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Identifier: californiacultur02sanf (find matches)
Title: The California culturist
Year: 1858 (1850s)
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Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: San Francisco : Towne & Bacon
Contributing Library: California State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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said declaration. Hence, a series of conflicting titles to hundreds ofthousands of acres of the best lands in the State, some idea of which may be gainedfrom the following statement of the amount of land belonging to the different Mis-sions : San Diego, three leagues; San Luis Rey, thirty-eight leagues ; San Gabriel,three and a half leagues; San Fernando, fourteen leagues; San Buenaventura,twelve leagues; Santa Barbara, three leagues ; Santa Agnes, two leagues ; Puris-sima, three leagues ; San Miguel, twelve leagues ; Soledad, two leagues ; San Jose,seven leagues; Dolores, three leagues ; San Rafael, eleven leagues ; making anaggregate of more than half a million acres, besides small amounts connected witheight other Missions. It is the judgment of many well-informed and able jurists, that these will all berejected. If this should be so, these lands must, sooner or later, become the homesof thousands of happy families, adding vastly to the real wealth and desirableness ofonr country.
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W. C.BUTLER.ENC. S.F. THE PERCUSSION QUARTZ MILL. 35 THE PERCUSSION QUARTZ MILL. THIS mill is believed to be the simplest, most compact, and cheapest mode bywhich steam can be applied to crushing quartz, as the power is made to actdirectly on the quartz without the complicated and expensive machinery in commonuse. It consists of a battery, of the ordinary form but made of iron, with screenson three sides; the battery has a cast iron cover on which four columns stand, andon them is bolted two cylinders, cast together, four and one-half inches long by thir-teen inches stroke ; the piston rods pass through the bottoms of the cylinders into thestamps inside the battery. At the top of the cylinders there is a steam chest inwhich the side valve, valve lever and valve pistons work; the latter extending throughstuffing boxes into the cylinders. The steam passages are cast so that steam isadmitted to the top of one cylinder and bottom of the other at the same time. Whenthe steam is let into th

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