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Excerpt from Timbering and Mining: A Treatise on Practical American Methods
The author of this series of papers on Practical Mining Methods and Timbering of mine workings has undertaken the task with the full knowledge that whatever may be said herein to-day, is more than likely to become ancient history within a very few years.
In 1892 the writer prepared a little volume entitled Methods of Mine Timbering, which was issued in 1893 as Bulletin No. 2 in the series of publications of the State Mining Bureau of Cali formia. That little work was evidently appreciated by the mining men of the country, for the large edition was exhausted within a few months. It had the distinction of being the first mono graph on the subject, and was republished in many mining, engineering and scientific papers throughout the world, in English, French, and German, usually with full credit to both the State Mining Bureau of California, and to the author. SO great was the demand for it that in 1894 a second edition, enlarged slightly and somewhat improved, was published, and this, like the first edition, was promptly absorbed. In time the treatise, issued as a gratuitous contribution to mining literature by the State of California, found ready sale. Few Copies are seen now, as they have gone largely into private libraries. Since this work became unobtainable, there has been an almost constant demand for it, and even to-day, after a lapse of fifteen years, there are many calls for Methods of Mine Timbering.
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