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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... pan amalgamation ............ 392 XIV . Chlorination ..... 417 XV . Smelting silver ores . 432 XVI . List of stamp - mills . 461 PART III . Miscellaneous ... 481 Chapter XVII . Narrow - gauge railways 483 XVIII . The mining law ...
... pan amalgamation ............ 392 XIV . Chlorination ..... 417 XV . Smelting silver ores . 432 XVI . List of stamp - mills . 461 PART III . Miscellaneous ... 481 Chapter XVII . Narrow - gauge railways 483 XVIII . The mining law ...
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... pans , riffle - boxes , & c . , and save the sands below , as they contain a large percentage of gold . The distance from the mine to the mill is some 2,000 feet , the mine being above the mill some 1,500 feet . The distance from ...
... pans , riffle - boxes , & c . , and save the sands below , as they contain a large percentage of gold . The distance from the mine to the mill is some 2,000 feet , the mine being above the mill some 1,500 feet . The distance from ...
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... pan , driven by a 25 - foot water - wheel , employed two men for twelve months and pro- duced $ 5,000 . Alexander & Co.'s mill , containing two centrifugal water - wheels of 25 horse - power , together driving ten stamps and two pans ...
... pan , driven by a 25 - foot water - wheel , employed two men for twelve months and pro- duced $ 5,000 . Alexander & Co.'s mill , containing two centrifugal water - wheels of 25 horse - power , together driving ten stamps and two pans ...
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... pans , and if the next genera- tion did try one it was an Arrastra or Chili mill , consequently any fast - grinding pan was bound to be a failure . A short time will put the Empire in a condition for us to forget there ever was a fire ...
... pans , and if the next genera- tion did try one it was an Arrastra or Chili mill , consequently any fast - grinding pan was bound to be a failure . A short time will put the Empire in a condition for us to forget there ever was a fire ...
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... pan of dirt taken out next to the ledge , which gave , as we judged , over one dollar's worth of gold . The Orleans , near Mallman's sul- phuret - works , on the Nevada road , is showing rich quartz . The shaft is down about 75 feet ...
... pan of dirt taken out next to the ledge , which gave , as we judged , over one dollar's worth of gold . The Orleans , near Mallman's sul- phuret - works , on the Nevada road , is showing rich quartz . The shaft is down about 75 feet ...
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Page 488 - 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 495 - 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 495 - ... 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 497 - ... 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 491 - 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 489 - ... 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 495 - 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 496 - 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 491 - 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 495 - ... 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.