House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session, Količina 7 |
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... feet cotton - wood lumber , at $ 40 per M feet .. For 400 cords hard wood , at $ 4 93 per cord For wood as required for six months at Fredericksburg , Virginia , at $ 5 40 per cord . For wood as required for six months at Fortress ...
... feet cotton - wood lumber , at $ 40 per M feet .. For 400 cords hard wood , at $ 4 93 per cord For wood as required for six months at Fredericksburg , Virginia , at $ 5 40 per cord . For wood as required for six months at Fortress ...
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... feet perpendicular , has tremendous force , and the everlasting hills themselves crumble down before it as if they were but piles of cloud blown away by a breath of wind or dissipated by a glance of the sun . And yet even this terrific ...
... feet perpendicular , has tremendous force , and the everlasting hills themselves crumble down before it as if they were but piles of cloud blown away by a breath of wind or dissipated by a glance of the sun . And yet even this terrific ...
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... feet , or at the rate of $ 14 per foot . Some shafts sunk on the vein showed that the gray stone , a rich sulphuret of silver , could be obtained in large quantities . The lode was soon claimed as far as it could be traced , and the ...
... feet , or at the rate of $ 14 per foot . Some shafts sunk on the vein showed that the gray stone , a rich sulphuret of silver , could be obtained in large quantities . The lode was soon claimed as far as it could be traced , and the ...
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... feet by cutting an adit three and three - fifths miles . The expense will be several millions of dollars , but the saving will be far more . Considera tions like these led to the formation of the Sutro Tunnel Company , which received a ...
... feet by cutting an adit three and three - fifths miles . The expense will be several millions of dollars , but the saving will be far more . Considera tions like these led to the formation of the Sutro Tunnel Company , which received a ...
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... feet , is not at all likely to be inet with in the case of the Comstock lode . The argument which we have to adduce for this conclusion has some weight from a geological point of view . It is a well known fact that the enclosing rocks ...
... feet , is not at all likely to be inet with in the case of the Comstock lode . The argument which we have to adduce for this conclusion has some weight from a geological point of view . It is a well known fact that the enclosing rocks ...
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&c.—Continued amount arrivals borax Brevet Calaveras county California Capt cents per bushel cents per pound Charles Knap City claim clerk coal coast collector Colonel Comstock Comstock lode Congress consul contract copper Copperopolis cord cost deposits dollars drawback duty ending June 30 exported Females Fort Boise Fort Bridger Fort Riley gold Governor Hill hundred feet internal revenue James John July June 30 labor lake land ledge Lieut located lode Males from 30 Mariposa county metal Mexico miles mills miners months mountains Nevada Nevada county obedient servant paid pans Pittsburg port quantity Quarter ending June Quarter ending Mar Quarter ending Sept quartermaster quartermaster's quartz Rebel brigadier recommend Reese River river rock Rodman guns San Francisco Secretary Seward silver supply Surratt Territory tons Total Treasury United valley vein Virginia City wood yards yield York
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Stran 137 - ... survey and sale, there have been homesteads made by citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, which homesteads have been made, improved, and used for agricultural...
Stran 221 - States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be 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...
Stran 7 - States, for the payment of which, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, and each of us, our heirs, successors, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Stran 222 - If no adverse claim shall have been filed with the Register and the Receiver of the proper Land Office at the expiration of the sixty days of publication, it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists...
Stran 223 - 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, and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Stran 223 - ... possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes aforesaid is hereby acknowledged and confirmed.
Stran 296 - Indians here also being friendly, I consider it the most safe point for me to remain, until such time as I can cross the mountains with my horses, having lost a great many in attempting to cross ten or fifteen days since. I am a long ways from home, and am anxious to get there as soon as the nature of the case will admit. Our situation is quite unpleasant, being destitute of clothing and most of the necessaries of life, wild meat being our principal subsistence. # I am, reverend father, your strange,...
Stran 138 - Homesteads." SEC. 2342. Upon the survey of the lands described in the preceding section, the Secretary of the Interior may designate and set apart such portions of the same as are clearly agricultural lands, which lands shall thereafter be subject to pre-emption and sale as other public lands, and be subject to all the laws and regulations applicable to the same.
Stran 265 - Nevada and California Processes of Silver and Gold Extraction, for general use,* and especially for the mining public of California and Nevada, with full explanations .and directions for all metallurgical operations connected with silver and gold, from a preliminary examination of the ore to the final casting of the ingot; also a description of the general metallurgy of silver ores. By Guido Kustel> mining engineer and metallurgist, former manager of the Ophir works, &c.
Stran 223 - States, or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, which homesteads have been made, improved, and used for agricultural purposes, and upon which there have been no valuable mines of gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper discovered, and which are properly agricultural lands, the...