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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Lumber Baron of the Comstock Lode

Lumber Baron of the Comstock Lode

Harpster, Jack

Paperback

Business BiographiesBusiness GeneralRegional: West

ISBN10: 1939995108
ISBN13: 9781939995100
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Apr 2 2015
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Was Duane L. Bliss a business genius or a despoiler of natural resources? This is one of the major themes in this first-ever biography of one of the Pacific West's great entrepreneurial geniuses.
During the glory days of Nevada's Comstock era, from 1859 into the early 1890s, Duane L. Bliss's Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Fluming Company was the largest supplier of timber and lumber to the booming mining business. The company's products provided the framework for the Comstock's 135+ underground mines and supplied the lumber to help build the towns of Virginia City and Gold Hill. It also sold the firewood that stoked the steam engines of the equipment that performed the mines' and mills' heavy lifting and warmed the homes on the Virginia Range. On the flip side, however, Bliss's firm leveled more of the old-growth forest in the Tahoe Basin than any of its competitors.

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