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acre amount Author's illustration average bark strips board feet cent Bd cerium chromite coastal plain color columbite commercial containing cost County crown crystals cubic feet diameter breasthigh DIAMETERS AND HEIGHTS DIFFERENT DIAMETERS DIFFERENT QUALITY SITES dominant trees even-aged filament forest gadolinite garnet Geological gneiss granite gravels hardwoods ilmenite incandescent inches in diameter increase Joseph Hyde Pratt kerf knots lamp lands loblolly pine localities logs longleaf pine magnetic Magnetite mantle manufacture metal mica mill mineral monazite Norfolk North Carolina North Carolina pine number of trees obtained occurs old fields oxide pegmatitic Plate pocoson pine Postage pounds quantity quartz red heart rocks rutile sand Scribner shortleaf pine soils specific gravity STANDS OF LOBLOLLY stem stump stumpage stumpage value swamps Table tantalite tantalum thinning thoria thorium timber trees of different TREES OF LOBLOLLY tungsten upland uraninite uranium Value Bd vanadium volume wood yield yttrium zircon zirconia
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Page 173 - Postage 10 cents. 29. Report of the Fisheries Convention held at New Bern, NC, December 13, 1911, compiled by Joseph Hyde Pratt, State Geologist, together with a Compendium of the Stenographic Notes of the Meetings Held on the T-WO trips taken by the Legislative Fish Committee Appointed by the General Assembly of 1909, and the Legislation Recommended by this Committee, 1912.
Page 172 - Out o/ print. 3. Talc and Pyrophyllite Deposits in North Carolina, by Joseph Hyde Pratt, 1900. 8°, 29 pp., 2 maps. Postage 2 cents. 4. The Mining Industry In North Carolina During 1900, by Joseph Hyde Pratt, 1901. 8°, 36 pp., and map.
Page 172 - County; describes Commercial Varieties of Mica, giving the manner in which it occurs in North Carolina, Percentage of Mica in the Dikes Methods of Mining, Associated Minerals, Localities; Uses; describes the mineral Barytes. giving Method of Cleaning and Preparing Barytes for Market; describes the use of Monazite as used in connection with the Preparation of the Bunsen Burner, and goes into the use of Zircon in connection with the Nernst Lamp, giving a List of the Principal Yttrium Minerals; describes...
Page 176 - Highway; suggested road legislation; report on the Asheville City watershed; report on the Struan property at Arden. Buncombe County; report on the woodlands on the farm of Dr. JW Kilgore, Iredell County; report on examination of the woodlands on the Berry place, Orange County; report on the forest property of Miss Julia A. Thorns.
Page 175 - Contains Agreements for Cooperation in Statistical Work, and Topographical and Traverse Mapping Work with the United States Geological Survey; Forest Work with the United States Department of Agriculture (Forest Service); List of Topographic maps of North Carolina and counties partly or wholly topographically mapped; description of special Highways in North Carolina; suggested Road Legislation; list of Drainage Districts and Results of Third Annual Drainage Convention; Forestry reports relating to...
Page 27 - The mineral is usually readily recognized after a few samples have been examined. Its color, usually yellowish inclined to reddish, its hardness, 5 to 5.5, being readily scratched by feldspar (hardness 6) or quartz (hardness 7), and its high specific gravity, 4.64 to 5.3, are the chief macroscopic properties that will aid in distinguishing it.
Page 175 - Postage 1 cent. Administrative report. Biennial Report, 1903-1904, JA Holmes, State Geologist, 1905. 8°, 32 pp. Postage 2 cents. Administrative report. Biennial Report, 1905-1906, Joseph Hyde Pratt, State Geologist, 1907. 8°, 60 pp.
Page 173 - FB Laney; Detailed report on Mica Deposits of North Carolina, by Douglas B. Sterrett; Detailed report on Monazite, by Douglas B. Sterrett; Reports on various Gem Minerals, by Douglas B. Sterrett; Information and Analyses concerning certain Mineral Springs; Extract from Chance Report of the Dan River and Deep River Coal Fields; Some notes on the Peat Industry, by Professor Charles A. Davis; Extract from report of Arthur Keith on the Nantahala Marble; Description of the manufacture of Sand-lime Brick....
Page 27 - Monazite is light-yellow, honey-yellow, reddish-, brownish-, or greenish-yellow in color, with a resinous to vitreous luster, and is translucent to subtransparent. It is brittle, with a conchoidal to uneven fracture, and is from 5 to 5.5 in hardness, and from 4.64 to 5.3 in specific gravity.
Page 156 - ... lands near to or adjoining the lands so fired, he shall for every such offense be guilty of a misdemeanor...