Report of J. Ross Browne on the Mineral Resources of the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains. [1867]U.S. Government Printing Office, 1868 - 745 pages |
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... ground and the coarseness of the gold has enabled the miners to make a profit sometimes by dry digging or scratching the gravel over with a butcher - knife . Maxwell's Creek , Blue Gulch , Bear Creek , White's Gulch , Peñon Blanco , the ...
... ground and the coarseness of the gold has enabled the miners to make a profit sometimes by dry digging or scratching the gravel over with a butcher - knife . Maxwell's Creek , Blue Gulch , Bear Creek , White's Gulch , Peñon Blanco , the ...
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... ground in an arrastra . The mill is a mile east of Mariposa , and has been idle for two years . HUNTER'S VALLEY , Oaks and Reese . - The Oaks and Reese mine , called also the Potts , is 3,000 feet long , in Hunter's valley , 16 miles ...
... ground in an arrastra . The mill is a mile east of Mariposa , and has been idle for two years . HUNTER'S VALLEY , Oaks and Reese . - The Oaks and Reese mine , called also the Potts , is 3,000 feet long , in Hunter's valley , 16 miles ...
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... ground . SAWMILL FLAT . - The following claims are at Sawmill Flat : The Foley claim , 200 feet square , was opened in 1850 , and has never paid more than moderate wages . Four men are employed , and there is a hydraulic wheel for ...
... ground . SAWMILL FLAT . - The following claims are at Sawmill Flat : The Foley claim , 200 feet square , was opened in 1850 , and has never paid more than moderate wages . Four men are employed , and there is a hydraulic wheel for ...
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... ground in Tuolumne county is from 500 to 800 feet on the northern side , and from 200 to 500 on the southern . The adjacent earth has been washed away to a greater depth near the line of the mountain along its northern base , and for ...
... ground in Tuolumne county is from 500 to 800 feet on the northern side , and from 200 to 500 on the southern . The adjacent earth has been washed away to a greater depth near the line of the mountain along its northern base , and for ...
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... ground , but never reached the channel . The Independence jumper company reached the channel by a tunnel . 500 feet long , but found no gravel , and lost $ 75,000 by their enterprise . The Mary Ann , another jumper company , ran a ...
... ground , but never reached the channel . The Independence jumper company reached the channel by a tunnel . 500 feet long , but found no gravel , and lost $ 75,000 by their enterprise . The Mary Ann , another jumper company , ran a ...
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Page 537 - 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...
Page 183 - 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...
Page 488 - 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.
Page 183 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Page 443 - That all that part of the present Territory of New Mexico situate west of a line running due south from the point where the southwest corner of the Territory of Colorado joins the northern boundary of the Territory of New Mexico...
Page 657 - ... from 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...
Page 606 - 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.
Page 13 - An act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes...
Page 278 - The greatest quantity of rain for any one month, as the table shows, was 18.14 inches, in January, 1862 — a winter memorable on account of destructive floods on the Pacific slope. The greatest quantity in any one month in eastern Pennsylvania, during a period of 30 years, was 13 inches ; and this was in one of the summer months.
Page 183 - Provided, however, That whenever, after the passage of this act, any person or persons shall, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injure or damage the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.