It was only thus that it could be ensured that the intensive mining and dug-out construction would not be checked owing to delays in dealing with the excavated earth.
Each infantry battalion had also to provide a mining platoon, which, with the assistance of a few sappers, was employed on the construction of deep dug-outs.
The efforts of the tunnelling company thus reinforced, by dint of working continuous shifts day and night, proved equal to the task, with the result that superiority as regards the mining situation ultimately passed to the British.
On first taking over, themining situation was obscure.
The tunnelling company, as has been explained, was strained to its utmost to keep pace with the mining situation.
The miningwas of a more savage nature than had been the case in La Boisselle, and in many instances resulted in serious infantry fighting.
The sector was also honeycombed with mines from end to end, the enemy apparently being complete masters of the mining situation.
No British tunnelling companies being available, French engineers remained in charge of mining operations.
Apart from themining operations, the construction of dug-outs, and the creation of entanglements, little new work was carried out in this sector.
Colonel Ian Stewart reports an incident which bears witness to the imperturbability of the men even in the Ilot, the storm centre of the mining activity.
It had by this time become evident that a very considerable effort would be necessary to check the enemy's mining if it was to continue possible to hold the existing front-line trenches.
The mining situation, the sniping, the absence of dug-outs, all produced acute problems which demanded immediate solution if disaster were to be avoided.
Tunnelling officers reported at brigade headquarters the same evening, the actual mining operations beginning on the following morning.
In fact, his supremacy in mining had become so complete that, immediately prior to the relief, the French had drawn up a scheme for evacuating the front line except for lightly-held outposts.
In these circumstances myself and three partners, who had purchased somemining claims a considerable distance down Rogue River, took our blankets, rifles and a scanty supply of provisions on our backs and started for our claims.
Jacksonville and its mining community had such an officer; his name was Rogers.
In the fall of '52 four men in the Willamette Valley formed themselves into a co-partnership for mining purposes, and with their horses and provisions went to Jackson Creek to try their fortune at mining.
This was borrowed from California, and by the Californians was borrowed from the mining jurisprudence of Spain.
Resting for two days, and in the meantime having received an offer for our claims from a company mining on the bars of Rogue River, my partners were anxious to accept the offer.
Every miningcommunity of any considerable size had its Alcalde.
There were no churches in that mining town, and religious services were infrequent.
He had cash enough to buy his meals, and he knew he could find sleeping places in the mining camps, where he would have to pay nothing.
The town had once been quite an important one, but the diggings near it had been exhausted, and the miningpopulation had, in a large part, moved away.
There was a settlement on shore, but even in the wildest mining region of California there was nothing to equal it.
I'm a prospector," and Fred noticed that, in addition to his bundle, the old man had a set of mining tools.
He had heard of the unexpected prosperity that had come to New Strike, and, knowing that there is usually plenty of work in a new mining camp, he determined to go there and see what he could find.
It was not far from a mining region, and within a short distance of the coast.
At this cruel threat even Mr. Baxter, hardened as he was by privation in his early mining days, could not repress a start.
For Fred prospered very much after he started in the mining business for himself, and he showed the same determined characteristics that he exhibited when on that perilous trip.
So now he was going to take up mining in God's own country, where a man could get a square deal if he kept out of railroading.
Then the president invited Ed to hitch his car on and come along with them for a little trip, and talk over mining and investments, and so on, and what the outlook was in the Southwest.
Now that he's a big mining man he'll probably have other aims in life than being a thug.
He had large mining interests in charge and here was Ben acting like he had all summer to devote just to this one little matter.
There was a piece in a Sunday paper not long ago about this new mining millionaire.
The papers said this new mining millionaire was looking us over with an eye to investment in our rich lands.
You called me a thief, and threatened to expose me to the law of the mining camp.
In the three years which followed he had made one friend, a mining engineer, by name Druce Spurling.
