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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 752 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROSSLAND  , an important

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city in the Kootenay
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district of
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British
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Columbia, incorporated in 1897 . Pop . (1907) 4033 . It is situated in a valley 7 M . W. of Trail on the Columbia
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river and 8 m . N. of the
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international boundary . It has
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direct railroad communication with Trail and the Arrow lakes as well as with Northport and
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Spokane in the
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state of
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Washington . Rossland owes its importance to the immense deposits of
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iron and
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copper
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pyrites carrying
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gold, which occur in the vicinity . The best-known mines are the Le
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Roy, Centre
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Star and
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War
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Eagle . The city derives its electric
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light and
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power service from Bonnington Falls on the Kootenay river .

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