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quote 2013-10-31 06:35

Nearly all the leading mines on the Comstock are down to where the rock is exceedingly hot ... As the Savage [mining] Company has started up machinery capable of sinking to the depth of 4,000 feet, it will presently be in danger of dropping into the great central fires of the earth.

The Big Bonanza: An Authentic Account of the Discovery, History, and Working of the World-Renowned Comstock Lode of Nevada - Dan de Quille

P. 386

Another reason I love this author. He's serious, too! Oh, the eighteenth century...

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quote 2013-10-29 21:44

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Silver was more highly prized than gold by all the primitive peoples of the earth. Even the sacred writers speak of it with gusto … The human animal must be educated up to a just appreciation of gold, but silver by its brilliant white luster and flash in the light of the sun recommends itself to him as soon as its sheen strikes his eye.

Pg. 356.

I didn't realize that! I thought gold was always superior to silver.

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