item: #1 of 31 id: 12911 author: Murdock, Charles A. (Charles Albert) title: A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment date: None words: 65809 flesch: 74 summary: Later came the reigns of little bosses, the specter of the big corporation boss behind them all, and then the triumph of decency under McNab, when good men served as supervisors. Few men have faced sharper trials and met them with more serenity and apparent lack of consciousness. keywords: bay; bear; beauty; board; boys; bret; building; business; california; character; church; city; coast; community; county; course; day; days; dollars; experience; father; feet; francisco; friend; god; good; hall; harte; home; house; humboldt; indians; interest; king; land; left; life; love; man; meeting; memory; men; miles; morning; near; new; number; office; party; people; place; power; public; right; river; san; san francisco; school; service; south; spirit; state; stebbins; street; sunday; thought; time; town; unitarian; valley; water; way; work; world; years cache: 12911.txt plain text: 12911.txt item: #2 of 31 id: 14917 author: Tracy, Louis title: The Wings of the Morning date: None words: 90593 flesch: 84 summary: My name is Miss Iris Deane. This lady, Miss Iris Deane, and I were flung ashore-- Miss Deane! keywords: air; anstruther; arthur; beneath; captain; cave; chief; close; come; course; day; days; deane; dear; death; dyaks; eyes; face; father; feet; find; fire; girl; good; half; hand; head; help; hour; iris; island; jan; jenks; know; ledge; left; life; look; lord; love; man; men; mir; miss; moment; near; place; right; robert; rock; sahib; sailor; sand; sea; ship; sir; sirdar; sun; think; thought; time; trees; ventnor; water; way; woman; words cache: 14917.txt plain text: 14917.txt item: #3 of 31 id: 15752 author: Field, Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson) title: Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State date: None words: 117177 flesch: 63 summary: To J.H. O'Brien, a well-known citizen, Judge Terry said that after he got out of jail he would horsewhip Judge Field. The letter to me from Justice Field above referred to is the only letter from Justice Field to me in which Judge Terry's name was ever mentioned, and, with the exception of the above-mentioned street conversation, Judge Field was never the subject of conversation between Judge Terry and myself, from the time I left the bench, on the 1st of January, 1857, up to the time of Terry's death. keywords: act; attorney; authority; bench; california; case; character; circuit court; city; conduct; county; county judge; course; court; day; days; decision; district court; district judge; duty; following; francisco; general; good; government; having; house; judge; judge field; judge terry; judge turner; judgment; justice field; land; law; left; letter; life; man; marshal; marysville; matter; neagle; new; office; opinion; order; people; place; present; proceedings; public; purpose; right; room; san; sharon; sheriff; state; state court; supreme court; time; united states; way; wife; years cache: 15752.txt plain text: 15752.txt item: #4 of 31 id: 20104 author: Cooper, Courtney Ryley title: The Cross-Cut date: None words: 79861 flesch: 89 summary: Robert Fairchild hastily made his toilet, then answered the ringing of the dinner bell, to be introduced to strong-shouldered men who gathered about the long tables; Cornishmen, who talked an h-less language, ruddy-faced Americans, and a sprinkling of English, all of whom conversed about things which were to Fairchild as so much Greek,--of levels and stopes and winzes, of skips and manways and raises, which meant nothing to the man who yet must master them all, if he were to follow his ambition. When the next dance came, they went again on the floor together, Robert Fairchild and the brown-eyed girl whom he suddenly realized he loved, without reasoning the past or the future, without caring whom she might be or what her plans might contain; a man out of prison lives by impulse, and Fairchild was but lately released. keywords: anita; away; big; blue; dance; day; dollars; door; eyes; fairchild; father; feet; find; girl; good; hand; harry; head; house; howard; look; man; moment; money; mother; new; night; ore; place; poppy; richmond; road; robert fairchild; rodaine; room; shaft; sheriff; silver; son; squint; thing; thought; time; town; tunnel; vein; voice; woman; work; years cache: 20104.txt plain text: 20104.txt item: #5 of 31 id: 26697 author: Hoover, Herbert title: Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration date: None words: 61726 flesch: 63 summary: ============================================================= Feet of | 100,000 | 200,000 | 300,000 | 500,000 |1,000,000 