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

The lawson mine is about OC0feet above the bridge
II is in the town, and occupies about four blocks
The average depth of the material that is washed in
that claim is about AZ feet. Lawson uses water
from his own reservoir. We sell HIM thirty inches
and he stores it in his reservoir and when he works
he $50 inches The mine is SOC feet higher than
the rlyer. The taiiings deposited in rivers in the
summer are ali washed out in the winter time. This
mine is about half way between the DEVILS Elbow
and the bridge. When the iailings go out in the
winter guess it goes to Sacramento. mall coSbles
and finer material come down into the river. The
large cobbles are taken out in the claim. In all
the gravel beds around Folsom there is some quartz
gravel. The new claim spoke Of is Williams claim,
in block IL, of the town of Folsom. The depth from
the surface to the bedrock IS thirty-one feet, and
from there To the river is sew. MY feet He
quires $50 inches OF water there, and has been
using that amount when he washes He
averages five days in the week washIug-mostly six
days. | have noticed the Texas Hill diggings.
There is OF about LIS washed of there.
1t is covered with cobblestones Those washings
were from depth of to Is feet. The open cuts
are visible to any one passing there. On the oppo,
site side Of the river are very STEP high bluffs can
not say how high. The average of the washings at
the Texas Hill diggings would be or 10 feet deep
There has been mining carried on there during the
past five years-two claims running, using 100
inches. They are drift mines. They use about 100
inches whenever they have pile of dirt drifted
out to wash. There has been a little mining this
| summer near Wards rayine There two tunnels
under the railroad at Rigney's claim, between Fol-
som and Alder creek. He discharges his material
through both tunnels into the American river. The
extent OF ground worked in these claims is ten
twelve He lbs inches of water two days
and half in the week. At Pennsylvania Flat there
has been about thirty acres washed to the
depth of IA feet on average. Tait's Flat has
been mined of about sixty acres to average depth
of 16 feet. Their tail ng5 went directly into the
| American river There has been some mining at
Tait's and Pennsylvania Fiat since | have been
there. When they have been running they used
| 200 inches of water. AT present there China
men rocking in the old claims At Willow Springs
Hill the washings very deep-from 80 to so feet
The tailings go into the Willow creek They mostly
stay in the claim. The muddy water goes through
the. creek to the river. The floods wash the creek
out to the American river to considerable extent.
| The flood will t Ike the tailiDgs and deposit them
further down the creek. Alder creek from Prairie
City to the mouth is great deal larger than Willow
creek, and the mining there has been much more
extensive. The floods take great deal OF the tail
ngs out of Alder creek Then others come in their
place. AS soon the violence of the flood ceases
the bed fills in again with other tailings. More or
less of the tailings go into the American river The
banks OF Alder creek are mostly bluffs. know Of
some OF the old reservoirs in that vicin-
| ity. We made one dry and cut the
| bank down last year. That eighteen
| acres We are blowing it now for vineyard. The
| soil is deposit made with second water that has
been used for mining That detost on the bank at
the end of the reservoir is five feet Deep 1t is 500
feet long; begins at nothing and runs up to five
feet The deposit is very fine. have slickens
at Alder creek 1t is not that character of deposit
1t is good SOIL 1t is good sediment 1t is the best
qualities of the soil that is retained there We call
it sediment. 1t is clay and sand. At Wards rayine
there used to be reservoir. The bank of the re-
servoir is still there That filed with sediment
and is cultivated AS grass feld-common grass.
When first here there about 40 acres
south of our plum orchard that very wet and
ha s in it. We turned in sediment and tailings
m the nj ne and left it for one year, and then
planted an orchard on it. The bank in the mine was
good deal like Chris. Lswsons only that the soil
was deeper. The orchard did not do very well, de-
cause it is too low there. Apricots and peaches
were planted on it, They suffer great deal by the
frost, because it was low and there was no draft.
The trees that lived do fine. The plum trees all do
first class, but the peach and apricot trees cannot
and the frost. The trees grow thrifty and would
do well except for the FROST
Cross. examined (by Mr.. Hart)-The most of the
mining at Lawson'5 claim was done before came
there, five years ago. do not know how long they
have been mining there. Most of the mining at
Red Banks was done before went there. The same
at McDowelPs Hill and all the rest of the claims i
have mentioned. The creeks clean out largely each
winter. The water passing Folsom contains con
siderable sand. l do not know that there is sedI-
ment in the river. Do not think an orch'rd would
grow in the sand deposited along the river. 1t is
sediment that we deposit in reservoirs where
plant orchards. noticed the washing out of VIII
low creek, particularly in the past two years, be-
cause it changes its course, and two years ago
carried off about ten twenty acres of our land
there.
Court adjourned until Monday at $50 An.