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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.

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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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