Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In depots and on porches, at crossings and atop boxcars, people gathered in little clots to watch the train roll through. When it stopped in the tank towns of Nebraska and Iowa, in the farming centers of Idaho and Washington, in the mining towns in Montana, the crowds swarmed around...
Repeater. In Globe, Ariz., a disgruntled silver prospector came out of the hills to file a location notice on his mining claim: "Foiled No. 4."
None of this growth and prospering meant that the millennium had arrived; the Northwest had vexing problems. Its economy was still based primarily on mining, fishing, agriculture and lumbering, and though all were doing well, they did not fully support the expanding population.
When the Mining School left, to be replaced by the Mining Geology Department, all the big machines were moved out, and several archaeological specimens were unearthed. One of these was a nineteenth century rowing tank, big enough for two people and useless for geological purposes, which was promptly covered over...
The University has given three reasons for tearing down the Rotch Building: the old commitment to the Law School, the unsuitability of an athletic building for laboratories, and the desire of the geology department to combine under one roof. Metallurgy will be bundled off to Vanserg next year, and Mining...