 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1851 - 614 sider
...averaged from one-half to three-fourths of an inch in thickness, and was equal in all respects to our finest specimens for table use. Assuming these data,...in a deliquescent state, amounted to over four and a-half millions of cubic yards, or about one hundred millions of bushels. At two o'clock in the afternoon... | |
 | HOWARD STANSBURY - 1852 - 600 sider
...averaged from one-half to three-fourths of an inch in thickness, and was equal in all respects to our finest specimens for table use. Assuming these data,...in a deliquescent state, amounted to over four and a-half millions of cubic yards, or about one hundred millions of bushels. At two o'clock in the afternoon... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 800 sider
...threefourths of an inch in thickness, and is in every respect equal to our finest specimens for table use. The quantity that here lay upon the ground in one body, exclusive of that in a deliquescent state, must have amounted to over 4,500,000 of cubic yards, or about 100,000,000 of bushels.' The water of... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers, Howard Stansbury - 1853 - 622 sider
...averaged from one-half to three-fourths of an inch in thickness, and was equal in all respects to our finest specimens for table use. Assuming these data,...cubic yards, or about one hundred millions of bushels. At two o'clock in the afternoon we reached the western edge of the plain, when to our infinite joy... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1872 - 526 sider
...in all respects to our tiuest specimens for tablo use. Assuming these data, the quantity that htre lay upon the ground in one body, exclusive of that...localities, so that we may infer that in all probability, .'it no very distant period in the past the salt lake extended either connectedly, or in isolated portions,... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1872 - 524 sider
...in all respects to our finest specimens for table use. Assuming these data, the quantity that hero lay upon the ground in one body, exclusive of that...bushels. Areas of greater or less extent, covered witU this saline incrustation, occur in numerous localities, so that we may infer that in all probability,... | |
 | Henry T. Williams - 1877 - 300 sider
...one-half to three-quarters of an inch in thickness, and was equal in all repects to our finest specimen for table use. Assuming these data, the quantity that...lay upon the ground in one body, exclusive of that already dissolved, — amounted to over 4,500,000 cubic yards, or about 100,000,000 bushels." And even... | |
 | Frederick E. Shearer - 1879 - 386 sider
...one-half to three-quarters of an inch iu thickness, and was equal in all respects to our riiiest specimen for table use. Assuming these data, the quantity that...lay upon the ground in one body, exclusive of that already dissolved, — amounted to over 4,500,000 cubic yards, or about 100,000,000 bushels," And even... | |
 | Gregory C. Lines - 1979 - 124 sider
...averaged from one-half to three-fourths of an inch in thickness, and was equal in all respects to our finest specimens for table use. Assuming these data,...in a deliquescent state, amounted to over four and a-half millions of cubic yards, or about one hundred millions of bushels. Stansbury and his men camped... | |
 | 1978 - 484 sider
...averaged from one-half to three-fourths of an inch in thickness, and was equal in all respects to our finest specimens for table use. Assuming these data,...in a deliquescent state, amounted to over four and a-half millions of cubic yards, or about one hundred millions of bushels. Stansbury and his men camped... | |
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... extent must have been very much greater. The salt, which was very pure and white, averaged from one-half to three-fourths of an inch in thickness, and was equal in all respects to our finest specimens for table use. Assuming these data, the quantity... 