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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 314 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LEAD (pronounced iced)

LEAD (pronounced iced) , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

Lawrence See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

South Dakota, U.S.A., situated in the See also:

Black Hills, at an See also:

ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of about 5300 ft., 3m. S.W. of See also:

DEADWOOD

Deadwood. Pop. (189o) 2581, (1900) 621o, of whom 2145 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born, (1905) 8217, (1910) 8392. In 19o5 it was second in See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population among the cities of the See also:

state. It is served by the See also:

Chicago, See also:

BURLINGTON

Burlington & See also:

Quincy, the Chicago & See also:

North-Western, and the Chicago, See also:

MILWAUKEE

Milwaukee & St See also:

Paul See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. Lead has a See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital, the Hearst See also:

FREE

Free Library and the Hearst Free See also:

KINDERGARTEN

Kindergarten, and is the see of a See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic bishopric. It is the centre of the See also:

MINING

mining interests of the Black Hills, and the Homestake See also:

Gold Mine here contains perhaps the largest and most easily worked See also:

mass of See also:

low-grade ore and one of the largest mining See also:

PLANTS

plants (r000 stamps) in the See also:

WORLD

world; it has also three See also:

CYANIDE

cyanide See also:

mills. From 1878 to 1906 the value of the gold taken from this mine amounted to about $58,000,000, and the See also:

NET

net value of the product of 1906 alone was approximately $5,313,516. For two months in the See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of 1907 the mine was rendered idle by a See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire (See also:

March 25), which was so severe that it was necessary to See also:

flood the entire mine. Mining tools and gold See also:

JEWELRY (O. Fr. jouel, Fr. joyau, perhaps from joie, joy; Lat. gaudium; retranslated into Low Lat. jocale, a toy, from jocus, by misapprehension of the origin of the word)

jewelry are manufactured. The first See also:

settlement was made here by mining prospectors in See also:

JULY

July 1876.

Lead was chartered as a city in 1890 and became a city of the first class in 1904.

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