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THE ORIGINAL 20MULE TEAM WAGON
USED FOR HAULING BORAXOUT OF
DEATH VALLEY
FIC COAST BORAX CO
THE ORIGINAL 20 MULE TEAM WAGON
USED FOR HAULINBORAX OUT OF
DEATH VALLEY
FOR THE IFIC CO STPOPAX Co.
FOR THE
20-MULE TEAM BORAX
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TWENTY-MULE TEAM WAGONS USED FOR HAULING BORAX OUT OF DEATH VALLEY, BARSTOW, CALIFORNIA
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HOTELS- SHOPS
Ted Harvey
RESTAURANTS
Those twenty-mule-team borax wagons, seen
on the railway station platform at Barstow,
California, were used in the 80's for hauling
borax from Furnace Creek, Death Valley, 165
miles to the then nearest railroad. The team
was driven by a single jerk-line, 120 feet
long. The journey required sixteen days, with
summer temperatures as high as 140 degrees.
Each wagon weighs 7,800 pounds and carried
a load of fifteen tons. The rear wheels are
seven feet high, each weighing 600 pounds.
The tank wagon carried 1,200 gallons, as
there was
was one stretch of 60 miles without
water.
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