Excerpt from Manual of Mining: Based on the Course of Lectures on Mining, Delivered at the School of Mines of the State of Colorado
The wants of the latter class have been kept in mind, and the writer hopes that the manual may prove of some benefit to the intelligent reader, of whom it presupposes an elementary knowledge of the sciences and of the simple machines.
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