. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. lt;;in<. tailing on the bank downstream. Work canIm earried on only when the water clear and warm enoutrh to permita diver to remain below several hours. Two divers alternate under \ i I SACRAMENTO FIELD DIVISION. 2G5 water. Some of the previous work liere was done under 20 to 24 feetof water. On aceonnt of their hiss in weiglit in water, larjje boulderscan be handled niucli easier than on land. Cannack Placer Mine, near Flat, will be prospected
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. lt;;in<. tailing on the bank downstream. Work canIm earried on only when the water clear and warm enoutrh to permita diver to remain below several hours. Two divers alternate under \ i I SACRAMENTO FIELD DIVISION. 2G5 water. Some of the previous work liere was done under 20 to 24 feetof water. On aceonnt of their hiss in weiglit in water, larjje boulderscan be handled niucli easier than on land. Cannack Placer Mine, near Flat, will be prospected by ^Irs. George W. Carmaek. Seattle. No work except labor has been done for several yeais, but a good prospect is saidto have been found last season. Douhlc-O Mining Comimii]! has been prospecting the old drift minesat Deadwood. Excelsior Mine was last extensively prospected by the late HainesGridley as trustee between 1915 and 1921. In the early days the For-est Hill channel, a front channel or bencii»system of the primary chan-nel, which contributed a lai-ge i)art of the gold taken from the Forest. IlIOTO XO. C. Equipment used at Boles Placer Mine on American River to prospect under diver worked under deep water near the point where the bloclts andcable arc suspended (right), directing the suction hose and loading thelarge boulders. k Hill district, was worked in a number of chiiins thiough lunnels enter-ing from the south side of the ridge. Tliis beneh system or earlier andhigher channel of the ])rimary system was cut oft by the later anddeeper blue lead and the work in later years has been for the purposeof finding the westward extension, if any, of the earlier channel, andalso to prospect upstream on the Deep l>lue Lead. The latter provedto be a much wider dejiosit than anticipated, and in the length of chan-nel i)rospeet(d, between 400 ;md tOi) fecf upstream, did not yield gravelrich enough lo i)ay .t profit, according fo (iiidhy. The wesl ward
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