. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. ned in the State Reports have beenallowed to lapse and have been forgotten. About seven miles by stage road in a direction N. 75° E. from Glamisare the old diggings of the Mesquite Placer, located in Sec. 21, T. 13 E.,R. 19 E., at an elevation of 950 feet, the gravels lie along the washes ofthe present water courses, from the Chocolate Mountains, which draininto the bed of Dry Lake against the Sand Hills ten miles to thesouth. The placer gravels are in places fifteen feet dee
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. ned in the State Reports have beenallowed to lapse and have been forgotten. About seven miles by stage road in a direction N. 75° E. from Glamisare the old diggings of the Mesquite Placer, located in Sec. 21, T. 13 E.,R. 19 E., at an elevation of 950 feet, the gravels lie along the washes ofthe present water courses, from the Chocolate Mountains, which draininto the bed of Dry Lake against the Sand Hills ten miles to thesouth. The placer gravels are in places fifteen feet deep but are notcontinuous and probably an average depth would not be over six was packed from Glamis during the early work on the Bay Horse*claim and the gravels panned and run through rockers. Some dryplacering has also been done. Although the deposits are not continuous,but cut through by arroyos, they vary in width up to one half mileand extend for about two miles along the flank of the Chocolate Moun-tains. One of the principal owners is P. H. Ferguson, 4507^ Esmeraldastreet, Los Angeles,
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