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The Cripple Creek Strike; A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5 Being a Complete and Concise History of the Efforts of Organized Capital to Crush Unionism

Emma Florence Langdon

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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: financial panic of 1893, which brought thousands of unemployed to the district, owing to the fall in silver. About this time the fame of the district began to attract the attention of the experts, who, after thorough and exhaustive examinations, were almost a unit in their disapproval of it. Gold could not occur in this formation, they argued: pockets might be opened up, but as for continuous ore bodies, it was ridiculous. Never in the history of mining was the truth of the old axiom more sharply verified: Gold is where you find it. From an unknown, obscure and doubtful mining camp?from a ranch where cattle browsed quietly day by day, where the cow- VICTOR AVENUE, Victor, Ootorado. boys lived and dreamed of fortunes to come, all unconscious of the millions beneath their feet, there has sprung, as if in a night, a mining district whose richness and extent has astonished the world. From a few huts and cabins have sprung cities?Victor and Cripple Creek?that compare favorably with any in the world for population. They are beautiful little cities of brick and stone buildings, fine homes, modern schools, morning and evening daily papers, churches of all denominations and hotels with all modern accommodations. It is a common mistake made by people who have never lived in a mining town, to associate the name mining camp with a mushroom town, rough, rowdy men, who prefer outlawry to a good square meal. Imagine their surprise, when they visit the camp, to find instead, a beautiful city, with quiet, respectable and law-abiding citizens. Cripple Creek is the county seat of Teller county, and ranks first in size of the ten incorporated towns of the district, having a population of from 12,000 to 15,000. Victor is located in the extreme southern limit of the district, ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cripple Creek Strike; A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5 Being a Complete and Concise History of the Efforts of Organized Capital to Crush Unionism. To get started finding The Cripple Creek Strike; A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5 Being a Complete and Concise History of the Efforts of Organized Capital to Crush Unionism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 204

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 0217581676

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: financial panic of 1893, which brought thousands of unemployed to the district, owing to the fall in silver. About this time the fame of the district began to attract the attention of the experts, who, after thorough and exhaustive examinations, were almost a unit in their disapproval of it. Gold could not occur in this formation, they argued: pockets might be opened up, but as for continuous ore bodies, it was ridiculous. Never in the history of mining was the truth of the old axiom more sharply verified: Gold is where you find it. From an unknown, obscure and doubtful mining camp?from a ranch where cattle browsed quietly day by day, where the cow- VICTOR AVENUE, Victor, Ootorado. boys lived and dreamed of fortunes to come, all unconscious of the millions beneath their feet, there has sprung, as if in a night, a mining district whose richness and extent has astonished the world. From a few huts and cabins have sprung cities?Victor and Cripple Creek?that compare favorably with any in the world for population. They are beautiful little cities of brick and stone buildings, fine homes, modern schools, morning and evening daily papers, churches of all denominations and hotels with all modern accommodations. It is a common mistake made by people who have never lived in a mining town, to associate the name mining camp with a mushroom town, rough, rowdy men, who prefer outlawry to a good square meal. Imagine their surprise, when they visit the camp, to find instead, a beautiful city, with quiet, respectable and law-abiding citizens. Cripple Creek is the county seat of Teller county, and ranks first in size of the ten incorporated towns of the district, having a population of from 12,000 to 15,000. Victor is located in the extreme southern limit of the district, ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cripple Creek Strike; A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5 Being a Complete and Concise History of the Efforts of Organized Capital to Crush Unionism. To get started finding The Cripple Creek Strike; A History of Industrial Wars in Colorado, 1903-4-5 Being a Complete and Concise History of the Efforts of Organized Capital to Crush Unionism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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