Sentence examples for prospectors built from inspiring English sources
Like a lot of ecological treasures, Caddo has been rather routinely abused, first by that steamboat traffic in the 19th century, then again, beginning in 1910, when prospectors built the country's first "over-water" oil rigs to tap what was hoped to be infinite reserves in East Texas.
The first to try it were some 2,500 prospectors who built a boom town they called Mammoth City in 1879.
Others, like the White Rim, which is inside Canyonlands Park about 30 miles away, are in remote areas opened up by the hundreds of miles of roads built by prospectors.
Prospectors staked claims and built cabins, and within a few years placer mining extended the full lengths of Cataract and Basin Creeks.
The railway built for prospectors through White Pass in the last year of the rush reopened in 1988 and is today only used by tourists, closely linked to the Chilkoot trail which is a popular hiking route.
Prospector-X will be built and tested at both locations.
Once out of the canyon we stopped on the right bank at Kraus Hot Springs, named for an old prospector from Chicago who once built his cabin there.
Don't bother trying to make it to Hermit's Rest, a 1914 stone building named for a 19th-century French-Canadian prospector who had a roughly built homestead in the area.
In a nation where long-distance train travel has almost died out, the Griggses and their neighbors get to see places that cross-country drivers never glimpse: remnants of wooden water channels built by gold rush prospectors in California hills; tracks that run along Washington State beaches where sea lions lounge; mountain passes through the Rockies with no highway signs to clutter the view.
Another prospector named Alonzo Maxey, and a friend, built Bradley's Roadhouse to compete with McCarty's and by 1907, McCarty's had been transferred to Maxey.
The Chepe railroad was built, ostensibly, to ferry gold prospectors and their machinery into the lucrative metallurgical seams of the Sierra Tarahumara.
