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Quicksilver : Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company
author
:
Ragsdale, Kenneth Baxter.
publisher
:
Texas A&M University Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0890961883
print isbn13
:
9780890961889
ebook isbn13
:
9780585174747
language
:
English
subject
Mercury mines and mining--Texas--Terlingua District--History, Chisos Mining Company--History.
publication date
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1976
lcc
:
TN463.T4R33 1976eb
ddc
:
338.7/62
subject
:
Mercury mines and mining--Texas--Terlingua District--History, Chisos Mining Company--History.
Page iii
Quicksilver
Terlingua & the Chisos Mining Company
Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
Foreword by Joe B. Frantz
Texas A&M University Press COLLEGE STATION
Page iv
Copyright 1976 by Kenneth B. Ragsdale All rights reserved
This book has been printed on acid-free paper. The paper also meets meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Ragsdale, Kenneth B. 1917 Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mercury mines and mining-Texas-Terlingua district History. 2. Chisos Mining Company-History. I. Title. TN463.T4R33 1976 338.7'62'2345409764932 75-4081 ISBN 0-89096-188-3 (pbk.)
Manufactured in the United States of America Third printing, 1995
Page v
For Janet
Page vii
Contents
Illustrations
ix
Foreword
xi
Preface
xv
Introduction
3
Chapter
1. Discovery and Early Development
13
2. Perry Opens His Mine
22
3. The Basic Necessities: Wagons, Wood, and Water
44
4. Perry Assumes Control
62
5. Facilities of Civilization
80
6. The Lengthening Shadow
110
7. School Bells and Ballot Boxes
131
8. The Biggest Store between Del Rio and El Paso
156
9. The Rainbow Mine Episode
186
10. When the Blue Eagle Screamed
224
11. Events That Hastened the Fall
251
12. Bankruptcy
280
Epilogue
296
Appendix A. History of Quicksilver
303
Appendix B. The Controversial Survey 295
305
Appendix C. The Scott Furnace
307
Appendix D. Monthly Furnace Record
309
Bibliography
311
Index
317
Page ix
Illustrations
Chisos Mining Company, complex, 1922
Howard E. Perry, 1898
W.A. Goad, Laurance and Drury Phillips at Chisos No. 4 shaft, 1906
Chisos No. 1 shaft, 1906
Howard E. Perry and Johan August Udden
Robert L. Cartledge
Wayne R. Cartledge
Eugene Cartledge
Furnace employee "working" soot saturated with quicksilver
Furnace employees charging retort with cinnabar ore
Quicksilver flasks awaiting shipment
Mule-drawn freight wagons
The Chisos Hotel at Terlingua
The Chisos company store
The Terlingua stage
Mexican water boy and burro
Terlingua water works in 1938 and Perry mansion
Mexican section of Terlingua from the Chisos Store
The Terlingua jail
Disputed area in the Chisos underground invasion suit
Rainbow staff and survey crew at northeast corner of Section 70
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