The Handbook to Arizona: Its Resources, History, Towns, Mines, Ruins, and Scenery. By Richard J. HintonThe Hand-Book to Arizona is an elaborately illustrated guide for travellers, prospectors, historians and explorers alike. Painstaking care was taken to compile a source of well-researched and often first-hand accounts in hopes of further promoting the region and an understanding of its place in America's history. Detailed maps are also included. |
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The Handbook to Arizona: Its Resources, History, Towns, Mines, Ruins, and ... Richard Josiah Hinton Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1878 |
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Side xii - 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...
Side xiv - 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.
Side xiii - 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.
Side xiii - ... 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...
Side xii - ... feet along the course of any mineral vein or lode subject to location ; or an association of persons, severally qualified...
Side xii - ... 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.
Side 425 - 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.
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Bibliografisk informasjon
| Tittel | The Handbook to Arizona: Its Resources, History, Towns, Mines, Ruins, and Scenery. By Richard J. Hinton American County Histories - AZ only |
| Forfatter | Richard Josiah Hinton |
| Utgiver | Payot, Upham & Company, 1878 |
| ISBN | 0598277269, 9780598277268 |
| Lengde | 431 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |