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Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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owed more of the precious metalthan it could ever disgorge. These remarks are apropos of perhaps the most extraordinary boomwhich has agitated England since the palmy days of the Kaffir circus,when every man, woman, and child deemed it a patriotic duty to assistin the exploitation of the auriferous and diamondiferous reefs ofSouthern Africa. Much money, of course, was made and lost in thehistoric cycle boom and the flotation of West Australian gold mines, butthese episodes, though striking in their way, lacked many of the char-acteristics of the movement wdiich, a few years ago, necessitated an en-largement and subdivision of the Stock Exchange mining department. In an interesting article contributed to The Engineering Maga-zine some two years since, reference was made to the influence of aptalliteration in popularising the magnificent railway scheme so long as-sociated with the magnetic personality now at rest in the MatopposHills. There is much in a name, and gold mining on the Gold
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IVEST AFRICAN GOLD MINING. 669 Coast has proved a phrase dangerously fascinating even to the mostunimaginative minds. History and legend are in large degree ac-countable for the witchery, for the region of the Gulf of Guinea has,since Europeans first became acquainted with it, been regarded as richbeyond the dreams of avarice in hidden stores of the ever-covetedmetal. Whatever may today be thought of it, there is no doubt that inthe past the Gold Coast was no misnomer.

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