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Title: A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Publisher: Lewis Publishing Company Published: 1891 Copyright: In the public domain or published before 1925 Source(s): Google Books # of Pages: 713 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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AISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 305 three giants, working under a pressure of 300 feet, drives the gravel with irresistible force down to a well-built eight-foot flume, at the mouth of which is all the dump a miner could desire. The large boulders are handled with consummate ease by two derricks, which were constructed by the superintendent, Mr, O. M. Lovridge, after his own ideas; the derricks are easily handled and work like a charm. “The company is well satisfied with their different clean-ups, as they have been good in proportion to the supply of water. The water now used on the main is brought from West Weaver Creek by a ditch four miles in length; the ditch is four feet on the bottom, seven feet on the surtace and is three feet deep. The water supplied by the ditch is insufficient to do good work except in unexceptioually good seasons for rain, and fur the past seven years the company have had to open their claim, hampered and retarded by a light supply of water. From the vast channel of auriferous gravel in sight, trom the facilities fur working the mine, in the way of dump and various outlets, from the annual yield of gold upon a basis formed from the amount of bed-rock cleaned with a stated number of hours’ runs of water, the mine forms one of the best investments for gold-seeking investors in the State. With a supply of from 2,000 to 2,500 inches of water it is estimated, on a basis of what has already been dune, that the mine will pay $500 every twenty-four hours. All that the mine needs is water, and the company could bring a ditch from Cajon . Creek, for a distance of twenty-six miles, at a probable cost of from $120,000 to $150,000, and then with an eight months’ full supply of water a year would have a property that would take at least a century to work out, and one that would return with interest the money invested. The ditch from Cafion Creek would also cover large deposits of gravel in the vicinity of the mines that are equally good, but can not be worked profitably without a good supply of water. The field for a large mining operation is practically unlimited here, and is well 20 worth looking after by those who seek the ‘root of all evil’ in its natural state.” Mr. Paulsen has always taken an active interest in political affairs. He held the office of Deputy Assessor under his brother Jacob, and wrote the aseessment roll for eight years. From 1869 to 1871 he served the county as Treasurer and Tax Collector, and as Treasurer from 1871 to 1873; and it is universally conceded that he made a thorough, conscientious, competent and obliging official. Was elected Treasurer again this year, 1890. He was married in Trinity County, February 13, 1863, to Miss Anna Darbara Kruttschmitt, a native of Germany. Ten children have been born to them, of whom one, named Peter, is deceased. Those living are: Elizabeth, wife of Eugene Goodyear, mine foreman of the Trinity Gold Mining Company; Julius B., who is a book-keeper for H. 8. Crocker & Co., of San Francisco; Minnie, wife of Nathaniel Shurtleff, foreman of the Trinity Journal, Anna, wife of Henry Bush, of Weaverville; Paulina, Albert, Harry, Edna, and an infant unnamed. Mr. Paulsen is a member of Trinity Lodge, No. 27, F. & A. M., and of Trinity Chapter, No. 19, R. A. M. He has always taken an active part in the Republican party organizations, and in its committee and convention work, and has been identified with the party since its organization, in 1856. Personally Mr. Paulsen is one of the most popular of men. Sosste3 ———s08 ot (+-—¢0—__— ew EORGE S. BAKER, a fisherman at Marysville, is a son of Z. and Martha (Schriver) Baker, natives of Pennsylvania. He was born October 24, 1822, in Harrison County, Ohio, where he resided until he was married. He was a resident of Illinois from 1856 to 1860, when he came overland to California, with mules, reaching Marysville October 24; and there for the first ten years he folluwed teaming; was on a ranch two years, and the rest of ob? the time has been engaged in fishing. Ie