The next day we continued our journey up the valley of the American Fork, stopping at various camps, where mining was in progress; and about noon we reached Coloma, the place where gold had been first discovered.
The first organizations of the mining camps were those of the criminal element.
A sort of court was formed for trying disputed mining claims.
Henry Plummer was for several years in the early '60's the "chief" of the widely extended band of robbers and murderers who kept the placer-mining fields of Montana and Idaho in a state of terror.
Henry Plummer was now elected sheriff for the Bannack mining district, to succeed Crawford, whom he had run out of the country.
Deadwood was as bad a place as any that could be found in the mining regions, and Bill was not an officer here, as he had been in Kansas towns.
The average daily return in the work of mining ranged from twenty to thirty dollars, and no man might tell when his fortune might be made by a blow of a pick.
The cattle country had been passed over unnoticed by the mining men for many years, and dismissed as the Great American Desert, as it had been named by the first explorers, who were almost as ignorant about the West as Daniel Webster himself.
In 1862, as the mountain placers were now beginning to draw the crowds of mining men, it was natural that Boone Helm should show up at Florence.
Masked robbers were seen every day along the trails leading between one remote miningcamp and another, but no one suspected Henry Plummer, who was serving well in his double rôle.
At the date of Plummer's arrival in the mining country, the town of Lewiston, Idaho, was the emporium of a wide region then embraced under the name of Idaho Territory; the latter also including Montana at that time.
Moreover, on the south, the city of Lille, with the great mining and manufacturing districts around it, was being left in a salient which was growing deeper every hour and which the enemy could not hope to hold.
London, and was consulting engineer for more than fifty mining companies.
Each post brought her tribute from the grateful hearts of her readers afar off in the mountain mining camps, and perhaps from beyond the Rockies; or, it may have been, from the unsuspecting admirer who lived just beyond the first sandhill.
The character of our mining laws is therefore not a matter of theory, but of demonstrated fact.
The leasing policy drew into the mining regions a population of vagrants, idlers and gamblers, who resisted the payment of tax on the product of the mines, and defied the agents of the Government.
They scourge the mining States and Territories with the unspeakable curse of uncertainty of land titles, as everywhere attested by incurable litigation and strife.
Of course these facts thus officially stated in the interest of the miners of Nevada, were applicable to California, and all the mining States and Territories, and they fitly and very forcibly rebuked the attempt to enact the Senate bill.
The business ofmining naturally awakens the strongest passions.
In many places the hostile trenches were separated by only a few yards, and mining was frequently resorted to.
The city of Lens, within sight of the British lines, from the ridge, is a great mining center.
It is in the very heart of the richest mining zone in the world, if the assayers are to be believed.
Some of the mining properties, now nearly all temporarily closed down, are world-famous--I quote for example the Three R.
And to smelt it he finds he is compelled to sell it to a smelter that is controlled by the mining company whose offer he has refused.
Herman Ehrenberg was a civil engineer and scientist of exceptional talents who engaged in mining in the early days of Arizona following the occupation of the Territory by the Americans.
No claim is really legal until it is registered, although in the mining camps of the old days it was a formality often dispensed with, since claim jumpers met a prompt and drastic punishment.
In the meantime a certain big mining company has investigated A's find and has seen that it is rich.
If of late various things, chiefly the mining depression, have made my fortunes all to the bad, I am no man to whine at the inevitable.
There are only a few smelters in or near the State and these are controlled by large mining companies.
Patagonia has now taken the position formerly occupied by the old adobe town as center of the rich mining zone of Southern Arizona, and the glories of Tubac (if they can be given that name) are, like the glories of Tombstone, gone.
After the Gadsden Purchase he moved to Arizona, where, after years of occupation in mining and other industries, he was killed by a Digger Indian at Dos Palmas in Southern California.
The six miles that separated the lonely cabin from the mining camp were the longest and most trying that John had ever travelled, he thought.
