Download or read book There s Copper in Them Thar Hills Copper Mining in Watauga Ashe and Alleghany Counties of North Carolina written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wilmington, North Carolina firm of Bannister, Cowan & Company, in its glowing report titled, just as glowingly, The Resources of North Carolina: Its Natural Wealth, Condition, and Advantages, as Existing in 1869. Presented to the Capitalists and People of the Central and Northern States, wrote that "[t]he three most noted copper mines in the northwestern part of the State are the Elk Knob, Peach Bottom, and Ore Knob. ... In the southeast corner of Ashe County is another mine of some note, known as Gap Creek [aka the Copper Knob Mine]." THERE'S COPPER IN THEM THAR HILLS! contains the histories of those four mines, which, as Bannister, Cowan & Company pointed out in its report, were all located in the mountains of northwest North Carolina: the Elk Knob Mine in Watauga County, the Copper Knob Mine and the Ore Knob Mine in Ashe County, and the Peach Bottom Mine in Alleghany County.
Download or read book The Railroad to Nowhere The Deep Gap Tie Lumber Company Railroad and Other Northwestern North Carolina Business Ventures written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The railroad to nowhere contains the stories of five northwestern North Carolina business ventures: the Copper Knob Mine (a.k.a. the Gap Creek Mine), "Cowles' Stand" (the A.D. Cowles & Co. Store), the Deep Gap Tie & Lumber Co. RR (the "Railroad to Nowhere"), the V.L. Moretz & Son Lumber Co. (formerly the Deep Gap Tie & Lumber Co.), and the Appalachian Ski Mountain (formerly the Blowing Rock Ski Lodge). These businesses were all located in the North Carolina counties of either Watauga or Ashe ... they all can trace their roots back to one man: Calvin J. Cowles."--Back cover
Download or read book The Laurel Fork Railway of Carter County Tennessee written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis D. Gasteiger, vice president of the new Pittsburgh Lumber Company in Carter County, Tennessee conspired with William Flinn, president of Booth & Flynn, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania construction firm to build a spur connection the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina railway. The ensuing railway connected Elizabethon to Laban, Tennessee and enabled unfinished lumber to the Southern Railway. The Laurel Fork Railroad was incorporated in April of 1910 and abandoned in 1925.
Download or read book From Tripoli to Timbuktu written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Virginia Creeper A Novel written by Doug McGuinn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE "VIRGINIA CREEPER" is a historically accurate (although the author admits having to use his "poetic license" a few times) novel about the rise and fall of the lumber/railroad town of Elkland (present-day Todd), N.C, the rise and fall of a lumber/passenger train, the Virginia-Carolina (aka the "Virginia Creeper"), and the rise and fall of a lumber company (the Hassinger Lumber Company) and the company town (Konnarock, Va.) the lumber company created.
Download or read book Investigation of the Ore Knob Copper Mine Ashe County N C written by T. J. Ballard and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Reliable Copper Mine Pinal County Arizona written by Thomas C. Denton and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Copper Mining in Lake Superior written by Thomas Egleston and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mining Methods and Practices at the Mineral Hill Copper Mine Banner Mining Co Pima County Ariz written by Walter R. Storms and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Copper Resources of California written by Lewis E. Aubury and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sullivan Copper Mine Cochise County Arizona written by Charles A. Kumke and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conditions in the Copper Mines of Michigan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Mines and Mining and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Property of the Ely Central Copper Company in Robinson Mining District Ely White Pine County Nevada written by William A. Farish and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Copper Manual written by D. Houston & Co and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cost of Mining 55 Tons of Copper nickel Ore at the Great Eastern Prospect Bunkerville Clark County Nev written by Paul T. Allsman and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploration of the Copper Butte Mine Mineral Creek Mining District Pinal County Ariz written by Harlow D. Phelps and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Production of Copper in 1910 written by United States. Bureau of Mines and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
