The Sierra citizen., 1854-08-19

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tool or. tools be left upon it.
Sd. That five days be allowed to pre-
pare and occupy each claim.
4th. That none but natives and natu-
ralized citizens of the United States shall
be allowed to hold claims.
5th. That the word "native" shall not
include the Indians of this country.
9Th. That companies 'daming the river
shall hold, each individual claim, and
have right to the bed Of the river (below
low water mark) as far as they lay dry.
7th. That claims be in connection with
their dams.
9Th. That all matters of dispute shall be
settled by referees.
9th. That in case of trial for crime of
any kind, there shall be ten present be-
sides the jury and witnesses.
10th. That sea-faring men, in possession
of American protection, shall be allowed
claims.
llth. That whoever shall not be able
to show his papers shall have fair trial.
18th. That this code of laws be in force
from and after the fourth of March.
18th. That the Upper. Yuba District
consists of Goodyear's Bar and all above
Moved that this meeting adjourn to the
first Sunday of next month; =
MAJOR BRIGGS, Prest.
G. H. RUSSELL, Sec'y.
!: +. + 7; ksii7; SSS'''' s'',.,, Committee.
The above isa true copy Of the original" :"
1t would have been we'll for the miners
if lawyers had never come into the mines
but they must live as we'll as those who
dig gold.
Several attempts were made in the
summer of 1850 to annul the laws passed
in the spring, but it could not be effected
it is hard matter to change the first
laws made in any mining district, even if
they are few in number.
l went to see Jack Smith one day
where he was working, below the Blue
Banks; he was panning dirt on a claim
above his own, and swearing away at all
Missourians, Pike county hombres in par
ticular. 1t was a long time before could
find out what was the matter with him.
Well, Jack took up claim above where
he was working, to sell to some greenhorn
who might come that way, and to make it
prospect well put about two ounces in the
hole all ready for the first one who came
along. 1t was not long before prospec-
tor came up, with his pick and pan, look
ing for claim. Jack told him he might
try that, and if he liked it, he was willing
to sell; so he commenced pulling down a
lot of rocks and dirt into the hole where
the gold was, and as he could only raise
the color, Jack had a job heaving and
lifting them out. | think that claim was
the richest about the forks-I have known
Jack to wash out six pounds in one day
with a rocker only-this was after we had
traded it to one another several times for
plug Of tobacco. We had crevicing
claims that we used to work in few
hours during wet weather, and this was
one of them; and if after working some
time without getting much gold, we came
to camp and sold it to him who would give
most tobacco in exchange.
The claim that / worked on opposite
Craycroft's saw-mill was a singular one
| could get heavy gold high up on the
bank amongst loose black dirt, leaves and
sticks. l could not tell how it came
there, but there it was, from two to FIVE dol
lars to the pan, while in the clay you could
not get dollar to the pan. / only found
one place beside this where l could get
gold in the same kind of dirt, and that
was below Bryfogle Flat, Opposite my old
claim) where found it thirty feet above
the river. 1t was not heavy, but in large
thin scales, and one piece that did not
weigh half an ounce measured an inch and
half long; l always thought this kind Of
gold had been washed. l am not one who
thinks gold floats, yet, if this came down
the hill one would naturally suppose that
it would have been deposited in the clay,
and not among leaves and sticks thirty
feet from the river.
You will be thinking by this time / am
getting almost as bad as Jack Smith, who
made the chap down blankets and shin the
tree in quest of gold! l must tell you
about that. Jack was sitting at the foot
of tree one day wondering where he
would pitch in next to make a strike,
when he saw gold hunter coming along.
N ;doo struck him and he resolved IN