Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains, Volume 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1872 |
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... taken away , and the level of truth is reached after comparatively few and feeble oscillations . The progress of developments upon the Comstock lode gives better promise for the future , and strengthens the opinion I have formerly ex ...
... taken away , and the level of truth is reached after comparatively few and feeble oscillations . The progress of developments upon the Comstock lode gives better promise for the future , and strengthens the opinion I have formerly ex ...
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... taken out , the miners lacking the means and energy to develop their claims . The mills were making hardly half - time , and it was feared that the law - suit , in regard to the Cuyamac grant , which threatened to deprive the miners of ...
... taken out , the miners lacking the means and energy to develop their claims . The mills were making hardly half - time , and it was feared that the law - suit , in regard to the Cuyamac grant , which threatened to deprive the miners of ...
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... taken from 60 feet below the surface out of the Santa Maria tun- nel , where the accompanying iron pyrites were little , if any , decomposed , gave $ 91 13 in silver and 58 per cent . of lead . The finely crystal- lized galena from the ...
... taken from 60 feet below the surface out of the Santa Maria tun- nel , where the accompanying iron pyrites were little , if any , decomposed , gave $ 91 13 in silver and 58 per cent . of lead . The finely crystal- lized galena from the ...
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... taken from all the samples thus obtained assayed $ 68 52 per ton silver as an average for the entire district . By proper assorting this yield can be raised to $ 143 91 per ton , as will appear below . The following is a list of the ...
... taken from all the samples thus obtained assayed $ 68 52 per ton silver as an average for the entire district . By proper assorting this yield can be raised to $ 143 91 per ton , as will appear below . The following is a list of the ...
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... taken together , give an average of $ 68 52 silver per ton . They were taken with the object to get at the real merits of the mines as a body , with little assorting . They can certainly all be assorted to ore to waste , with a loss of ...
... taken together , give an average of $ 68 52 silver per ton . They were taken with the object to get at the real merits of the mines as a body , with little assorting . They can certainly all be assorted to ore to waste , with a loss of ...
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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 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, subject to the following requirements : The location must be distinctly marked on the ground so that its boundaries can be readily traced.
Page 495 - Surveyor-General that five hundred dollars' worth of labor has been expended or improvements made upon the claim by himself or grantors; that 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...
Page 489 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
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 488 - If no adverse claim shall have been filed with the Register and the Receiver of the proper Land Office at the expiration of the sixty days of publication, it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent, upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists...
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 494 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits...
Page 495 - But their right of possession to such outside parts of such veins or ledges shall be confined to such portions thereof as lie between vertical planes drawn downward as above described, through the end lines of their locations, so continued in their own direction that such planes will intersect such exterior parts of such veins or ledges.
Page 495 - The location must be distinctly marked on the ground so that its boundaries can be readily traced. 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. On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than...