Word: hard-rocking
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Well, maybe not full tilt, but a score or more "hard-rock" miners are gouging, chipping, blasting at those cinnabar-streaked granite tunnel walls, bringing out sacks of ore every day, to be "cooked" in the retorts there on the steep shank of the mountain. A week or so ago "Hap" brought out one rock that was might' nigh pure cinnabar. It weighed 130 Ib. He brought it through seven miles of tunnel from the very gizzard of the ancient mine...
...keeps each man's cook separate, looks after it for him. . . . How gay they all are! . . . "We quit when we're tired or when we've made enough for that week," he said. There was an air of comradery, merriment, & rough heartiness that almost made a hard-rock miner of my young...
...persons upon whose critical ability Dr. Cantril does not comment were the two hard-rock Princeton geologists who heard that something had fallen near by, promptly set out, hammers in hand, to have a scientific...
Meanwhile Frank T. Crowe, hard-rock engineer who will superintend the actual construction of Hoover Dam, opened a Six Companies office at Las Vegas, Nev., the rail junction for the job. Then he proceeded across the mountain wastes to Black Canyon. Before Superintendent Crowe could start actual dambuilding, he had to do these things: 1) complete the 20-mile railroad from Las Vegas to Black Canyon rim over which all material must be lowered. 2) Construct Boulder City to house 2,500 workers and their families. 3) Build an eightmile, double-track, standard-gauge rail line from Boulder City down...
...succumbed to the green mists that often steam up from pages of print to obscure a new writer's picture of himself. Appanoose is still at heart the hobo team-hand that he labored to become as a brawny lad of 15 in the hard-rock camps of Montana, Idaho and California, only instead of drawling his story aloud as he learned to do in tumbled bunk-shacks, glaring bars and chilly boxcars, he now puts it on paper with a few droll flourishes (for which he may be indebted to Mr. Kipling's Just So Stories...