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The Hale & Norcross coup The task to secretly buy a majority of the Hale & Norcross stock was essentially carried out by James Clair Flood. The former carriage maker and saloon keeper mastered this task with such stealth and cunning, as would have done honor to a much more experienced operator. Of course he was helped by the lack of another interested party in the mine, Low having left it to Sharon and the latter being out and busy elsewhere. Only on February 27th 1869, less than one month before the new stockholders meeting, did word leak through the Gold Hill News, that “as J.G. Fair and J.W. Mackay of Virginia City own over four hundred ...
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