Biennial Report - State Geological Survey of North Dakota, Issue 1The Survey, 1902 |
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Page 18
... tion of the series of county reports , material will be available for exhaustive topical papers . In addition to what may fairly be termed the positive work of the Survey , namely the pointing out of the mineral resources of the state ...
... tion of the series of county reports , material will be available for exhaustive topical papers . In addition to what may fairly be termed the positive work of the Survey , namely the pointing out of the mineral resources of the state ...
Page 21
... tion problem undertaken for the United States Survey , two weeks were spent along the Heart and Green rivers , and two weeks along the Little Missouri , working north and south of Medora . sixty miles in each direction . The results of ...
... tion problem undertaken for the United States Survey , two weeks were spent along the Heart and Green rivers , and two weeks along the Little Missouri , working north and south of Medora . sixty miles in each direction . The results of ...
Page 36
... tion is scant , the steep sides of the draws and buttes showing the bare , banded Cretaceous clays , with here and there a streak of sand or ironstone . Rising above the average level of the bad lands are the low and high buttes . The ...
... tion is scant , the steep sides of the draws and buttes showing the bare , banded Cretaceous clays , with here and there a streak of sand or ironstone . Rising above the average level of the bad lands are the low and high buttes . The ...
Page 37
... tion of the same name four miles away , and one - third of the ascent is made within half a mile of the butte , the last fifty feet being ver- tical at many points . The following tables giving elevations along railroads illus- trate ...
... tion of the same name four miles away , and one - third of the ascent is made within half a mile of the butte , the last fifty feet being ver- tical at many points . The following tables giving elevations along railroads illus- trate ...
Page 40
... tion excluded from the discussion . The age and nature of the form- ations are shown in the following table : * U . S. Geological Survey , Monograph XXV , page 92 . North Dakota Geological Survey . Plate V. Sandstone at the 40 THE ...
... tion excluded from the discussion . The age and nature of the form- ations are shown in the following table : * U . S. Geological Survey , Monograph XXV , page 92 . North Dakota Geological Survey . Plate V. Sandstone at the 40 THE ...
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acres amount analysis Archean Average bank Billings county bluffs boiler boulders brick burned carbon Ash Total clay seam Coteau du Missouri coulee creek Cretaceous Dakota Geological Survey deposits Devils lake drainage drift east eastern elevation engine entry erosion evaporated exposures feet thick fire Fixed carbon Ash fuel glacial gravel Heart river hills inches irrigation Kenmare Lacs Lake Agassiz land Laramie clays layer Lehigh lignite area lignite coal lignite seams Little Missouri Mandan matter Fixed carbon Medora miles north mines Minot Missouri river moisture moraine Mouse river North Dakota North Dakota Geological Northern Pacific opening output Plate portion pounds prairie pump quantities railroad ranch Range Red river valley region reported samples sand sandstone seams of lignite Section Sentinel Butte shaft shale shows slope strata streams summer surface terrace three miles tion tons Township Trace tributaries Turtle mountains Volatile matter Fixed Ward county Washburn White Earth winter
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Page 187 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding 160 acres to any one landowner...
Page 233 - Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States...
Page 184 - Interior that any irrigation project is practicable, he may cause to be let contracts for the construction of the same, in such portions or sections as it may be practicable to construct and complete as parts of the whole project, providing the necessary funds for such portions or sections are available in the reclamation fund...
Page 233 - ... and pay for the lands filed upon within one year from the time prescribed for filing their respective claims ; and upon failure to file the proper notice or to pay for the land within the required period, the same shall be subject to entry by any other qualified applicant.
Page 184 - That all lands entered and entries made under the homestead laws within areas so withdrawn during such withdrawal shall be subject to all the provisions, limitations, charges, terms, and conditions of this act; that said surveys shall be prosecuted diligently to completion, and upon the completion thereof, and of the necessary maps, plans, and estimates of cost, the Secretary of the Interior shall determine whether or not said project is practicable and advisable, and if determined to be impracticable...
Page 184 - as used in this act shall be understood to mean that certain act of the Congress of the United States approved June 17, 1902, entitled ' An act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in •certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,' and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Page 188 - Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
Page 184 - ... and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, at or immediately prior to the time of beginning the surveys for any contemplated irrigation works, to withdraw from entry, except under the homestead laws, any public lands believed to be susceptible of irrigation from said works...
Page 187 - That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to use the reclamation fund for the operation and maintenance of all reservoirs and irrigation works constructed under the provisions of this act ; Provided, That when the payments required by this act are made for the major portion of the lands irrigated from the waters...
Page 188 - That it is hereby declared to be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, so far as the same may be practicable and subject to the existence of feasible irrigation projects, to expend the major portion of the funds arising from the sale of public lands within each State and Territory hereinbefore named for the benefit of arid and semi-arid lands within the limits of such State or Territory...