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PHILIPP DEIDESHEIMER
1832-1916

Inventor of the square set timbering method used
in the Comstock Lode. This major breakthrough
in mining technology permitted large ore bodies
to be safely mined at any height, width, length
or depth. Never was there any loss of life or
property through any defect in this system of
timbering.

Deidesheimer chose not to patent his invention,
but encouraged its free use throughout the
Comstock Lode.

He died poor in San Francisco at the age of 84.

Julia C. Bulette Chapter 1864
E Clampus Vitus
June 27, 1987