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by destroying their rival ferry and killing some of them, they were in turn killed. Upon hearing the news of the
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for the price of ferrying its surveying party across the river. In 1858 the ferry became the crossing point of the
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and Jaeger City became the location of its stage station and its local district office. In the
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shores. Jaeger later built a store and hotel on the north bank, in
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253:El Centro
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33:Fort Yuma
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