Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-14

| A--1eS, sir. Ihe closets should De so arranged
as to have direct connection with the sewer. IN,
material should be received in pipes snd carried
away Immediately The pipes should be on Sreate
grade than the main sewer.
Q-SuppOse that were not convenient to be doue
Hog should they be made
A.-They should then be received into cess pit
made OF hydraulic cement, waJsT-;ich-. and so ar
ranged that The least possible amou:.t of exposure
on the surface could come IN any way but the first
principe is that they should be OF the best hydraulic
cement, so that no water should get in from the
outside nor any of the liquid from the inside perco
late to the outside.
Q.-How would it be done where there is not two
feet of fall
A.-By pumping it up SO that it shall have the
fall and from that point run out.
Y Have you examined the report that was pre-
sented by the State Board of Heath in regard To the
| sewerage Of London?
A Yes, sir. The whole matter is fully set forth
tberr.
Q-what does that present?
A.-You have got to pump it as 10 get grade.
London is hy, but still there flats ihere where
it does not permit of getting r fa,l Of two ieet.
They pump IL up to higher grace 50 as TO get the
necessary grade
Have you examined the causes of the raising
| OF the soil water here?
Al have locked into that matter very cHrefully,
and il is due to the following physical condition Of
things at Sacramento. Here have an ideal view OF
what may be termed the sacramento river, and
there is the bank [iliustratiDg have got the high
grade there to which the city has been raised from
the bed surface, aud by so doing his basin that
isted here time has been filled in with evees,
cross streets, foundations for houses, etc 1t has
displaced the water out of this basin that once
isted receiving the water back 20 the foothills, or
from this five miles in width by in length.
| That water cannot possibly have any outlet into
these sewers or chains Of lakes since it could at no
\ time escape into the Sacramento or American.
This has been the natural drainage OF this strip of
| country existing here between the American on the
north, the sacramento on the west and the Mokel-
| umne on the south. This drainage came right into
tha hasi hera They have ahStructed IL hv these
evees, etc. and circumscribed the holding capacity
of the drainage that came in this direction. The
water used for irrigation materially increases and
consequently raises the soil water.
DISCRIMINATION.
In answer TO Mr.. Hart witness testified: have
looked for definition of the word sipage," and
have never found one. The only definition could
give of il would be g the percolation of water
through the banks Of the Sacramento river into the
valley" Have examined into that subject before
and after the commencement Of this trial. Com
menced to study the question OF sipage In this city
since the commencement of this suit. Have made
general investigation Of the percolaiion OF water
through the soil along the banks Of the different
rivers This sipage or soil water does rise and fall
with the rise and fa OF river. The raising Of the
soil water in this city. If il has raised, is
due to the fact that the drainage basin has been cir
cumscribed by the building OF levees, raising If
Streets the foundation OF buildings and many other
things that have filed the basin that would other
wise have been occupied by this soil water. Tnere
have also been Sl1ugnS nileI up, and all these
things would have tendency to raise the soil water
l. is evident to any one who has been in this city
during the late rams that the rain water does not
seek the sewers, to any great extent, but perco-
ates into the soil am satisfied that this soil water
alluded tc is not spage water from the river As
example, made examination at place the
gas works | found that the water in lar1e
hole there was four feet nine inches
lower thsn the water in the river yes
terday morning. That WIS within about 100
feet Of the river: Voter will seek level, and
if it slpage from the river it would naturally be
Of the same hight Ii you destroy the sewerage OF
city or obstruct the facilities for drainage you in
crease dise use. There about 1900 stamps at
work in this State They crush from one and half
to three tons to the stamp. On the Placerve ridge
we are moving 600 COO yards Of material annually
equalirg the total amount of materi1l crushed by
the stamps. WITNESS described very minutey the
fall Of Weber creek, and the mines W; rhed in the
vicinity of Pacerville Also, the work jsne by the
drift mines on the tributaries OF the Middle Fork
OF the American
Mr. Hart-Q-You say that in quartz mines the
stamp is used to crush the material 10 very fne
sand?
A-Yes
q what is the stamp used for in gravel and
hydraulic mines?
A.-For puverizstion.
