Special Report on Immigration: Accompanying Information for Immigrants Relative to the Price and Rentals of Land, Etc. To which are Appended Tables Showing the Average Weekly Wages Paid in the Several States and Sections for Factory, Mechanical, and Farm Labor; the Cost of Provisions, Groceries, Dry Goods, and House Rent in the Manufacturing Districts of the Country, in the Year 1869-'70 |
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Page 34 - July 2, 1864, chap. 217, and was thereby "authorized and empowered to lay out, locate, construct, furnish, maintain, and enjoy a continuous railroad and telegraph line, with the appurtenances, namely, beginning at a point on Lake Superior, in the state of Minnesota or Wisconsin, thence westerly, by the most eligible railroad route, as shall be determined by said company, within the territory of the United States, on a line north of the forty-fifth degree of latitude, to some point on Puget's sound...
Page 6 - ... in endless variety, some of them of very peculiar form. One of them in particular of sulphur had built up a tall spire from the slope of the wall, standing out like an enormous horn, with hot water trickling down its sides. The creek ran on a bed of solid rock, in many places smooth and slippery, in others obstructed by masses of debris formed from the overhanging cliffs of the sulphuretted limestone above.
Page 35 - Congress assembled, that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company be, and hereby is, authorized to issue its bonds to aid in the construction and equipment of its road, and to secure the same by mortgage on its property and rights of property of all kinds and descriptions, real, personal and mixed, including its franchise as a corporation...
Page 14 - On the caps of these dizzy height1;, mountain sheep and elk rest during the night. I followed down the stream on horseback, to where it breaks through the range, threading my way through the forest on game trails with little difficulty. Selecting the channel of a small creek and leaving the horses, I followed it down on foot, wading in the bed of the stream, which fell off at an angle of about 30° between walls of gypsum. Private McConnell accompanied me.
Page 186 - P¡Sand arms of the sea provide safe anchorage for small craft, and where the forests are easy of access from navigable waters. In the interior of the State are many small mills erected for the purpose of supplying their own immediate neighborhoods, conducted solely with reference to that object. The varieties of timber adapted to general lumbering purposes are the red, white, and yellow fir, cedar, spruce, hemlock, and in some parts of the interior pine and larch.