Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains: Being the [1st-8th] Annual Report of Rossiter W. Raymond, U.S. Commissioner of Mining StatisticsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1872 |
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... operations of one or two large companies at Meadow Valley , and the base - metal smelting operations of Eureka , have added heavy sums to the bullion - product of the State . At Austin , Mineral Hill , and elsewhere the Stetefeldt ...
... operations of one or two large companies at Meadow Valley , and the base - metal smelting operations of Eureka , have added heavy sums to the bullion - product of the State . At Austin , Mineral Hill , and elsewhere the Stetefeldt ...
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... operations on a large scale . The Amargoza district lies in San Bernardino County , State of Cali- fornia , sixty - five to seventy miles in a westerly direction from Yellow Pine , in an isolated mountain called Amargoza Mountain ...
... operations on a large scale . The Amargoza district lies in San Bernardino County , State of Cali- fornia , sixty - five to seventy miles in a westerly direction from Yellow Pine , in an isolated mountain called Amargoza Mountain ...
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... operations entirely . There are several other mines of small capacity now being worked - the Pope Valley mine , near Napa , and one or two in Lake County , near the Redington mine - all of which may be made to pay at the present high ...
... operations entirely . There are several other mines of small capacity now being worked - the Pope Valley mine , near Napa , and one or two in Lake County , near the Redington mine - all of which may be made to pay at the present high ...
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... operations at Cerro Gordo thus far , but in time it can be remedied by sinking more wells , and bringing water from a point nine miles north of the city in pipes or ditches and flumes . There is quite a supply at the locality spoken of ...
... operations at Cerro Gordo thus far , but in time it can be remedied by sinking more wells , and bringing water from a point nine miles north of the city in pipes or ditches and flumes . There is quite a supply at the locality spoken of ...
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... operations without further addition of lead ores . Fifty feet below the mouth of the incline an assay of $ 178 32 in silver per ton , from an ore seam of 13 feet in width , was obtained . At the time of Mr. Luckhardt's visit nine men ...
... operations without further addition of lead ores . Fifty feet below the mouth of the incline an assay of $ 178 32 in silver per ton , from an ore seam of 13 feet in width , was obtained . At the time of Mr. Luckhardt's visit nine men ...
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Page 486 - 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 493 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such surface lines extended downward vertically, although such veins, lodes or ledges may so far depart from a perpendicular in their course downward as to extend outside the vertical side lines of such surface locations...
Page 493 - ... the plat is correct, with such further description by 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 495 - ... the applicants, and they shall be at liberty to obtain the same at the most reasonable rates, and they shall also be at liberty to employ any United States deputy surveyor to make the survey.
Page 489 - An act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes," shall be abrogated by this act; and all patents granted shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights...
Page 487 - ... 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 493 - The miners of each mining district may make regulations not in conflict with the laws of the United States, or with the laws of the state or territory in which the district is situated, governing the location, manner of recording, amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining claim...
Page 494 - 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 489 - 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...
Page 493 - ... the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation in the same manner as If no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.