FIRST CENTURY OF NATIONAL EXISTENCE; THE UNITED STATES AS THEY WERE AND ARE1875 |
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... collected by exca- vating the clay beds and sorting out the balls of ore . The excavations have been carried out in some places on the shore be- low the level of tide , the water being kept back by coffer dams and steam pumps . Bog ores ...
... collected by exca- vating the clay beds and sorting out the balls of ore . The excavations have been carried out in some places on the shore be- low the level of tide , the water being kept back by coffer dams and steam pumps . Bog ores ...
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... collected in a layer ten feet thick over 500 acres , and from open quarries , and from the loose is estimated to contain 27,000,000 tons . It masses lying around . A railroad affords the is in grains , like sand , of glistening red ...
... collected in a layer ten feet thick over 500 acres , and from open quarries , and from the loose is estimated to contain 27,000,000 tons . It masses lying around . A railroad affords the is in grains , like sand , of glistening red ...
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oxide of iron collected . The per - centage of iron ore and clay , 16 feet ; sandstone , 34 metal is about fifty . This ore will probably feet ; magnesian limestone , 7 inches ; gray be worked near Milwaukee with Lake sandstone , 7 ...
oxide of iron collected . The per - centage of iron ore and clay , 16 feet ; sandstone , 34 metal is about fifty . This ore will probably feet ; magnesian limestone , 7 inches ; gray be worked near Milwaukee with Lake sandstone , 7 ...
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... collected . The iron being taken up by the acids which hold the cop- per in solution , the latter is set free , and de- posited in fine metallic powder . The ore is smelted in furnaces constructed on the Ger- man plan , and being put ...
... collected . The iron being taken up by the acids which hold the cop- per in solution , the latter is set free , and de- posited in fine metallic powder . The ore is smelted in furnaces constructed on the Ger- man plan , and being put ...
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... collected paid the proprietors for the loss it has occasioned by distracting the attention of the miners , and leading them to seek for it with the purpose of appropriating it to their own use . Probably they have car- ried away much ...
... collected paid the proprietors for the loss it has occasioned by distracting the attention of the miners , and leading them to seek for it with the purpose of appropriating it to their own use . Probably they have car- ried away much ...
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