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Died. Mrs. Virginia Fair ("Birdie") Vanderbilt, 55. first wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt II; of pneumonia ; in Manhattan. Daughter of James Graham Fair, Irish immigrant boy who went West with the '49ers, bought into the Comstock Lode and became a U. S.. Senator. "Birdie" Fair followed the footsteps of her elder Sister "Tessie" (Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs) by making a brilliant marriage to a top-flight socialite. A devout Roman Catholic, she got a Paris divorce in 1927, assumed the name Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt...
Richest strike in Nevada's fabulous Corn-stock Lode was made in March 1873 when the Consolidated Virginia mine opened a silvershot vein 54 ft. thick. Before it was played out the vein yielded $190,000,000 in pure bullion and made a onetime Irish immigrant clerk one of the richest men in the greatest get-rich-quick era in U. S. history. Like many another bonanza king, John William Mackay beat a quick & gaudy path to the capitals of Europe but he did leave an enduring monument to his amazing energy-Postal Telegraph...
Calumet & Hecla history goes back to a day before the Civil War when a surveyor named Edwin James Hulbert found a rich vein of copper lode called "conglomerate" because the ore was a cemented mass of pebbles containing pure copper. Hulbert recalled that Boston's famed Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz had visited the district, showed interest in scattered pieces of conglomerate. Hulbert hastened to Boston, enlisted such glittering names-Higginson, Hunnewell, Livermore, Agassiz, Quincy Adams Shaw, Horatio Bigelow-that his venture became known as the copper company with a Harvard accent. The first shaft was sunk...
...SAGA OF THE COMSTOCK LODE- George D. Lyman - Scribner ($3.50). Written in a tiresomely slapdash manner, but a mine of information about the bonanza days at Virginia City...
Founded in 1862 three years after the fabulous Comstock Lode was opened in Nevada, the San Francisco Mining Exchange was the vortex of a feverish speculative mining boom that burned the land or two decades after the Civil War. During the 1870's while the Floods, Mackays, O'Briens, et al. were plucking some $750,000,000 in gold and silver from the Comstock Lode, police guarded the portals of Mining Exchange as the public clamored to buy, buy, buy. Bodie was the favorite with Eastern investors and caused them more grief than any other stock...