Author: California Water Company
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
California Water & Mining Co
Author: California Water Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Publisher:
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Report on the Excelsior Water and Mining Co. Smartsville, California ...
Author: Louis Janin
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Mining California
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374707200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands. Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
California Water and Mining Company, 1880
Author: California Water Company
Publisher:
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Category : El Dorado County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Category : El Dorado County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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California Journal of Mines and Geology ... Quarterly Chapter of State Mineralogist's Report
Author: California. Division of Mines and Mining
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Report for 1917/18 consists of three monographs by E. MacBoyle issued separately as Mines and mineral resources of Nevada County. Mines and mineral resources of Plumas County. Mines and mineral resources of Sierra County.
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Report for 1917/18 consists of three monographs by E. MacBoyle issued separately as Mines and mineral resources of Nevada County. Mines and mineral resources of Plumas County. Mines and mineral resources of Sierra County.
Golden Rules
Author: Mark Kanazawa
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625867X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Water supply is an extremely contentious resource issue in California and the West. The framework currently used to resolve these issues, however, is based on the legal system that arose in response to the 1849 Gold Rush, and on which California and other Western states modeled their laws. In "Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush," Mark Kanazawa mines a vast cache of previously untapped historical sources both to tell the story of California s water laws and to shed light on how institutions and economies develop in relation to each other. The Gold Rush was a massive shock to the California economy and provides a unique opportunity in which to observe largely unfettered economic and cultural forces giving rise to rapid and dramatic changes in laws. Kanazawa draws on the latest scholarship in law and economics, property law, and new institutional economics, in combination with a great deal of evidence, to describe and interpret the water law doctrine that emerged from 1850s California. Seen through the lens of water development and property law, "Golden Rules" provides a coherent framework within which to understand much of what is observed in terms of institutional developments, and the activities governed by those, during the Gold Rush."
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625867X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Water supply is an extremely contentious resource issue in California and the West. The framework currently used to resolve these issues, however, is based on the legal system that arose in response to the 1849 Gold Rush, and on which California and other Western states modeled their laws. In "Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush," Mark Kanazawa mines a vast cache of previously untapped historical sources both to tell the story of California s water laws and to shed light on how institutions and economies develop in relation to each other. The Gold Rush was a massive shock to the California economy and provides a unique opportunity in which to observe largely unfettered economic and cultural forces giving rise to rapid and dramatic changes in laws. Kanazawa draws on the latest scholarship in law and economics, property law, and new institutional economics, in combination with a great deal of evidence, to describe and interpret the water law doctrine that emerged from 1850s California. Seen through the lens of water development and property law, "Golden Rules" provides a coherent framework within which to understand much of what is observed in terms of institutional developments, and the activities governed by those, during the Gold Rush."
Report of the State Mineralogist
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Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Report on the Properties and Domain of the California Water Company, Situated in Georgetown Divide
Author: Amos Bowman
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Category : El Dorado County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : El Dorado County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Report of the California Water and Mining Co. ...
Author: California Water Company
Publisher:
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Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
First Annual Report of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor of California for the Fiscal Year 1915-16
Author: California. Division of Mines and Geology
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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