Mineral Resources of the United States, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - Digital images |
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Page 473 - Louis, thence down the Mississippi River to the mouth of the Ohio River, and on the south by the Ohio River from its mouth to Parkersburg, W. Va., thence by a line to the southwestern corner of Maryland, thence by the Potomac River to its mouth.
Page 249 - Act, or subdivisions thereof known as the third, half, and three-quarters barrel, and any person guilty of a willful violation of any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to a fine not...
Page 249 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A merica in Congress assembled. That this Act may be cited as the "Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974.
Page 249 - When lime is sold in interstate or foreign commerce in containers of less capacity than the standard small barrel, it shall be sold in fractional parts of said standard small barrel, and the net weight of lime contained in such container shall by stencil or otherwise be clearly marked thereon, together with the name of the manufacturer thereof, and the name of the brand, if any, under which it is sold, and, if imported, the name of the country from which it is imported.
Page 32 - No. 285, pp. 449—450. 1906. DALE, TN, and others. Slate deposits and slate industry of the United States. In Bulletin No. 275. 1906. DILLER, JS Limestone of the Redding district, California. In Bulletin No. 213, p. 365. 1903. ECKEL, EC Slate deposits of California and Utah. In Bulletin No. 225, pp.
Page 305 - For manufacturing certain organo-sulphonic acids (in the manufacture of alizarin, eosln, indigo, etc.) ; for purifying ozokerite ; for making shoe blacking ; for bringing ordinary concentrated acid up to the highest strength as required in the manufacture of pyroxylin ; and for other purposes.
Page 369 - In the mine the coal is either wasted from a solid face — shot from the solid — as in hard-rock mining, or is shot loose or otherwise broken down after a preliminary cut into the coal has been made. This cut may be made by hand or by machine. Underground methods are therefore classified as shot from the solid, mined by hand, and mined by machines. An increasing quantity of coal is being recovered each year by stripping the cover from the bed hi open pits by steam shovels.
Page 47 - Pennsylvania is first burned in kilns, which serves to fracture it and thus to facilitate grinding. Most feldspar, however, is fed just as it comes from the quarry into a chaser mill consisting of two buhrstone wheels...
Page 55 - Manufacturers of paint use considerable quantities of very finely ground silica, which forms as much as one-third of the total pigment in some paints. For...
Page 584 - Department, it shall be strained by being drawn through filters of wire gauze having 16 meshes to the inch. The clearance through the strainer shall be at least twice the area of the suction pipe and strainers shall be in duplicate.