STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 239 



Within the last ten days there has been a rich gold bearing quartz 

 lode discovered in Mohawk Valley, near Sulphur Spring Eanch, twenty- 

 eight miles east of Quincy. 



The placer and hydraulic mines are in a flourishing condition ; among 

 the best are Sawpit Fiat, Dutch Hill, Ked Eoclc, Nortli Fork, East Branch, 

 and Feather Eiver. In Genesee Valley, six miles east of Indian Valley, 

 are some copper mines that are attracting considerable attention. 

 Among the best are the Green Sulphur, Mineral Point, Plumas, Summit, 

 Metropolitan, and Cosmopolitan, and several others of less note, that 

 will undoubtedly be valuable when more developed. There has been 

 more work done on the Cosmopolitan than on any of the other copper 

 mines in the county. The smelting works for reducing copper, located 

 in the Genesee Valley, are working very successfully, and turning out 

 large quantities of pure copj)er. Last week they turned out one pig of 

 pure copper that weighed over six hundred pounds. The Cosmopolitan 

 Copper Mine, in Genessee Valley, was sold last month toGoza& Shetton, 

 of Nevada, for the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, gold 

 coin. 



Financially, our county is all right. Our county scrip is worth ninety- 

 five cents on the dollar. In the last three years we have paid an indebt- 

 edness of thii'tj'-one thousand dollars, and built a County Jail at a cost 

 of fourteen thousand dollars; and I'or the credit of the morals of the 

 people, I will state that there has not been a prisoner in it the last six 

 months. The taxes now due tlie county will more than pay oft" her 

 indebtedness, when collected. The assessment for eighteen hundred and 

 sixt3'-live is one hundred and thirty thousand dollars more than for eigh- 

 teen hundred and sixty-four. The total assessment for the year is one 

 million eightj'-five thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars: 



Personal property. 

 Ileal property 



Total 



$602,389 

 483,545 



$1,085,934 



If 3-0U want any further information at any time, I shall be glad to 

 render it, if I can. 



Eespectfully, j-ours, etc.. 



A. D. IIALSTED, 



Assessor Plumas Count}^ 



CALAVERAS COUNTY. 



S. W. Briggs Township Assessor. 



Assessor's Office, Seventh Township. 

 I. N. IIOAO, Esq., 



Secretarv Slate Board of A«;riculturc : 



Dear Sir: — Inclosed in aeeonipanying letter please find tabular sta- 

 tistics of the Seventh Township of Calaveras County. The estimated 



