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In 1869, James Brady, a tall, well-dressed Irish man came to the region to run a smelting operation. He was viewed by the miners with much suspicion because, among other things, he washed his ears too often. Ignoring this cool reception, Brady realized that shipping bullion by boat from one end of Owens Lake to the other would shave time off the 28-day round trip from Cerro Gordo to Los Angeles. Brady forged ahead with plans to have his own shipping vessel despite the miners grumbling that the extravagant east coast business man was building a private yacht at the company’s expense.

James Brady, Col. Sherman Stevens, and Remi Nadeau

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