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Author | : Philip Ross May |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
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The method of hydraulic mining was developed in California to work low grade gravels while searching for gold. It was used from 1853 to 1884. The method was adopted in mining for other minerals.
Author | : Andrew C. Isenberg |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2010-08-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374707200 |
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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.
Author | : California. Hydraulic Mining Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Hydraulic mining |
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Author | : Augustus Jesse Bowie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2017-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781375511841 |
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Author | : Powell Greenland |
Publisher | : Arthur H. Clark Company |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector, researcher, and library.
Author | : Robert M. Wyckoff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Gold mines and mining |
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Author | : Augustus Jesse Bowie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Download A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic Mining in California Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Joseph Jeremiah Hagwood (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Author | : Augustus Jesse Bowie (Jr) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Gold mines and mining |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mark Kanazawa |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2015-07-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022625870X |
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Fresh water has become scarce and will become even more so in the coming years, as continued population growth places ever greater demands on the supply of fresh water. At the same time, options for increasing that supply look to be ever more limited. No longer can we rely on technological solutions to meet growing demand. What we need is better management of the available water supply to ensure it goes further toward meeting basic human needs. But better management requires that we both understand the history underlying our current water regulation regime and think seriously about what changes to the law could be beneficial. For Golden Rules, Mark Kanazawa draws on previously untapped historical sources to trace the emergence of the current framework for resolving water-rights issues to California in the 1850s, when Gold Rush miners flooded the newly formed state. The need to circumscribe water use on private property in support of broader societal objectives brought to light a number of fundamental issues about how water rights ought to be defined and enforced through a system of laws. Many of these issues reverberate in today’s contentious debates about the relative merits of government and market regulation. By understanding how these laws developed across California’s mining camps and common-law courts, we can also gain a better sense of the challenges associated with adopting new property-rights regimes in the twenty-first century.