Water Lift | Gallons | Gallons | Gallons | Gallons | Gallons Avoided |per Diem |per Diem |per PRINCIPLES OF MINING +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Published by the | | McGraw-Hill Book Company | | New York | | | | Successors to the Book Departments of the | | McGraw Publishing Company Hill Publishing Company | | | | Publishers of Books for | | Electrical World The Engineering and Mining Journal | | Engineering Record Power and The Engineer | | Electric Railway Journal American Machinist | | Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ PRINCIPLES OF MINING VALUATION, ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION COPPER, GOLD, LEAD, SILVER, TIN AND ZINC BY HERBERT C. HOOVER _Member American Institute of Mining Engineers, Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, Société des Ingénieurs Civils de France, Fellow Royal Geographical Society, etc._ First Edition _FOURTH THOUSAND_ McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY 239 WEST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK BOUVERIE STREET, LONDON, E.C. 1909 PREFACE. keywords: = =; = |; air; average; broken; capital; cases; conditions; cost; deposits; depth; development; efficiency; engineer; equipment; extension; feet; fig; filling; haulage; levels; life; mechanical; metal; method; mines; mining; number; ore; ore ore; power; price; production; shaft; stopes; stoping; system; value; vertical; waste; work; working; years; | | cache: 26697.txt plain text: 26697.txt item: #6 of 31 id: 27918 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: The Mines and its Wonders date: None words: 23916 flesch: 72 summary: Neither engine-house nor chimneys such as are seen in other mines are visible, while every detail of the work is exposed to view--indeed, the huge basin has the appearance of a mine completely turned inside out. The travellers visited these and several other mines, among them the Consolidated Copper Mines, situated in the parish of Gwennap, about three miles from Redruth. keywords: air; cavern; coal; copper; day; entrance; feet; galleries; ground; ice; iron; length; long; mark; men; mines; ore; pit; rock; roof; shaft; silver; surface; time; water; way; work; years cache: 27918.txt plain text: 27918.txt item: #7 of 31 id: 31327 author: Mullen, Stanley title: Master of the Moondog date: None words: 12725 flesch: 89 summary: Tod Denver and Charley, the moondog, made ideal companions as they set a zigzag course for the Martian diggings--paradise for fools._ [Illustration] Tod Denver glared at Charley, who was a moondog and looked like one, and Charley glared back. keywords: big; caltis; charley; darbor; denver; earth; girl; inside; light; man; martian; moondog; ship; space; time; tod; tod denver cache: 31327.txt plain text: 31327.txt item: #8 of 31 id: 31485 author: Nason, Frank Lewis title: The Blue Goose date: None words: 64276 flesch: 87 summary: Luna saw Firmstone in the laboratory as he entered the railed enclosure. Ze steel get hin ze roll, ze stamp break, ze tram break, ze men kick. keywords: away; bennie; bin; blue; company; day; door; eyes; face; fact; feet; find; firmstone; foreman; girl; going; good; goose; half; hand; hartwell; head; life; lips; long; look; luna; madame; man; mek; men; mill; mind; miss; morrison; office; open; pierre; right; room; safe; tell; things; time; trail; want; way; words; work; zephyr; élise cache: 31485.txt plain text: 31485.txt item: #9 of 31 id: 34296 author: Garland, John title: Ross Grant, Tenderfoot date: None words: 81211 flesch: 88 summary: It's far better to turn him from his purpose as you are doing--or trying to do, I should say, because, if young Ross is anything like old Ross, he will not be so easily turned. Ross hesitated, glanced at the waiting clerk, glanced at the suspicious face of the sheriff and then, with a shaking hand, wrote: Ross Grant, Junior, and laid the pen down. keywords: boy; bunk; cabin; camp; claims; cody; come; creek; day; doc; door; eyes; face; father; going; good; grant; hand; hank; head; left; leslie; man; mckenzies; meadow; miners; mountains; right; ross; ross grant; sandy; shack; sheriff; snow; stage; steele; table; thought; time; trail; tunnel; uncle; valley; voice; way; waymart; weimer; weston; work cache: 34296.txt plain text: 34296.txt item: #10 of 31 id: 34507 author: Hankins, Arthur Preston title: The Heritage of the Hills date: None words: 64523 flesch: 90 summary: It belongs to Mr. Oliver Drew, according to the recorder's office. It required many long minutes for the entire circle to complete the trip around the fire; and this continued on and on till the brain of Oliver Drew swam and the fire in reality took on the aspect of a tormenting, threatening ogre which this