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2 unusual facts about Philip Deidesheimer


Philip Deidesheimer

The development of his square-set timbering method was fictionalized in "The Diedesheimer Story" in season one of Bonanza.

Deidesheimer studied at the mining academy of Freiberg, Germany (see Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg), and was mining in Georgetown, California prior to being hired by W. F. Babcock, a trustee of the Ophir Mine in April 1860.



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