Excerpt from A Reconnaissance of the Jarbidge, Contact, and Elk Mountain Mining Districts, Elko County, Nevada As the districts had never been surveyed or mapped, control in the Jarbidge district was obtained by measuring with steel tape a base line about three-fourths of a mile in length, on the open ridge west of Deer Creek, about 1} miles northwest of J arbidge. From stations established at the ends of this base a system of triangula tion, indispensable in so rugged a country, was begun and carried on throughout the work concurrently with the contour and other sketching, and tied to Government township and section corner monu ments of the ninth standard parallel, found later in the southern part of the field. 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.