rite must crush. keywords: adam; answer; black; cabin; country; creek; dakas; dance; day; dead; digger; drew; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; foss; girl; hand; head; horse; ivison; jessamy; land; long; man; man selden; men; oakers; oliver; oliver drew; pence; place; poche; poison; right; saddle; selden; showut; spring; think; thought; time; water; way; white; years cache: 34507.txt plain text: 34507.txt item: #11 of 31 id: 35213 author: Reid, Mayne title: Afloat in the Forest; Or, A Voyage among the Tree-Tops date: None words: 92736 flesch: 77 summary: Its timber is very hard and fine grained, and will stand the weather better than most other South American trees; but it cannot be procured in any great quantity, because, like many other trees of the Amazon, it is of a solitary habit, only two or three, or at most half a dozen, growing within the circuit of a mile. All ob you lay hold on de creepin' vine, an' pull um out from de tree. keywords: adventurers; birds; body; branches; canoe; chapter; close; course; cow; craft; crew; danger; dead; direction; distance; end; eyes; feet; fire; fish; forest; galatea; gapo; good; half; head; hour; indian; jacare; land; length; little; log; man; moment; munday; mundurucu; night; patron; place; richard; river; sapucaya; saw; species; sun; surface; swimmers; tapuyo; thought; time; tipperary; tom; tops; tree; trevannion; use; water; way; wood; young cache: 35213.txt plain text: 35213.txt item: #12 of 31 id: 37249 author: Lynde, Francis title: The City of Numbered Days date: None words: 72893 flesch: 82 summary: I'll tell you, Mr. Brouillard--in confidence. Do you know what I'm thinking about, Mr. Brouillard? keywords: amy; away; bank; brouillard; buckskin; building; business; camp; chigringo; city; company; cortwright; dam; day; desk; end; engineer; eyes; face; father; going; gold; good; government; grislow; half; hands; harlan; head; light; little; love; making; man; massingale; men; mirapolis; miss; money; mountain; new; niquoia; office; people; place; power; railroad; reclamation; service; stock; street; thing; time; town; turn; valley; victor; way; woman; word; work; young cache: 37249.txt plain text: 37249.txt item: #13 of 31 id: 38903 author: Hoskin, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph) title: The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines date: None words: 38329 flesch: 61 summary: The word exploitation is used by many mining men and engineers to signify a plan of so opening up ore deposits as to render the contents removable. Prof. Robert H. Richards, the head of the mining department in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the inventor of machines which have made him famous among mining men, says, Ore dressing is an essential part of mining. keywords: = =; bodies; body; business; coal; companies; company; copper; gold; gold mining; great; ground; man; men; metal; mineral; mines; mining; mining company; mining men; mining property; new; operations; ore; ore bodies; ores; practice; production; property; shaft; silver; states; time; ton; value; work; world; years; | | cache: 38903.txt plain text: 38903.txt item: #14 of 31 id: 39433 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Frank Merriwell's Backers; Or, The Pride of His Friends date: None words: 73029 flesch: 91 summary: Bill let Frank alone until after dinner. Throughout the night Frank Merriwell lay ensconced behind some sheltering rocks in a deep ravine, where he had been trapped by the ruffians in the employ of the mining trust, who were determined to wrest from him the precious papers they believed to be in his possession. keywords: arlington; bart; big; bill; boxer; boy; burt; burt l.; cimarron; dog; door; eyes; face; fellow; frank; frank merriwell; girl; good; hand; head; heap; horse; joe; june; know; little; look; man; manner; men; merriwell; merry; monte; pablo; place; ready; right; room; ruffians; saw; shoot; standish; sure; time; tracy; way; young cache: 39433.txt plain text: 39433.txt item: #15 of 31 id: 39918 author: Browne, J. Ross (John Ross) title: Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe date: None words: 122852 flesch: 74 summary: Indeed, for that matter, the general characteristic of great men is modesty, and where will you see so many notoriously great men as in Washington upon the advent of a new administration. Good men could obtain employment any where by working for their wages; but it required the best kind of administration men to earn extraordinary compensations by an extraordinary amount of idleness. keywords: