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Statistics for 1855. 



Number of men employed, 11. 



Five miners at 60 per month : $300 



One Stoker t 50 



One Whim-tender 50 



Two Battery-tenders at $60 per month 120 



Two Engineers at $65 per month 130 



One hundred and forty-four cords of Fuel at $5 per cord. . 720 



Provisions 240 



Incidentals v 240 



$1,850 



Average amount of ore reduced per month, 246 tuns; aggregate for nine 

 months, 2,221 tuns; average value per tun, $21 ; aggregate receipts, $46,000. 



Aggregate deads and improvements $4,730 



Average monthly expenses 1,850 



AsfOTea*ate of expenses . 16,650 



oo o Jr 



Total expenses $23,230 



Net balance over all expenses $22,770 



CONDITION OF THE MINE. 



Fathoms. 



One Whim Shaft 19 



One Air Shaft 19 



One Air Shaft. . 11 



Total Shafting 49 



Feet 



Lower Level at bottom of Whim Shaft 130 



One Adit V 274 



One Adit 30 



Total Levels and Adits 434 



Strike, north and south; dip, 68 east; power, nine feet. Ores, pyritous. 



PACIFIC MINE, PLACERVILLE, EL DORADO COUNTY. 



The ground occupied by the mine of this company was located in 1852, and 

 like many others of that period, had an existence only in the highly elated hopes 

 of those who found the lode. Until 1854 the ground remained unimproved, 

 when the present stockholders, becoming convinced of the value of the lode, 

 commenced operations by opening the vein through shafts and adits, and subse 

 quently by the erection of reduction works during the summer of the year. 



The mine was continued in active operation from that time up to the present 

 without intermission, during the period in which water was obtainable, wliich is 



