Report of the Commissioners and Evidence Taken by the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Reps. in Regard to the Sutro Tunnel, with the Arguments1872 - 4 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 428 - ... to bring home his convictions, or even to convey his meaning, to the less informed minds of his hearers. In his strong Northumbrian dialect, he struggled for utterance, in the face of the sneers, interruptions, and ridicule of the opponents of the measure, and even of the Committee, some of whom shook their heads and whispered doubts as to his sanity, when he energetically avowed that he could make the locomotive go at the rate of twelve miles an hour ! It was so grossly in the teeth of all the...
Σελίδα 428 - My learned friends," said he, " almost endeavoured to stop my examination ; they wished me to put in the plan, but I had rather have the exhibition of Mr. Stephenson in that box. I say he never had a plan — I believe he never had one — I do not believe he is capable of making one.
Σελίδα 427 - It was declared that its formation would prevent cows grazing and hens laying. The poisoned air from the locomotives would kill birds as they flew over them, and render the preservation of pheasants and foxes no longer possible. Householders adjoining the projected line were told that their houses would be burnt up by the fire thrown from the engine-chimneys, while the air around would be polluted by clouds of smoke.
Σελίδα 428 - Mr. Alderson summed up in a speech which extended over two days. He declared Mr. Stephenson's plan to be "the most absurd scheme that ever entered into the head of a man to conceive. My learned friends...
Σελίδα 223 - That the coal mine, when properly ventilated and drained, and when both the main and the side passages are of tolerable height, is not only not unhealthy, but, the temperature being moderate and very uniform, it is, considered as a place of work, more salubrious and even agreeable than that in which many kinds of labour are carried on above ground.
Σελίδα 6 - ... company to redeem said bonds, or any part of them, when required so to do by the Secretary of the Treasury...
Σελίδα 156 - An act granting to A. Sutro the right of way and other privileges to aid in the construction of a draining and exploring tunnel to the Comstock lode, in the State of Nevada," approved July twenty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Σελίδα 11 - July 25, 18u(J, with special reference to the importance, feasibility, cost, and time required to construct the same; the value of the bullion extracted from the mines on the Comstock lode ; their present and probable future production; also, the geological and practical value of said tunnel as an exploring work, and its general bearing upon our mining and other national interests in ascertaining the practicability of deep mining.
Σελίδα 428 - None of the tremendous consequences," he observed, " have ensued from the use of steam in land carriage that have been stated. The horses have not started, nor the cows ceased to give their milk, nor have ladies miscarried at the sight of these things going forward at the rate of four miles and a half an hour.
Σελίδα 380 - ... lodes, subject, however, to the provisions of this Act and to such legislation as Congress may hereafter provide : Provided, That the Comstock Lode with its dips, spurs, and angles, is excepted from this grant, and all other lodes with their dips, spurs, and angles, located within the said two thousand feet, and which are, or may be at the passage of this Act, in the actual bona fide possession of other persons, are hereby excepted from such grant.