The mining towns typically had well-built hotels, churches, schoolhouses, post offices, and jails. Additionally, they contained mills that were essential to the towns' economies and operations.
2 While exploring the mountain ranges of the state during three summers, I have seen at least five of these deserted towns and villages. Some of them were probably only camps built by bands of prospectors, inhabited for a few months or years, and then carelessly abandoned for more promising fields. Many were real towns, regularly laid out and incorporated, containing well-built hotels, churches, schoolhouses, post offices, and jails, as well as the mills on which they all depended. What sorts of buildings did the mining towns have? (paragraph 2)
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