. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. oth these places has been worked a little. The gravel on the mainlevel was breasted for a maximum width of 60 feet and some branchingdrifts were run east 70 feet and west and southwest as much as 110feet from the main crosscut, showing a width of over 100 feet of bedrock pitches south to S. 20° W. It is reported to have paid fortwo feet next the bedrock in the pay streak. In breasting upstreamfrom the main level a U-shaped bend was made and a steep tributaryor gutt
. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California. oth these places has been worked a little. The gravel on the mainlevel was breasted for a maximum width of 60 feet and some branchingdrifts were run east 70 feet and west and southwest as much as 110feet from the main crosscut, showing a width of over 100 feet of bedrock pitches south to S. 20° W. It is reported to have paid fortwo feet next the bedrock in the pay streak. In breasting upstreamfrom the main level a U-shaped bend was made and a steep tributaryor gutter was followed 385 feet north. This, called the Blue RaiseChannel, raised 44 feet in 385. It was breasted 10 to 25 feet face is scarcely 80 feet from the face of an old adit. The Red Channel was struck first in the raise from the main adit257 feet from the portal, and again in a raise driven 100 feet west upthe steep west rim of the Blue Raise Channel 330 feet north of theturn from main adit. It is 26 feet higher here than the Blue RaiseChannel. This upper gravel has been worked for a length of 105 feet. Lucky John Drift Mine, near Paradise, Butte County. southeast of the last raise, and 6 to 10 feet wide. It is older gravelthan that below, the gold is coated with a rusty covering and the eastrim is flat. This run may be an early bench. A raise is being put upto tap it in the south workings. The west rim was not seen, but thereseems to be little doubt of the channel character of the gravel,although the old beach line is close, on the Mineral Slide property. Thisgravel is loose and has a great deal of sand. The bedrock of the mine workings is Calaveras (Carboniferous) andMariposa (Jurassic) slate, striking northwest and dipping 700 feet in the adit going north to prospect the main channel,the adit crosses a quartz stringer lead in Mariposa clay slate. Thislead is 20 feet wide, and a little specimen ore is reported in it, at thecrossing, but no further
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