abraham; air; boat; body; california; captain; cave; city; country; course; crusoe; dark; day; distance; dollars; doubter; earth; feet; fellow; fire; francisco; friend; general; gentlemen; gold; good; government; great; ground; half; hand; head; house; illustration; indians; island; juan; lay; left; life; like; little; look; looking; man; matter; men; miles; mind; money; morning; mountains; mule; night; party; place; point; port; public; road; robinson; rocks; san; saw; sea; ship; sir; state; thing; thought; time; valley; washoe; water; way; whisky; world; years cache: 39918.txt plain text: 39918.txt item: #16 of 31 id: 40262 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, The Disappearance of Felicia date: None words: 89919 flesch: 91 summary: Steady, Brad, old man! warned Dick. Some of them had bad records, and yet they had served Frank Merriwell faithfully in guarding his mine, the Queen Mystery, against those who tried to wrest it from him by force and fraud. keywords: abe; bart; boy; brad; brother; buckhart; cap'n; curry; dan; dick; door; eyes; face; felicia; find; frank; good; hand; head; hodge; horse; joe; little; look; man; mebbe; men; merriwell; merry; morgan; place; right; room; ruffians; sailor; tell; think; thought; time; valley; voice; way; wiley; yer; yere cache: 40262.txt plain text: 40262.txt item: #17 of 31 id: 403 author: Davis, Richard Harding title: Soldiers of Fortune date: None words: 79687 flesch: 83 summary: They seem to be a most picturesque lot of young men. They were only employees of Langham--two of the thousands of young men who were working all over the United States to please him, to make him richer, to whom he was only a name and a power, which meant an increase of salary or the loss of place. keywords: alvarez; arms; burke; carriage; city; clay; coming; day; eyes; face; father; general; good; hand; head; home; hope; house; king; langham; left; look; macwilliams; man; men; mendoza; mines; miss; miss langham; new; night; people; place; president; road; stuart; table; thought; time; want; way; white; woman; work; young cache: 403.txt plain text: 403.txt item: #18 of 31 id: 42268 author: Townshend, R. B. (Richard Baxter) title: Lone Pine: The Story of a Lost Mine date: None words: 121020 flesch: 85 summary: He grasped Stephens hand warmly, sprang to his saddle, and was presently galloping for the Rio Grande. The eleven Indians were the first Navajos Stephens had ever seen, and he eyed them with no little curiosity. keywords: american; backus; boy; cacique; day; dead; dollars; don; door; estevan; eyes; face; father; felipe; fire; girl; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; horse; indian; josefa; left; like; look; mahletonkwa; man; manuelita; mare; matter; men; mexican; mind; moment; navajos; nepomuceno; new; people; place; prospector; pueblo; rifle; right; rocky; room; round; saddle; salvador; santiago; shot; silver; stephens; thing; thought; time; tito; trail; voice; way; work; young cache: 42268.txt plain text: 42268.txt item: #19 of 31 id: 44681 author: Smyth, H. Warington (Herbert Warington) title: Notes of a Journey on the Upper Mekong, Siam date: None words: 40726 flesch: 68 summary: In a few years' time there will, no doubt, be more men at work, and larger areas of pits in work. One man showed me what he declared was the result of his year's work--three good stones of rich colour and good water, for which he expected to get 100, 60, and 50 Rs. keywords: bamboo; bank; boat; chieng; country; day; days; east; end; feet; good; hills; illustration; jungle; laos; luang; man; mekong; men; miles; nam; night; north; people; place; prabang; rapids; red; rice; river; round; siam; siamese; south; time; valley; villages; water; way; west; work cache: 44681.txt plain text: 44681.txt item: #20 of 31 id: 4638 author: Woolley, L. H. (Lell Hawley) title: California, 1849-1913; Or, The Rambling Sketches and Experiences of Sixty-four Years' Residence in that State date: None words: 20546 flesch: 77 summary: It commenced at Francisco street between Powell and Mason streets. It extended north several hundred feet and was used for a landing place for lumber in the rough, to be conveyed to his mill on the South side of Francisco street near Powell. keywords: building; business; california; casey; city; committee; cora; corner; day; days; feet; francisco; home; james; john; king; left; man; miles; north; river; sacramento; san; san francisco; state; street; terry; time; vigilance; washington; water; way; years cache: 4638.txt plain text: 4638.txt item: #21 of 31 id: 61353 author: Laumer, Keith title: Saline Solution date: None words: 6512 flesch: 88 summary: Sure thing, Mr. Retief. Mr. Leatherwell is hardly interested in these details, Retief, Magnan cut in. keywords: belt; claim; consul; leatherwell; magnan; mancziewicz; minerals; retief; rock; sam cache: 61353.txt plain text: 61353.txt item: #22 