Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-16
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A.-About eight.
Q-wha. ia the effect Of the fiji in that distance
Al suppose the river at Marysville is filled
| about 20 feet.
| Q.-what lie the heaviest fill in that distance?
Al was going TO tell you. At MarYsville the
river is filed about 20 feet up nine miles from
Marysvilie the river is filled 90 feet: about twenty
miles from Marysvllle the rver is filled $50 feet.
| have got now to Roses Bar ten miles would take
me to the point you sroke Of.
| .Q-Whst is the fill there Immediately in the
| river.
| A.-About go feet
Q.-How high was the river when you first went
there, at Marysville, and up, say, to se's Bar?
A.-The river at Marvsyille VIXEN I first wen.
theres The bo tom of the river l suppose was
about 800 feet wide at Roses Bar it was possibly
400 feet wide varying in width as it went up some
| places wider, some places rrower
Q.-Whst distance about are the Ieyees on that
| river from Marysviile up2
A.-The Ievees about mile east Of Marysville are
about two miles apart
Q.-what intervenes between the leyees?
A.-Sand, gravel and willows. own 1000 acres
OF that land myself that is covered with the material
coming down the river the south side of the
Yuba.
Q.-Of what kind Of material ia the bed of the
river?
A Sand and sediment OF ali kinds
Q.-What as to gravel?
A.-There is gravel in she bed CT the river
within six miles of Marysville.
Q.-Dont you know that in the last food that
gravel has been deposited the county bridge at
Marysville?
Al never saw any gravel on the Yuba river
bridge, nor within eight miles Of it.
Q.-You have seen the water there, have you rot
Al did not see the water there curing the last
flood. l saw it there in 1877.
Q.-YOu saw it there in 1867?
A-Yes, sir. l saw it in Marysviile at that time.
Q-How far would that bridge be above the bot
tom Of the river?
above the bottom Of the old river about thirty feet
Q.-How deep the water on that bridge?
A-The water was not on the bridge at all in 1877
1t broke the embankment on the south side.
Q-But you said you saw 1t over the bridge at
that time.
Al did not say siw the water over the bridge
Q-Have you ever seen the water over the bridge,
Al never it, bus understand that the
water was on the bridge last year.
Q.-Dont you know that there was deposit of
gravel from that flood left on the bridge? Don't
y'u know as well as you know anything that the
water left deposit Of gravel on the bridge?
A.-No, SIR do not and do not believe it did
leave gravel deposit on that bridge.
Q-ln the North Bloomfield Company did you
see any ppe,clay?
Al think it is above the rim rock.
Q.-And not below?
A.-No sir.
Q.-Are you sure of that?
Al hink am
Q.-You say there is no p;pe-clay above the blue
gravel?
Al say that all the pipe-cay Is above the blue
gravel it overiies the blue gravel.
Q.-Don't you know that 152 600 0O0 wards have
been thrown into the Yuba, and hat over rs per
cent. Of that has got below Smaitsve2
Al do not know how much has been thrown in
but do not see how it could get below Snartsville
Q-Do you not know that
A.-No, sir. And | do not think any body else
knows it. find that the bed of the Yuba has been
increased in elevstiOn at Spartsvills $50 feet and
widened from 300 feet t. 2O00 and find at Slnarts
vile, where am dumping from the Excelsior there
was perpendicular drop off, in what was called
the canycn. at Roses Bar of IS feet, and can
drive. and have driven, my buggy up through the
canyon to Brdgel ort this summer. The river at
that place was formerly narrow gorge now it has
a @ ade SO slight that person drive with a
buggy through any portion of il.
Mr.. O'Bren examined at great length in re-
gard to bis examination of San Pablo Bay. His
cross. oss.examinaton developed no new points.