Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-19
NATURAL WASH

John B. Hobson resumed the stand and testified
in answer to questions by Mr.. Hart as follows: In
irrigating land take the water from the Bear
river ditch. That ditch continues to Auburn and
its water is distributed for purposes of irrigation
and mining At present most Of it goes for irriga-
ton. During the mining season most Ct it is used
for mining. During high water the river runs very
swiftly. | never examined into the velocity with
which the water moved During freshet large
amount of material might he carried in suspension
think my suce is swifter than the river. merely
guess at that. / know it has more grade than the
river between Rice's bridge and Warmers bridge
The grade of my sluices is inch to the foot or
$50 inches to the mile. The grade OF the river
from Rces bridge to Csnyon Creek, by the barom-
eter, is 1926 feet-a distance of about eight miles,
The grade OF our sluice is 440 feet to the mile. |
think that the river swifer in sluice than
in the river, as the grade is greater have no d.
rect interest in this case; not an owner
in the Gold Hill ridge am not an owner in the
Excelsior mine, and never have been. Have been
down Indian Canyon as far Stemple's tunnel
Never was at the mouth Of the canyon. There is a
sluice in the canyon. The sluice is about two miles
and half from the suspension bridge. The canyon
is very much filed with taiEngs. Do not know any
thing about the canyon below Stemple's tunnel
Redirectexaminaiion- have not the books of
the old independence Hill or und showing the
amount OF gold taken out. Ny estimate of that
time was taken from what the former owner told
claim / know that there have been heavy railroad
excavations and filings on the ridge between the
Bear river and the North Fork. The greater por-
ton OF the land in the Sacramento Valley contains
sand. There is great deal OF land about Lincoln
that is gravey. Decomposed vegetable matter
alone does not make a good productive soil. The
principal workings at Dutch Flat have been in top
gravel and not to the bed rock. The principal work
ings at Gold Run have also been in top gravel.
Adobe land would be improved by mixing soil in it.
There is adobe soil with sand in it ranch have
in the foot hills. The sand lehtens the adobe. The
mixture would not make anything like that blue
cement.
II L. Moves, recalled, stated that he made mis-
take in his testimony in regard to the powders in
the Gold Run mine. When he said that there
fifty per cent OF large powders in the upper stratum
of the Gold Run mine, he mistaken in the
question asked. He understood the question to be
in regard to the second bench Of the Excelsior in
stead of the upper bench The material in the up
per bench is very small, and there only a very
few powders as large as mans head in the upper
stratum.
Albert Haen, sworn for the defendant and exam
med by Mr. Catlin. testified: Live at Folsom Am
Superintendent OF the Natoma Ditch. Have been
for FIVE years at work the ditch and for two years
Superintendent That ditch takes its water from
the South Fork OF the American river two miles
from above Salmon Falls The length of the main
canal is fourteen and half miles. The ditch in 1880
carried l,l00 Natoma inehts. 1t now carries fifty
per cent more The measurement is through
four-inch aperture under six-inch pressure The
water Oh JnaI Ollcn IS uSeu lor mining and Irf1gatng
In the summer it is used more for irrigating
than mining. In the winter none Is used for irri.
eating. The first water for mining is taken out for
the Red Banks-about forty inches The area of
surface mined of at Mcdowell Hill is about twenty
ye or thirty acres, averaging about five feet. 1t
was mostly AIRED soil and gravel That material was
washed directly into the South Fork of the Ameri-
csn river The next mining below is on Red Banks.
We supply no water at the Mcdowell Hill. The
past mining at Red Banks is very deep. 1 should
judge eighty ninety acres, varying from five feet
to fifty feet. The material worked through
sluices in open cuts into the river. There has been
very little drift mining going on there in the past
five years They used to use from $50 to 250 inches
and now only use forty inches Witness was shown
q map, and pointed out Mcdowell Hill and Red
Blnks.l at Mcdowell Hill the elevation of the
canal is about 100 feet above the river. At Red
Banks it is about the The first branch of the
ditch goes to Mormon Island and then to the State
Prison. It carries 100 inches. The next branch
goes to Folsom. 1t carried $50 inches until mouth
ago, when enlarged it 500 inches, as to suppya
new mining claim that ap ned there. The
Lawson mine thsre has been mining five years that
know Of. The town Of Folsom is on high ground