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...room log cabin that was one of her early homes. Father's system was to buy up abandoned mines, undeveloped claims. He kept after it for 20 years before he made a big strike: then, in the abandoned Camp Bird Mine, he found the gold-bearing quartz vein that meant he had struck it rich...
...order to place the results of the recent studies of cosmic rays in appropriate perspective, let us recall very briefly their early history. It is well known how at the beginning of the present century. . . ." At the beginning of the present century Geitel of Germany, experimenting with a quartz-fibre electroscope, noticed that for no apparent reason the air in his instrument gradually became more electrified or ionized. Later experimenters discovered that thick screens of lead or water shut out some of the mysterious ionizing agent, but not all. Lord Rutherford thought it might be something in the atmosphere near...
Silicosis is due to inhalation of fine, sharp particles of sand, sandstone or quartz, all of which contain silica, by miners', sandblasters, quarrymen, tunnel borers. The silica particles erode the delicate lining of the lungs, make them vulnerable to the germs of pneumonia and tuberculosis. If those diseases do not kill, the silica victim usually wastes away to death because his clogged lungs transmit insufficient oxygen to his blood...
...waterpower tunnel was begun at Gauley Bridge along the forest-fringed New River in southern West Virginia, with cheap transient labor, black and white, from mountain districts as far away as Georgia. The tunnel went through white sandstone and quartz which were 99% pure silica. Every blast of dynamite puffed deadly silica dust down the throats of sappers who wore no protective masks over their mouths & noses. Rapidly men began to die of silicosis, pneumonia and tuberculosis. When workmen refused to go into the tunnel heads, foremen, according to subsequent court testimony, often clubbed them on. But the foremen dutifully...
...spoiled child of Uncle Sam," a place of impossible conditions, where there are no resources to justify a permanent population. Only profitable resource in the territory, according to Mr. Christensen, is fishing along the southern coast. Alaskan coal- prime reason for building the railroad-is worthless. The few copper, quartz gold and placer mines will eventually be worked...