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Page 40 - Whereas it is expedient to make provision for mining for gold, silver, precious stones, and valuable minerals: Be it therefore enacted by his excellency the governor of British Guiana, with the advice and consent of the court of policy thereof, as follows: 1. This ordinance may be cited as the mining ordnance, 1887.
Page 335 - 31. Hand Book of Costa Rica. 32. Hand Book of Guatemala. 33. Hand Book of Colombia. 34. Hand Book of Venezuela. 35. Breadstuff's in Latin America. 36. Import Duties of Venezuela. 37. Import Duties of the British Colonies. 38. Commercial Directory of Cuba and Puerto Rico. 39. Commercial Directory of European Colonies.
Page 1 - ,' Latin America. BUREAU OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS, NO. 2 LAFAYETTE SQUARE, WASHINGTON, DC, USA Director.—WILLIAM E. CURTIS. Secretary.—HENRY L. BRYAN. Translators.—Portuguese, JOHN C. REDMAN. Spanish, JOSE I. RODRIGUEZ. Clerks.—JOHN T. SUTER, Jr. .LEONARD G. MYERS. Stenographers.—IMOGEN A. HANNA.
Page 219 - of July, 1885. Final provision. federation or of the States, relative to the branch of mining, even in the parts in which they should not be contrary thereto. Wherefore I order it to be printed, published, circulated, and that due compliance be given it. Given in the palace of the executive power of the Union, in Mexico, on the
Page 174 - its gold diggings and ledges, mica, and other mineral substances, such as sulphur, soda, and salt. American capitalists are largely interested in this region. Besides the minerals named, there are in the peninsula plumbago, sulphuret of lead, porphyry, prismatic pyrites, sulphur, oxide of antimony and lead, carbonate and phosphate of lead, hydroxide of iron, and hydrosilicate
Page 176 - some of the mines. Most of these mines, as well as those in other States, are still operated in the primitive Mexican fashion. The metal is brought up in rawhide sacks, by means of ropes made of the fiber of the maguey wound about a large malacate, or horse or mule whims, and the peons
Page 174 - which are to be found, marble, alabaster, and sandstone. Gold was discovered near Santa Gertrudis, north of Muleje, about 1884. and it is said that the mountains and gulches in that vicinity have rich veins of this metal. In this district there are also solid mountains of iron. The frontier district of Lower California is noted
Page 238 - nine years elapsed between 1851 and 1860, to 2,860,000 tons. In 1875 the guano exports amounted 10378,683 tons, valued at $20,000,000. As to the nitrate beds, which have been worked in the province of Tarapaca since 1830, the yield has been in no lesser proportion. In 1875 the exports through Tarapaca and Iquique amounted
Page 176 - Guerrero, possessed some diamonds which had been given him by one of his soldiers, who had found them during an expedition in that part of the Sierra Madre running through the State of Guerrero. The field or locality whence came these precious stones, of which the general gave but vague information, have
Page 335 - 23. Import Duties of Salvador. 24. Import Duties of Honduras. 25. Import Duties of Ecuador. 26. Commercial Directory of Argentine RepubliC. 27. Import Duties of Colombia. 28. Commercial Directory of Central America. 29. Commercial Directory of Haiti and Santo Domingo. 30. First Annual Report, 1891. 31. Hand Book of Costa Rica. 32. Hand Book of Guatemala. 33. Hand Book of Colombia. 34. Hand Book of Venezuela.