Special Bulletin, Volume 1, Issues 1-2Bureau of American Republics, 1893 - America |
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... mine or mines conceded shall be delivered by the lessee to the National Treasury of Colombia and the lease or concession shall be ratified by Congress . The same laws , it is claimed , apply to the petroleum oil springs or " seeps ...
... mine or mines conceded shall be delivered by the lessee to the National Treasury of Colombia and the lease or concession shall be ratified by Congress . The same laws , it is claimed , apply to the petroleum oil springs or " seeps ...
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... mine good coal in these regions at a distance of from fifteen to twenty miles from the coast , as the croppings I examined at several points show veins of from three to six feet thick of bituminous coal embedded in lignite and shale ...
... mine good coal in these regions at a distance of from fifteen to twenty miles from the coast , as the croppings I examined at several points show veins of from three to six feet thick of bituminous coal embedded in lignite and shale ...
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... mines are extremely valuable , owing to the fact that they exist at a healthy elevation above the sea , are supplied with cold water from the glacier of Santa Marta and are on navigable rivers and on the line of a railroad now under ...
... mines are extremely valuable , owing to the fact that they exist at a healthy elevation above the sea , are supplied with cold water from the glacier of Santa Marta and are on navigable rivers and on the line of a railroad now under ...
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... mines . I am perfectly convinced that the beds of the Santa Marta region are identical with those of Venezuela . COAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CUNDINAMARCA . Extensive coal beds extend from near La Mesa along the Alti- plaine , past Bogotá ...
... mines . I am perfectly convinced that the beds of the Santa Marta region are identical with those of Venezuela . COAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CUNDINAMARCA . Extensive coal beds extend from near La Mesa along the Alti- plaine , past Bogotá ...
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... to be on their way to investi- gate this branch of mining industry . The first annual report of the present Commissioner of Mines 16 COMMERCIAL INFORMATION . Tobacco Tax in Colombia 16 Gold Mining in British Guiana 16.
... to be on their way to investi- gate this branch of mining industry . The first annual report of the present Commissioner of Mines 16 COMMERCIAL INFORMATION . Tobacco Tax in Colombia 16 Gold Mining in British Guiana 16.
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Page 17 - President shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw and uncured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States...
Page 17 - States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the production of such country, for such time as he shall deem just, and in such case and during such suspension duties shall be levied, collected and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the product of or exported from such...
Page 17 - That with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the following articles, and for this purpose, on and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so often as the President shall be satisfied that the Government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw and uncured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of...
Page 23 - claims, which are adjoining each other, and which, in reality, form only one and the same large deposit. This ore belt extends from NNE to SSW, and covers an area of about half a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in width.
Page 17 - ... imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States which, in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hide", into the United States, he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable...
Page 18 - Dutch standard in color, tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above seventyfive degrees, ninety-five one-hundredths of one cent per pound, and for every additional degree shown by the polariscopic test, thirty-five onethousandths of one cent per pound additional...
Page 19 - Molasses testing above fifty-six degrees, four cents per gallon. Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariecopic test.
Page 17 - Canal, now permitted to vessels of all nations, he shall deem to be reciprocally unjust and unreasonable, he shall have the power, and it shall be his duty, to suspend...
Page 18 - Colombia and public notice of that fact given by the President of the United States, and I do hereby proclaim that on and after this...
Page 18 - Dutch standard in color shall be classified by the Dutch standard of color and pay duty as follows, namely: All sugar above number thirteen and not above number sixteen Dutch standard of color, one and three-eighths cents per pound.