Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present surroundings are familiar to me because when I was sent in 1909 from the San Francisco office of the Monterey Lime Co. to get some data on production costs, I spent a week or more at the kilns. A nephew of mine was manager of the lime company until it went out of existence...
...pack burros near the Piedra Candela settlement in the shadow of the Santa Maria Mountains on the Costa Rican-Panamanian border one day last week, prepared to lay out claims. Driving the first claim-stake, the ground beneath their feet gave way and the trio dropped into an abandoned mine shaft. Before their startled eyes stood 35 gold ingots, each weighing 50 lb., neatly stacked against the wall. Nearby lay equipment for panning gold and relics of the days of the Spanish conquistadors. Stumbling along the shaft, Van Steck came upon 45 additional bars, refused to share them with...
Authorities of Chiriqui Province chartered planes, flew to the mine to investigate the discovery while the Government, which under its buried treasure law is entitled to half the prospector's find, rushed a police guard to the scene to control a stampede of treasure-hunting natives. Authorities believe that the tunnel belonged to the almost-legendary La Estrella mine, worked by the Spanish conquerors. Fabulously rich, it became "lost" in the passing of four centuries. Indians, outraged by the cruel treatment of the Spaniards, are supposed to have ambushed a mule-drawn treasure train, killed the white...
...Mayor Daniel J. Shields sent President Roosevelt an I-told-you-so telegram, called before him the district's two chief Labor leaders and warned them to get out of town or stay "at their own risk." The most determined of the two, James Mark of the United Mine Workers, replied by calling 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown for an Independence Day demonstration...
Died. Colonel Jacob Schick, 59, inventor of the Schick Dry Shaver; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. It was his theory that by losing awareness of time he could live to be 120. Born in Ottumwa, Iowa, he went to work in a copper mine in his early childhood, became an Alaska prospector at 20; enlisted in the U.S. Army for the War with Spain; in the World War supervised transport of troops through England. An inveterate inventor of boats, machines, engineering methods, he speeded up gas mask production by a device enabling one girl to fill 20 masks...