The boys were too young to take part in the mining operations, but even they had their chores to perform at certain times of the day, after which they were at liberty to do much as they pleased, within certain well-known limits.
John put in practice the points given him by Tom Malloy, much to the discomfiture of the Indian boys and the corresponding satisfaction of his teacher and the men of the mining camp.
As time went on, however, the mining boys grew overbearing and insulting and never lost an opportunity to taunt and aggravate the young Westerners.
Strictly speaking, silver mining does not exist as a distinct operation in Great Britain, for it can hardly be said that this country possesses any great quantity of silver ore.
The scientific name of cuprum for copper is derived from the Isle of Cyprus, where, it is said by Pliny, the Greeks discovered the method of mining and working it.
My next mining experience resulted much the same way.
We let the world's tail go, put our own between our legs, and went home, two of the worst disappointed men in all Nevada, and that was the last of my mining efforts.
Hugh made the rope fast under his armpits, and gave the old mining cry, "On top there, haul away.
Only an elementary knowledge of geology and some mining experience are necessary in order to understand this work.
A practical work for the use of all preparing for examinations in mining or qualifying for colliery managers' certificates.
The information incorporated in it will prove of the greatest practical utility to students, mining engineers, colliery managers, and all others who are specially interested in the present-day treatment of mining problems.
Some of these mining companies are nothing but swindles, got up to cheat people out of their money.
I am agent of the Excelsior Copper Mining Company, which possesses one of the most productive mines in the world.
The effect which the reading of a story by Dickens produced in a Western mining camp.
Stanza IX What is the "fragrant story" of the Western mining camp?
Ever since Silver Hill became the county seat and a mining town of much importance, Skidmore's dive had been the bane of the community.
It appeared that the major was even an applicant for a pension on that ground--a strange proceeding with one so overcharged with mining stock and cattle profits.
Yet it was the perfectly natural evolution of a successful mining camp--a place where, before the firm hand of Morality can obtain its restraining grip, human nature just runs wild.
The coming of a sheriff, or any form of established law, into a new mining camp was not lightly to be welcomed by the earliest pioneers.
The eastern extremity was not a mere precipice, it was a vast overhang which left Yellow Creek, upon whose banks the mining camps were pitched, flowing beneath the roof of a giant tunnel supported by a single side.
In its turn the mining company belonged to the officials of the railroad.
On the morning of his arrival he had secured permission of the mining company who owned the land to make this the burial place of the McGregors.
Into his mind came the little mining town and he saw himself again a boy sitting in the darkness on the steps before his mother's bake shop and trying to think.
He was preening himself on his nearness to life in the mining town.
One of the men was an itinerant oculist who came to the miningtown once a month to fit and sell spectacles.
The nights in the hills above miningtowns are magnificent.
In a mining town or deep in the entrails of one of our cities life is different.
The houses on the hillside and the stores along Main Street belonged to the mining company.
She thought of the women and children in the houses on the hill and when she heard of the plans of the mining company to evict the miners from their houses she shuddered.
There is a hole here in which men live and work just as there is in the mining town from which I came.
The idea that had come into his mind as he sat on the hill above the mining town grew and grew.
I have seen a young girl, brought up in a Pennsylvania mining town, plunged suddenly from entire cheerfulness into a paroxysm of grief when a gust of wind cracked the kitchen window-pane.
They are most often found where some one large corporation dominates in the community, as in a mining district, and the workers are in a very dependent condition.
But this does not mean that it would be economical, at present costs ofmining coal and of building reservoirs, to make this substitution now.
For centuries at a time there was little change in the methods of mining gold and there were no radical changes in its output.
Footnote b: The main items are agricultural and miningproducts and imported merchandise.
Many of them, however, have suffered that fate which attaches to most mining industries in China: they have been flooded, and the workmen are not supplied with the necessary appliances called pumps.
True, there are copper mines in the north and east, and tin and lead mines in the south of the province; but mining industries are so hampered by official interference as to profit little the owners or the workmen.
