"That's as close to hell as I hope I'll ever get".
[Temperatures in the deepest reaches of the mine often were in the range of 120 degrees due to ever present hot subterrainean water]
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| General and former President Ulysses S. Grant on October 28, 1879, after coming out of Mackay's Big Bonanza Mine was quoted as saying, "That's as close to hell as I hope I'll ever get". [Temperatures in the deepest reaches of the mine often were in the range of 120 degrees due to ever present hot subterrainean water] |
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