Riches From The Air A Potash Claim From Filtration
A century ago a math teacher in Lespeic electrified a wire in bottle smoke to clear it and deposit material on the bottle interior. In Montana a 585 foot high chimney forms from the process with 111 miles of chains and fumes from a copper plant. Frederick G. Cottrell, head of the U S Bureau of Mines, popularized the method. Experts say cement kilns and iron furnaces dust may yield cheap potash via filtration, with one cement company reportedly earning about $6000 weekly.
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Lespeic
Montana
Frederick G. Cottrell
United States Bureau of Mines
Cottrell
Miners Walk Out Over Wage Cut In Comstock District
Comstock mines led by Con Virginia Ophir reduce daily pay to 6 from January 1 1921 after a rejected demand for 8 46. Three days after a 8 46 offer was granted at Con Virginia Ophir while Gold Hill stays on old scale with reduced force. Unions deny official sanction for the walkout.
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Virginia
Alex Wise
Con. Virginia
Ophir
Sierra Nevada
Northend
Gold Hill
United Comstock Mines Co
Hunger Striker MacSwiney Death Shocks Britons
Terence MacSwiney lord mayor of Cork died in Brixton prison after a seventy three day hunger strike. He passed away at 5 40 am with his chaplain Father Dominic and brother John MacSwiney nearby. The case sparked constitutional and theological debates about royal prerogative and Catholic sacraments for hunger strikers. The Irish Republican cause viewed his death as a powerful symbol and potential rallying point.
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Terence MacSwiney
Cork
Brixton Prison
Dominic
John MacSwiney
MacSwiney
Great Britain
Cecil Rhodes
Paul Kruger
England
Wolf Tone
Manchester
George
Lloyd George
A. Bonar Law
King George
Nation
George IV
Thackeray
Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Republican Army
Sinn Fein
I T
Colahan
Father Dominic
Bernard Vaughn
Glasgow
Mack Swiney
John Brown
Brixton
of McSwiney
Cork Corporation
Dall Eireann
Ilegal
Irish Republic
United States
British Home Office
Peter MacSwiney
New York
American Commission For
New Cyanide Plant Revives Old Meadow Lake Camp
A cyanide plant operates and a flotation plant is planned for spring at Meadow Lake near the Sierra summit forty miles from Truckee. California Nevada and Western mining men watch the experiments to reduce refractory ores. sources say cyaniding and related processes are achieving about 93 percent recovery.
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Meadow Lake
Sierras
Truckee
The
Gazette
California
Nevada
West
Linotype Operator Sets World Record in Salt Lake Tribune
Alder Hewitt, linotype operator for The Salt Lake Tribune, on Sunday night set a world record for linotype composition. He produced 2,500 ems in six hours and thirty-five minutes in nonpareil type, with 2170 lines equaling 180 inches or about 13,700 words. The work was straightaway composition and not a competition.
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Alder Hewitt
Salt Lake Tribune
Hewitt
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