Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-14

penditure for capital account has been
81, 079, 32L. Eureka Lake Company has ex-
pended about 81. 900, 0O0; the South Yuba
about $4,000, COO; the Gold Run Company,
S433, 600, exclusive Of interest; and could
mention many more. The Bloomfield and
Milton take out annually from 500, 600 to
$500, 900. l can tell within FIVE or ten per
cent. of the amount of gold that remains in
the channel of ground between the Middle
and South Forks of the Yuba. find that
tie gold in those ancient river channels is
generally about uniform in its Weld. Each
mile is composed of about the same material.
There is very much
MORE GOLD REMAINING
In those channels than has been taken out {;
very much more. Five hundred million of
dollars have been taken out of the California
mines. Certainly very much more than that
is remaining. Very near all the money in
vested in mining property in this State is
California capital. The only foreign capital
and by foreign capital mean capital from
outside the United States-invested in our
mines is in the following grave, mines: b.
nanzs, in Sierra county Blue Tent, in Ne
vada county; Birds Eye Creek, in Nevada
county and the Gold Run mine, limitedy
in Placer county. think there are only
four gravel miaes now worked which are
owned by persons outside of the United
States, or by foreign capitalists. In quartz
mines they have the Sierra Buttes, Plumas,
Eureka, Placerville, and one or two other
small mines. There are q great many hun
dreds of gravel mines in this State. The
people of the following counties depend al
most entirely upon the mining industry !:
Inyo, Mono, Alpine. Mariposa, Tuolumne,
Calaveras, Ell Dorado, Placer, Nevada, Plu-
mas. Sierra, Trinity, Shasta, Del Norte and
Siskiyou. about one-fourth of Butte and one
third of Yuba. There is also
INTENSIVE MINING IN sTANIsLAUs.
have been in nearly all the counties I have
mentioned, and know that in most of them
the population depends entirely upon the
mining industry. The agriculture carried on
in those counties is for the sole purpose of
supplying the mining population. In Inyo
county there is not soul that does not de-
pend on mining for subsistence; and in
Nevada county, which is the largest of the
mining counties, and where there is consider
able agriculture, the same is true Practically
every inhabitant in Nevada county depends
upon mining for his living. The population of
those counties by the last census is 127 1858.
In Russia and in Australia there exists
similar gravel channels to those in California,
In Australia the existence of gravel deposit
is below the surface of the drainage and has
to be drifted. In Russia. which produces
from SIG, 600, 600 to 1927, 000 600 per annum,
nine.tenths of it is taken out by the hydraulic
process. The miners in California have fol-
lowed the came method in measuring water
which prevails in Italy and Spain. That is,
an aperture of certain size and representing
O certain number of square inches, cut in an
upright or vertical plank which forms por-
ton of confined box. The water discharges
under a constant pressure through that aper.
ture, and the amount is estimated by the
number of square inches of the opening.
MINERS INCH
Is equal to the flow of 2, 260.S cubic feet in
twenty.four hours. Here witness described
the difference between the top and bottom
gravel in the Indiana Hill mine Pipe.clay
is not generally found in bottom gravel, but
immense deposits of it in the upper gravel. 1
do not think that the heavy material of the
Gold Run mine will be washed far down the
North Fork, but will find permanent lodg-
ment in that stream. There is evidence of
that from the fact of the large deposits now
in the North Fork a short distance below
Canyon creek. The dump of the Polar Bear
mine, which is on the same channel, and
only FIVE miles distant from the Gold
Run, has filed the Bear river
to 8 depth of leo feet, and
apparently has permanent Judgment in that
stream. 1t has formed kind Cf riprsp dam,
has stood the foods of several winters, and
seems to be permanent. Here witness de-
scribed the character of the sand and debris
deposits in different portions of the North
Fork that he had visited.1 I think the
estimate CT the filing in the North Fork as
made by Mr.. Uren is correct. He made that
examination at my request. There remains
in the gravel of the Gold Run mine at least
Sc 500, COO estimate that there remain
22,000.00 cubic yards yet to be worked in
that mine.
At this point the Court adjourned to $50
this morning