of 31 id: 61798 author: Selwyn, Carl title: Venus Has Green Eyes date: None words: 6017 flesch: 97 summary: Venusian women were the beauties of the Universe and this woman had surpassed them all, but in her dull beauty, thought Flip, there was nothing feminine. Flip had reasons. keywords: charlie; eyes; flip; gun; mist; mud; swamp; woman cache: 61798.txt plain text: 61798.txt item: #23 of 31 id: 61811 author: Williams, Robert Moore title: Quest on Io date: None words: 5336 flesch: 93 summary: Seeing she couldn't get the gun, she stopped, and the blast she launched from her eyes made Andy think they were heat guns of a new kind. Andy reached decisively for a rock. keywords: andy; boss; girl; gun; heat; man; oscar cache: 61811.txt plain text: 61811.txt item: #24 of 31 id: 61843 author: James, D. L. (Daniel Lewis) title: Exit From Asteroid 60 date: None words: 5770 flesch: 82 summary: Destiny had indeed provided them both with a strange exit from Echo, for in that split second Bormon realized that he was being hurled squarely into the gaping orifice of the cyclotron. But when Calbur failed to show up in time for a return voyage to Earth, Bormon had taken up the search. keywords: basket; bormon; calbur; echo; mars; martian; ore; space cache: 61843.txt plain text: 61843.txt item: #25 of 31 id: 61869 author: Kummer, Frederic Arnold title: Satellite of Fear date: None words: 6634 flesch: 91 summary: Any news, Mr. Grant? she asked quietly, stepping into the control room. Orders, Mr. Grant! Face stony, Grant left the control room, strode along the companionway to the fo'castle. keywords: allers; grant; gun; heat; kennerly; miller; space; trail cache: 61869.txt plain text: 61869.txt item: #26 of 31 id: 61895 author: Cummings, Ray title: Space-Wolf date: None words: 5481 flesch: 91 summary: Well, in a nutshell, I'm Morgan--Solo Morgan. The lure of precious zolonite drew Morgan to barren Titan--to find a weird beast-empire ruled by a cold-eyed Earth-girl queen. keywords: cah; girl; gun; morgan; nada; red; rocks cache: 61895.txt plain text: 61895.txt item: #27 of 31 id: 61942 author: Ackermann, Henry Andrew title: South to Propontis date: None words: 4457 flesch: 92 summary: It was that southern rim, a mere uneven thread of rust, to which Don had raised his eyes so many times that day, his heart light with the thought that he was going to Propontis. Don had been seven when they struck the Suzie lode. keywords: boy; don; eyes; martians; pete; uncle; water cache: 61942.txt plain text: 61942.txt item: #28 of 31 id: 61976 author: Bond, Nelson S. title: "Shadrach" date: None words: 9898 flesch: 88 summary: As they neared the cradles wherein lay the vessels of a thousand diverse ports, Salvation questioned Chip still further. And they, Chip Warren thought as he watched the bleary man pour yet another jigger of green from a malevolently gleaming bottle of _lisk_, were a particularly evil-looking and ill-assorted lot. keywords: amborg; chip; cold; eyes; fire; hand; man; moment; padre; palmer; salvation; space; syd; titania; voice; warren cache: 61976.txt plain text: 61976.txt item: #29 of 31 id: 62075 author: Cummings, Ray title: Gods of Space date: None words: 9371 flesch: 90 summary: Dr. Atwood, ten years ago, had propounded the theory that it was a sub-microscopic spore so small that even the giant electro-microscopes could not detect it. But, then, Dr. Atwood had discovered, in the ore of Xarium, which existed in very small quantities on Earth, a product which he had named _Xarite_. keywords: atwood; bohr; earth; feet; girl; glow; god; marlans; xarite cache: 62075.txt plain text: 62075.txt item: #30 of 31 id: 62186 author: Gallun, Raymond Z. title: Space Oasis date: None words: 9932 flesch: 89 summary: I swaggered into the pay office, where a couple of stenogs clicked typewriters, and where Norman Haynes, acting head of the Haynes Shipping Company, sat at his desk, under the painted portrait of his uncle, that grizzled old veteran, Art Haynes, who had retired years ago, and who now lived on Earth. At sight of me, Norman Haynes arose from his chair. keywords: asteroid; chet; earth; geedeh; gravity; haynes; irene; mavrocordatus; men; nick; norman; ships; space; water cache: 62186.txt plain text: 62186.txt item: #31 of 31 id: 62321 author: Cummings, Ray title: The Flame Breathers date: None words: 14130 flesch: 90 summary: For a moment, with little Ama clinging to me, I must have stood appalled at the weird sight of the dead fire-mime. The Senzas, primitive obviously, yet with an orderly tribal civilization, were the dominant race here on little Vulcan. keywords: ama; arrow; feet; fire; gully; jan; moment; orgs; roberts; rock; ship; torrence; vulcan; way cache: 62321.txt plain text: 62321.txt