Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-05
DEBRIS.
rarRTY-THIsD DAY OF THE sLIcKENs
CASE IN COURT.
Product of Cold Run Mines-what Judge
Niles searls Knows About
Mines and Mining

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The Gold Run case was resumed at $50
yesterday morning in Department Two of
the Superior Court, Judge jackson Temple
presiding.
Cross-examination of S. B. Hartman (by
Mr.. Cadwalader) continued-I examined the
banks in the Gold Run pit one day last week.
The material in the Polar Star mine is much
coarser than that Of the Indiana Hill pit.
The grade Of the Polar Star tunnel is ten
inches to every twelve feet. We use at that
mine 900 inches of water. Bear river is a
much smaller stream where the Polar Star
dumps than the North Fork is opposite the
mouth of Canyon creek. The Bear river
gets very high during heavy transforms. 1t
has been the universal practice or custom of
the Miners to dump into the nearest ravine or
canyon, or whatever place afforded the best
grade Cor dump. There were perhaps 100
men engaged in the mining of the surface of
the Gold Run mines prior to 1865. During
the last year there were four mines running
in the Gold Run district. The Excelsior is
not an Incorporated company. 1 do not
know how many men those four companies
employ. ] never lived at Gold Run. My
home has always been at Dutch Flat. l
commenced working in the Golden Gate
in 1866. l purchased an interest in
that mine that year. In 1870 I sold
my interest to II. Fl. Brown. We
used the hydraulic process with 800 inches
of water The material we washed was light,
with some gravel and cobble in it. After we
washed as much as we could through our
open cut, we ran tunnel and worked sec
ond stope in gravel to the depth of sixty or
seventy feet. l was in the Indiana Hill pit
on last Tuesday. l saw great many large
powders in that pit. Some of them are
eight and nine feet in diameter. On the west
side of the pit, at hight of $50 feet, saw
some pipe-clay. In October last [ went to
the North Fork at Ford's Bar with Messrs.
Gould, Kinder, Carr and Larson. We went
there
TO VIEW THE DEBRIS IN THE RIVER.
We followed down the stream to Rice's
bridge, and from there went to Colfax. I
had not seen the river at this point before
since 1861 saw no chunks of blue gravel
in the rivers bed. The filling gradually de-
creased in depth from Ford's Bar to Rice's
bridge. We did not measure the depth of
the filing at any point during our days ex-
animation. 1 was familiar with the land
marks along this part of the river in early
DAYS. The original dollhouse at Fords BGr
is covered with debris at this time. Formerly
it stood very high above the river. This fill.
ing has all come from the mines Just below
Rice's bridge the bedrock is visible. The dis
tanee from Fords Bar to Rice's bridge is six
or seven miles. From Pickeripg's Bar to
Fo1d's Bar the distance is about two miles,
The population OF Gold Run is about 400.
Redirect examination tby Mr.. Byrne)-In
October last there was about four times as
much water in the North Fork opposite Gold
Run as was in the Bear river opposite that
point. The dam made by the Polar Star
dump has never washed out. The banks, or
hillside, on the opposite end of the dam have
washed out at times and allowed the water in
the lake above to escape. There is no pipe
clay in the lower or present workings of the
Indiana Hill pit. The depth of the first
washings in the
GOLDEN GATE
Was about 100 feet, and the second stope was
about 20 feet. After the completion of the
South Yuba ditch between 1865 and 1875,
there were at least $50 men engaged in mining
in the Gold Run district. The heavy ma
terial in the Indiana Hill pit is disposed of
in the same manner as that of the Polar Star.
II. 81. Brown recalled. Redirect exami.
nation (by J. K. BYrne)-I have made an
examination of the North Fork during the
last few days. The mouth of Secret canyon
is about three miles above Rice's bridge.
From the mouth of that canyon to where
Canyon creek empties into the North Fork
1 am very familiar with the stream. I esti-
mated during my recent examination of the
stream that the filling at Ford's Bar is from
20 to Is feet deep. At the lower end of Pick
ering's Bar the filling is from 20 TO % feet
deep. From Fords Bar to the mouth of
Secret canyon the filling gradually diminishes
until at that point the filling is not more than
So feet. Witness described various land
marks and the different filings IN different
portions OF the river in that section
REPRESENTATIVE by George Cadwala-
der)-Secret canyon is about two miles above
Cape Horn. 1t heads at what is known as
Secret Town. It is short distance from
Gold Run. L did rot go TO the head os Pick
ering's Bar during my visit. There is less
grade above Ford's Bar than there is below.
l saw one dump from the Iowa Hill mines.
[ frat saw hydraulic mining in Nevada City
in 1853. 1t was small affair. 1 made one
of the original locations on the Indiana Hill
clair. Witness described the boundaries of
the Cold Spring and Gold Run Districts. and
gave the size of locations. The population
of Gold Run engaged in mining in 1865 was
about go In 1866 it was about 400. From
1866 to 1873 the population diminished, until
now they only poll about 100 votes. The fol-
lowing
AMOUNT OF GOLD