Report of James W. Taylor, on the Mineral Resources of the United States East of the Rocky Mountains [1867]U.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 - 71 strani |
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... employed in doing custom - work ; the Mahoney has been working five years , with a 15 - stamp mill ; the Lincoln , 2,378 feet , has worked 10 or 12 years , but the 20 - stamp mill is now engaged in custom - work ; the Barnhart ...
... employed in doing custom - work ; the Mahoney has been working five years , with a 15 - stamp mill ; the Lincoln , 2,378 feet , has worked 10 or 12 years , but the 20 - stamp mill is now engaged in custom - work ; the Barnhart ...
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... employed . CALICO . The Calico mine , on the same lode as the Cherokee , has been opened by a tunnel 160 feet long , and a drift of 35 feet in pay rock estimated to yield $ 20 per ton . No mill has been erected , nor has any of the rock ...
... employed . CALICO . The Calico mine , on the same lode as the Cherokee , has been opened by a tunnel 160 feet long , and a drift of 35 feet in pay rock estimated to yield $ 20 per ton . No mill has been erected , nor has any of the rock ...
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... employed , and a hydraulic wheel is used for hoisting . The McInroe claim , 300 by 100 feet , paid well in early days , but does not yield more than $ 2 50 per day now to the man . Three men are employed in the claim . The hoisting is ...
... employed , and a hydraulic wheel is used for hoisting . The McInroe claim , 300 by 100 feet , paid well in early days , but does not yield more than $ 2 50 per day now to the man . Three men are employed in the claim . The hoisting is ...
Stran 38
... employed , and there is a hydraulic wheel for hoisting . The Dryden claim , 400 by 100 feet , washes in a ground sluice and pays well . It has lately yielded $ 2,500 to the man in a season . Five men are employed . SHAW'S FLAT ...
... employed , and there is a hydraulic wheel for hoisting . The Dryden claim , 400 by 100 feet , washes in a ground sluice and pays well . It has lately yielded $ 2,500 to the man in a season . Five men are employed . SHAW'S FLAT ...
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... employed , though some of them were of little value as laborers . The manager did not know how to work to advantage , and did not pursue any steady plan . They worked first in one place and then in another , without exhausting either ...
... employed , though some of them were of little value as laborers . The manager did not know how to work to advantage , and did not pursue any steady plan . They worked first in one place and then in another , without exhausting either ...
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Report of James W. Taylor, on the Mineral Resources of the United States ... James Wickes Taylor Predogled ni na voljo - 2018 |
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Stran 181 - 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 and 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 531 - 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 13 - An act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes...
Stran 560 - 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 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.
Stran 534 - ... danger exists, and it may be safely navigated throughout. No part of the world affords finer inland sounds, or a greater number of harbors, than are found within the Straits of Juan de Fuca, capable of receiving the largest class of vessels, and without a danger in them which is not visible. From the rise and fall of the tides (18 feet) every facility is offered for the erection of works for a great maritime nation. The country also affords as many sites for water-power as any other.
Stran 490 - Shining mountains, from an infinite number of crystal stones of an amazing size with which they are covered, and which, when the sun shines full upon them, sparkle so as to be seen at a great distance.
Stran 434 - Checks, due bills, promissory notes, bills of exchange, and all orders or agreements for the payment or delivery of money, or other thing of value, may be made or drawn, by telegraph, and when so made or drawn, shall have the same force and effect to charge the maker, drawer...
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 482 - Among these are a variety of esculent plants and roots, acquired without much difficulty, and yielding not only a nutritious but a very agreeable food. The air is pure and dry, the climate quite as mild, if not milder, than the same parallels of latitude in the Atlantic states, and must be equally healthy, for all the disorders which we have witnessed may fairly be imputed more to the nature of the diet than to any intemperance of climate.