The Innoko Gold-placer District, Alaska, with Accounts of the Central Kuskokwim Valley and the Ruby Creek and Gold Hill Placers |
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abutment of iron aluminum tablet stamped andesite anticline Axial Basin bench mark briquets bronze tablet stamped Canyon coal coal beds coal-bearing Colorado COLUMBUS corner of foundation County Cretaceous culvert Danforth Hills deposits diabase district east side entry exposed feet east feet north feet south feet west Fork front of station Ganes Creek geologic Grand Hogback Green River gulch gypsite gypsum Henrys Fork Hogback Innoko Innoko River iron bridge Kuskokwim Kuskokwim Mountains Kuskokwim River ledge limestone lower Mesaverde formation miles east miles north miles south miles southwest miles west mines north side northeast northwest corner outcrop QUADRANGLE quartz railroad Range Raven Park rhyolite ridge rocks sandstone schists schoolhouse shale SOUTH ALONG HIGHWAY south side southeast corner stone strata stratigraphic Survey Takotna Tertiary THENCE thick top of rail township Triassic U. S. Geol Uinta Mountains unconformity upper valley vein west side White River Yampa River Yukon
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Page 12 - That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be made a resurvey of the lands in...
Page 7 - They have been subjected to change resulting from the adjustments necessary to close circuits and to those resulting from reduction to mean sea level through readjustment of the precise-level net of the United States.
Page 12 - Bernardino base and meridian; and all rules and regulations of the Interior Department requiring petitions from all settlers of said townships asking for resurvey and agreement to abide by the result of the same so far as these lands are concerned are hereby abrogated; Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to impair the present bona fide claim of any actual occupant of any of said lands to the lands so occupied.
Page 6 - The former are determined by lines of levels run either in both forward and backward directions or by simultaneous double-rodded lines, a highgrade instrument being used and special precautions being taken in observations and reduction to correct errors and make the line continuously good throughout. The latter or primary levels are determined with the Y level, precautions being taken against only the principal errors and the levels being run...
Page 7 - ... number at the same time gives an approximate statement of the elevation. It is assumed that engineers and others finding these bench marks so stamped in the field will communicate with the Director of the. United States Geological Survey in order to obtain the accepted elevation to hundredths or thousandths of a foot.
Page 32 - BULLETIN 332. Report of the United States fuel-testing plant at St. Louis, Mo., January 1, 1906, to June 30, 1907; JA Holmes, in charge. 1908.
Page 14 - SPURR, JE Origin and structure of the basin ranges. Bull. Geol. Soc. America, vol. 12, 1901, pp. 217-270. Includes a comprehensive review of the literature relating to the structure of the basin ranges and concludes that their present topographic expression is due mainly to erosion.
Page 7 - ... inches, so as to prevent both the easy subsidence of the post and its being maliciously pulled out of the ground. The iron is heavily coated with asphalt, and over the top of the post is riveted a bronze tablet similar to that described above. The...
Page 32 - Slates fuel-testing plant at St. Louis, Mo., January 1, 1905, to July 31, 1906, by NW Lord.