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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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geared hoist with a 9 horsepower gasoline engine,6-inch blower and a ^bulldozer pump. Bichard Burton and Joe K ester man are working a placer claim onLaurel Creek in the NW. J, Sec. 11, T. 10 S., R. 26 E., 4 miles north-east of the Dinkey Creek Ranger Station. Cloudburst Mining Co. (quartz), on Home Camp Creek near Cas-cada (Big Creek P. 0.), is maintaining assessments only. J. St. Claire,Preston, Idaho, P. Donovan et al., owners. Contact Mining and Milling Company (one time known as McDuffand McMurty, also Ira Hawk). J. K. Apperson, president; C. C. 442 MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES. Overstreet, secretary. Post office, Trimmer. There are three unpat-ented claims on unsurveyed land, about Sec. 23, T. 11 S., K. 25 E.,9 miles by trail from Trimmer, and 22 miles northeast of Piedra. Eleva-tion 2750 feet (bar.) at the mill. The mine was first opened up in 1890and worked with an arrastra. The present owners have worked itsince 1894, incorporating in 1914. The ore occurs in a flat-lying vein
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Photo No, 36. Straub patent mill (ten 175-pound stamps) at Contact Mine, Fresno County. in granite (somewhat decomposed) and carries free gold, also galenaand pyrite; average value stated to be $21.25 per ton, including a littlesilver. The sulphide ore occurs principally on the west and south, theoxidized ore being to the north and east and carrying the gold mostlym the ochre along the footwall. The pay shoot varies from 4 inchesto 2 feet in width. Being a flat deposit all underground work is onthe vein, including a 110-foot adit and two 60-foot drifts. The ground FRESNO COUNTY. 443 between the latter two will be stoped out, allowing it to cave behindthe work. A depth of 50 feet below the surface is reached. The oreis sledded to the mill about ; mile. A Straub patent stamp mill is used (see photo No. 36). This hasten 175-pound stamps, operating in a circular mortar, at 115 dropsper minute, 5J-inch drop, with a 40-mesh, diagonal slot screen, andamalgamated plates. It is driven by a 6 h

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