Journal Articles 

Dana R. Bennett, The Constant Battle of the Mine Operators for Protection of the Industry: The Nevada Mine Operators’ Association and Henry Macon Rives.

Carol Sullivan, Boomtown Life: Grants, New Mexico, during its Second Uranium Boom.

Richard Francaviglia, A Glimpse into Mining History’s Connection to Maritime History: The Wreck of the Steamship Atacama.

Eugene R. H. Tesdahl, “The Sum of Three Hundred Thirty Dollars”: Illegal Slavery, Black Entrepreneurs, and the Driftless Lead Boom.

Robert L. Spude, Patent Wars: Edward Hoit Nutter, Minerals Separation, Ltd, and the Introduction of the Revolutionary Froth Flotation Process into the United States.

Lysa Wegman-French, Recent Publications on the History of Mining.

Book Reviews

Douglas R. Thayer and David L. Thayer, Aerial Mine Tramways of San Juan County, Colorado. Reviewed by Matt Hutson.

Mark Milton Chambers, Gray Gold: Lead Mining and its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700-1840. Reviewed by Eugene R. H. Tesdahl.

Roger Burt, Michael C. Gill, and Norikazu Kudo, Tin Mining in Cornwall 1900 to 1950: Decline, Fall, and Resurrection. Reviewed by Kieth Russ.

Mica Jorgenson, The Weight of Gold: Mining and the Environment in Ontario, Canada, 1900-1929. Reviewed by Robert S. Gendron.

Front Matter

FRONT COVER: The Park City, Utah, Miners’ Hospital was built in 1904 on an acre of donated land fronting on Norfolk Avenue north of Fourteenth Street at the northern edge of town.  A cooperative effort of Western Federation of Miners’ Local 144 and Park City businesses and citizens, it operated at the behest of the union for about thirty years and then as a private clinic into the 1950s.  Threatened by area development, in 1982 the building was moved about a thousand feet east to its present location off Sullivan Road and is now the Miners’ Hospital Community Center.  Extolling his union’s achievements at its 1911 convention, WFM President Charles Moyer said the federation had “forced the adoption” of state eight-hour day and workers’ compensation laws, higher wages and mine-safety appliances, and noted that “we have built hospitals where the sick and injured miner may be cared for; buried the dead, and provided for widows and orphans.” (Editor's photo.)

Back Matter

BACK COVER: Entrance to the Number 3 Shaft of the zinc-lead-silver Ontario Mine (1872-1978) at Park City, Utah. There are some rules.  (Editor's photo.)