Sentence examples for mining and ranching from inspiring English sources

In its early decades Nevada's economy was dependent on mining and ranching.

Wickenburg began in the 1860's as a mining and ranching town.

"She grew up in Ruby, Ariz., and she came from a mining and ranching family," he said.

Mr. Hansen, 69, chairman of the Resources Committee, made a reputation as an advocate for mining and ranching interests.

With the depression of the mining and ranching industries, the state's population dropped from 62,000 in 1880 to 47,000 in 1890.

Most of the original Mormon settlers left in 1857, and Genoa declined in importance as nearby Carson City became the local centre of government, mining, and ranching.

Named for a nearby saline spring, it began as a stage stop in 1862; after the arrival of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1868, it developed as a coal-mining and ranching centre.

In the latter, the near extinction of elephants, a rinderpest epidemic, and the rising consumption habits of the kings led to a migration of single male contract labourers to work in the mines and ranches and in construction.

Beating Mr. Baucus this time around, Republican strategists conjectured, would just be a matter of recruiting the right candidate to work the mining towns and ranch country.

The government gave allotments of land to various Indian tribes around the turn of the century, but kept control of the property, leasing it out for mining, lumber operations and ranching.

The authors based their findings on sediment records from alpine lakes in Colorado, which show that levels of nutrient and mineral deposition shot up between 1860 and 1990, coinciding with booms in mining, agriculture, ranching, and railroad activity.