A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin Rough and Ready By Andy Rogers (1952)(Hathitrust) (117 pages)

side of the two, and placing on the bar one of the nuggets, said, "I find you guys broke as I predicted, and here I am rich.” another miner, finding the gold rush a successful advantage, for awhile, went to San Francisco, had a band meet him, took baths in champagne, lived high, until he went broke. He did not have any left to pay his miners. Indians hired to dig gold came in with $76,000.00 in gold, after being out less than two months. a boy, fourteen years old, who ran away from home, was forgiven when he returned with ¥3,400.00 in gold. No gold: disappointed miner, cussing, was told he was crazy to turn over the rock that he was sitting on..in doing so, he picked up some nuggets. One of the same gold vein of the Keno Mine in Trinity that the Compiler holds an interest in, a gold nugget was found in the shape of a ball that could be easily parted in half, inside was a gold flake in the shape of a beautiful shrub. Now in 1950, 1,000 feet and more in the powels of the earth here, are rooms of gold blocked off, and gold strikes often leak out. Gold, the most precious, is in its varfous forms in rock, quartz. Ryer and Haultmus, South Wales, australfound a nugget4 feet 9 inches high 3 feet 2 inches wide Varies 3 inches to 5 inches thick Weighing 640 pounds troy ‘ Value $148,000.00 ia, Calaneras nugget 15 inches long 10 to 12 inches in circumstances Average thickness 4 inches 194 pounds Value 338,000.00 1854 at Carson Hill 1853 Downieville nugget Shape of 227 pounds Heart Value $49,000.00 Cut it up. Taken pass Goodyear's Bar and Niggertent in fear. Arrive San Francisco, Steamer to New York, to Philadelphia Mint. 1851 Chapman nugget Shape of Horseshoe found on middle fork Yuba River Value ~$6,000.00 64 pounds SHOOTING A NUGGET At Pilot Peak, 1655, Frenchmen and Mexican, hunting grouse, gun accidentally went off. Bullet hit a doulder 10 feet away, which rolled downhill to the Frenchman, which contained $00.00 in gold, and more uncovered. Minnesota Mining District, Kanaka Creek, Middle Fork, Yuba, 1657, chunk of gold blasted out. Fennely & Cody Mining Company, value $30,000.00. PARTIAL LIST OF NUGGETS French Ravine, Sierra County 4, 534 oz. 1851, 426 oz. 1850, 263 oz. 1860, 93 oz. Smith Flat, 1864 145 oz. Little Grizzly, 1869 107 oz. Hope Claim, 1860 94 oz. Google PARTIAL LIST OF NUGGETS, Cont'd Smith Flat, 1660 146 oz. W.A.Farrish, 1860 1596 oz. Smith Flat, 1861 80 oz. Live Yankee, 1854-1862, 12 nuggets 170 o2» Oregon Claims Forest City, 18661, 30 nuggets 100 oz. ‘ Minnesota 266 oz. Remington Hill, 1855 186 oz. Remington Hill, 1867 128 oz. Lowell Hill, 1865 65 oz. In the Malakoff mine office, gold was reduced to bars for transportation to the San Francisco Mint. The largest single bar weighed a quarter of a ton, and was valued at that time at $114,000.00. Gold bricks, so . heavy to carry off that they were sort of uninvited in holdups, and gold was saved. At the edge of North Bloomfield rise the exquisitely molded pinnacles and minarets, "Tough with vivid colors, like a place enchanted," of the Malakoff Mine, most colossal hy. draulic excavation on San Jaun Ridge. Anti-Debris Act of 1883, and court injunction, put a crimp in a great part of minge Located on the fabulous San Juan Ridge, Rough and Ready, and other parts of the district, the scene of some of the world's most spectacular hydraulic mining, they rose and fell with that great industry. San Juan Ridge, between the south and middle forks of the Yuba River, represents wonderous geological transformation. Along it runs an ancient river channel, in which many millions of years of gold bearing gravel was deposited to a depth of about 500 feet. A violent upheaval tilted the entire region and moved the ancient channel to the top of the ridge, with the auriferous gravel scattered throughout the hills. Only by hydraulicking could this gold be profitably mined, and from the fifties to the early sixties, scores of companies washed down, miles upon miles of hillsides with powerful jets of water cannonaded from hugh monitors to provide the necessary water. Ten inch and twelve inches, and larger pipes carried water for miles from reserves high in the Sierras, and remarkable systems of canals and flumes, as a result of merger of years. From the North Columbia Mammoth Hole from Hydraulic, the Compiler hauled out of the hugh hole washed out petrified wood which was uncovered. The town gained wide reknown as the location of the largest hydraulic mine in the world. The Malakoff reports say that more than $5,000,000.00 was expended on it before it began to pay, and then it produced in excess of $5,000,000.00, before it shut down. SEngineers estimated that there is at least ¥35,000,000.00 worth of gold in the unworked portion of the property. North Columbia was started in October, 1853, by W.L.Tysoale, who took up a mining claim and erected a cabin. Others followed him and in 1855, Fleming opened up a store. During the mining days, 25,000,000 cubic yards were washed from the hillsides. It's a wonder some of these vast holes are not dammed for our storage water. Large flow of water flowed in early days. Why not now? All enjoyed the decades of the giddy 18-

