Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Encyclopedia Americana, 1918, Vol. 9 of 30
Stamps and other machines were brought from New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Denver; the oil for fuel to run them, from California; the food for the village of over a thousand people living in homes built of Texas lumber is all brought in from the great canning, packing and fruit-growing sections of the country.
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