Annual Report of the State Mineralogist for the Year Ending ..., Issues 6-7State Office, 1886 |
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... known , was because in their thoughts they were resolved to lessen the men to so small a number that they would be able to master them without much trouble , with all their lands , and preserve those who would understand that it was ...
... known , was because in their thoughts they were resolved to lessen the men to so small a number that they would be able to master them without much trouble , with all their lands , and preserve those who would understand that it was ...
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... known to intelligent miners in the State , and our mines are being better worked than ever before . New quartz veins are being taken up wherever they can be found ; and there are indications of a new era in mining , which , it is to be ...
... known to intelligent miners in the State , and our mines are being better worked than ever before . New quartz veins are being taken up wherever they can be found ; and there are indications of a new era in mining , which , it is to be ...
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... known . Of course , when the yield per ton is so small , there must be many advantages of working . The quartz must be abundant , and there must be no long land transportation . It would appear from these and other facts that low grade ...
... known . Of course , when the yield per ton is so small , there must be many advantages of working . The quartz must be abundant , and there must be no long land transportation . It would appear from these and other facts that low grade ...
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known as millionaires . The country that produces , holds , or utilizes the most gold , makes the greatest progress , and advances most rapidly in civil- ization and power . The discovery of gold in California stimulated com- merce and ...
known as millionaires . The country that produces , holds , or utilizes the most gold , makes the greatest progress , and advances most rapidly in civil- ization and power . The discovery of gold in California stimulated com- merce and ...
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... known that at various times in the world's history , after an unusual output of gold , when that metal became scarce some inferior metal was substituted for it . Sil- ver was at first taken for this purpose , but copper , and even iron ...
... known that at various times in the world's history , after an unusual output of gold , when that metal became scarce some inferior metal was substituted for it . Sil- ver was at first taken for this purpose , but copper , and even iron ...
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Alameda Amador County Angeles County asphaltum Barbara to San Black Diamond Butte County Calaveras County California Cañon carbonic cent claim Clark Vein coal Conrad Contra Costa County copper Costa County County.-a Creek Cret deposits depth District Drop of stamps east El Dorado County feet deep Gabb gallons gangway gold Hill hundred feet inches Inyo County iron Kern County Lake locality marble miles mill mineral Mineralogist Mining Bureau Mount Diablo Mountain Napa Nevada County ounces patent petroleum pipe Pl.-San Diego Placer County Plumas County pounds pumps quantity quartz Quat.-Santa Barbara Ranch River rock Sacramento San Benito County San Bernardino San Francisco sand sandstone Santa Barbara Santa Clara shaft shales Shasta County silver slate Sonoma Specific gravity specimens Springs stage stone sulphur sulphurets surface Tehama County thick thousand three hundred tons tunnel Tuolumne County Valley vein or lode Wheeler
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Page 135 - All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim.
Page 55 - Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States...
Page 144 - Upon the failure of any one of several co-owners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required hereby, the co-owners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent coowner personal notice in writing or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or...
Page 134 - May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, whether located by one or more persons, may equal, but shall not exceed, one thousand five hundred feet in length along the vein or lode ; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located.
Page 152 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 155 - ... non-adjacent surface ground may be embraced and included in an application for a patent for such vein or lode, and the same may be patented therewith, subject to the same preliminary requirements as to survey and notice as are applicable to veins or lodes...
Page 132 - Where such person or association, they and their grantors, have held and worked their claims for a period equal to the time prescribed by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the State or Territory where the same may be situated, evidence of such possession and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a patent thereto under this chapter, in the absence of any adverse claim...
Page 138 - ... an application for a patent for such placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession of the vein or lode claim; but where the existence of a vein or lode in a placer claim is not known, a patent for the placer claim shall convey all valuable mineral and other deposits within the boundaries thereof.
Page 136 - ... such reference to natural objects or permanent monuments as shall identify the claim, and furnish an accurate description, to be incorporated in the patent. At the expiration of the sixty days of publication the claimant shall file his affidavit, showing that the plat and notice have been posted in a conspicuous place on the claim during such period of publication.
Page 141 - The arrangement and classification of the several sections of the revision have been made for the purpose of a more convenient and orderly arrangement of the same, and therefore no inference or presumption of a legislative construction is to be drawn by reason of the Title, under which any particular section is placed.