side of the two, and placing on the bar one of the nuggets, said, "I find you guys broke as I predicted, and here I am rich.” another miner, finding the gold rush a successful advantage, for awhile, went to San Francisco, had a band meet him, took baths in champagne, lived high, until he went broke. He did not have any left to pay his miners. Indians hired to dig gold came in with $76,000.00 in gold, after being out less than two months. a boy, fourteen years old, who ran away from home, was forgiven when he returned with ¥3,400.00 in gold. No gold: disappointed miner, cussing, was told he was crazy to turn over the rock that he was sitting on...in doing so, he picked up some nuggets. One of the same gold vein of the Keno Mine in Trinity that the Compiler holds an interest in, a gold nugget was found in the shape of a ball that could be easily parted in half, inside was a gold flake in the shape of a beautiful shrub. Now in 1950, 1,000 feet and more in the powels of the earth here, are rooms of gold blocked off, and gold strikes often leak out. Gold, the most precious, is in its varfous forms in rock, quartz. Ryer and Haultmus, South Wales, australfound a nugget4 feet 9 inches high 3 feet 2 inches wide Varies 3 inches to 5 inches thick Weighing 640 pounds troy ‘ Value $148,000.00 ia, Calaneras nugget 15 inches long 10 to 12 inches in circumstances Average thickness 4 inches 194 pounds Value 338,000.00 1854 at Carson Hill 1853 Downieville nugget Shape of 227 pounds Heart Value $49,000.00 Cut it up. Taken pass Goodyear's Bar and Niggertent in fear. Arrive San Francisco, Steamer to New York, to Philadelphia Mint. 1851 Chapman nugget Shape of Horseshoe found on middle fork Yuba River Value ~$6,000.00 64 pounds SHOOTING A NUGGET At Pilot Peak, 1655, Frenchmen and Mexican, hunting grouse, gun accidentally went off. Bullet hit a doulder 10 feet away, which rolled downhill to the Frenchman, which contained $00.00 in gold, and more uncovered. Minnesota Mining District, Kanaka Creek, Middle Fork, Yuba, 1657, chunk of gold blasted out. Fennely & Cody Mining Company, value $30,000.00. PARTIAL LIST OF NUGGETS French Ravine, Sierra County 4, 534 oz. 1851, 426 oz. 1850, 263 oz. 1860, 93 oz. Smith Flat, 1864 145 oz. Little Grizzly, 1869 107 oz. Hope Claim, 1860 94 oz. Google PARTIAL LIST OF NUGGETS, Cont'd Smith Flat, 1660 146 oz.

W.A.Farrish, 1860 1596 oz. Smith Flat, 1861 80 oz. Live Yankee, 1854-1862, 12 nuggets 170 o2» Oregon Claims Forest City, 18661, 30 nuggets 100 oz. ‘ Minnesota 266 oz. Remington Hill, 1855 186 oz. Remington Hill, 1867 128 oz. Lowell Hill, 1865 65 oz. In the Malakoff mine office, gold was reduced to bars for transportation to the San Francisco Mint. The largest single bar weighed a quarter of a ton, and was valued at that time at $114,000.00. Gold bricks, so . heavy to carry off that they were sort of uninvited in holdups, and gold was saved. At the edge of North Bloomfield rise the exquisitely molded pinnacles and minarets, "Tough with vivid colors, like a place enchanted," of the Malakoff Mine, most colossal hy. draulic excavation on San Jaun Ridge. Anti-Debris Act of 1883, and court injunction, put a crimp in a great part of minge Located on the fabulous San Juan Ridge, Rough and Ready, and other parts of the district, the scene of some of the world's most spectacular hydraulic mining, they rose and fell with that great industry. San Juan Ridge, between the south and middle forks of the Yuba River, represents wonderous geological transformation. Along it runs an ancient river channel, in which many millions of years of gold bearing gravel was deposited to a depth of about 500 feet. A violent upheaval tilted the entire region and moved the ancient channel to the top of the ridge, with the auriferous gravel scattered throughout the hills. Only by hydraulicking could this gold be profitably mined, and from the fifties to the early sixties, scores of companies washed down, miles upon miles of hillsides with powerful jets of water cannonaded from hugh monitors to provide the necessary water. Ten inch and twelve inches, and larger pipes carried water for miles from reserves high in the Sierras, and remarkable systems of canals and flumes, as a result of merger of years. From the North Columbia Mammoth Hole from Hydraulic, the Compiler hauled out of the hugh hole washed out petrified wood which was uncovered. The town gained wide reknown as the location of the largest hydraulic mine in the world. The Malakoff reports say that more than $5,000,000.00 was expended on it before it began to pay, and then it produced in excess of $5,000,000.00, before it shut down. SEngineers estimated that there is at least ¥35,000,000.00 worth of gold in the unworked portion of the property. North Columbia was started in October, 1853, by W.L.Tysoale, who took up a mining claim and erected a cabin. Others followed him and in 1855, Fleming opened up a store. During the mining days, 25,000,000 cubic yards were washed from the hillsides. It's a wonder some of these vast holes are not dammed for our storage water. Large flow of water flowed in early days. Why not now? All enjoyed the decades of the giddy 18-