Reports Upon the Mineral Resources of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1867 - 745 pages |
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... Ophir works now are , and worked at intervals with indifferent suc- cess until 1859. On the 22d day of February , 1858 , the first quartz claim was located in Virginia mining district , on the Virginia croppings , by James Finney ...
... Ophir works now are , and worked at intervals with indifferent suc- cess until 1859. On the 22d day of February , 1858 , the first quartz claim was located in Virginia mining district , on the Virginia croppings , by James Finney ...
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... Ophir $ 2,550 ; Hale and Norcross $ 1,850 ; California $ 1,500 ; Yellow Jacket $ 1,150 ; Crown Point $ 750 ; Chollar $ 900 , and Potosi $ 600 . 32. - VIRGINIA CITY . Virginia City , the centre of the mining industry , rose to be the ...
... Ophir $ 2,550 ; Hale and Norcross $ 1,850 ; California $ 1,500 ; Yellow Jacket $ 1,150 ; Crown Point $ 750 ; Chollar $ 900 , and Potosi $ 600 . 32. - VIRGINIA CITY . Virginia City , the centre of the mining industry , rose to be the ...
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... Ophir , from $ 2,550 to $ 425 ; California , from $ 1,500 to $ 21 ; Hale & Norcross , from $ 1,850 to $ 310 , and others in like proportion . The wild - cat or baseless speculations were swept away to destruction by the thousand , and ...
... Ophir , from $ 2,550 to $ 425 ; California , from $ 1,500 to $ 21 ; Hale & Norcross , from $ 1,850 to $ 310 , and others in like proportion . The wild - cat or baseless speculations were swept away to destruction by the thousand , and ...
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... Ophir and the Burning Moscow was transferred from Virginia City to Aurora , property in certain parts of the latter town rose fifty per cent . , so confident were the residents there that the attend- ants at the court would be numerous ...
... Ophir and the Burning Moscow was transferred from Virginia City to Aurora , property in certain parts of the latter town rose fifty per cent . , so confident were the residents there that the attend- ants at the court would be numerous ...
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... Ophir , the Gould & Curry , and the western body of ore in Gold Hill . Their richness and the facilities of their extraction co - operated in making the latter exceedingly profitable . Yet the production of the Comstock vein did not ...
... Ophir , the Gould & Curry , and the western body of ore in Gold Hill . Their richness and the facilities of their extraction co - operated in making the latter exceedingly profitable . Yet the production of the Comstock vein did not ...
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