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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... width of one foot . A pay chimney was found , and it paid $ 50 per ton , but it pinched ont . A mill is going up now . MONITOR . - The Monitor , 2,100 feet long , 18 miles east of Columbia , in Sugar Pine district , is 15 inches wide ...
... width of one foot . A pay chimney was found , and it paid $ 50 per ton , but it pinched ont . A mill is going up now . MONITOR . - The Monitor , 2,100 feet long , 18 miles east of Columbia , in Sugar Pine district , is 15 inches wide ...
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... width is usually three feet , though one is forty . The gold is found in pockets near the dikes . Every pay chimney is near a dike , but some of the dikes have no pay chutes near them . The walls are of slate , and there is on one side ...
... width is usually three feet , though one is forty . The gold is found in pockets near the dikes . Every pay chimney is near a dike , but some of the dikes have no pay chutes near them . The walls are of slate , and there is on one side ...
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... . The yield in the pans is 25 per cent . greater than in the arrastras . ANGELS . The mine of the Angels Quartz Mining Company is 900 feet long , and the working vein has an average width of 15 WEST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS . 63.
... . The yield in the pans is 25 per cent . greater than in the arrastras . ANGELS . The mine of the Angels Quartz Mining Company is 900 feet long , and the working vein has an average width of 15 WEST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS . 63.
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... width of 15 feet of talcose slate mixed with quartz . The quartz - lode is 150 feet west at the surface , and it is supposed that the two will meet about 300 feet from the surface . There is a good gouge on both sides and clay slate ...
... width of 15 feet of talcose slate mixed with quartz . The quartz - lode is 150 feet west at the surface , and it is supposed that the two will meet about 300 feet from the surface . There is a good gouge on both sides and clay slate ...
Էջ 68
... width , and perhaps more than twice that width . Its eastern wall is distinctly seen in the open cut , as shown in the section , dipping easterly about 70 ° . The western wall has never been seen , but is certainly pretty far down the ...
... width , and perhaps more than twice that width . Its eastern wall is distinctly seen in the open cut , as shown in the section , dipping easterly about 70 ° . The western wall has never been seen , but is certainly pretty far down the ...
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Resources of the Pacific Slope: A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the ... John Ross Browne Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1869 |
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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...