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    The Pacific Coast Borax Company (PCB) was a United States mining company founded in 1890 by the American borax magnate Francis Smith, the "Borax King"...
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    Mule Team product, was a borax-based powdered hand soap manufactured in the past by Pacific Coast Borax Company, then by US Borax via merger, and finally...
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    February 8, 1936) was an American businessman and vice president of Pacific Coast Borax Company. Zabriskie Point on the northeasternmost flank of the Black Mountains...
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    form the Pacific Coast Borax Company in 1890. Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company then established and aggressively promoted the 20-Mule-Team Borax brand...
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  • using the BORAX-I nuclear reactor Pacific Coast Borax Company Borax Smith, Francis Marion Smith, an American business magnate 20 Mule Team Borax Borex, municipality...
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  • employees of Francis Marion "Borax" Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company, but they left the company to form this new company and went into direct competition...
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  • history.": 43  The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company, makers of 20 Mule Team Borax and Boraxo, and hosted by Stanley Andrews ("The...
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    20 million pounds (9,100 t) of borax out of Death Valley in the six years of operation, with Pacific Coast Borax shipping their borax by train starting in 1898...
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    the 8th century AD. Borax first came into common use in the late 19th century when Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company began to market and...
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    of borax. Francis Marion "Borax" Smith bought the claim for his Pacific Coast Borax Company. Mining at the site by shafts began in the 1920s. Pacific Coast...
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    Oasis at Death Valley (category Fred Harvey Company)
    by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and opened on February 1, 1927, with twelve rooms. Richard C. Baker – then president of Pacific Coast Borax – sought...
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  • Resources NovaGold Resources Orex Exploration Outokumpu Pacific Coast Borax Company Palabora Mining Company Pan American Silver Corporation Pasminco Peko-Wallsend...
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    1895 The San Bernardino Borax Mining Company was sold by Searles to the Pacific Coast Borax Company, owned by Francis "Borax King" Smith. He shut down...
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  • Marion "Borax" Smith and eventually became president of the Pacific Coast Borax Company and the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad. In 1899, "Borax" Smith...
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    Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad (category Railway companies established in 1906)
    Nevada. The railroad was built mainly to haul borax from Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company mines located just east of Death Valley, but...
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    by Frank M. "Borax" Smith in 1890, to become the Pacific Coast Borax Company with the 20 Mule Team Borax brand. Activity at Harmony Borax Works ceased...
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    Amargosa Opera House and Hotel (category California opera companies)
    was part of a company town designed by architect Alexander Hamilton McCulloch and constructed in 1923–25 by the Pacific Coast Borax Company. The U-shaped...
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  • operating system data structure Precompiled Binary Pacific Coast Borax Company, an American mining company Pakistan Cricket Board, national regulatory board...
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    California, US. It was named for Richard C. Baker, a director of the Pacific Coast Borax Company. "Bakerite mineral data". WebMineral.com. Archived from the original...
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    Ryan, California (category Company towns in California)
    (1849–1918), who was General Manager of the Pacific Coast Borax Company and a trusted employee of "Borax" Smith until his death in 1918. The Ryan post...
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    Junction to ship the borax away for processing and packaging. The line was built by a separate company from Pacific Coast Borax Company, because they were...
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    mining and operations for the Pacific Coast Borax Company and the historic 20-Mule Teams hauling wagon trains of borax across the Mojave Desert. According...
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    were subsequently acquired by Francis Marion Smith to form the Pacific Coast Borax Company. The town named Lila C, California was at the Lila C mine, named...
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    started working for the Pacific Coast Borax Company at its headquarters in New York, where his father was administrator. Borax is a component of a variety...
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  • general manager of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in the early 20th century. The company's twenty-mule teams were used to transport borax from its mining operations...
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    demonstration farm was Harry P. Gower, an employee of the Pacific Coast Borax Company – the company that owned the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad. The T&T...
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    1888 to 1903. The American Borax Company leased, and later bought, a small length of the railroad to use for their borax mining operations near Lead...
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    during drilling of a water well. Claims were acquired by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and exploration continued. In 1925 commercial colemanite production...
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    spheres of Paradise. In April 1926, some businessmen of the Pacific Coast Borax Company, informed of the touristic attractiveness of Death Valley, were...
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    skepticism and resistance. His techniques were vindicated when his 1897 Pacific Coast Borax Refinery in Bayonne, NJ in 1902 went through a massive building fire...
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