Gold mines and mining 
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My father, George Jarvis Bancroft, was a consulting engineer. He held degrees both in mining and in civil engineering, particularly reclamation of the latter division. In the early 1900's he was very successful, and his fees more than sustained a living for his young wife and two daughters. But the panic of 1907 caused a number of his Eastern clients to withdraw both their interest and their investments in the West. He found it harder and harder...
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With the help of this book you will learn what to look for, where to find it, and what to do with it when you do find it.
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Details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold and silver mining rush in the mid-nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. Gold and silver mining laid the foundation for Colorado's economy, and 1859 marked the beginning of a fever for these precious metals. Mining changed the state and its people forever.