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Harris Merce contract to erecting wharf, steam shovel displaced skeleton

DT Data Page #: 
9
Newspaper: 
Weekly Humboldt Times
Newspaper Date: 
6/21/1888
Page #: 
3
Item Type: 
Lighting, Land work
Place: 
Freshwater Slough Fields Landing
TEXT: 
Harris Merces has taken the contract erecting the buildings + wharf at the new tannery about to be erected on Freshwater Slough. The steam shovel of the Eureka + EK RW RR company which is digging in the bluff near Fields Landing, recently displaced the skeleton of an Indian who had been buried on the top of the hill.
Key Words: 
Harris Merce, Contract For Erecting Buildings + Wharf, Steam Shovel Digging In Bluff, Displaced Skeleton Of Indian.