THE CHANNEL: AT YOU BET AND RED DOG. 



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2,655 



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[I.] Points supposed to be on or near the main central line of the deep channel 

 Waloupa. Bed-rock 



Niece and West's Mine. Bed-rock 



Heydliff's Claim. Bed-rock , 



Brown's Claim. Bed-rock 



Mallory's Claim. Bottom of Incline 



Cozzens and Garber's shaft. Bottom 



Red Dog. Bed-rock 



Independence Hill. Bed-rock 



Bunker Hill. Bed-rock ......... 



[II.] Points on the westerly rim. 



Pine Hill. Hubbard's Tunnel 



Opposite Savage's house. You Bet ....... 



Opposite Garber's shaft. Missouri Canon ....... 



[III.] High bed-rock to the east of You Bet. 



On Chicken Point . ' 



Outlet of Timmens's Mine 



High Rock at Hussey's Mine 



Bed-rock on Darling's Hill (in the mine) 



[IV.] The lower line of high bed-rock to the east of You Bet. 



Sardine Ravine 



Missouri Canon. At outlet of Sugar Loaf mines (estimated) 



Rush Swamp. Partly estimated 



Outlet of Hussey's Mine 



On Darling's Hill. In the ditch 



•Before attempting to draw any conclusion from this in some respects inconsistent testimony, 



there may be a few words added in regard to the other kinds of evidence which we tried to mi. 



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xne torm and position of the pot-holes or excavations worn in the bed-rock attracted our particular 



attention, though not until a late day. The opportunities for studying them were, unfortunately, 

 °w m number. At Niece and West's Mine we examined the bed-rock carefully in company, and 

 ound what seemed to us incontrovertible proof that the rock had been worn by a stream running 

 1J i a direction from Niece and West's to Waloupa. At Dutch Flat we met persons who were 

 s r ong in the opinion that the original course of the stream at this point was from southwest to 

 northeast, in spite of the grade of the bed-rock \ but we found in the pot-holes absolutely nothing 

 which even suggested such a direction. The argument for the up-hill direction of the channel is 

 substantially as follows : " Whenever, in the present river beds, there is an unusually high place 

 ln - the rock, there will be no gold found on the slope towards the head of the stream, but it will 

 *• be found on the lower side. In the old channels the reverse is the case, 



owed to the south. Ergo, the old channel must have flowed to the north, and owes its present 



Position to a slow upheaval or relative change." Inquiries among the miners in the gravel claims 



ailed, however, to establish as a rule that the gold was in reality more likely to be found on the 



r lern than on the southern slopes of inecpialities in the bed-rock. In isolated cases it may have 



©en observed, but the rule is by no means universally recognized. It is only just to add that 



l °se persons who defended the theory of the northerly course of the channel, also claimed to have 



se en m the position of the pebbles with respect to each other, and in the accumulations of sand 



around the larger boulders, evidence in corroboration of their theory. But evidence of this nature 



soonis to me very unsafe to trust to any great extent. 



r . *. D ° g T failed fc ° find the conclusive P roof I had hoped for as to the direction of the cur- 



n ^ The rock was so much weathered, that I could find no hole sufficiently well preserved to 



^uvince me beyond a doubt. On a different occasion, however, Mr. Bowman assured me that he 



nc positive evidence that the channel once came across from Independence Hill, and made a 



t ° tlie eas *t where the Red Dog mines now are. A priori, such a bend in the stream is not 



6 expected, for there is almost no instance in the present streams or ravines in the neighbor- 









if the channel 



