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This gives as the yield of the gravel, which equals in amount 398,700 cubic yards, the sum of 

 10.7 cents per cubic yard. 



At the Morning Star Mine, near Iowa Hill, there has been about one quarter of an acre of the 

 bed-rock stripped and cleaned, which is said to have yielded about $ 30,000, exclusive of the $40,000 

 which was taken from the crevice. 



At King's Hill there have been four or five acres washed off to an average depth of 20 feet. 



In the east pit at Elizabeth Hill an area 700' x 200' has been worked to an average depth of 

 about 20 feet. In the middle pits at Elizabeth Hill an aggregate area of about three acres has 

 been washed off, exposing banks whose higher portions range from 50 to 75 feet. In the south- 

 west pit at Elizabeth Hill there has been about an acre of ground washed off to an average depth 

 of seventy-five feet. 



About 800 feet south of the Wisconsin Hill school-house, on both sides of a little branch of 

 Refuge Canon, hydraulic pits have been worked over an aggregate of five or six acres, exposing 

 banks whose maximum height ranges from sixty to seventy-five feet. 



In the claims worked by Mr. Vaughn, at Wisconsin Hill, about twelve acres of ground have 

 been washed oil', in live years' work to an average depth of (ifty-five feet. The yield is estimated 

 at about $ 30,000, which would give an average of about thirty-four cents per cubic yard. 



It is stated that in. one season's work the sum of $ 10,000 was taken from the Lebanon Tunnel 

 at New York Canon, and the total yield of the mine is estimated to have been not less than 



$ 75,000. 



At the Clinton Claim, in Grizzly Canon, an area of GOO feet by 100 was sluiced off to a depth 

 of about twenty feet, yielding, it is said, $ 240,000. 



The main channel at Canada Hill is said to have yielded about $ 100,000, and the adjacent 

 gulches about $ 50,000 more. 



The English Claim and the one adjoining it on the western side of the ridge, near Deadwood, 

 are said to have yielded $ 100,000. 



The Morning Star Mine, at Startown, has yielded over $ 300,000. 



The Slab Claim, on the trail three quarters of a mile below Last Chance, is said to have yielded 

 not less than $ 75,000. ■ 



The Basin Claim at the Devil's Basin is said to have yielded about $ 200,000. 



The Dick and the Arkansas claims are said to have yielded over $ 70,000 each, and the Dam 

 Claim some $40,000. All three of these claims are on the upper part of the West Fori of El 

 Dorado Canon, five or six miles a little east of north from Michigan Bluff, 



At Weske's Mine, near Michigan Bluff, June 16, 1871, Mr. Goodyear saw washed out from 

 eight car-loads of gravel, of about fourteen cubic feet each, the result of one day's work, witli 

 twenty men employed, 91£ ounces of gold, worth $1,601.25. The total yield lor the current 

 week, at this claim, was 5 14 J- ounces, worth $8,939.44. At this claim the distance worked on 

 the channel in live months was about 200 feet, and the yield during the first live days of the week 

 of Mr. Goodyear's visit was 352 ounces.* Weske's Mine had yielded something over $ 100,000 up 

 to June 30, 1871. 



El Dorado Hill, near Michigan Bluff, is said to have yielded over $ 150,000. 

 ^ Fabulous stories are told of the richness of Dutch Gulch, which lies between the point of the 

 Flat and. Red Hill at Michigan Bluff. Eor instance, it is said that one man took out $ 1,100 from 

 a single pan of dirt here, Another statement with respect to the Flat itself, and which was 

 repeatedly mad®, was to the effect that in drifting here two men took out 1,200 ounces in one 

 Week ; this was at the Empire Claim. Stickner's Gulch, which runs down on the opposite side of 

 the point at Michigan Muff into Skunk Gulch, is also said to have been extremely rich, although 



»>ot comparable with Dutch Gulch. 



At Ayn's Claim, on the east side of the ridge Dicing El Dorado Canon, north of Michigan Bluff 

 from a spaee, near the mouth of the tunnel, about a, hundred feet long and from thirty to forty 

 wide, about $ a0,WO was taken out, and after that nothing iarther was found. 







