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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... expenses , owing to mismanagement , ineffi- cient systems of reducing the ores , want of capital , cost of transportation , and other causes susceptible of remedy . In many districts of Nevada silver ores of less value than $ 100 a ton ...
... expenses , owing to mismanagement , ineffi- cient systems of reducing the ores , want of capital , cost of transportation , and other causes susceptible of remedy . In many districts of Nevada silver ores of less value than $ 100 a ton ...
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... expense may be $ 400 . If several unite , the cost is less to each ; but the whole expense comes upon the first application , whether made by one or many . After the survey has once been made , applicants have no expense save the price ...
... expense may be $ 400 . If several unite , the cost is less to each ; but the whole expense comes upon the first application , whether made by one or many . After the survey has once been made , applicants have no expense save the price ...
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... expenses for the last two years . An iron wheel is used for hoisting . In the bottom of this claim is a hole leading into a subterranean channel which has its outlet below Jamestown , eight miles distant . On one occasion 2,500 inches ...
... expenses for the last two years . An iron wheel is used for hoisting . In the bottom of this claim is a hole leading into a subterranean channel which has its outlet below Jamestown , eight miles distant . On one occasion 2,500 inches ...
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... expenses nor reached the gravel ; it is not working now . The Springfield claim , 2,000 feet long , has a tunnel ... expense , as they could have done , they stopped work , and nothing has been done now for 40 RESOURCES OF STATES AND ...
... expenses nor reached the gravel ; it is not working now . The Springfield claim , 2,000 feet long , has a tunnel ... expense , as they could have done , they stopped work , and nothing has been done now for 40 RESOURCES OF STATES AND ...
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... expense of $ 100,000 , while the total yield has been only $ 10,000 . An artesian auger was used in prospecting this ... expenses have been $ 120,000 , and the yield very little . The original share- holders , having starved themselves ...
... expense of $ 100,000 , while the total yield has been only $ 10,000 . An artesian auger was used in prospecting this ... expenses have been $ 120,000 , and the yield very little . The original share- holders , having starved themselves ...
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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.