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The Ketchikan and Wrangell mining districts, Alaska

No abstract available.
Authors
F.E. Wright, Charles Will Wright

The magnesite deposits of California

No abstract available.
Authors
Frank Lee Hess

The nature of the volatile matter of coal as evolved under different conditions

No abstract available.
Authors
H. C. Porter

The prevention of mine explosions, report and recommendations

No abstract available.
Authors
Victor Watteyne, Carl Meissner, Arthur Desborough

The purchase of coal under Government and commercial specifications on the basis of its heating value, with analyses of coal delivered under Government contracts

No abstract available.
Authors
Dwight T. Randall

The strength of concrete beams; results of tests of 108 beams, first series, made at the structural materials testing laboratories

No abstract available.
Authors
Richard Lewis Humphrey

Twenty-ninth annual report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey

The appropriations for the work of the United States Geological Survey for the fiscal year 1907-8 comprised items amounting to $1,661,420. The plan of operations was approved by the Secretary of the Interior and a detailed statement of the work of the various branches and divisions of the Survey is presented on later pages of this report.
Authors
George Otis Smith

Washing and coking tests of coal and cupola tests of coke, conducted by the United States fuel-testing plant at St. Louis, Missouri, January 1, 1905, to June 30, 1907

No abstract available.
Authors
Richard Moldenke, A.W. Belden, George Richmond Delamater, J.A. Holmes

Water resources of Beaver Valley, Utah

Location and extent of area examined. Beaver Valley is located in Beaver County, in southwestern Utah, about 175 miles south of Salt Lake. It lies between the Tushar Mountains on the east and the Beaver Mountains on the west. The principal town of the valley is Beaver, which is most conveniently reached from Milford, a station on the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad. The valley, toget
Authors
Willis Thomas Lee
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Water Resources Mission Area, Utah Water Science Center

Water-supply investigations in Alaska, 1906-1907: Nome and Kougarok regions, Seward Peninsula; Fairbanks district, Yukon-Tanana region

No abstract available.
Authors
Fred Forbes Henshaw, Clermont Calvert Covert

A geologic reconnaissance in southwestern Nevada and eastern California

No abstract available.
Authors
Sydney Hobart Ball

A study of four hundred steaming tests made at the fuel-testing plant, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904, 1905, and 1906

No abstract available.
Authors
L.P. Breckenridge