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Title: Illustrated universal history: being a clear and concise history of all nations
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Clare, Israel Smith, 1847- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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thus proving the providentialdistribution of the baser treasures of earth. How this happy arrangement hasaifected our industries can be learned by referring to those localities where the smokeof the furnace and the forge forms perpetual clouds around the summits of the moun-tains whose inward treasures are being wrought into use. Long before our pioneersw tre checked by the ranges of the Western coast, the country could safely makethe boast of being the richest in mineral wealth in the world. But with 1S48 andlu gold discoveries in California, and afterwards with the discovery of siher inNs/ada, Mon.ana and Colorado, there came a time when the nations wcndereJ a)d;e marvelous richness of our mineral deposits, and the most extravagant fables )f:he wealth of the Sierras were eclipsed by convincing reality. No single event ofthe century contributed so largely to our population, or so materially to our wealthand progress, as the discoveiy that our Western border abounded in the precious o
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