 The result was, that in a district five hundred miles long, and inhabited by 100,000 people, who had neither government, regular laws, rules, military or civil protection, nor even locks or bolts, and a great part of whom possessed wealth enough to tempt...  Old Leaves: Gathered from Household Wordsvon William Henry Wills - 1860 - 437 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Bayard Taylor - 1850 - 280 Seiten
...disputes of right or complaints of trespass, and who had power to summon juries for criminal trials. When a new placer or gulch was discovered, the first thing done was to elect officers and extend the area of order. The result was, that in a district five hundred miles long,... | |
 | George Ellis (M.B.) - 1852 - 186 Seiten
...in a quotation from a well-known weekly journal, Dickmss Household Words, for June 29th, 1850: — "Not the smallest wonder, however, presented in this...was discovered, the first thing done was to elect officers and extend the area of order. The result was, that in a district 500 miles long, and inhabited... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1862 - 488 Seiten
...disputes of right or complaints of trespass, and who had power to summon juries for criminal trials. When a new placer or gulch was discovered, the first thing done was to elect officers and extend the area of order. The result was, that in a district five hundred miles long,... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1884 - 644 Seiten
...100-109. By Albert Shaw, Ph. DGP Putnam's Sons, New York, 1884). XII LAND LAWS OP MINING DISTRICTS .' / " When a new placer or gulch was discovered, the first thing done was to elect officers. In a region five hundred miles long, inhabited by 100,000 people, who had neither locks,... | |
 | Joseph Lewis French - 1923 - 424 Seiten
...disputes of right or complaints of trespass, and who had power to summon juries for criminal trials. When a new placer or gulch was discovered, the first thing done was to elect officers and extend the area of order. The result was, that in a district five hundred miles long,... | |
 | Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain) - 1927 - 670 Seiten
...disputes of right, or com. plaints of trespass, and who had power to summon juries for criminal trials. When a new placer or gulch was discovered, the first thing done was to elect officers and extend the area of order. The result was that in a district 500 miles long, and inhabited... | |
 | Carl Watner - 1999 - 504 Seiten
...been worked for some time, there were established regulations, which were faithfully observed. . . .When a new placer or gulch was discovered, the first thing done was to elect officers and extend the area of order. The result was that in a district five hundred miles long, and... | |
 | Holly L. Skinner - 2001 - 308 Seiten
...enforcement (had there been any laws), and the job was left to the miners themselves. "When [ever] a new placer or gulch was discovered, the first thing done was to elect officers and extend the area of order," Taylor observed. "Alcaldes were elected, who decided on all... | |
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