The Handbook to Arizona: Its Resources, History, Towns, Mines, Ruins, and Scenery. By Richard J. HintonPayot, Upham & Company, 1878 - 431 páginas |
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... rock and drift- ing sand . As we approach Indian Wells the country improves slightly . We see in the distance , along the base of the foot- hills , clusters of palm trees ; various forms of cacti , peculiar to this valley , appear ; the ...
... rock and drift- ing sand . As we approach Indian Wells the country improves slightly . We see in the distance , along the base of the foot- hills , clusters of palm trees ; various forms of cacti , peculiar to this valley , appear ; the ...
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... rock . On these vast deserts the sluggish rattlesnake meets the traveller at every turn ; the most powerful inhabitant , his sway is undisputed by the scorpions and lizards , on whom he feeds . The routes over these wastes are marked by ...
... rock . On these vast deserts the sluggish rattlesnake meets the traveller at every turn ; the most powerful inhabitant , his sway is undisputed by the scorpions and lizards , on whom he feeds . The routes over these wastes are marked by ...
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... rock than lava , and yet such is the fact . In the rec- tangle contained by parallels 32 deg . 45 min . and 34 deg ... Rocks , " Proceedings California Academy of Sciences ) to establish a correlation between the geological age and ...
... rock than lava , and yet such is the fact . In the rec- tangle contained by parallels 32 deg . 45 min . and 34 deg ... Rocks , " Proceedings California Academy of Sciences ) to establish a correlation between the geological age and ...
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... rocks , which spread out into broad uplands , abruptly terminated by steep mural declivities , bounding valleys of erosion , or presenting isolated buttes and fantastically castel- lated rocks that serve to give a peculiar aspect to the ...
... rocks , which spread out into broad uplands , abruptly terminated by steep mural declivities , bounding valleys of erosion , or presenting isolated buttes and fantastically castel- lated rocks that serve to give a peculiar aspect to the ...
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... rock and sand ; nowhere continuous forests , or carpets of herbaceous vegetation ; only here and there dwarfed and ... rocks of the plateau furnish almost none ; and here will be congregated the mining population , whose business it will ...
... rock and sand ; nowhere continuous forests , or carpets of herbaceous vegetation ; only here and there dwarfed and ... rocks of the plateau furnish almost none ; and here will be congregated the mining population , whose business it will ...
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The Handbook to Arizona: Its Resources, History, Towns, Mines, Ruins and Scenery Richard Josiah Hinton Vista de fragmentos - 1954 |
The Hand-book to Arizona: Its Resources, History, Towns, Mines, Ruins, and ... Richard Josiah Hinton Vista de fragmentos - 1970 |
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Página xcii - ... every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as said company may adopt, through the Territories of the United States...
Página ii - Commission or its successors may make regulations, not in conflict with the provisions of this act, governing the location, manner of recording, and amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining claim, subject to the following requirements: On each claim located after the passage of this act, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars...
Página iv - Statutes, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that where a person or company has or may run a tunnel for the purpose of developing a lode or lodes, owned by said person or company, the money so expended in said tunnel shall be taken and considered as expended on said lode or lodes, whether located prior to or since the passage of said act ; and such person or company shall not be required to perform work on the surface of said lode or lodes in order to hold the same as required by said act.
Página iii - The claimant should, therefore, prior to locating his claim, unless the vein can be traced upon the surface, sink a shaft, or run a tunnel or drift, to a sufficient depth therein to discover and develop a mineralbearing vein, lode, or crevice; should determine, if possible, the general course of such vein in either direction from the point of discovery, by which direction he will be governed in marking the boundaries of his claim on the surface.
Página iii - ... surface ground, and at the point of discovery or discovery shaft should fix a post, stake, or board, upon which should be designated the name of the lode, the name or names of the locators, the number of feet claimed, and in which direction from the point of discovery, it being essential that the location notice filed for record, in addition to the foregoing description, should state whether the entire claim of...
Página xcii - Office ; and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections, or parts of sections, shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers, or preempted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond the limits of said alternate sections...
Página ii - ... feet along the course of any mineral vein or lode subject to location ; or an association of persons, severally qualified...
Página xcii - ... the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from pre-emption or other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is designated by a plat thereof, filed in the office of the commissioner of the general land office...
Página ii - ... feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, except where adverse rights existing on the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventytwo, render such limitation necessary.
Página 427 - Tusayan, in northern Arizona, the inhabitants have actually built little terraces along the face of the cliff where a spring gushes out, and thus made their sites for gardens. It is possible that the ancient inhabitants of this place made their agricultural lands in the same way. But why should they seek such spots? Surely the country was not so crowded with people as to demand the utilization of so barren a region.