The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 66Archibald Constable and Company, 1804 |
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Page 747 - States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments...
Page 845 - ... to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.
Page 845 - The service thus established shall promote and regulate the use of the Federal areas known as national parks, monuments, and reservations hereinafter specified by such means and measures as conform to the fundamental purpose of the said parks, monuments, and reservations...
Page 398 - That this officer shall have the direction of the geological survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain.
Page 372 - It should also be noted that the periods of aridity and of saline deposition in the southwestern part of this country were essentially contemporaneous with the periods of evaporation and precipitation in the Stassfurt district. Finally, crystals of potash salts were found in the waste from a bore hole near Boden, not far from Amarillo, Tex., by Dr. JA Udden, of the Bureau of Economic Geology and Technology of the University of Texas, and he also found traces of potash in muds or brines from several...
Page 407 - Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin...
Page 851 - Interfere with the objects of the national park, and that the United States Reclamation Service may enter upon and utilize for flowage or other purposes any area within said park which may be necessary for the development and maintenance of a Government reclamation project...
Page 203 - Provided, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or In part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety...
Page 482 - Herrington, the total area mapped being 399 square miles, for publication on the scale of 1 : 62,500, with a contour interval of 20 feet. For the control of the Neshkoro and Ripon quadrangles JM Perkins ran 118 miles of primary levels and established 28 permanent bench marks.
Page 536 - ... to conduct inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to improving health conditions, and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries...