Quicksilver : Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ragsdale, Kenneth Baxter, 1917-2015
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©1976.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Chisos Mining Company > History.
Chisos Mining Company.
Mercury mines and mining > Texas > Terlingua district > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Corporate & Business History.
Mercury mines and mining.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Discovery and early development
  • Perry opens his mine
  • The basic necessities: wagons, wood, and water
  • Perry assumes control
  • Facilities of civilization
  • The lengthening shadow
  • School bells and ballot boxes
  • The biggest store between Del Rio and El Paso
  • The Rainbow Mine episode
  • When the blue eagle screamed
  • Events that hastened the fall
  • Bankruptcy
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A. history of quicksilver
  • Appendix B. the controversial survey
  • Appendix C. the Scott furnace
  • Appendix D. monthly furnace record.

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