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AUDIT ROW #423 · THE GAZETTEER RUNS 1886–1914 ARE THE SETTLER
One of the nine gaps is a superlative — a first-of-industry claim for the town that the pass could neither prove nor retire — and it stands open under its stated settler: the county gazetteer runs, 1886–1914, read consecutively. Superlatives are the gap discipline's hardest class, because a first is a universal negative wearing a positive's clothes: it can be killed by one earlier instance and proved only by exhausting the field. The gazetteer runs are the field, for this town in those decades; until they are read whole, the claim prints in this build exactly as GAP-W6-4 files it — as a gap, in the gap leg, with its settler — and this article's function is to keep it there, visible, rather than let it migrate into narrative text as colour. The row closes as a named gap, restated at its position.
Principal sources: GAP-W6-4, restated; settler named — county gazetteer runs, 1886–1914, read consecutively.