Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-17

tule water runs into Cache slough, but it has
to be very high to reach to Maine Prairie.
All that don't go into the river goes out
through Cache slough, which, if all others
were closed, would be the only outlet from
the tule basin. The land in the basin will
average 10 feet below the levee tops. Cache
creek empties into the tule basin north and
west of Sacramento, and - The Court
here checked Mr.. Cadwalader, and held that
one counsel must alone examine each witness
that is, the one beginning with witness
must finish with him.
RRCRoss.ExAMINATIoN.
No. chickens soil is not like adobe sell, and
its only difference is not in color for the black
soil has the elements of growth in it the
slickens has not. The adobe has soil in it
made from vegetable decay the other has
not. I have not anslyzed either. After a
seed has got start adobe will nourish it if
it dries and bakes, however, it won't let the
plant come out of the soil but keep it in
good condition and it is the best soil we have.
Slickens has more of mineral quality it has
not in it decayed vegetation l don't know
that it has mineral substances in it from an
alysis, but I do know there are alkalies in it.
I know one will produce, and the other don't
That is an agricultural answer. The two
don't look alike not even excepting as to diff
ference as to color. Slickens will color or
paint your hand if you rub it on as dry as you
please, but adobe won't do that. Slickens
will grow willows; it won't grow what we
usually SOW on land. I don't know that it
will grow anything of that order. Sediment
I know will produce. Slickers is a light
yellow, or drab, in color. There is
difference in the color of sliekens. l
did not say it was red, but reddish. What is
drab but tint of red in yellow-a sort OF
maroon tint in it? I know slickens comes
down the river from the mines. The river
washes some agricultural lands. l know
slickens comes from every mine the river
washes. I know there is mining bar only
twelve miles from Sacramento. / know OF
Mississippi bar, and that others send slickens
here. Negro bar is near Folsom some comes
| from there; some comes from every mine
washed by the river some comes from Nor.
| mon Island, and from Coloma, etc. That is
Iny opinion, and state it as fact also.
know the water comes through those mines.
| know that at its velocity it will bring debris
with it, and whatever it takes UP. I know
| the slickens comes here in the water. Very
! little slickens comes from laud that is agri.
| cultural, because rivers where mining does
not exist do not bring slickens. The Missouri
| does not bring down our kind of slickens. II
| brings soil sediment.
| Was next sworn. and was examined by Mr.
| Cadwalader: / arrived in California Sep
tember, 1S49. I gettled above Washington,
Yolo county, adjoihipg the town plat, and
| half mile above the present bridge and di
rectly opposite the new mouth of the Amer
! lean river. My place was on the west bank
of the Sacramento river. We built there
June, 1850. Have lived there ever since uI
| to last year. The first Swamp Land Com
| mission was organized in the spring of 1859
| The law gave the Commission control of all
| the swamp lands in the State. Twas mem.
| Der of the second Commission. Since 1856
| have lived and travelled on the Sacramento
| river almost constantly. Below the mouth oil
| the American, in the fall of 1S49, the Sacra
meDto was very clear stream, with high
bold banks on both sides, Of a sandy and
| black loan. There was very little hard.pan
| on the west side. We found some spots of il
| on the east side. The new mouth of the
| American river was made in the fall of 1862
think the work began in October. The wa
| ter came through that cutoff that winter
about December. Part of it came through
| the cutoff and part by the old mouth. The
old mouth was part Of the original harbor oi
| Sacramento city for 600 or 700 feet above the
old Pioneer mills. l have seen large vessel;
lying up there-sea.going ships that drew
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sunk there somewhere. It must be
about the line of B street and above Front
and come 600 or 700 feet from the Sacra
| mento. had a cabin there till up to Jan
uary Of that winter. We went away for
time, and coming back found vessel moorel
| there The old mouth of the American rivel
was about 800 or 700 feet wide in the chan
mel. II was very deep stream then and o
clear water. The water in the Sacramento
above the American was very clear water
We call the Sacramento straight river il
front of the city. l never, in those days, saw
any bars there. AZ my farm [ had high
| held bank, with large trees growing On it
All along the banks large trees grew, anC
| many overhung the water. I remember
one
SIX FEET THICK
They were all along the margin of the river
| and above Washington they were numerous
some projected over more than half The
sycamores would grow in clusters. In 1856
| l saw vessels ct Sacramento of the same
| character you would see in any seaport town
! We used to take our fruit on fist boats, and
| it took very long poles On them at the ordi
nary stage of the river. Some places we
could not reach bottom at all. I'd say the water
was fifteen to eighteen feet deep at low-water
, mark in the channel of the Sacramento river
The soil was of the character of the bank
Fisherman's beach was in front of my place
It was smooth, broad-sloping beach of sand
so hard horses could walk on it. Fishermen
stretchedssines Oh it. II ran nearly mile above
where the bridge is now. The beach extend.
! ed from the bridge up to and past my place.
Low-water channel ct any place was,
should cay, 700 feet wide, and the channel
was right at the bank. l knew OF, and
heard Of no bars in the river in those days,
| and was on the river daily. My house was
160 feet from the bank. We drew the water
! for the house from the river by pumping
never observed much fill in the river at any
place till two OF three years after the Aneri
can was turned. The Sacramento river bank:
were eighteen to nineteen feet above low.
water mark. In the center of the channel
| at any place, the water was twelve to thir.
teen feet deep at low water. The original
bed of the Sacramento river is now filled
| from my place down past Sacramento some
| fifteen feet. It is all filled between the line
of trees on the east side spd the line of the
| old bed, and a channel is cut out or the east
side. This fill, or bar extends down to the
bridge nearly, and then it changes, and the
| fill or bar occurs on the west, or Yolo side.
! The bar now is some fifteen to eighteen feet
! deep, and from the old banks of the river al
Washington to the edge of the fill, is from
| AoO W ictJ. as W tic I'LL III tllo oaS, a.
mento channel, opposite Sacramento, since
| the opening of the new mouth of the Ameri.
can, l cannot say. never measured it ; but
! I've seen steamers stuck there and unable tc
get up above r street. That was in $50
But know about the fill on the Yolo shore,
| as stated. | knew of no bars there previous
| to 1868. | noticed no material change in the
water till after 1862 When the waters
| first rise in the American the water is
about as thick and muddy as it can
/, be, and runs about as much mud as
water. The American river, after going
| through the new cut always left large bodies Of
mud on one side or the other of the stream
When freshet comes, we can see these
banks melt away and roll off in great pieces
| The water comes with great velocity, and
meeting these bars, makes great swells, and al
| first these bars for some days usurp almost
| the whole channel of the Sacramento river
| As to
THE MATTER II SUSPENSION
! In the waters of the Sacramento and the
American. the latter ia more highly charged
| with mud. It is not perceptible in the Sac
| ramento river at any place but the other i:
| mud, mixed up, and all the water will hold
! The Sacramento river water would, by all, be
used in preference to that of the American
river water. The first would be fl for al
family uses. 1t would be clear, or sub
stantially so. That Of the American river
would be thick and muddy, and when set
| tied would leave slirny mud. 1 tended the
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