Author: Louis Janin
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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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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Prospectus of the Excelsior Water and Mining Co. Smartsville, Yuba County, California. With Report by Professors Price and Ashburner
Author: Excelsior Water and Mining Company (Smartsville, Calif.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Languages : en
Pages : 27
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Mining California
Author: Andrew Christian Isenberg
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809095351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"Between 1849 and 1874, almost one billion dollars in gold was mined in California. The California gold rush was a key chapter in American industrialization, not only because of the wealth it produced but because of its heavy environmental costs. With labor costs high and capital scarce. California miners used hydraulic technology to shift the burden of their enterprise onto the environment: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away, and eventually thousands of tons of poisonous debris entered California's rivers. The profitability of hydraulic mining spurred other forms of resource exploitation in the state, including logging, large-scale ranching, and city-building. These, too, took their toll on the environment. This resource-intensive development, typical of American industrialization, became the template for the transformation of the West."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0809095351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
"Between 1849 and 1874, almost one billion dollars in gold was mined in California. The California gold rush was a key chapter in American industrialization, not only because of the wealth it produced but because of its heavy environmental costs. With labor costs high and capital scarce. California miners used hydraulic technology to shift the burden of their enterprise onto the environment: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away, and eventually thousands of tons of poisonous debris entered California's rivers. The profitability of hydraulic mining spurred other forms of resource exploitation in the state, including logging, large-scale ranching, and city-building. These, too, took their toll on the environment. This resource-intensive development, typical of American industrialization, became the template for the transformation of the West."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Reports on the Irrigation Resources of California
Author: Frank Adams
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : Irrigation
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Report of the Conservation Commission of the State of California
Author: California. Conservation Commission
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Report of the California State Agricultural Society
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Category : Agricultural exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Category : Agricultural exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Report of the California State Agricultural Society
Author: California state agricultural society
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Report of the State Geologist
Author: California. Division of Mines and Geology
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
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Report
Author: California. Debris Commissioner
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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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.