Word: regions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Last year's party consisted of fourteen men who, during the first three weeks of their work, made a geological survey of an area of nearly 200 square miles. During that time they were organized as a Government party doing actual geological work in an unsurveyed region. After visiting a number of the important mines and milling plants in the district, the party, with a light equipment, went with a pack train through the mountains. Detailed work, followed by the trip through the mountains, made it possible for the men to not only become familiar with a large number...
...solution of the eternal problem of the choice of a vocation might be found for more men if the possibilities of South America were given more consideration. Argentine exports more corn than any other country and South America is the leading cattle raising region of the world. This vast agricultural territory is dependent mainly on foreign trade for its manufactures; and now that the war has interfered with Europe's monopoly of this market, an opportunity, much talked of but little appreciated, has been given to Americans to secure a foothold...
...Hunting Trip from Yellowhead Pass to Peace River, British Columbia," by S. Prescott Fay '07, given under the auspices of the Natural History Society in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Fay has spent three summers camping in this region, and has secured very remarkable photographs in addition to valuable scientific data. This country is full of game and the party of four were able to live very comfortably for three months on what they shot. The particular object of last summer's expedition was to study the mountain sheep which...
...Geological Conference. "The Origin of Nephelite Syenites," by Mr. W. G. Foye; "Nova Scotia as a Summer School Region," by Professor G. H. Barton. Director of the Teachers' School of Science, in Mineralogical Lecture Room, University Museum...
...Geological Conference. "The Origin of Nephelite Syenites," by Mr. W. G. Foye; "Nova Scotia as a Summer' School Region," by Professor G. H. Barton, Director of the Teachers' School of Science, in Mineralogical Lecture Room, University Museum...