Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-17
Does not that all come from the Cherokee

Q.-Does not that all come from the Cherokee
mine
A-Think my kno@ledge was prior to that
refer TO wash along the banks. Have seen II ana
heard him say So Think it is not the fact that the
river there along the Parrott grant,, lis clear summer
and winter since earliest times. In the win
ter the river has muddy, yellowish color; not
so muddy as the Feather, though. Never ex-
amined to see the depth of the fill on
the upper Sacramento nor have taken samples Of
the water to see what it CARED in suspension
l have drank the water. think there is much
clean sand in the alluvial soil OF the Sacramento
valley. The soil on my place is very light and
floats easily in wafer. II washes of very readily,
but do not think it washes any easier than the soil
in the Sierra Nevada range. The heavy wash on
my place is about half mile from the source of the
stream running through my farm. WITNESS de-
scr0ed four different streams his place. and esti-
mated the amount in cubic yards of the natural
wash made by each.l l have reservoir at the
head OF the largest OF those streams. The amount
OF water contained in the streams during the rainy
is not large. Witness described tie moving
OF the sandy soil his place by the wind The
face soil on my place is not sand. Sand underlies
the soil. The soil is very light, and washes
describe the principal wash in my place
the soil is OF a sandy character My
land is quite hilly. l not miner, and own no
interests in mines / own stock in the Merchants
Exchange Bank, and that bank owns pretty much
all of the stock of the Polar Star mine. That bank
also owns largely IN the Southern Cross, at Dutch
Flat. They also own largely in mines in Amador,
Plumas and Shasta counties. Within the last ten
years the denuding Of the timber in Butte and other
counties has been very extensive. Witness de-
scrbsd the timber belt of the Serras and the eX-
teut OF numbering. Most Of witness timber cut
ting was on Battle and Antelope creeks, and they
| we're moderately clear. The fiume water TO Red
| Bluff is moderately clearl Probably more cattle
and sheep are the mountains on the upper Sacra-
mento than on the mountains below the upper Sac
| ramente. Have seen sheep being driven up from
D.ID 30, DTrr trbtN ONf he nj
side. Battle creek heads at the foot OF Lassen &
| Peak and runs through gOrges to the Sacramento
| river. There are mountains on both sides OF that
creek. antelope creek IS situated about the same.
TIere are many sucs streams Mill creek, Deer
creek, Pit river. etc. all running to the Sacra-
| mentp, and all running through a mountainous
country. WITNESS was examined at length relative
to his feniliri with the catchment and drain.
age of the region Of the upper Sacramento along
the streams named, and as to the natural wash.
The Court checked the prosecution on this cross
| examination, as not being cross-examination
DIR. JAMES SIMPSON,
Sworn. Direct examination (by W. C. Belcher)-I
am physician and a resident Of San Francisco.
Came 10 California in 1858. Have been practicing
ply sician for % years. First practced the State
OF Maine. At Timbuctoo practiced for five years,
and at Grass Valley for six years. Am member of
the Board Of Health Of SaR Francisco and belong
to several medical societies | am Professor OF
Therapeutics in the University OF California. Tim
buctoo and Smartsville very near each other.
There was quite increase Of typhoid
fever during the last few years l was in
Grass Valley. l practiced along on all the bars
OF the Yuba and Bear rivers During 1858
and 1858 there always along those rivers
much malaria fever each fall, intermittent and
remttent. In 1859 it was very fatal. In
1872, when the material was spread out over the
SOIL the eyers less fatal and he attributed 1t to
the distribution of the gravel over the soil and the
arresting Of decomposition. In his Judgment the
material when it leaves the mine contains little or
elements of malaria fever as it has in it little or
ganie matter but after passing down the rivers
and being mixed with organic matter and drainage
and filth of cities and towns, it will have the eie-
ments of malaria, and the result is typhoid fever
which is a fifth disease produced by filth The de-
composition creates germs, which, in ferment,
multiply, and hence the distribution OF zymotic
diseases, as typhoid fever, diphtheria, cholera
diarrhea, dysentery, yellow fever and others, all
filth diseases, classed. On the first settlement
of new country you have nothing but decaying
vegetable matter and hence malarial disease but
YOU add to the soil afterward fifth, animal eXcreta
drainage, sewage etc, and then come all the dis
eases classed as filth diseases. Typho malaTial
is supposed to be malarial in its origin,
but has character also OF filth disease
1t is not term commonly used. In San Francisco
it is a term do not use, but hear that it is fire.
ouently used in Sacramento. In city densely
populated community where there is poor or insult
ficient drainage or sewerage, the water in wells
would be rendered unit for use. The soil would
contain so much poisonous material that the water
would De lnlpTtpna eu Will polSoHouS gerIns VIZ
ness referred to DR.. Hatch's report to the State
Board of Health referring to the sanitary condition
of the city of Sacr lmento. The report for 1872
and was addressed to the Governor. From that
port, stating the condition of the cesspools and
erage of the city, should judge the condition of
the soil vas very bad, sodden with filth, and all
well water would be unfit for domestic purposes.
The rising of water in such soil letting authorities
is to contaminate the atmosphere and produce filth
diseases by carrying the germs into the air Under
germ theory they CAT develop top of hill if filth
is there sufficiently, or animal eAcreta. Have
found filth diseases on mountain tops in Nevada
county, where there were no possible means OF its
being brought there by contsglon 1t because OF
vaults and stables above and contaminating well
water, and because of local dlth rfIicent.