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Description
A sand-beaten, time-worn wooden standard and a circle of desert stones mark what is considered to be the grave of Whistling Dick, a colorful muleskinner remembered among the crewmen who labored to construct the Jawbone Siphon, one of the final links in the original Los Angeles-Owens River Aqueduct built between 1908 and 1913. - Stover Lowe, aqueduct patrolman, Aqueduct Divison
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