Minerals, Lands, and Geology for the Common Defence and General Welfare: 1939-1961U.S. Geological Survey, 1979 - Mineral lands |
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1st session 2d session 45th Congress agricultural amendment American Journal Annual Report appointed appropriation Archean assistant Becker began Bureau California Clarence King coal Coast and Geodetic Colorado Commission Committee Congressional copper Cretaceous Department deposits Director district Division Dutton established exploration Federal field formations Frémont G. K. Gilbert Gannett Geodetic Survey Geographical geologic map geologist gold Government Hague Hayden survey Henry Henry Gannett House Ibid Indian industry Institute Interior investigation iron irrigation Irrigation Survey J. W. Powell James John John Wesley Powell Journal of Science Lake Land Office Major Powell mineral lands mineral resources Mining Engineers Mississippi Missouri Nevada North O. C. Marsh organization paleontology party Pennsylvania President Professor proposed public lands Raphael Pumpelly reconnaissance River rocks scientific Secretary silver South Survey's Territories tion topographic maps topographic surveys U.S. Congress U.S. Geological Survey United Utah Valley Washington West western Whitney William York
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Page 149 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 203 - States and those who have declared their intention to become such, under regulations prescribed by law, and according to the local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts, so far as the same are applicable and not inconsistent with the laws of the United States.
Page 345 - And it ought to be remembered ' that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Page 140 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art...
Page 28 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits...
Page 274 - The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geological and economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of the lands, and reports upon general and economic geology and paleontology. The annual report of operations of the Geological Survey shall accompany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior.
Page 15 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 61 - Away, away with all these cobweb tissues of rights of discovery, exploration, settlement, contiguity, etc. The American claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federative self-government entrusted to us.
Page 282 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the Government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 272 - Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the Geological Structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain...