. St. Nicholas [serial]. Figs. 3 and 4 show the opera-tion better than words can tellit. In one the shovel is prepar-ing to dip the ore; in the otherit has just dumped it on the re-ceiving-car. As well call it mining whenthe operation is repeated andthe same ore is again scoopedfrom the hold of the vessel andput ashore, or when it is againscooped from the ore pile anddumped into the furnace. No, OPEN MINING. we speak of mining we usu-ally think of picks and shovels,hammers and drills, blasts andexplosions. Just think of min-ing with a steam shovel, andwith four scoops of the dipperputting twen
. St. Nicholas [serial]. Figs. 3 and 4 show the opera-tion better than words can tellit. In one the shovel is prepar-ing to dip the ore; in the otherit has just dumped it on the re-ceiving-car. As well call it mining whenthe operation is repeated andthe same ore is again scoopedfrom the hold of the vessel andput ashore, or when it is againscooped from the ore pile anddumped into the furnace. No, OPEN MINING. we speak of mining we usu-ally think of picks and shovels,hammers and drills, blasts andexplosions. Just think of min-ing with a steam shovel, andwith four scoops of the dipperputting twenty-five tons of oreon a car which runs on a trestleand dumps the ore into a ves-sels hold ! That certainly is notmining as usually done in otherplaces, but it is the kind of min-ing which is now being donein these great Michigan EL SCOOPING UP ORE.
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