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Page 78
... copper lode stretched across the field . In the next few years no evidence of this lode was found in scores of trenches and tunnels , but as late as 1899 unscrupulous promoters still raised capital by publicizing Thureau's misleading ...
... copper lode stretched across the field . In the next few years no evidence of this lode was found in scores of trenches and tunnels , but as late as 1899 unscrupulous promoters still raised capital by publicizing Thureau's misleading ...
Page 81
... Copper Mines of Mt. Lyell West ; Great Mt. Lyell , Great Mt. Lyell South , Mt. Lyell Blocks , Mt. Lyell Peaks , Mt. Lyell Extended , Mt. Lyell Consols , and Lyell Pioneers ; King ... copper , and North Lyell Consolidated THE COPPER BOOM 81.
... Copper Mines of Mt. Lyell West ; Great Mt. Lyell , Great Mt. Lyell South , Mt. Lyell Blocks , Mt. Lyell Peaks , Mt. Lyell Extended , Mt. Lyell Consols , and Lyell Pioneers ; King ... copper , and North Lyell Consolidated THE COPPER BOOM 81.
Page 128
... copper strengthened this idea in the public mind . He thought copper water had filled a long swamp in pre - historic times and that over the years the swamp had solidified and been buried beneath sand and pebbles . When the mountains ...
... copper strengthened this idea in the public mind . He thought copper water had filled a long swamp in pre - historic times and that over the years the swamp had solidified and been buried beneath sand and pebbles . When the mountains ...
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