The Centennial Northwest: An Illustrated History of the Northwest, Being a Full and Complete Civil, Political and Military History of this Great Section of the United States, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present TimeInter-State Book Company, 1876 - 656 Seiten |
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... coal , iron , lead , silver , etc. , the boundless . prairies , and the rolling woodlands , all combine in presenting a scene in nature without an equal for richness , marvellous 2 CHAPTER I SOIL AND SURFACE Topography-Minerals ...
... coal , iron , lead , silver , etc. , the boundless . prairies , and the rolling woodlands , all combine in presenting a scene in nature without an equal for richness , marvellous 2 CHAPTER I SOIL AND SURFACE Topography-Minerals ...
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... coal and iron . However , lime and marble are found and worked in large quantities . Salt springs are numerous and valuable . Coal and iron are deposited in inexhaustible quantities , and the annual trade in these com- modities in Ohio ...
... coal and iron . However , lime and marble are found and worked in large quantities . Salt springs are numerous and valuable . Coal and iron are deposited in inexhaustible quantities , and the annual trade in these com- modities in Ohio ...
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... coal is all bituminous , but is divisible into three well marked varieties : caking coal , noncaking coal , or block coal , and cannel coal . The total depth of the seams or measures is from six hundred to eight hundred feet , with ...
... coal is all bituminous , but is divisible into three well marked varieties : caking coal , noncaking coal , or block coal , and cannel coal . The total depth of the seams or measures is from six hundred to eight hundred feet , with ...
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... coal , ranging from three and a half to eleven feet in thickness . most of the localities , when these are being worked , the coal is mined by adits driven in on the face of the ridges , and the deepest shafts in the state are less than ...
... coal , ranging from three and a half to eleven feet in thickness . most of the localities , when these are being worked , the coal is mined by adits driven in on the face of the ridges , and the deepest shafts in the state are less than ...
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... coal , as it does not burn out the fireboxes and gives as little trouble as wood . There are as many as eight distinct seams of block coal in this zone , three of which are workable , having an average thickness of four feet . In some ...
... coal , as it does not burn out the fireboxes and gives as little trouble as wood . There are as many as eight distinct seams of block coal in this zone , three of which are workable , having an average thickness of four feet . In some ...
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Seite 180 - ... hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Seite 182 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such State shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government : Provided, The constitution and government, so to be formed, shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
Seite 241 - The western state in the said territory shall be bounded by the Mississippi, the Ohio and Wabash rivers ; a direct line drawn from the Wabash and post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada, and by the said territorial line to the lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Seite 177 - Governor, whose commission shall continue in force for the term of three years, unless sooner revoked by Congress ; he shall reside in the district, and have a freehold estate therein, in one thousand acres of land, while in the exercise of his office. ^' There shall be appointed from time to time, by Congress, a Secretary, whose commission shall continue in force for four years, unless sooner revoked...
Seite 176 - ... distributed among their children and the descendants of a deceased child in equal parts; the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the next of kin, in equal degree; and among collaterals, the children of a deceased brother or sister of the intestate shall have in equal parts among them their deceased parents.
Seite 313 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent...
Seite 178 - That a freehold in fifty acres of land in the district, having been a citizen of one of the states, and being resident in the district, or the like freehold and two years residence in the district, shall be necessary to qualify a man as an elector of a representative.
Seite 182 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 181 - There shall be formed in the said Territory not less than three nor more than five States; and the boundaries of the States, as soon as Virginia shall alter her act of cession and consent to the same...
Seite 175 - Be it ordained, by the authority aforesaid, that the estates, both of resident and non-resident proprietors in the said Territory, dying intestate, shall descend to, and be distributed among, their children, and the descendants of a deceased child, in equal parts; the descendants of a deceased child...