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The silver kings of Nevada's Comstock Lode
James
Graham Fair : the mastermind of the Comstock Bonanza firm
Like Mackay, James Graham Fair was born in Dublin 1831. His parents
emigrated to America and settled as farmers at Geneva, Illinois. When the
California gold rush raged in 1849, then eighteen years old Jim Fair left
the farm and took the overland trail to seek his fortune. Like thousands of
other hopefuls he learnt the placer mining techniques and spent several
years in the gold camps, working from dawn to dusk for what really was a
pittance. Like John W. Mackay, Fair liked ...
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