"Quartzite" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... around the shoulder of the hill and entered the country to the north. Here the sedimentary rim-rock lay open as a book and as he followed along its face he found hole after hole pecked into one copper-stained stratum. It was the same broad stratum of quartzite which, on coming to the creek, had dipped down into Bunker's claim; and now Denver knew that others beside himself thought well of that mineral-bearing vein. For the country was staked out regularly and in each location monument there was ...
— Silver and Gold - A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp • Dane Coolidge |
