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 - Gold mines and mining |
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... deep mining is quite a different matter , and requires a different kind of skill . A knowledge of the varying hardness , tenacity , and cleavage of rock and vein - stuff , and of the force of explosives and their effects , is required ...
... deep mining is quite a different matter , and requires a different kind of skill . A knowledge of the varying hardness , tenacity , and cleavage of rock and vein - stuff , and of the force of explosives and their effects , is required ...
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... deep ravine on the western slope of Inyo Mountain , and has at present about five hundred and fifty in- habitants . The mountains here are almost barren of vegetation , and there is but a limited amount of fuel . Water is very scarce ...
... deep ravine on the western slope of Inyo Mountain , and has at present about five hundred and fifty in- habitants . The mountains here are almost barren of vegetation , and there is but a limited amount of fuel . Water is very scarce ...
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... deep - the vein having widened to 13 feet from wall to wall . The lower workings show a decided improvement in the quality and quantity of the ore . The average of an eastern drift , in ore 5 feet wide , at 69 feet depth , was $ 58 83 ...
... deep - the vein having widened to 13 feet from wall to wall . The lower workings show a decided improvement in the quality and quantity of the ore . The average of an eastern drift , in ore 5 feet wide , at 69 feet depth , was $ 58 83 ...
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... deep , and a tunnel 450 feet long , and employed eighteen men during one month , paying out $ 1,500 for wages . The product was 260 ounces of gold , worth $ 3,500 . La Esperanza is worked by a tunnel 200 feet long . It was worked with ...
... deep , and a tunnel 450 feet long , and employed eighteen men during one month , paying out $ 1,500 for wages . The product was 260 ounces of gold , worth $ 3,500 . La Esperanza is worked by a tunnel 200 feet long . It was worked with ...
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... deep shafts with refuse , to save hoisting , taking out pillars and timbers , and leaving the workings in such a con ... deep at the time of my visit ; the other , 200 feet east , is a large working shaft , then about 30 feet deep , and ...
... deep shafts with refuse , to save hoisting , taking out pillars and timbers , and leaving the workings in such a con ... deep at the time of my visit ; the other , 200 feet east , is a large working shaft , then about 30 feet deep , and ...
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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.