The Mining Magazine: Devoted to Mines, Mining Operations, Metallurgy, &c., &c, Volume 61856 - Mineral industries |
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Page 251 - ... filter. Such a claim, if sustained, would amount to a total abrogation of the right of property. No man could dig a cellar, or a well, or build a house on his own land, because these operations necessarily interrupt the filtrations through the earth.
Page 252 - Dec. 721, the court declared that "neither the civil law nor the common law permits a man to be deprived of a well or spring or stream of water for the mere gratification of malice.
Page 203 - Sesquioxide of Iron. On the other hand, those divisions of the coal measures which have been but slightly charged with vegetable matter, as for example the barren shales of the Serai Coal rocks before alluded to, contain much red material, both in distinct strata and mottling the general mass, and are throughout more or less impregnated with the Sesquioxide. A like general law as to color would seem to apply to the other great groups of sedimentary rocks, which include in particular beds accumulations...
Page 251 - The natural stream existing by the bounty of Providence for the benefit of the land through which it flows, is an incident annexed by operation of law to the land itself.
Page 202 - On the other hand, the fine grained flaggy argillaceous sandstones, which are often crowded with the impressions and carbonized remains of plants, are at the same time more or less impregnated with this ferruginous compound. So, again, the soft argillaceous shales, in the midst of which the lenticular ore so frequently presents itself, show, by their dark color and included impressions of plants, as well as by actual analysis, that they are richly imbued with vegetable matter. Nor do the nearly white...
Page 251 - When the nitrations are gathered into sufficient volume to have an appreciable value, and to flow in a clearly defined channel, it is generally possible to see it, and to avoid diverting it, without serious detriment to the owner of the land through which it flows. But percolations spread in every direction through the earth, and it is impossible to avoid disturbing them without relinquishing the necessary enjoyment of the land.
Page 177 - The welding and shaping of the axle or other article may also be performed by passing the roll of metal, when at the welding heat, between a pair of rollers, having sets of grooves of gradually decreasing diameter, in the manner commonly practised when rolling bars and rods of iron ; or the roll or coil may be submitted first to a hammering process, and then passed between grooved rollers until it is reduced to the required shape. The plate of iron employed for forming a coil or roll which is to...
Page 203 - ... red material. This relation is beautifully shown in the middle secondary rocks of the Atlantic slope, which extend in a prolonged belt from the Connecticut Valley into the State of South Carolina. In the strata of red sandstone and shale, which form the chief part of the mass, vegetable or animal exuvire are almost 285 entirely absent.
Page 203 - ... of the nodules are found in the carbonaceous shales or partings which lie in the midst of the seam itself. While the strata, including the proto-carbonate, are thus distinguished by the admixture of more or less carbonaceous matter, they are also remarkable for seldom exhibiting a distinctly red tint. Presenting, where not weathered, various shades of...
Page 251 - ... throw the water back upon the proprietors above. Every proprietor, who claims a right either to throw the water back above, or to diminish the quantity of water which is to descend below, must, in order to maintain his claim, either prove an actual grant or license from the proprietors affected by his operations, or must prove an uninterrupted enjoyment of twenty years : which term of twenty years is now adopted, upon a principle of general convenience, as affording a conclusive presumption of...