# Santa Claus' Message: A Christmas Story

Author: Tregaskis, E. Franklin

Genre: Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56250

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Santa+Claus%27+Message%3A+A+Christmas+Story+Tregaskis&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Twenty-foot was an almost deserted mining camp, and presented the desolate appearance of such localities: A wide valley, honeycombed by old workings, and strewn with debris. On one side stretched miles of barren ranges, denuded of heavy trees, which had been felled to feed the boilers and timber the underground workings when some of the quartz reefs had been developed, after the alluvial gold had been won. These also had petered out. On the other side of the valley were farms, for here rich volcanic soil overlay the silurian formation. Consequently, there was still a small population in the district, which accounted for the survival of a place of worship, a State school, general store, bl...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/santa-claus-message-a-christmas-story-56250/chapters/1/index.md)