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20-Mule Teams
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The saga of the twenty mule teams began with the discovery of borax in California in 1881, This mineral, used for thousands of years in ceramics and in the working of gold, previously had come from Tibet and Haly.
Its discovery in California's Death Valley resulted in a rapid increase in the use of borax in the United States in various industrial processes and as a house- hold cleanser.
With a growing demand for borax and an apparently unlimited reserve of crude ore, a practical and economical method had to be devised for freighting borax ore from the �mines� in Death Valley's vast dry lake beds to the nearest railhead at Mojave.
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It was the hottest, driest, roughest most desolate 165 miles imaginable.
William T. Coleman, owner of the Old Harmony Borax Works near what is now Furnace Creek Ranch, took on this Herculean task.
The borax transportation system had to be built around the capabilities and limitations of mule