. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. RAMENTO FIELD DIVISION 191 GOLD (placer mines) From the earliest days of gold mining in the state, Butte Countyhas been known as a producer of placer gold. The drift mines whichwere opened after the exhaustion of the surface placers have provedto be mostly on small channels but a few of them, notably the Emma,Indian Springs and Perschbaker, were rich producers over a longperiod of years. In the main, however, these mines give employmentto only a few men each, and there is suc
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. RAMENTO FIELD DIVISION 191 GOLD (placer mines) From the earliest days of gold mining in the state, Butte Countyhas been known as a producer of placer gold. The drift mines whichwere opened after the exhaustion of the surface placers have provedto be mostly on small channels but a few of them, notably the Emma,Indian Springs and Perschbaker, were rich producers over a longperiod of years. In the main, however, these mines give employmentto only a few men each, and there is such a large number of them inthe county that are or have lately been active that a much longer periodthan expected had to be spent in the field in order to bring the divisionsrecords to date. The principal drift mining section is bounded on theeast by the West Branch of Feather River, on the west by Big ChicoCreek, and extends from the vicinity of Centerville and Paradise onthe south, in a direction a little east of north to the top of the mountaindivide in the northeast corner of the county, where the waters of the. Canon of Little Butte Creek, Butte County, from Lucky John Mine. The inlets andoutlets of several paying drift mines were found in this trench. West Branch are separated from those of the North Fork of FeatherRiver by summits about 6600 feet high. The streams in this sectionflow south and southwest, cutting the lava-covered slope into a seriesof long ridges beneath which are found a multitude of steep, narrowgold-bearing ancient stream channels. None of these so far exploitedcompare in size or characteristics with the large ancient rivers of thecounties farther northeast and southeast, although larger channelshave been mined farther southeast in Butte County at Bangor andCherokee. The lone shore line extends northwest, bounding the drift miningdistrict at Cherokee and Mineral Slide (near Paradise). From thepoints where the ancient streams emptied their loads into thi
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