Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-13


The Indiana Hill claim was the only one they
were operating. S. Y. Halsey is the owner
of the Excelsior mine. We employ from
| fifteen to thirty-fve men in the working of
the Indiana Hill mine. The Excelsior employ
about ten men. When the Indiana Hill
mine is exhausted we intend to extend the
main tunnel to the North Star ground, and
open up there in the channel. From year to
year this tunnel will be extended until
the entire channel is exhausted. We cannot
work with any advantage more than
Mr.. Gruusky was there making his investiga-
| tion. know the amount of water used in
washing out the material measured and esti-
mated by him. The actual amount by
| measurement was /, 124, 900 inches. We use
from 800 to ], eco inches of water, owing to the
quality of the material to be washed. The
average head would be about l, $50 inches for
an average season of five months. FL. L. Noyce
Was Superintendent of the Excelsior mine
last season. Most of their bank was blue
gravel. We can wash 800 feet of the channel
a year, and it will take
THIRTY-FIvE YEARS TO WORK IT OUT,
Ind very little if any Of that material will
be washed down the river distance of five
miles. l know the material is very heavy
and hard to move. It is mostly rock, and
would not wash very easily. When we don't
have large quantity of water, Canyon creek
is filed up from the river to the mouth Of the
dump. Canyon creek has a grade of about
1000 feet in three quarters of mile. During
the last six years the Gold Run Company has
taken out S406 694, $261, ,152 OF which came
from the Indiana Hill mine. This company
has paid for all its property S50S. 5S5. The
profit of this company for the last eleven
years has been 1928, 5S5. The beds OF the
fumes are made smooth, with small inter.
stices containing quicksilver to catch the gold.
Cross-examination (by Mr.. Hsr.)-The de.
PENDANTS declared dividend of S34, 600 about
five years ago. There are $3.50 shares in the
corporation. During the last five years there
has been one assessment of three or four
dollars. Oae hundred and eighty Thousand
dollars has been collected in assessments dur
ing the last eleven years. / own 1856 shares
of the stock of the corporation. This COR
poration is free of indebtedness. Hydraulic
mining had commenced prior to my going
there in December, 1860 1 am somew nat
acquainted with the mines in the neighbor-
hood of
DUTCH FLAT.
Prior to 1860 l visited some Of the mines Oh
the Middle and South Forks. Have been
to Iowa HUI at times since 1860 During the
last year the most extensive hydraulic mines
WST6 NOTktu 1OWh bQtnh tudC Tile
mines on the Iowa Hill wash more material
than those worked at Gold Run. l know but
little about neighboring mines. done know
the comparative sizes of the pits of different
claims 1 have passed the pits Of the Iowa
Hill mines two or three times, but never
noticed particularly the extent Of the work
ings. When l speak of cemented rock I
mean this hard gravel which extends
from the bedrock to hight of 60
or 20 feet. Here witness was shown
Robinson sample No. 2, and said that
came from a depth of about rs feet
from the surface. Robinson, No. 5, is what
material like sample No. 2 is found except on
the eastern rim. There is no material like
Robinson, No. 2, to be found in the banks of
the mine within 160 feet of the bedrock.
Witness was shown the sample of water taken
from the mine by Mr. Allardt, and asked if
that was a sample of the water from the de-
fendant's mine. He said
THAT 1T WAS NOT
He said that was sediment from surface soil,
and they had not, except short time last
spring, washed any surface at all. The water
at the dump of our mine has blush color,
and not muddy. Have seen times when o
person could drink the water at the dump
without injury. Our washings are sand,
Rravei ana rock. 4hsre Is no req sol.
in the pit worked at present. On the
our mine is colored by washing the
gravel. Gravel is rock and sand. We
seldom see clay in gravel. We drill the
large rocks and blast them with explo-
sives. The rock is very hard. / don't
think those rocks grind up any in passing
through the tunnel. There is no gold in the
rocks which we blast. We have to send these
rocks through the tunnel, that being the only
way to get rid of them. don't know the
grade Of the North Fork at the point where
Canyon creek empties into it. A year ago
last winter we used at lines thirty. Ave men.
Last June we were washing on the east rim
and working twenty-five men. They were
scattered around the mine In different parts.
We have averaged in and about the claim
from twenty to twenty FIVE men.
Afternoon Session.
MIR. Gould resumed TO Mr.. Hart)-The
top of the pit of the Indiana Hill mine is
blue gravel. There are moro powders than
gravel in the upper portion of the mine.
Here witness produced specimens from the
Indiana Hill mine. One specimen consisted
OF large mass of cemented gravel, contain
irg cobble and small gravel firmly cemented
together; and two boxes containing material
from other portions of the mine. They were
marked Gould No. l, No and No. The
lower sixty or seventy feet of the Indiana
Hill mine contains the most gold. l estimate
that the whole of our workings is from rs to
so per cent rock. [ judge this from observ-
ing its washing, We have several undereur-
rents near the mouth of the tunnel.
only estiu ae the duty Of water from
knowing the amount washed by a certain
number Of iaches. The duty of water on the
surface is four or five times that on the lower
gravel deposits of this mine. The excavations
measured by Mr.. Grunsky were also meas
ured by Mr.. Uren, and he makes it 4 300.
expert, but DO know the amount of water
we have used and the sizs of the pits exca-
waited. We had got through washing and
were cleaning up when the action in this suit
was commenced. do not remember of max
ing any report to Engineer Hall as to the
amount of water used on our mines. The
character of the material in the channel yet
unworked, in my opinion, is the same as that
found in the Indiana Hill mine. The Gold
Run Ditch and Mining Company sold
the Excelsior Company the water used
ten or twelve times during the season. l
know that on the 18th of June, 1881, they
were not using l, 100 inches of water, from
the fact that their pipes would not carry nor
their giants discharge that much water.
mean by top washings, the red soil and sur
face that was mined prior TO the purchase of
the ground by the Gold Run Company. I
am no minarologis-, and do not consider N.Y.
self an expert in that direction. Between
1870 and 1875 our company extended The
YUBA DITCH
And made the canal improvements. During
that time they were washing in several differ
ent places. One mine dumped into Square
canyon. In 1874, during the winter, one run
about month on Indiana Hill. In 1875 we
were washing in the Gold Run claim. The
washing that winter was blue and red gravel.
The giants used in 1872 and 1873 had an inlet
of about nine inches. I never estimated the
number of cubic yards mined in 1872 and
1878. The width of the strata like sample
No. is about ten feet. This is not the hard
est sample that l could find, but represents
what | consider fair sample. We have ex-
ploded blasts of two kegs Of powder at time
in the hardest portion of the banks.
Ksdirect-examination Ito Mr. Bayne)-Ths
Gold Run Ditch and Mining Company sold
Mr.. HaIsey all the water used on the Excel
sior mine except twenty-five or thirty inches.
No such An amount of water as testified by
Hr. Allardt Il, LOG 6inches) could have possibly
been used in the Excelsior mine. The fume
that conducted that water
WOULD Rim OVER