Opinions of the Press and of Eminent Public Men on the Importance of Our Mineral Resources: And the Advantages to be Derived from the Establishment of a National School of MinesW. H. Moore, 1868 - 32 էջ |
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Էջ 30 - 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. Experience accordingly has shewn, that they are very cheap Instruments, of immense National benefits.
Էջ 30 - It is with indescribable regret, that I have seen the youth of the United States migrating to foreign countries, in order to acquire the higher branches of erudition, and to obtain a knowledge of the sciences. Although it would be injustice to many to pronounce the certainty of their imbibing maxims not congenial with republicanism, it must nevertheless be admitted, that a serious danger is encountered by sending abroad among other political systems those, who have not well learned the value of their...
Էջ 12 - Wherever metallic veins have been discovered in the most uncultivated parts of the Cordilleras, on the insulated and desert tablelands, the working of mines, far from impeding the cultivation of the soil, as it is generally imagined, has been singularly favourable to it.
Էջ 31 - ... which have been settled by the husbandman, and reclaimed from the state of nature, are now to be settled again by the manufacturer, the engineer, and the mechanic. First settled by a civilized, they are now to be settled by a dense population. Settled by the hard labor of the human hands, they are now to be settled by the labor-saving arts, by machinery, by the steam-engine, and by internal improvements.
Էջ 12 - The high price of provision, from the competition of the purchasers, indemnifies the cultivator for the privations to which he is exposed, from the hard life of the mountains.
Էջ 31 - They are an honour to the nation, and will ever be gratefully remembered in the history of science. But they are nevertheless defective in their constitution, limited in their operation, and incapable, from their very nature, of developing and directing and rewarding the indigenous talent of the country.
Էջ 12 - The direct effect of mining upon agriculture and commerce is strikingly shown in California. How much wheat would now be exported from San Francisco but for the mines and the population attracted by them ? How many interior towns would have been built ; how far would the Pacific railroad have been constructed ; where would have been the Overland mail and telegraph and the China...
Էջ 13 - Government to promote colonization, a mine which at first appeared insulated in the midst of wild and desert mountains, becomes in a short time connected with the lands which have long been under cultivation. Moreover, this influence of the mines on the progressive cultivation of the country is more durable than they are themselves.
Էջ 12 - The truth of these observations is strikingly illustrated by the example of California. But mining in that State has a still more direct influence upon the development of our agricultural resources than the direct demand it creates in the mining districts for agricultural products. The vast net-work of ditches in the central counties has inaugurated a system of irrigation which may some day be almost as indispensable to the farms, orchards, and vineyards of the dry uplands as to the placer diggings.
Էջ 12 - ... caused most important general benefits, especially in anticipating by generations the peopling of the immense Territories of the west, and thus widening the field for the display of national energies, broadening the spirit and firmly bracing the national credit But for the mining furor of the last 19 years, California would probably have remained a vast cattle range to this day, and all the great Territories that adjoin it, now peopling with civilized communities, and nearly traversed by a railroad...