Word: ores
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...million dollars to endow this leading university of the South. Of this sum, about $400,000 has been raised, one half being received from citizens of the North. The university is located at Lexington, Va., in the center of large coal fields and in the neighborhood of extensive iron ore mines, where every facility will be afforded students to put into practice the scientific knowledge acquired in the class room. To aid in the establishment of a thorough school of mines, some $200,000 is needed, and as Washington took so much interest in this particular university, it seems peculiarly...
...reception every evening; the miners form in line and, one after the other, shake hands with her, and have a few minutes' talk. Some of them, who left wife and family East, come away with tears in their eyes. If any one strikes an unusually fine piece of ore, he presents it to Elsie. She has a trunkful already, that must be worth thousands. I don't see how they'll ever get back to the railroad without being robbed! Last night the 'Company' - that's myself and the four others who are working my mine - had a meeting...
They scraped the dirt out of the ore-bucket, lined it with coats, and fastened Elsie in. Then they swung the bucket out under the windlass, and after she had assured them that she was not a bit frightened, they let her slowly down into the black shaft, then two hundred feet deep...
...others, from which I inferred that they were still suspicious of Colney, the man who had opposed Elsie's election into the "Company," and so had managed to put him at work in a side drift, leading off about half way down the shaft, which, as no vein of ore had been "struck" there, it was not worth while for us to visit...
...side at the bottom of the shaft. Here another "pard," covered with dirt and wearing a lamp in his cap, took us along a low passage, explained the different strata of soft sandy rock and the methods of working them, and pointed out two or three veins of silver ore, and then the last vein, which was rich gold ore. After splashing around in the mud, bumping our heads against the low ceiling formed by the rock, and collecting specimens, we returned to the shaft, where the small spot of blue sky overhead cast a dim light...