Bulletin, Issue 74State Office, 1917 - Geology |
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Alameda Amador amount and value Angeles Area asbestos barytes Bibliography bituminous rock brick Bulletin 38 Butte Calaveras California cement chromite clay Combined to conceal Commercial production conceal output copper Creek crude deposits Dorado estimate by Chamber figures denote altitudes flasks follows Fresno fuller's earth gems gold granite gypsum HIGHWAYS POST OFFICES Inyo Inyo County Kern Lake limestone Location Madera magnesite magnesium chloride manganese Mariposa material Mineral Production mineral resources mineral water mining bureau miscellaneous Other minerals miscellaneous stone Monterey Nevada ounces petroleum Placer PLACES Small figures platinum Plumas Population potash production for 1916 Production of California quicksilver River Riverside rock Sacramento salt San Benito San Bernardino counties San Diego San Luis Obispo Santa Barbara Shasta Shasta County Silver Stone Siskiyou Small figures denote soapstone Sonoma square miles Stanislaus Tabulated sheet Tons Value total value Tulare tungsten Tuolumne Value Year Tons Yuba
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Page 151 - Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by this code, every offense declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both.
Page 151 - It is hereby made the duty of the owner, lessor, lessee, agent, manager or other person in charge of each and every mine, of whatever kind or character, within the state...
Page 152 - ... act to provide for the establishment, maintenance, and support of a bureau, to be known as the state mining bureau, and for the appointment and duties of a board of trustees, to be known as the board of trustees of the state mining bureau, who shall have the direction, management and control of said state mining bureau, and to provide for the appointment, duties, and compensation of a state mineralogist, who shall perform the duties of his office under the control, direction and supervision of...
Page 152 - The Board (Board of Trustees) is hereby empowered to fix a price upon, and to dispose of to the public, at such price, any and all publications of the Bureau, including reports, bulletins, maps, registers, etc. The sum derived from such disposition must be accounted for and used as a revolving printing and publishing fund for other reports, bulletins, maps, registers, etc. The prices fixed must approximate the actual...
Page 150 - SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of said state mineralogist to make, facilitate, and encourage, special studies of the mineral resources and mineral industries of the state. It shall be his duty : to collect statistics concerning the occurrence and production of the economically important minerals and the methods pursued in making their valuable constituents available for commercial use...
Page 152 - SEC. 12. The state mineralogist may, whenever he deems it advisable, prepare a special collection of ores and minerals of California to be sent to or used at any world's fair or exposition in order to display the mineral wealth of the state.
Page 151 - March 23, 1893, and hereafter referred to in section fourteen hereof, and shall maintain such offices, museum. library and laboratory for the purposes provided in this act. SEC. 8. Said state mineralogist or qualified assistant shall have full power and authority at any time to enter or examine any and all mines, quarries, wells, mills, reduction works, refining works and other mineral properties or working plants in this state in order to gather data to comply with the provisions of this act. SEC....
Page 151 - ... to issue from time to time such bulletins as he may deem advisable concerning the statistics and technology of the mineral industries of this state.
Page 150 - ... typical geological and mineralogical specimens, especially those of economic and commercial importance, such collection constituting the museum of the state mining bureau ; to provide a library of books, reports, drawings, bearing upon the mineral industries, and sciences of mineralogy and geology, and arts of mining and metallurgy, such library constituting the library of the state mining bureau ; to make a collection of models, drawings and descriptions of the mechanical appliances used in...
Page 151 - The state mineralogist now performing the duties of the office of state mineralogist shall perform the duties of the office of state mineralogist as in this act provided until the appointment and qualification of his successor as in this act provided. SEC. 7. The said state mineralogist shall take possession, charge and control of the offices now occupied and used by the board of trustees and state mineralogist and the museum, library and laboratory of the mining bureau located in San...