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Backyard Landscaping Pebble Paths That Seem Shaped by The Wind
The designs showcased below have been created by using river stones carefully categorized into colors and sizes. You can only imagine the amount of work invested into such a grand design.

The word mosaic is from the Italian mosaico deriving from the Latin mosaicus and ultimately from the Greek mouseios meaning belonging to the Muses, hence artisti.

“Messrs Peterson, Talbitt, & Canady have the Mammoth & Copenhagen claims up Alder Gulch. On the first named, a 75 foot shaft shows a 6-foot wide vein of galena & carbonates ; the second has a tunnel 100 feet long showing four-feet of ore averaging 90 oz.” (per- ton of ore)
June 24 1884: “Colonel Brodhead of Ketchum was in the first of last week looking at the Mammoth Mine up Alder Creek. He has the refusal of the valuable property for a few days for $30,000. I visited the mine last Saturday & have no hesitation in pronouncing it the biggest thing on Lost River. Floyd Perkins was with us, and on our way to the mine we were caught in a regular Dakota blizzard, and since then Floyd is thinking strongly about migrating to Central Africa.”
June 3, 1887: “E.R. Ferris, the senior member of Ferris Bros. of New York, will arrive here in a few days and work will immediately resume on the Mammoth Mine -which is indeed a mammoth mine- in which that company has a controlling interest. They will proceed at once with erection of concentrating works & the systematic development of the property.”
Oct. 15, 1887: “The concentrating works recently completed for the Mammoth Mine on Alder Creek by the Ferris Brothers are a complete success in every way. Under the efficient management & superintendence of our neighbor Charles Akin the building and all its accessories have been put up in first class style and finished in a manner highly credible to his reputation as a competent mechanic. In view of the high altitude and deep snowfall, the owners failed to make adequate preparation to run the works all winter and will probably soon suspend operations until spring.”

June 30, 1892: “At Houston (Idaho) there has been some signs of a revival in mining interest. Mr. Turner of Sheffield England, an experience mining man, has lately arrived, and with ample backing of English capital, has commenced the systematic development of the Mammoth Mine on Alder Creek, the property of our popular friend & neighbor George E. Ferris of Arco. So far they have only had a few men at work repairing the road & rebuilding bridges, etc, but in a few days they will commence work at the mine and increase their force to probably a dozen or more, and if developments justify it, start up the concentrating works again, which have for so long been standing idle. We not only wish but expect for them the success so well deserved, for the Mammoth is indeed a magnificent property.”
“Upon the whole, there are now visible many rifts in the clouds of adversity and disappointment, and if a kind providence saves us from the grass-hoppers & mosquitoes, we will, in fine shape, weather the storm. J.D.M.”

“The Mammoth Mine on Alder Creek suspended work a few weeks ago, just after completing a good road and making a bare beginning of work in developing the mine. Mr. Turner, the eccentric Englishman in charge of the mine has returned to England leaving us all impressed with the idea that the ways of “Ye mining expert” are past finding out.”