Annual Report of the State Mineralogist for the Year Ending ..., Volume 6State Office, 1886 - Geology |
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... cost necessitated by twice packing and thrice removing the specimens , it set back the work of the Mining Bureau for six months . The removal to the new building , and arrangement of the museum , occu- pied three months more . The ...
... cost necessitated by twice packing and thrice removing the specimens , it set back the work of the Mining Bureau for six months . The removal to the new building , and arrangement of the museum , occu- pied three months more . The ...
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... cost than during the delirium of the first gold excitement , for the reason that transportation , provisions , labor , and fuel are cheaper ; and every ounce of gold obtained is practically of double value . These facts are well known ...
... cost than during the delirium of the first gold excitement , for the reason that transportation , provisions , labor , and fuel are cheaper ; and every ounce of gold obtained is practically of double value . These facts are well known ...
Page 17
... cost of the Fire Department system would be reduced to a minimum . The construction of good buildings gives employment to mechanics and workingmen , who are thereby enabled to support their families , and to live in comfort . Another ...
... cost of the Fire Department system would be reduced to a minimum . The construction of good buildings gives employment to mechanics and workingmen , who are thereby enabled to support their families , and to live in comfort . Another ...
Page 18
... cost of the institution since its inception . The fact that our State is specially subject to earthquakes , must be admitted . It is also known that it is possible to construct buildings that will resist all but the most violent shocks ...
... cost of the institution since its inception . The fact that our State is specially subject to earthquakes , must be admitted . It is also known that it is possible to construct buildings that will resist all but the most violent shocks ...
Page 89
... costs $ 1 50 per cord for cutting , and $ 2 for hauling to the mill . The mill is forty feet below the lower tunnel , from which the ores are carried in chutes . The dump of the mine , in which the rejected vein matter is piled ...
... costs $ 1 50 per cord for cutting , and $ 2 for hauling to the mill . The mill is forty feet below the lower tunnel , from which the ores are carried in chutes . The dump of the mine , in which the rejected vein matter is piled ...
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24 hours 28 miles acid adverse claim Alameda altitude Amador County application batteries Butte Calaveras County California Calistoga Cañon carbonic cent claimant concentrators copper County to Sacramento County.-a County.-a to Marysville Creek crystals deposit Dorado County Drop of stamps El Dorado County gold gravel Hill inches of water Inyo County iron Kern Lake Land Office lime localities marble Mariposa Mariposa County Mendocino mill Miner's inches mineral Mineralogist Mining Bureau Mining District Mono County Mountain Museum N. P. to Cloverdale Napa County Nevada County ounces patent Percentage of recovery pipe Placer County plates Plumas County pounds pumps quantity quartz Ranch recovery saved River rock San Bernardino County San Diego County San Diego County.-a San Francisco San Luis Obispo San Quentin Santa Clara shaft Shasta Sierra silver slate specimen Springs stage Sulphur surface survey Toner township tunnel Tuolumne County Valley vein or lode Wheeler Wheeler
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Page 173 - States, valuable chiefiy for timber, but unfit for cultivation, and which have not been offered at public sale, according to law, may be sold to citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become such...
Page 137 - ... where such claims are held in common, such expenditure may be made upon any one claim; and upon a failure to comply with these conditions, 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...
Page 157 - ... non-adjacent surface ground may be embraced and included in an application for a patent for such vein or lode, and the same may be patented therewith, subject to the same preliminary requirements as to survey and notice as are applicable to veins or lodes...
Page 134 - 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, evidence of such possession and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a patent thereto under this chapter, in the absence of any adverse claim...
Page 142 - ... but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause...
Page 143 - The arrangement and classification of the several sections of the revision have been made for the purpose of a more convenient and orderly arrangement of the same, and therefore no inference or presumption of a legislative construction is to be drawn by reason of the Title, under which any particular section is placed.
Page 146 - Upon the failure of any one of several co-owners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required hereby, the co-owners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent co-owner personal notice in writing or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or...
Page 138 - That where an adverse claim is filed during the period of publication it shall be upon oath of the person or persons making the same, and shall show the nature, boundaries, and extent of such adverse claim...
Page 145 - 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 149 - That where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist...