The Noatak-Kobuk Region, Alaska, Volume 536 |
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abundant acres Alaska Alatna Alatna River amount andesites basin Bay Horse bedrock biotite Birch Creek Bulletin camp of August Canyon cent chalcopyrite character Charley River Circle quadrangle classification coal coal bed coal land contain copper Cretaceous Custer Custer County deposits determined dikes diorite district drainage elevation entry Eocene erosion examination feldspar field Fortymile Geological Survey geologist gold granite gravels hornblende Idaho igneous rocks inches intrusive irrigation Kobuk Koyukuk Land Office laws lead-silver limestone localities lode Loon Creek metamorphism miles mineral mining Noatak nonmineral occur orthoclase outcrop oxide Paleozoic phosphate places present probably production public lands quartz quartzites reconnaissance River sandstone schists Seward Peninsula siderite silver slates specimens Stat stream structure sulphide surface Tanana tetrahedrite tion topographic tract tributary tuffs U. S. Geol valley valuable veins withdrawal Yankee Fork Yukon Yukon-Tanana region
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Page 43 - An act to authorize the President of the United States to make withdrawals of public lands in certain cases...
Page 12 - Survey, and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources and products of the national domain.
Page 26 - placers," including all forms of deposit, excepting veins of quartz or other rock in place, shall be subject to entry and patent, under like circumstances and conditions, and upon similar proceedings, as are provided for vein or lode claims; but where the lands have been previously surveyed by the United States, the entry in its exterior limits shall conform to the legal subdivisions of the...
Page 19 - The President may, at any time in his discretion, temporarily withdraw from settlement, location, sale, or entry any of the public lands...
Page 23 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
Page 65 - ... authority of the act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat,, 847) , as amended by the act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat., 497).
Page 19 - For the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be redeemed by irrigation and the segregation of irrigable lands in such arid region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and for ascertaining the cost thereof, and the prevention of floods and overflows...
Page 28 - Provided, that no such right of way shall be so located as to interfere with the proper occupation by the government of any such reservation, and all maps of location shall be subject to the approval of the department of the government having jurisdiction of such reservation...
Page 140 - 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 12 - I have therefore concluded that the intention of Congress was to begin a rigid scientific classification of the lands of the national domain, not for purposes of aiding the machinery of the General Land Office by furnishing a basis of sale, but for the general information of the people of the country, and to produce a series of land maps which should show all those features upon which intelligent agriculturists, miners, engineers, and timbermen might hereafter base their operations, and which would...