Year-book for 1906-1917/1918, Issue 14University of Illinois., 1909 |
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20 feet aluminum tablet stamped bench marks boiler border of quadrangle carbon carboniferous cent Champaign Chicago clay coal dust coöperation corner between sections corner of crossroads corner of section corner secs corner sections Duquoin east and west east corner explosions feet east feet north feet south feet southeast feet west fence corner fire damp foraminifera front of station fuel GEOGRAPHIC POSITIONS glauconite Illinois Central Railroad Illinois coal iron post stamped Kaskaskia river Longitude Magnetic declination mile north mile south miles east miles west mineral north and south north of fence northeast Peoria POSITIONS ALONG HIGHWAYS post stamped Prim QUADRANGLE quarter corner road crossing road east road north road south road west samples schoolhouse seam shale side of road silica southwest corner square miles tensile strength tests THENCE top of rail topographic Trav U. S. Geological Survey West Frankfort west of fence Williamson county
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Page 291 - ... of business; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind; These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits.
Page 375 - ... discussion of the topographic, geologic and economic conditions controlling the supply of water for municipal and industrial purposes, with map and numerous well records and analyses.
Page 291 - Ask a follower of Bacon what the new philosophy, as it was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready; , "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain; it has extinguished diseases; it has increased the fertility of the soil; it has given new securities to the mariner; it has furnished new arms to the warrior; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it...
Page 45 - Manning, topographer, for publication on the scale of 1 :62,500, with a contour interval of 20 feet. The Dunlap sheet, in Stark, Marshall, Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties, was mapped by Mr.
Page 378 - SLIPS. [Mount each slip upon a separate card, placing the subject at the top of the second slip. The name of the series should not be repeated on the series card, but the additional numbers should be added, as received, to the first entry.] Bain, H[arry] Foster, 1872.
Page 84 - Counties. — The elevations in the following list are based upon an aluminum tablet in the west side of Bradley Polytechnic Institute building, Peoria, Illnois, stamped "607 Peoria," the elevation of which is determined to be 607.749 feet above mean sea level.
Page 27 - The said commissioners are hereby authorized to arrange with the director or the representative of the United States Geological Survey in regard to cooperation between the...
Page 375 - Including a folded colored geological map of the State on the scale of 12 miles to the inch, with descriptive text of 32 pages.
Page 152 - Railroad to Oblong triangulation station, thence westerly along railroad to Willow Hill, thence southerly along railroad and highways on west edge of quadrangle to Claremont triangulation station: GEOGRAPHIC POSITIONS ALONG HIGHWAYS NEAR SOUTH BORDER OF QUADRANGLE. Stations. Latitude. Longitude.
Page 291 - ... it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven to earth; it has lighted up the night with the...