The weekly Placer herald., 1853-06-18
Miners Meeting.

districts of Auburn and Spanish + at,
held in the town Of Auburn; on the 18th
inst, for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration the pending difficulty existing
between the bear River Il Auburn Wa
ter T. Mining Company and Messrs. Pat
terson & Lenard III reference to the hit
of the former Company to the use Of Au-
burn rayiLe for conducting ALL the water
introduced by them and carried out again
through ditch constructed and leading
to Sc ret Diggings
On motion; he meeting was organised
by the e ertinn of Mr.. d. Coulter as
g hal, man and MIR. J. 6. Praigg as Sec
retary. object of the meeting hav-
ing been stated Ivy the chairman, on mo
sion committee Of Ave were appointed
consisting of the fo low ing named gentle
mcn: Messrs. Jacob Rich, Samuel Wei
don, II. }. Cranpton, Jas w. Rayburn
and }. N. L. HARVARD, for the purpose of
ascertaIning the amount or quantity of
water naturally or now running IN Au-
burn, Spanish Flat and Cayota ravines
located above Bear River dam on Auburn
royln-; and reper. the same TO tits meet
ing on tomorrow.
On motion II was reSo we'd that " net,
this meeting adjourns It adjouns to meet
on Tomorrow at halt pust O'Clock, P. vi
On motion II was reso we'd that the com
nittcr appointed to ascertain the ampuut
OF natuial water now ia Auburn ravine,
meet on to morrow evening at & O'ctuck ,
at the dan, Of the Bear Kiyer & Auburn
Water * Mining Company where the,
ditch takes out leading to New aStle,
and there determine the amount or guam
thy OF water Naturally belonging 10 -nid
Auburn rayine, aud report the satne to
the adj ,urne1 meeting.
ADJOURNED MEETING.
Pursuant To adjournmeut the meeting
convened - Mr.. Coulter in the Chair.
The committee previous appointed
having pei formed their duty it. chalinai,
pre- ented their report W hich read as fol-
lows: ..
The committee appointed at = meeting
Df the miners OF Spanish Flat, Rich ra-
| vine, etc., to inquire into The amount of
natnrai water runs.ing down the Auburn
ravine, proceeHed to inake All czai.iinu-
ti"n of the same this day; and beg to re-
port AS follows:
That the said committee think on a
careful inspection of the natural water
running down the Auburn raviuc at the
present time, ON very lihera: calculation,
docs not exceed fifteen inches. That they
Iconsider, thnt amount sh0u d be cartuiled
8 inches every succeeding week until the
] II OF July, and from which time, up 10
the lst OF August, 8 inches should be al
bowed, and from that time we heliese
there would moi he sufficient natural wa
ter for amy praclica purpose.
! he committee beg further TO state that,
the miners working on the spot expressed
their opinions against the proceedings
n,i"ptrd by Mir. Patterson, ami that the
estimate nuw submitted hy the coltnllIIee
!s fair, just, and liberal.
JNo. LEGH. HARNETT,
SAMUEL NJ. MELToH,
H. j. ChUMpToR,
JAMES w. kEyDugN,
JACOB Rtcn.
On motion the report was received and
unanimously y adopted.
Resolved tn every practical miner IA
we ~ any other citizen of whatever oc-
cupation, located within tie above dis
tricts, are intimately conn, cted with Bear
River g. Auburn Water H. Mining Co.,
To see that their just and equal rights are
all egal and honorab e means in our pow
or to protect said company in the main
tai,lance of their just and lawful rights
Resolved, That the Bear River y, Au-
burn Water s. Mining ompany hisclains
all right to interfere with the natural wa
ter running in ravires, and that in running
their water through the charnel of "a ra-
vine TO he taken on, at point he ow,
they do not IN crossing said water COURSES
intend to cut off any natural water thai
may be found running in said ravine>,
thereby depriving the miners of its Use
below; but on the contrary do and have
been contributing an additional supp y of
water e. all such ravincS consequent upon
the seepage natural from Bear River wa
ter Icing in the channel above.
Resolved, That the Secretary be re-
q,,csted to prepare the proceedings OF this
meeting for publication in the PAGER
Herald,
| On motion the meeting adjourned.
| -. CUTTER, Chairman
j. e. PRAIGG, Src'y.
June 18th, 1858,
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