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pany from some cause allowing no one to enter it except 

 their own employees. It was impossible to find any one 

 now living near there who had seen the inside of the 

 mine. 



That it must have been an extensive deposit favorably 

 conditioned, is indicated by the complete and efficient 

 equipment of the mine, the length of its period of oper- 



PLATE III. ARNOTT MICA MINE SPECIMEN MICA BLOCKS. 



