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§ 218. SisJdyou. — Siskiyou county lies east of Del Norte 

 and Klamath, is forty miles wide from north to south, one 

 hundred miles long from east to west, and reaches to the 

 eastern boundary of the state. It has a population of 7,629, 

 the large majority of whom are engaged in mining. The 

 mining district is all in the western end of the county, along 

 the banks of the Klamath River and its tributaries the Scott 

 and Shasta Rivers. The Klamath runs through a deep canon . 

 the Scott and Shasta Rivers have pleasant open valleys, but the 

 diggings along their banks are chiefly among the canons near 

 the Klamath. Hydraulic and tunnel claims are rare. There 

 are six quartz- mills in the county and fifteen mining-ditches, 

 of which last the principal is the Yreka canal, forty miles long, 

 brhiging water from the head of Shasta River to the town of 

 Yreka. In 1859 there were four quartz-mills in the county, 

 one of which was at Muggins ville, one in Scott's valley and 

 two in Quartz valley. I have no information about the situa- 

 tion of the two built since that time. The principal mining 

 towns are Yreka, Scott's Bar, Hawkinsville, Johnson's Bar, 

 Deatlwood, and Cottonwood. 



§ 219. Trinity and /S/u(sta. — South of the western part of 

 Siskiyou and the eastern part of Klamath, lies Trinity county, 

 ninety milts long from north to south, and about twenty milef- 

 wide on an a\ erage. The northern part of the county is the 

 basin of the Trinity River, and is aurifei-ous. From the count} 

 Assessor's report for 1860, it is to be inferred that there is not 

 a quartz-mill or a mining-ditch in the state. The county is 

 very mountainous, and most of the mining is done in rugged 

 canons along the Trinity River. The cliief mining towns are 

 Weavei ville, Cox's Bar, Big Bar, Arkansas Flat, Mooney's 

 Flat, and Trinity Centre. 



South pf Siskiyou and east of Trinity lies Shasta county, 

 which is on an average forty miles wide from north to south, 

 and one hundi-ed miles long, reaching to the eastern border of 

 the state. There is a rich auriferous district about twenty 

 miles square, in the vicinity of the town of Shasta, in the 

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