"Mineral vein" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... our Far Western towns presents a curious study. In these latter days it frequently requires but a few months, or even weeks, to give some new one a fair start upon its prosperous way. Sometimes a mineral vein, sometimes the temporary "end of the track" of a lengthening railway, forms the nucleus, and around it are first seen the tents of the advance-guard. Before many weeks have elapsed some enterprising individual has succeeded, ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XXVI., December, 1880. • Various |
