Excerpt from Mining, Mineral and Geological Law Although necessarily less elaborate in treatment than the two-volume treatises on mining law already mentioned, I venture to hope that the present work may be of some assistance to the members of the legal profession over and above so much of the above mentioned features as may be used by them. It is the only treatise written from the double standpoint of science and law. Barringer and Adams's book, now out of print, contains a chapter or two on geology, but this is very elementary and does not treat ore deposits, the part of the science of most interest to the mining lawyer. The scientific and legal portions were evidently each written by one of the joint authors, and neither has any perceptible influence on the other. Snyder states in his preface that as originally prepared his work contained a geological preface, but this was not published. 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.