The Mining Advance Into The Inland Empire A Comparative Study Of The Beginnings Of The Mining Industry In Idaho And Montana Eastern Washington And Oregon And The Southern Interior Of British Columbia And Of Institutions And Laws Based Upon That Indust

Download or read book The Mining Advance Into the Inland Empire written by William Joseph Trimble and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mining Advance Into the Inland Empire: A Comparative Study of the Beginnings of the Mining Industry in Idaho and Montana, Eastern Washington and Oregon, and the Southern Interior of British Columbia; And of Institutions and Laws Based Upon That Industry For almost a decade after the discovery of gold in California, the precious metal industry in the United States was carried on extensively only within that state. The decade following 1858, however, was characterized by the expansion of the industry on a large scale into many parts of the Rocky Mountain area. In this process of expansion certain movements or fields may be differentiated for convenience of study. One movement took place to the Southwest, another into the Pikes Peak region, a third into Nevada, and a fourth into the far Northwest. The last is plainly differentiated from the other movements either because of location or character of development, while the various districts which it reached were well connected by homo. Geneity of population and relationship of development. It is difficult, however, to find for this movement a name at once sufficiently succinct and comprehensive. It should be made plain at the outset of this study that the term Inland Empire, as applied in the title, is used more as a convenient name for a movement than as a precise geographical designation. The region with which we are concerned includes (in terms of present political boundaries) the southern interior of British Columbia, eastern Oregon and Washington, western Montana, and Idaho. When this region began to attract wide attention about the time of the Civil War in the United States, because of a series of great mining rushes, it was known vaguely in the East as the Northwest, while along the west ern coast it was spoken of frequently as the Northern Interior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.