On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:51:02 +0000, you wrote: > >If you think I am going to ask "They mined ghosts? Then you are absolutely >wrong. Wouldn;t do that! > OK - then I won't tell you that they mined silver before they mined ghosts. >Peter>An ice house or a nice house? I could understand the latter not wanting >cow pies around the yard, but I don't understand why Colorado had salt in the >ice in the early century??> > > >Since he probably shoveled the sawdust out of >the icehouse when removing the next block of ice, I can see why 'plops' lying >around might taint the old sawdust, but we just sawed up a couple of trees and >used new sawdust every year.
> > I guess I didn't explain very well. His parents had a general store.> They > > cut ICE from the lake in the winter and stored it in an ICE> house. I > > suppose it was from making ice cream that they had the salt.> This was a > > ghost mining town in a very arid range area - the cows> weren't fenced in - > > not many trees except up in the >mountains.> _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
