Biennial ReportThe Survey, 1902 |
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Page 33
... east , workable seams are not found , except in the Turtle mountains , till the center of the state is reached . The plateau known as Turtle mountains is an outlier of the lignite area proper , which may be roughly bounded on the east ...
... east , workable seams are not found , except in the Turtle mountains , till the center of the state is reached . The plateau known as Turtle mountains is an outlier of the lignite area proper , which may be roughly bounded on the east ...
Page 34
... eastern portion of the lignite area lies within the coparatively leveml plain of the Wisconsin drift , the deposit formed by the last great ice invasion . Like this plain throug out the eastern part of the state , it is moderately ...
... eastern portion of the lignite area lies within the coparatively leveml plain of the Wisconsin drift , the deposit formed by the last great ice invasion . Like this plain throug out the eastern part of the state , it is moderately ...
Page 37
... east . Among them are the Camels Hump , Sentinel Butte , Square Butte , Bullion , Rocky and Black Buttes . All of ... EAST TO WEST ON THE GREAT NORTHERN R. R. DISTANCE BETWEEN STATIONS STATIONS ELEVATIONS Minot .. 1,557 16 ..Des Lacs ...
... east . Among them are the Camels Hump , Sentinel Butte , Square Butte , Bullion , Rocky and Black Buttes . All of ... EAST TO WEST ON THE GREAT NORTHERN R. R. DISTANCE BETWEEN STATIONS STATIONS ELEVATIONS Minot .. 1,557 16 ..Des Lacs ...
Page 38
... east of the Coteau du Missouri a hundred miles , having been separated from this main mass of late Cretaceous clays by pre - glacial erosion . The longer axis of the plateau extends about forty miles east and west , the shorter axis at ...
... east of the Coteau du Missouri a hundred miles , having been separated from this main mass of late Cretaceous clays by pre - glacial erosion . The longer axis of the plateau extends about forty miles east and west , the shorter axis at ...
Page 39
... east and north the river here receives no large tributaries , the most noteworthy be- ing White Earth Creek in western Ward county , and Sandy Creek , which unites with it at Williston . Beaver Creek in Emmons coun- ty is reaching back ...
... east and north the river here receives no large tributaries , the most noteworthy be- ing White Earth Creek in western Ward county , and Sandy Creek , which unites with it at Williston . Beaver Creek in Emmons coun- ty is reaching back ...
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abundant acres amount average bad lands bank beds Billings county bluffs boulders brick burned carbon Ash Total cent clay seam clay shale Coteau du Missouri coulee creek Cretaceous Dakota Geological Survey deposits depth Devils lake drainage drift east eastern elevation entry erosion exposures feet thick Fixed carbon Ash flats flow formation fuel glacial gravel Heart river hills inches irrigation Kenmare Knife river Lacs Laramie clays Laramie formation layers lignite area Lignite Coal lignite outcrops lignite seams Little Missouri material matter Fixed carbon Medora miles north mines Minot Missouri river moisture moraine Mouse river North Dakota North Dakota Geological Plate portion pumping railroad ranch Range Red river valley region reported sand sandstone sandy clay seams of lignite Section Sentinel Butte Sheyenne river shows slopes strata stream summer surface terraces tion tons topography Township tributaries Turtle mountains twenty Volatile matter Fixed Ward county White Earth Williston winter
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Page 249 - Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States...
Page 200 - No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Page 197 - reclamation fund," to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands in the...
Page 198 - 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 200 - ... the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof.
Page 198 - That upon the determination by the Secretary of the 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...
Page 197 - 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 198 - ... 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 198 - ... shall give public notice of the lands irrigable under such project and limit of area per entry, which limit shall represent the acreage which, in the opinion of the Secretary, may be reasonably required for the support of a family upon the lands in question...
Page 200 - 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...