Report of J. Ross Browne on the Mineral Resources of the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains |
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... labor employed , value of improvements , number of mills and steam engines in opera- tion , yield of the mines , average of dividends , and losses . 5. Proportion of agricultural and mineral lands in each district , quantity of woodland ...
... labor employed , value of improvements , number of mills and steam engines in opera- tion , yield of the mines , average of dividends , and losses . 5. Proportion of agricultural and mineral lands in each district , quantity of woodland ...
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... labor and exploration . It contains the aggregated experience of the ablest statisticians and experts on the Pacific coast . If there be any merit in the work , it belongs chiefly to my co - laborers , who have devoted themselves with ...
... labor and exploration . It contains the aggregated experience of the ablest statisticians and experts on the Pacific coast . If there be any merit in the work , it belongs chiefly to my co - laborers , who have devoted themselves with ...
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... labor , to insure extraordinary profits . Mere will and muscle were sufficient . Our people were inexperienced , but ingenious in devices for saving labor , energetic and industrious . Unskilled as they were , nearly all who went into ...
... labor , to insure extraordinary profits . Mere will and muscle were sufficient . Our people were inexperienced , but ingenious in devices for saving labor , energetic and industrious . Unskilled as they were , nearly all who went into ...
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... labor , and it is sufficiently creditable to our miners to say that without any knowledge of what others had done , they frequently improved upon the originals . The fact demonstrates very clearly that want of knowledge , even in the ...
... labor , and it is sufficiently creditable to our miners to say that without any knowledge of what others had done , they frequently improved upon the originals . The fact demonstrates very clearly that want of knowledge , even in the ...
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... labor can make no further progress , and new fields of enterprise have been sought by those who formerly depended upon the placers . Some have pushed their way over the mountains into Idaho , Montana , and other new Territories ; others ...
... labor can make no further progress , and new fields of enterprise have been sought by those who formerly depended upon the placers . Some have pushed their way over the mountains into Idaho , Montana , and other new Territories ; others ...
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Page 537 - Majesty shall be continued westward along the said 49th parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates the continent from Vancouver's Island; and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel, and of Fuca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean...
Page 183 - 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 488 - Among these are a variety of esculent plants and roots, acquired without much difficulty, and yielding not only a nutritious but a very agreeable food. The air is pure and dry, the climate quite as mild, if not milder, than the same parallels of latitude in the Atlantic states, and must be equally healthy, for all the disorders which we have witnessed may fairly be imputed more to the nature of the diet than to any intemperance of climate.
Page 183 - ... 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 443 - That all that part of the present Territory of New Mexico situate west of a line running due south from the point where the southwest corner of the Territory of Colorado joins the northern boundary of the Territory of New Mexico...
Page 657 - ... from survey and sale, there have been homesteads made by citizens of the United States, or persons who have declared their intention to become citizens, which homesteads have been made, improved, and used for agricultural...
Page 606 - The high price of provision, from the competition of the purchasers, indemnifies the cultivator for the privations to which he is exposed, from the hard life of the mountains.
Page 13 - An act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes...
Page 278 - The greatest quantity of rain for any one month, as the table shows, was 18.14 inches, in January, 1862 — a winter memorable on account of destructive floods on the Pacific slope. The greatest quantity in any one month in eastern Pennsylvania, during a period of 30 years, was 13 inches ; and this was in one of the summer months.
Page 183 - Provided, however, That whenever, after the passage of this act, any person or persons shall, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injure or damage 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.