. The street railway review . TRAIN LOAD OF MICA. earnings of a year ago. The line is now operated with favorableprospects, and it has been decided to double track a portion of thesystem. At the meeting in London, January 24th, the old boardof directors was re-elected. The board chose officers as follows:H. A. Everett, president; Mr. Smallman, vice-president; Mr. Carr,general manager and secretary-treasurer, and Messrs. Moore, Was-son, Spencer and Broderick, MOUTH OF ST. ANTHONY MINE. and in Canada. The mineral is usually discovered in veins com-mencing at the surface of the earth
. The street railway review . TRAIN LOAD OF MICA. earnings of a year ago. The line is now operated with favorableprospects, and it has been decided to double track a portion of thesystem. At the meeting in London, January 24th, the old boardof directors was re-elected. The board chose officers as follows:H. A. Everett, president; Mr. Smallman, vice-president; Mr. Carr,general manager and secretary-treasurer, and Messrs. Moore, Was-son, Spencer and Broderick, MOUTH OF ST. ANTHONY MINE. and in Canada. The mineral is usually discovered in veins com-mencing at the surface of the earth and running down diagonallybetween lime rock walls, the vein occasionally spreading out intopockets. The mining operations are simple, although the minesare often found in remote and mountainous regions, necessitatinglong hauls in wagons. A vein is worked by drilling holes withsteam drills and blasting away sections at a time, the chunks ofmica being raised to the surface by derricks and packed in jute bagsfor shipment. North Carolina furnishes a goodly quantity of thismaterial, it being one of the occupations of the mountain farmersof that state to go prospecting between crops. In fact, in somesections of the state mica forms the principal circulating mediumbetween the farmers and the storekeepers. When the former re-quire supplies they pay for them in mica, which is found in smallquantities on the hill-side farms, and dry groceries, meat and cloth-ing arc quot
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