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Title: Cyclopedia of American government
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: McLaughlin, Andrew Cunningham, 1861-1947 Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943, joint ed
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Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d purchase, . . . and accordingto the local customs or rules of miners in theseveral mining districts, so far as the same areapplicable and not inconsistent with the laws ofthe United States. In this manner a part of the local customsand regulations were written into the statutelaw. The act of 1872, however, provided for auniform size for mining claims on veins andlodes of gold, silver, copper, lead, tin, cinna-bar, or other valuable deposits, and overruledthe local customs in this particular. No defin-itions of vein and lode were given, andthey have never been legally defined. Subse-quent acts of Congress have amended and ex-tended a number of the provisions of the actof 1872. In 1884 the mining laws were extended tocover the district of Alaska, and in 1897 au-thorization was given to enter and patent landscontaining petroleum and other mineral oils. Congress first took cognizance of the coaldeposits on the public domain in 1873, the 77 443 MINES AND MINING, RELATION OF GOVERNMENT TO
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Areas containing Areas that may Areas probably contain workable coal contain workable ing workable coal beds beds. coal beds. under sveh heavy as not to be availdble-at.u PovCtESWGff<; Co., n.y. -present. Areas that may Areas probably contain- contain workable ing workable coal beds coal beds. under such heavy cover as not to be availabl&at present. Distribution of the Principal Economic Minerals in the United States act of March 3, of that year, providing for theentry and purchase of coal lands in areas notexceeding 160 acres for an individual, or 320acres for an association. The coal-land lawswere extended to the district of Alaska by theacts of June 6, 1900, and April 28, 1904, but have not been adapted to the development ofthe resources of the territory. The acts of Congress which have done mostfor the mining industry are: (1) March 3,1879, establishing the United States GeologicalSurvey as a bureau in the Department of the444 MIXES, BUREAU OF—MINIMUM WAGE Interior; (2) M

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