Resources of the Pacific Slope: A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the Mines and Minerals, Climate, Topography, Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous Productions, of the States and Territories West of the Rocky MountainsH. H. Bancroft and Company, 1869 - 878 էջ |
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... City , which depended on shallow placers and was once popu- lous and prosperous , is now exhausted and abandoned . Buena Vista , Forest Home , Willow Springs , Slabtown , Clinton , and Aqueduct City are also worked out . Tiddletown has ...
... City , which depended on shallow placers and was once popu- lous and prosperous , is now exhausted and abandoned . Buena Vista , Forest Home , Willow Springs , Slabtown , Clinton , and Aqueduct City are also worked out . Tiddletown has ...
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... CITY . - The Dutch Flat , 1,800 by 900 feet , was opened in 1857 , and is still at work with 12 men . The yield is from $ 200 to $ 400 per day . The soft gravel will last another season . The company com- menced work in 1854 , cutting a ...
... CITY . - The Dutch Flat , 1,800 by 900 feet , was opened in 1857 , and is still at work with 12 men . The yield is from $ 200 to $ 400 per day . The soft gravel will last another season . The company com- menced work in 1854 , cutting a ...
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... City , used a hose of some thirty - five or forty feet in length , through which the water was conducted from the top of the bank to the bottom of his diggings . There was no pipe or nozzle at the end , but still it was found to be a ...
... City , used a hose of some thirty - five or forty feet in length , through which the water was conducted from the top of the bank to the bottom of his diggings . There was no pipe or nozzle at the end , but still it was found to be a ...
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... City , and is a com- paratively recent location . Some work has been done on it in 1860 - '61 by two different companies , but the indications being unfavorable , they abandoned it . It was relocated in 1864 by the parties from whom the ...
... City , and is a com- paratively recent location . Some work has been done on it in 1860 - '61 by two different companies , but the indications being unfavorable , they abandoned it . It was relocated in 1864 by the parties from whom the ...
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... City , and is a parallel vein with the Gold Tunnel . The lode was located at an early day , but no successful effort was made to develop it until 1857. A rich chimney having been discovered by the owners , they made arrangements for the ...
... City , and is a parallel vein with the Gold Tunnel . The lode was located at an early day , but no successful effort was made to develop it until 1857. A rich chimney having been discovered by the owners , they made arrangements for the ...
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Resources of the Pacific Slope: A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the ... John Ross Browne Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1869 |
Resources of the Pacific Slope: A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the ... John Ross Browne Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1869 |
Resources of the Pacific Slope: A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the ... John Ross Browne Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1887 |
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Էջ 13 - An act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes...
Էջ 539 - 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...
Էջ 658 - That whenever any person or association of persons claim a vein or lode of quartz, or other rock in place, bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, or copper...
Էջ 490 - 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.
Էջ 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 is rubber hose.
Էջ 608 - 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 568 - 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.
Էջ 665 - 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...
Էջ 498 - Among these mountains, those that lie to the west of the river St. Pierre are called the 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 very great distance.
Էջ 482 - At the expiration of said sixty days, if the party or parties notified do not appear and show good cause why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted...