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®heLocal Intelligeiifire.#A Mountain-Built Schooner^-Ottt readers abroad have heard a great deal about the mineral wealth of the mountains; but we pfefculAe there are few of them prepared for the announcement that boat-building is iJl so booh to become a feature of its prosperity. And yet, such seemsto be the fa. Mr. Samuel Baldwin and son, of North San fakn, have just completed f astaunch schoonen-^all oak*’—36 feet in length, *5£ feet deep, an4 15 feet in the beam, which will be transported in pieces ‘to Sacramento, there put together and launched as a freight vessel, to i Tun between that city and San Francisco.The same gentlemen have also built a handsome yawl, ll£ feet long, to accompany theschooner. Timber suitable for boat-builiftb :abounds in this neighborhood, and we should ’‘nbt be surprised ahy time hereafter to hear, that ' khe experimental enterprise of the Messrs. Bald-\rin had given an impetus to this branch of industry which will surround our prosperousko#h with ship-yards.— -0 mm
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North San Juan Hydraulic Press
North San Juan, California, US
Sat, Aug 18, 1860
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