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“It’s really weird ... coming back to school and not being able to see those people, student Michael Stope, 17, said of the victims. But beginning the healing process is necessary, said Strope. Gesturing toward a fence lined with bouquets, balloons, stuffed animals and messages of support, he said, “I don’t think we could have done it any better than this.”

There are companies with accounts so perfected that it is possible to quickly ascertain, to a fraction of a cent, what the expenditures of any day have been for any particular part of the operations, as for instance, the haulage per ton underground, or the fuse employed in the blasting of a particular stope.

Stope, stōp, v.t. to excavate, to remove the contents of a vein.—n. an excavation for this purpose.—n.

Stool = Face of a drift or stope.