Resources of the Pacific Slope: A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the Mines and Minerals, Climate, Topography, Agriculture, Commerce ... of the States and Territories West of the Rocky MountainsD. Appleton, 1869 - 878 strani |
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Stran 48
... Cañon , 14 miles southeast of Sonora , is on the side of a mountain that is at an angle of 45 ° from the north fork of the Tuolumne . The rock was very rich at the surface , and a tunnel run in 20 feet ran through quartz that yielded ...
... Cañon , 14 miles southeast of Sonora , is on the side of a mountain that is at an angle of 45 ° from the north fork of the Tuolumne . The rock was very rich at the surface , and a tunnel run in 20 feet ran through quartz that yielded ...
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... cañon . The town is 2,500 feet above the level of the middle fork , and about a mile distant . The scenery along the cañon is grand . Five miles further up the divide is Michigan Bluff , and the Auburn stage runs through to that point ...
... cañon . The town is 2,500 feet above the level of the middle fork , and about a mile distant . The scenery along the cañon is grand . Five miles further up the divide is Michigan Bluff , and the Auburn stage runs through to that point ...
Stran 95
... cañon renders it necessary to have a steep sluice . Slat riffles made of five strips of board an inch thick , two inches wide and six feet long , with strips of the same thickness set between at the ends and the middle and bolted ...
... cañon renders it necessary to have a steep sluice . Slat riffles made of five strips of board an inch thick , two inches wide and six feet long , with strips of the same thickness set between at the ends and the middle and bolted ...
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... cañon , reputed to have been the richest cañon ever found in California . WISCONSIN HILL . - Wisconsin Hill is on the same divide with Iowa Hill , but is two miles distant in a southeast direction , and the two places are separated by a ...
... cañon , reputed to have been the richest cañon ever found in California . WISCONSIN HILL . - Wisconsin Hill is on the same divide with Iowa Hill , but is two miles distant in a southeast direction , and the two places are separated by a ...
Stran 101
... cañon , is Picayune divide , through which runs the Blue lead , on which is located the Morning Star claim , which has 1,200 feet front , and extends 4,000 feet to the middle of the ridge . The channel here appears to have been 150 or ...
... cañon , is Picayune divide , through which runs the Blue lead , on which is located the Morning Star claim , which has 1,200 feet front , and extends 4,000 feet to the middle of the ridge . The channel here appears to have been 150 or ...
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Stran 183 - That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized ana acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Stran 183 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Stran 663 - This species of establishment contributes doubly to the increase of improvement, by stimulating to enterprise and experiment, and by drawing to a common centre the results everywhere of individual skill and observation, and spreading them thence over the whole nation. Experience accordingly has shown, that they are very cheap instruments of immense national benefits.
Stran 537 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said 49th parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island; and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean...
Stran 59 - And the space of time here referred to as comprehending the sickly season, shall be understood to extend from the first day of May to the first day of November.
Stran 290 - Merced, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Orange, Placer, Plumas, Riverside, Sacramento, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara...
Stran 40 - When the old sheriffs house was destroyed at Lexington, Captain JA Wilson secured the slave whip which had been the official Lafayette County flagellum. It is composed of a wooden handle attached to a flat piece of rubber strap about eighteen inches long, an inch and a half wide, and a quarter of an inch thick. It has the appearance of having been cut from rubber belting, being reen forced with fibre as 1s rubber hose.
Stran 659 - ... free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.
Stran 566 - No emigrants or other whites, except the Hudson's Bay Company, or persons having ceded rights from the Indians, will be permitted to settle or remain in the Indian country, or on land not ceded by treaty, confirmed by the Senate, and approved by the President of the United States.
Stran 658 - With regard to the platting of the claim and other office work in the surveyor-general's office, that officer will make an estimate of the cost thereof, which amount the claimant will deposit with any assistant United States treasurer or designated depository in favor of the United States Treasurer, to be passed to the credit of the fund created by " individual depositors for surveys of the public lands," and file with the surveyor-general duplicate certificates of such deposit in the usual manner.