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The new shaft had cut the fringe of the silver fifty feet down , and the vein was now thirty feet wide ! The directors began to live in hopes that the silver might supply enough money to carry out the early stages of their construction ...
The new shaft had cut the fringe of the silver fifty feet down , and the vein was now thirty feet wide ! The directors began to live in hopes that the silver might supply enough money to carry out the early stages of their construction ...
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Electric motors , Roots blowers , iron - work for furnaces , steam engines , boilers , generators , condensers , flywheels with a diameter of eighteen feet , and thousands of smaller parts were assembled on the site and installed in the ...
Electric motors , Roots blowers , iron - work for furnaces , steam engines , boilers , generators , condensers , flywheels with a diameter of eighteen feet , and thousands of smaller parts were assembled on the site and installed in the ...
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When Murray returned from America , he was shown plans of a tunnel that would be nine feet high , nine feet wide and , including the branches , one and a half miles long . In 1927 , “ Johno ” Pearton , the underground foreman ...
When Murray returned from America , he was shown plans of a tunnel that would be nine feet high , nine feet wide and , including the branches , one and a half miles long . In 1927 , “ Johno ” Pearton , the underground foreman ...
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