Arizona and Sonora: The Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Region of North AmericaHarper & brother, 1864 - 251 strani |
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Stran 71 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted...
Stran 70 - That all that part of the present Territory of New Mexico situate west of a line running due south from the point where the southwest corner of the Territory of Colorado joins the northern boundary of the Territory of New Mexico...
Stran 115 - No. 693 ; but it is believed that this ore was somehow confounded in the transportation with that of the lower shaft of the main vein (No. 692). Nine hundred feet distant, in a straight line, in a spur of the same Cerro, is the adit of La Plomosa. The upper workings, being badly planned, have recently...
Stran 226 - December, 1854, 58°, 19°. At Fort Defiance, about twenty miles north of Campbell's Pass in latitude, and from 300 to 500 feet higher, the maximum and minimum temperatures, respectively, were : for the month of December, 1851, 62°, 4°; 18 inches snow.
Stran 68 - They must be surrounded, starved into coming in, surprised, or inveigled — by white flags or any other method, human or divine — and then put to death. If these ideas shock any weak-minded individual, who thinks himself a philanthropist, I can only say I pity without respecting his mistaken sympathy. A man might as well have sympathy for a rattlesnake or a tiger; ' and 5th, letters from SW Inge, CE Bennett, Joseph Lane, John C.
Stran 24 - A fine growth of ash covers the valley. The Santa Rita mountains, which separate the San Pedro and Santa Cruz, contain inexhaustible supplies of pine and oak, besides untold millions of the precious metals. A military post of four companies at the mouth of the Arivypa would open this entire country to settlement.
Stran 30 - The Pimos and Maricopas occupy a beautiful and fertile tract on the Gila, 180 miles from its junction with the Colorado. They are a brave and hospitable race; they live in villages and cultivate the arts of peace. Their regular fields, well-made irrigating ditches, and beautiful crops of cotton, wheat, corn, pumpkins, melons, and beans have not only gladdened the eye but also given timely assistance to the thousands of emigrants who have traversed Arizona on their way to the Pacific. Much as we pride...
Stran 74 - By this route freight from San Francisco to the mine does not go beyond five cents per pound. The mine is situated on the last hills forming the eastern slope of the Sierra de Santa Cruz, and is bounded on the northeast by extensive plains covered by the mesquit and oak trees, which reach the line of Sonora, whose elevated mountains rise in the horizon. Between these plains and the mine is to be seen the Sierra Espuela, called also Wachuka mountains.
Stran 71 - California ; thence with said boundary line to the place of beginning, — be and the same is hereby erected into a temporary government, by the name of the TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO...
Stran 36 - Libertad, on the Gulf of California, 180 miles. The ores of silver found in southern Arizona are argentiferous galena, native silver, auriferous sulphuret of silver, black sulphuret of silver, sulphate of silver, sulphate of iron combined. The gangue is usually quartz or feldspar. The ores. of copper are usually the sulphurets, principally gray. , Nearly all the silver and copper lodes show traces of gold, and placers have been found at many points, but have not proved sufficiently extensive to attract...