Bulletin of the United States Geological SurveyThe Survey., 1913 |
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36 Stat acre-foot acres act of June agricultural entry alidade anticline application August 24 British thermal units Carey Act cent character claim classification and valuation coal bed coal land computed Congress cost of mining depth limit determined distance drawal drilling examination factors February 15 feet thick field Geological Survey geologist grants homestead inches Interior involved irrigation June 25 land classification Land Office land-classification board lands containing leasing less lines lode measurements metalliferous methods miles mineral noncoal land nonmineral obtained occur oil and gas oil lands oil or gas order of withdrawal outcrop petroleum phosphate bed phosphate lands placer law places plane table possible potash power-site President public domain public lands purpose railroad region reserve reservoir sites restored rocks Secretary segregation square miles strata surface tion topographic township tract tricalcium phosphate underlain workable coal
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Page 122 - Unit all lands included in the following list and heretofore forming a part of petroleum reserve No. 2, California No. 1, withdrawn on July 2, 1910, from settlement, location, sale, or entry, and reserved for classification and in aid of legislation under the authority of the act of Congress entitled "An act to authorize the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases" (30 Stat., 847), shall hereafter, subject to valid existing rights, constitute naval petroleum...
Page 26 - placers," including all forms of deposit, excepting veins of quartz or other rock in place, shall be subject to entry and patent, under like circumstances and conditions, and upon similar proceedings, as are provided for vein or lode claims; but where the lands have been previously surveyed by the United States, the entry in its exterior limits shall conform to the legal subdivisions of the...
Page 23 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United 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...
Page 19 - That the President may, at any time in his discretion, temporarily withdraw from settlement, location, sale, or entry any of the public lands of the United States including the District of Alaska and reserve the same for water-power sites, irrigation, classification of lands, or other public purposes to be specified in the -orders of withdrawals, and such withdrawals or reservations shall remain in force until revoked by him or by an Act of Congress.
Page 65 - Lands withdrawn for powersite reserves under the act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 847) as amended by the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 497...
Page 19 - For the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be redeemed by irrigation and the segregation of irrigable lands in such arid region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and for ascertaining the cost thereof, and the prevention of floods and overflows...
Page 28 - Provided, that no such right of way shall be so located as to interfere with the proper occupation by the government of any such reservation, and all maps of location shall be subject to the approval of the department of the government having jurisdiction of such reservation...
Page 140 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits...
Page 12 - Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain.
Page 44 - All lands withdrawn under the provisions of this act shall at all times be open to exploration, discovery, occupation and purchase, under the mining laws of the United States.