Mining
"...exhilarating thunder of one hundred heavy stamps...crush the quartz with their ponderous blows. They awaken the echoes of the mountains by their deep-toned sound. The annihilators are at work day and night; and their resonance makes the blood course faster."
- Journalist Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 1867 |
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"...we suddenly emerged upon...the indications of mining. The precipitous sides of the canyon were freckled with the holes and dirt-piles of experimental shafts; the swift waters of the stream |
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had the hue of tailings; and presently the smoke from the smelting works of the Lyons Company began to cloud the pure mountain air."
- Bayard Taylor,
A Summer Trip, 1867
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