Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains: Being the ... Annual Report, 1. izdajaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1870 |
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... carrying generally from twenty - eight to fifty- five per cent . of lead , and much silver . Freiberg . This mine is situated high on Buena Vista Mountain , its tunnels opening on the streets of Cerro Gordo . It consists , so far as ...
... carrying generally from twenty - eight to fifty- five per cent . of lead , and much silver . Freiberg . This mine is situated high on Buena Vista Mountain , its tunnels opening on the streets of Cerro Gordo . It consists , so far as ...
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... carried on in this county have been those of the Mariposa company , and the Oaks and Reese mine , both of which were ... carrying forward a fair amount of dead - work . A few tons of ore have been sent for testing to the Benton mills ...
... carried on in this county have been those of the Mariposa company , and the Oaks and Reese mine , both of which were ... carrying forward a fair amount of dead - work . A few tons of ore have been sent for testing to the Benton mills ...
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... carried on in a small way by Chinese and others , and about $ 6,000 worth of dust was sold per week in town during part of the spring . The old Union shaft has been cleared of water and much gravel of high grade was taken out ; it was ...
... carried on in a small way by Chinese and others , and about $ 6,000 worth of dust was sold per week in town during part of the spring . The old Union shaft has been cleared of water and much gravel of high grade was taken out ; it was ...
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... carried five hundred miles in the fiercest of our mountain streams , would not be worn so smooth as is every pebble ... carry away the gravel . In Bear River , below Dutch Flat , the bed rises two feet per month during the chief washing ...
... carried five hundred miles in the fiercest of our mountain streams , would not be worn so smooth as is every pebble ... carry away the gravel . In Bear River , below Dutch Flat , the bed rises two feet per month during the chief washing ...
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... carried the large quartz boulders of the Big Blue Lead from distant regions , and distributed them evenly over the river bed . It is possible , however , that in the lifting up of the mountains the relative elevations have been altered ...
... carried the large quartz boulders of the Big Blue Lead from distant regions , and distributed them evenly over the river bed . It is possible , however , that in the lifting up of the mountains the relative elevations have been altered ...
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Stran 426 - That as a further condition of sale, in the absence of necessary legislation by Congress, the local Legislature of any State or Territory may provide rules for working mines involving easements, drainage, and other necessary means to their complete development ; and those conditions shall be fully expressed in the patent.
Stran 327 - Gold in the Sweetwater district was first discovered in 1842 by a Georgian, who came here with the American Fur Company for the recovery of his health. After remaining a year he started for home, intending to organize a company and bring them to work the mines.
Stran 675 - The quantity of water used per stamphead in crushing varies from 720 gallons to 11,520 gallons per diem of 24 hours. The quantity of mercury used in the ripples per stamper is from 5 to 70 pounds.
Stran 328 - ... some time. When winter approached they abandoned their enterprise to winter at Fort Laramie, where they intended to provision themselves for a year and get a supply of necessary tools in the spring. This done they started, but when on their way two days they were overtaken by United States dragoons and brought back to the fort. The leader was sent to prison for some imaginary offense and the property of the entire company confiscated.
Stran 662 - The proper form of the curvature of the cam is a modified involute of a circle, the radius of which is equal to the horizontal distance between the axis of the cam-shaft and the centre of the stamp-stem. The curvature should be increased or made greater than the regular involute, at each end of the cam.
Stran 259 - ... are excluded from the preemption act of 1841, and which under past legislation are not liable to ordinary private entry, it shall and may be lawful for the President to cause such tracts, in suitable legal subdivisions, to be offered at public sale to the highest bidder, after public notice of not less than three months, at a minimum price of twenty dollars per acre ; and any lands not thus disposed of shall thereafter be liable to private entry at said minimum.
Stran 150 - ... from minute inquiries made of several individuals who were concerned in letting off the water, and of several gentlemen who were present at the legal investigation which it occasioned, I possessed myself of the following facts. Long Lake, before it...
Stran 513 - Om.20 ; and it gives 200 blows per minute. This machine is single-acting. The compressed air enters by the opening in constant communication by the conduit with the front part of the cylinder ; when the piston is at the end of the stroke...
Stran 649 - ... jaws at the bottom limits the size of the fragments. This distance, and consequently the size of the fragments, may be regulated at pleasure. A variation to the extent of five-eighths of an inch may be made by turning the screw-nut P, which raises or lowers the wedge Q, and moves the toggle-block R forward or back.
Stran 409 - Spaniards in the mean time not having turned their attention to mining pursuits for a series of years), succeeding generations were never able to discover them again. Indeed it is now generally credited by the Spanish population. that the Pueblo Indians, up to the present day, are acquainted with the locales of a great number of these wonderful mines, of which they most sedulously preserve the secret.