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Transcribed by Dee Sardoch; <deesar@frontiernet.net>
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Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
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>>SATURDAY, 7 MAR 1863<<
HEAVY WAGONS -- Mr. Geo. DAHL, wagon maker, Main street, has finished 2 wagons to the order of T.L. GREIGSBY of Napa City, who had them made expressly for hauling rock at Washoe. The hind wheels are 5 feet 10 ' inches high, and the felloes 4 ' inches deep and the tires 1 ' inches thick. The hubbs are 16 inches in diameter, the axles are made of hickory wood and the boxes of the hubbs are 6 ' inches. Every part of the wagons are in keeping with the strength of the wheels, and it is calculated that it will carry as much as 18,000 pounds. They will be shipped to Benicia in a few days [rest cut off]
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