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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;petronius, post: 1717897, member: 37365&quot;]A railway Company in French-Indochine (now Vietnam)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]265615.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A railway Company in Italy, from Rome to Viterbo</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]265616.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A mining Company, from Michigan. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Calumet &amp; Hecla Mining Company was formed for the exploitation of the most important copper mine in US, in Calumet, Michigan. Established in 1865, the Company between 1867 and 1884 gave half of copper produced in US, between 1889 and 1900, well paid dividends of $ 57 million, a bargain for shareholders. </p><p>In 1902 the mine had 5,000 workers from all over the world: Italians, Poles, Swedes, Irish. For them, the Company built house, schools, libraries, a hospital.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Calumet &amp; Hecla stopped in 1968.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]265617.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>petronius :smile[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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