Word: coppering
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...Couldn't you find a single copper?" the judge insisted...
LAST year Myron Brinig published "Singermann", acclaimed by the late Arnold Bennett as one of the most important American novels of the year. In "Wide Open Town", Mr. Brinig returns to the same setting: a copper mining camp, sprawled over a hill in western Montana, with a population of fifty thousand people, most of them alien...
...gloomy vault was pried the ancient coffin. A copper plate, incorruptible, identified the moldering sarcophagus. The skeleton was complete. Yellowed parchments supplied the final proof. They were forwarded, by the Right Reverend Peter E. Amigo, Bishop of Southwark, who was present at the disinterment, to Vatican City...
James Y. Murdoch, 40, King's Counsel, a man of great esteem in Toronto, last fortnight reported to the shareholders of Noranda Mines, Ltd. of which he is president. From Noranda's deep shafts which pierce rich veins of gold, and from its bigger copper deposits, from its smelters and refineries, last year Noranda earned only $3,842,000 against $4,287,000 in 1929. But this news was not discouraging to Noranda's shareholders, all of whom have had faith that the spectacular history of Noranda cannot continue dull for long. For a few days after...
...diamond drill 131 feet deep at Noranda startled the mining world by striking copper as well as gold. A town arose and the great Noranda mines were under way. In 1925 the 20,000 Noranda $100-par shares were split 100-for-one. At last week's price of $27 the old shares would be worth $2,700. At last year's high of $44 a share, Noranda's valuation was $96,000,000 against the original...