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...weeks ago the hall of the House of Representatives in Manila was turned temporarily into an operating room. A doctor opened a vein in the arm of Gregorio Perfecto so that worthy delegate might sign his name to the new Philippine Constitution in his own warm blood. If a new Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands could not be founded by the sword, it was better, thought Delegate Perfecto, that it should be founded by the lancet than...
...Electric Bond & Share's 143,000 stockholders went a ten-page letter, concluding: "Action by Congress is imminent. . . . You may wish to telegraph or write to your Senators and Congressmen." In the same dignified vein Commonwealth & Southern wrote: "We have no objection to reasonable regulation which will prevent the recurrence of any alleged abuses of the past. . . . The present bill, however, is aimed to control and kill-not to regulate and cure. . . . The passage of this bill can only be prevented by an aroused and indignant public sentiment. We hope you, both as a security holder...
...passed a vertical depth of 5,000 ft. Such lean ore had never before been mined so far down. In open-pit mining, which means simply shoveling away a hill of exposed ore (as at Bingham, Utah), lodes down to 8/10 of 1% can be handled profitably. Deep-vein mining entails the cost of tunneling, drilling, blasting, hoisting, ventilating. Mining engineers consider Mr. MacNaughton's achievement remarkable because his deep ore was only slightly higher than the lowest grade of surface ore mined anywhere in the U. S. Mr. MacNaughton had no great scientific tricks up his sleeve. Faced...
...Conglomerate Mine is the only one now operated by C. & H., and in two or three years it too will be abandoned because the vein is running out. However, the company has other lodes which can be worked if copper prices improve...
Calumet & Hecla history goes back to a day before the Civil War when a surveyor named Edwin James Hulbert found a rich vein of copper lode called "conglomerate" because the ore was a cemented mass of pebbles containing pure copper. Hulbert recalled that Boston's famed Naturalist Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz had visited the district, showed interest in scattered pieces of conglomerate. Hulbert hastened to Boston, enlisted such glittering names-Higginson, Hunnewell, Livermore, Agassiz, Quincy Adams Shaw, Horatio Bigelow-that his venture became known as the copper company with a Harvard accent. The first shaft was sunk...