The record-union., 1892-06-18
MONITORS AT WORK.
The Anti-Debris Agents say They are
at 1t.
The agents employed by the Anti-De-
bris Association report as follows:

briS Association report as follows:
TO the President and Board Of Directors of
the Anti-DebTis association Of he Sacramento
Valley: We, your agents, beg to report as fol-
lows: On our recent visit 10 the hydraulic
mining regions on the Feather River we found
one monitor located in the CadwaIader claim
on Spanish Creek. This machine has been
worked this season on bank about eight or
ten feet in perpendicular hight, but was dead
during our visit.
Adjoining the .Cadwalader claim on the
northeast Is a claim owned by Richard
Thomas In this claim we found one monitor
playing on bank forty feet in perpendicular
hight. The pressure is about 200 feet, and the
machine carries about 400 inches of water
Two men and u boy were insthe claim when
we approached, but the men sneaked out and
lett the boy alone. The boy stated that "Niles
Jack" was working the claim.
On Spanish Creek, below the American Val
ley, we found a claim owned and operated by
John b. Higgins. The bank is about forty or
fifty feet in perpendicular hight The water
has a pressure OF $50 or 800 feet We first
visited this claim on June i, 1899, and found
the monitor dead, but returning on the 9th we
found il alive and in active operation. Hig-
gins and an Indian were in the claim, but
neither would open his mouth.
AT Nelson Point in the Metcalf claim we
found two monitors, both of which were dead
the 9th we found both alive and active. The
| bank in this claim is about sixty or seventy
feet in perpendicular hight The machines
use about 500 or GOO inches of water under q
pressure of about 800 feet.
On ravine between Nelson Point and
Onion Valley we found a mine owned by
Reece and operated by Cinnamon. The bank
in this claim Is about forty feet in perpendcu-
lar hight. The machine is small, two and
one-half-inch nozzle, and carries not to ex-
ceed 200 inches of water. The claim dumps
into Nelson Creek.
on jackson Creek, just above the Twenty
mile House, we found q claim owned by L. V.
Tiff. This claim was in operation when we
we were within 800 or 400 yards of it, but
before we reached the monitor the water had
been turned Off The bank is about thirty feet
in perpendicular hight, and the monitor will
carry about 600 inches of water under 800
feet pressure.
claim owned by ID. Il. Thomas and worked
by Cinnamon. Bank about sixty or seventy
feet. The water has pressure of about 300
feet This machine was in active operation
but the Cinnamon (five) had left. | Ma
gruder) went to the machine and began TO
move it around on different parts of the bank
and in about ten or fifteen minutes a China
man poked his head out of a cabin behind u.s.
On investigation we found five of them in the
cabin.
During our visit we talked to several per-
that Congress would do something to assist
the mining community. Those who are
actively engaged i'll hydraulicking claim as
is always the case, not TO be doing any ma
terial damage. One gentleman whom / MA
gruder) talked with, however, said:
''These miners are not acting in good faith
They went into the Miners Convention
which pledged them to cease work until pro-
visions were made by Congress to restrain
debris, and where they persist in working
they ought to be shut down."
Respectfully submitted,
GEoGRE II. MAGRUDER,
GEORGE +. VAN BUsKIRK.