Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-22
The DEBRIS COMMITTEE.
Conclusion of Their Work at
Marysyille.
[By telegraph from the REcoRD-UsIoN's Special
Reporterl

MARYsv1LLE, October 21st.-The commit
tee investigating the subject of debris have
concluded their labors here, and leave for
SmartsviIle this Afternoon. The following
industrial establishments in this city were
visited and these facts given to the commit
tee concerning them
The Empire Foundry engages specially in
the manufacture of the Little Giant, used in
hydraulic mining. r. Haskins, of the es-
tablishment, is patentee, and this firm are
sole manufacturers of this appliance, and
ship it to many parts of the world. 1t was
first patented IN 1864.
Marysyille Foundry. owned by Booth &
Co, principally engaged in manufacturing
mining machinery, ia which nearly all iron
used is from Clipper Gap mines. From 80
to 40 men are employed, and about S10O, 600
in value of goods are turned out each year.
The Marysvills Wooden Mills contain
Ewenty-three looms and six spinDiog ma
chimes. having two hundred spindles each, and
Eve sets of cards. Eighty-fye persons sre
employed, and the expenses are about 500
verted into blankets aud fabrics daily, and
goods to the value of about $3.50, 600 are pro-
duced yearly. fhe sum of $4,000 has been
expended this season in building an additional
story 10 the works and in the purchase of
new machinery.
The Buckeye Mills Company use from 500
to 900 sacks Of wheat daily, averaging 125
pounds per sack, making about 400 barrels of
-four, aad for which, at present price, 81. 500
is paid. In addition to this, about twenty
tons Of barley is ground per day. The COM
pany ship, in addition TO home trade, TO
China and Europe. A single shipment was
recently made to Europe of 10000 barrels.
The committee has received the following
information in relation TO the condition OF
Levee District No. 5 in Suffer county, lying
along the north side of the Feather river,
from q point short distance above Nicolaus
to the Sacramento river, and as far north as
the noted Parks dam, some five miles be-
low the town of Colusa. A small strip ex-
tending along portion of the Sacramento is
not included in this district: There has been
expended upon the levees OF this district, for
which bonds were issued, $3.50, 600, besides
several hundred thousand dollars for which
bonds were not issued The entire district,
and all levee work within it. have been abau-
dened, and the portion of the district along
the Feather river is heavily and irredeemably
covered with debris.
Superintendent Charles Waldeyer, Of the
Cherokee mine, on Dry creek, Butte county.
appeared before the committee and stated
that the company has canal about thirty
five miles in length, formed by entertainments
thrown up from 400 to 600 feet apart and six
feet high, along an adobe plain, having fall
of about three and half feet to the mile.
The company uses about 5000 inches of wa
. =,
washes down from 600 TO 1900 cubic yards
of earth per day. He claimed that the slick
ems from the mines was a benefit to the
adobe lands when it had flowed over them.
John Macbeth, Superintendent of the com.
pany's canal, stated that the farmers in that
section procured this diversion of water from
the canal upon their lands for the purpose of
fertilizing and improving them. He also gave
a statement as to the crops which have been
successfully raised upon deposits three feet
deep from this mine.
The Superintendent, ia answer to ques-
tious by the committee, admitted that the
deposit, when net mixed with earth, was
whitish, like usual sliekens, and cracks
open when dried, but claimed that when
once broken up it became fertile soil, and re-
manned so thereafter.
While visiting about the vicinity Of this
city the committee observed that the City
and Catholic Cemeteries are outside of the
city line, where they were covered by the
food last winter about three feet in depth,
and, it was remarked, will no doubt soon be
covered with debris, and perhaps as deep as
those on the Bear river heretofore re-
ferred to.
The debris question is evidently i'm
pressing itself closely upon the minds
of the investigating committee. The
Chairman states that last night he had
slickens in his dreams. He, with the
utmost supposed reality, saw man about to
take a swim in the rich yellow compound
flowing in the Yuba river, and as he was
thinking of the undesirable thickness or
body there was to the bath, the would-be
swimmer made an effort to dive, but having
forced his head in failed to get any further,
and was stuck fast in the slickens. In his
uncomfortable sympathy for the victim the
committeeman braveIy risked, as he thought,
his own life to rescue him, and after pro-
longed and fruitless effort awoke in a violent
state of Precipitation, but greatly relieved in
mind at the fortunate denouement.
SECOND DIsPATcHl
In The Heart of the Hydraulic Mining
Region.
SMARTsyILLE (Yuba county,, October 21st.
The committee Of the San Francisco Board
of Trade arrived at this place from Marys-
vile tonight. They are accompanied by
representatives of the press and of the mining
interest. A few of those having been with
them from the first still accompany them.
Having just reached the heart of the
hydraulic mining region of Yuba county, in
vestigation will begin tomorrow. Your re-
porter viii be able to forward an account OF
edition tomorrow morning. The members
of the committee manifest commemorate en-
ergy, aud do not appear to be at all wearied
with their labors and travels so far. The
people of Smartsville gave the committee as
cordial greeting as they have received any
where It is evident that the miners feel as
confident of their side of the case as the
farmers, and will make the best showing
from their standpoint possible. The party
viii no doubt return by way of Colfax about
Tuesday or Wednesday of next week.
THIRD DIsPATcH.l
SMARTsvILLE, October 21st.-R. G. Sheath
Joined the committee this morning, when,
accompanied by large number of citizens
and representatives of the mines, they left
Marysville at s o'clock, passing up the north
side of the Yuba river, viewing the leyees
and damaged lands.
DAM on FIRE.
AT the north end of the celebrated brush
dam the party, which numbered forty per-
sons, halted, and drove out along the dam
about one mile over the deposit of slickens.
Some person, who must have done it through
pure cussedness, had set fire to the north end
of the brush dam, and it being famed by
utrono north wind had already burned thnf1t