Q.-What part OF the material in hydraulic mine
does the stamp puiverize?
A-The material that is taken out of a Drift mine
is the gravel. 1t is very seldom that rocks larger
than my ist are taken ont Of the mine. So the
teral which thrown behind will generally fill up
the whole space. Its only this gravel material that
is between the rocks that is crushed.
Q.-That is in drift and hydraulic mines?
A.-They do not crush in hydraulic mines. | am
| speaking of hydraulic mues in limited sense.
| namely, the moving Of the material by the aid OF
water When speak of drift, simply mean that
| portion eAcavated the in mining for
coal. That is crushed by stamp. They never need
stamp hydraulic mine properly speaking.
Q.-But in great many hydraulic mines, where
the ordinary method is the removal of the material
/ bxrb bxrdra lie Inrnp n nff fNa
| material that comes out
| A-Not under stamps.
| Q.-Do you testify that they do not use stamps in
| any hydraulic mines proper?
A.-NOt simultaneously with the operation of
| hydraulic mining.
| Q.-I do not ask that. ask whether they use
the stamps there-whether simultaneously, or
whether it is seven months afterwards? Do not
they use stamps in hydraulic mines proper-what
are known as hydraulic mines?
Al do not understand your question. will
| answer it, if can.
| o.-Do not they use stamps in mines worked by
| the hydraulic process, as that term is understood
the driving down, or knocking down of large banks
of material with water and powder,
Al do not understand you I know Of no In
stance where the water has first been applied on the
gravel bank and removed the material into the
sluces as to perform the operation of hydraulic
mining so called, and then picking up taat material
and crushing it with stamps thereafter. Neither
do know OF any operation where the material is
first moved from the bank by the aid of water and
forced in under the stamps so as to be crushed
simultaneously with the operation of hydraulic
mining.
Q.-Do you know of any instance where the ma
terla had been moved by powder and then crushed
with stamps, and then moved by the hydraulic pro-
cess?
A-Yes
Q.-Do you know that?
A.-No. Not where moved by hydraulic process.
The only instance know of in that respect was at
place cIlIed French Corral, where they quarried
The upper stratum OF soft material had been washed
in previous days down to the hard cement gravel.
There they quarried it for number OF years
Guarried 1t out and crushed it in a stamp mill of
course the power Of water had to be added to carry
it away in suices the same as anywhere else. That
is the only l know of that approaches to the
stamping OF bank of gravel.
Q.-Fdking mine such as the Gold Run mine,
which Is known technically a hydraulic mine, as
distinguished from drift mining, seam mining and
quartz mining, is 1t not a fact that in such mines
where it becomes necessary, in order to fully disn
tegrate the material conta' ing the gold, they
stamps and other for the purpose of crushing
the hard material that is not susceptible of being
worked fully by water power?
Al do not know of any such place.
Q.-You do not?
a.-No. Not where stamps are at all used
IL Q.-Do they sedges?
A-Yes, they use sledges to break up the mate
rial into pieces large enough to be removed by thI
water i'll the suices.
Q-I will ask you expert whether 1t is moi
the object OF all hydraulic and other miners to fully
pulyerize the sand and cement that hold the rock,
r together and fill the interstces?
A.-Yes; that is the object.
Q.-And in nearly all instances is it not true thai
they do to very great extent if not entirely ac
complish that purpose?
A.-That depends considerably upon the character
: of material to be moved. If it is not very hard
very much cemented, they accomplish that object
Ii it is much ceme lted they do not accomplish it.
a Q.-In the streams and creeks along the American
river and in the river ITSELF can you find any con
siderable amount of this cement that has not beer
$ dsintesrated2
Al noticed quite number of places wher,
there were masses of cement about the size of tn,
specimen presented in this Court lying right in th
gravel disntegrated.
Q.-Where did you notice them?
A.-Between Pickerings Bar and Rice's bridge.
them there, prorniscuousy scattered in variou
8 places.
Q-na Superintendent OF mine should throw thi
r blue material into stream in the condition il
T which you see it there without pulverzing the ce
ment, he would be guilty Of gross neglect Of duty
4 would he not?
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