Question

I posted this an hour ago but nobody even looked at the three questions, please help...

1. What did John W. Mackay and George Hearst have in common?

2. How did the speculators price land during the gold rush? At what price was the Ophir quoted?

3. There were many drawbacks to industrial mining. Name one.

Answer 1

John William Mackay (November 28, 1831 – July 20, 1902) was an Irish-American industrialist. Mackay was one of the four Bonanza Kings, a partnership which capitalised on the wealth generated by the silver mines at the Comstock Lode. (i copy pasted fyi ;p)