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Ambitious men moved in, capable of trying to dominate the entire Comstock. One was a cold little bank manager named Sharon. One of his exploits was the "Hale & Norcross corner" in 1868, by which he got control of an important mine. When production declined and stock shares fell soon afterward, Sharon resorted to a common technique: he sold most of his stock to avoid paying stock assessments, knowing that he could buy it back cheap when new ore was uncovered. At this point Mackay and his partner Jim Fair, as a gamble, began their own raid on Hale & Norcross...
Last Twist. In Lancaster, Pa., Mrs. David Norcross twice threw her wrestler husband, then divorced...
Died. Ivy Wingo, 50, oldtime major-league baseball star, catcher for the Cincinnati Reds when they defeated the Chicago Black Sox in the famed crooked world series of 1919; in Norcross...
...onetime captain and quarterback of Michigan's famed 1905 point-a-minute team, husky, greying Frederick Stephenson Norcross Jr., a notable mining engineer, saw the possibilities when Goodrich sent him to Cuba to look for minerals. Prospector Norcross reported manganese was the best bet. Dave Goodrich got Freeport to put up $1,620,000 for development and joined Freeport's board. Norcross did the rest...
Diffident Engineer Norcross told the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers last February how he made the Cuban ore commercially workable by devising a special flotation process (grinding the ore, floating off impurities in a soap-and-oil solution, baking what is left...