Loss by rise of river in repairs, $1400.
$1000 taken out since we left. Our force was too large to be longer profitably employed. The upper part of the bar was poor, and on the west side the bed was black slate, with a deposit of three or four feet, and on the slate was found pieces of pine and other timber; and the whole had the appearance of ashes or ash-bed, the water upon it resembling soap-suds. All the specimens found contained greater or less quantities of quartz.
R. N. Wood.
No. 2.
Stephens’s Bar Damming and Mining Company.
Gross amount of gold taken out this year from Stephens’s Bar Damming and Mining Company, $12,000.
October 26th, took out $1224.
Length of canal, 1200 yards.
Number of men in the company, 38.
Number of days’ work put on by each member, 120.
Name of treasurer, Wm. Canfield, New York.