Works near what is now Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley. According to legend, Coleman's local superintendent J.W.S. Perry and a young muleskinner named Ed Stiles thought of hitching two ten-mule teams together to forms a 100-foot-long, twenty mule team. The borax load had to be hauled 165 miles up and out of Death Valley, over the steep Panamint Mountains and across the desert to the nearest railroad junction at Mojave. The 20-day round trip started 190 feet below sea level and climbed to an elevation of 2,000 feet before it was over. This Rare Image is a NEW 8x10 PHOTOGRAPH, Reprinted from an Old Photograph and Printed on Photographic Paper. Photograph will be mailed in a Clear Stiff Plastic Toploader and placed inside a Stiff High Quality Photo Mailer. We prefer PAYPAL but accept Money
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