The Truth about Alaska, the Golden Land of the Midnight SunThe author, 1901 - 423 Seiten |
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... feet long , with a forty - two foot beam and her gross tonnage was four hundred tons . Built for the China tea trade twenty - five years ago , she was employed in that service for a number of years , running between Hong Kong and San ...
... feet long , with a forty - two foot beam and her gross tonnage was four hundred tons . Built for the China tea trade twenty - five years ago , she was employed in that service for a number of years , running between Hong Kong and San ...
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... feet in the air , can be plainly seen at a distance of twenty miles or more from land . Just as the sun was peeping above the horizon on the morning of our second day out we were abreast of Point Reys . The wind during the night had ...
... feet in the air , can be plainly seen at a distance of twenty miles or more from land . Just as the sun was peeping above the horizon on the morning of our second day out we were abreast of Point Reys . The wind during the night had ...
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... feet are short , wings long and narrow . The wings of one of the birds caught measured from tip to tip eighty - eight inches . The plumage varies in color . The first we saw were dark brown ; farther north a number were seen with a ...
... feet are short , wings long and narrow . The wings of one of the birds caught measured from tip to tip eighty - eight inches . The plumage varies in color . The first we saw were dark brown ; farther north a number were seen with a ...
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... feet into the air . The name of this volcano is Shisholdin . The ocean chart gives its height as eight thousand nine hundred and fifty - three feet above the level of the sea It is one of the few living volcanoes left in the world today ...
... feet into the air . The name of this volcano is Shisholdin . The ocean chart gives its height as eight thousand nine hundred and fifty - three feet above the level of the sea It is one of the few living volcanoes left in the world today ...
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... feet high . The apex of this dead volcano as seen above the clouds in the twilight of the evening makes one of the grandest scenes in nature . Akutan is another volcano which is situated on the Akutan Island , sixty miles southeast of ...
... feet high . The apex of this dead volcano as seen above the clouds in the twilight of the evening makes one of the grandest scenes in nature . Akutan is another volcano which is situated on the Akutan Island , sixty miles southeast of ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 383 - ... which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession of the vein or lode claim ; but where the existence...
Seite 380 - States surveyor-general that five hundred dollars' worth of labor has been expended or improvements made upon the claim by himself or grantors; that the plat is correct, with such further description by such reference to natural objects or permanent monuments as shall identify the claim, and furnish an accurate description, to be incorporated in the patent. At the expiration of the sixty...
Seite 377 - 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 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...
Seite 381 - ... it shall be assumed that the applicant is entitled to a patent; upon the payment to the proper officer of five dollars per acre, and that no adverse claim exists; and thereafter no objection from third parties to the issuance of a patent shall be heard, except it be shown that the applicant has failed to comply with the terms of this chapter.
Seite 381 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Seite 400 - No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface, nor shall any claim be limited by any mining regulation to less than twenty-five 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.
Seite 300 - ... point the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast, as far as the point of intersection of the...
Seite 403 - Upon the failure of any one of several coowners to contribute his proportion of the expenditures required hereby, the coowners who have performed the labor or made the improvements may, at the expiration of the year, give such delinquent coowner personal notice in writing, or notice by publication in the newspaper published nearest the claim, for at least once a week for ninety days, and if at the expiration of ninety days after such notice in writing or...
Seite 401 - All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim. On each claim located after the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year.
Seite 383 - May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, shall conform as near as practicable with the United States system of public land surveys, and the rectangular subdivisions of such surveys, and no such location shall include more than twenty acres for each individual claimant...