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| | Georgetown, California History circa 1883 |
 | | Georgetown is and always will be a mining town in the full sense of the word, the high elevation as well as the character of the country don't recommend it for an agricultural centre, though there always has been raised a superior kind of fruit, particularly of the harder varieties. |
 | | The water of the Georgetown divide is controlled for the most part by the "California Water Company," their main supply is a system of lakes situated at a high altitude in the eastern portion of the county, having an aggregate of 300 miles of ditches, flumes and iron pipes. |
 | | T lst time Georgetown has been visited by the fire fiend was on May 28th, 1869 ; the fire was discovered in the old Miners' Hotel, n Main street, shortly after midnight, and the flames spread with such rapidity that the proprietor of the hotel, Mr. |
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