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INDEX. 
Water, cost of, per inch to miners, on North San Juan Divide, | Wood opal, 237. 
205. 
miners’ inch of, number of cubic feet equal to, 372. 
as measured by Milton Company, 389. 
as measured at Smartsville, 383. 
permanence of supply of, as affecting erosion, 521. 
quantity required for moving gravel of various de- 
grees of hardness, $72, 878. 
of in Sierra, whether greater formerly than 
now, 521. 
used by North Bloomfield Gravel Mining 
Company, 372. 
sources of supply for Blue Tent and vicinity, 414. 
for Cherokee Flat, 480, 483. 
for Gold Run and vicinity, 424. 
at La Porte and Gibsonville, 452. 
on divide between South and Mid- 
dle Yuba, 197, 198. 
work of, in excavating valleys, 336. 
use of, at Blue Tent, 414. 
at Columbia Hill, 395. 
at Manzanita Hill, 389. 
at Quaker Hill, 424. 
Water-worn character of gravels, 321. 
Watt Shaft, Woolsey Flat, section in, 400. 
Webber Claim, near Placerville, 99. 
Webber Hill, 86. 
white lava near, 223. 
Weed’s Point, 428. 
Welcome nugget, its size and value, 359. 
West & Foster’s Mine, above Auburn, 97. 
Weske’s Claim, near Michigan Bluff, 93, 106, 110, 112, 114, 
117, 492. 
fossil wood at, 238. 
White lava, 104, 223, 496, 522. 
White & Co.’s Claim, 85. 
White Rock, locality of diamonds, 364. 
White Rock Point, 85, 86, 100. 
Whitney, Mount, elevation of, 28. 
Width of channel, on North San Juan Divide, 387, 388. 
Wiessler’s Claim, Iowa Hill, 83, 90, 105, 109, 112, 113, 
116. 
Wilkinson’s Ranch, locality of fossils, 37. 
Willow Springs, 86. 
Windyville, near Brandy City, 461. 
Wilcox’s Claim, Long Cafion, 97, 110, 119. 
Wilcox Ravine, near You Bet, 167. 
Winchell, E.C., M. D., notice of fossil elephant near Miller- 
ton, 254. 
Winslow, C. F., M. D., receives fragment of human skull 
from under Table Mountain, 264. 
Wisconsin Hill, 91, 112, 117. 
Wolverine, 83. 
Wood, carbonized, nature of, 236. 
Wood, charred, in gravel, near Davis Point, 469. 
in Eurisco Tunnel, 398. 
in Monitor Shaft, 469. 
at Teaff’s Shaft, 151. 
Wood, fossil, 232, 236, 237, 327, 435, 447. 
Wood's Creek, locality of implements in gravel, 263. 
Woolsey Flat, 200, 201, 401. 
Wright, Peter, quoted in regard to hydraulic mining in 
Victoria, 374. 
W. T. Jamison Mine, near Fiddletown, 102. 
Wyman, J., M. D., his description of Calaveras skull, 272, 
278. , 
human remains examined by, 240. 
Yankee Hill, 456. 
Yankee Jim’s, 89, 95, 111, 113. 
fault in bed-rock at, 348. 
Yarra-Yarra Hydraulic Gold Mining Company, 374. 
Yates, L. G., M. D., fossils from near Livermore Valley, 
246. 
Yellowstone Park, silicification in that region, 328. 
Yield of gravel, at Ayer’s Claim, 117, 
at Bald Mountain, 437. 
at Basin Claim, 117. 
in Blue Gravel Mining Company’s Tunnel, 
Indiana Hill, 161. 
at Blue Tent Company’s Mines, 414. 
in Bottle Hill Claim, 118. 
in Camptonville district, 432. 
in Canada Hill Channel, 117. 
at Clinton Claim, 117. 
near Columbia, 139. 
at Coon Hollow, 119. 
at Dick and Arkansas Claim, 117. 
in Dutch Gulch, 117. 
in El Dorado Hill, 117. 
at English Claim, 117. 
at Fir Cap, 465. 
at Flora’s Mine, 119. 
at Forest City, 213. 
at Forest Hill and vicinity, 118. 
in Franklin Claim, 118. 
in Gold Run district, 152. 
in Grit Claim, 115. 
at Hunt’s Hill, 423. 
at Indiana Hill, 425. 
at Jamestown, 138. 
‘at Kincaid Flat, 140. 
at La Porte and vicinity, 212, 449. 
in Lebanon Tunnel, 117. 
at Malakoff, 396, 397. 
at Mameluke Hill, 118. 
at Manzanita Hill, 389. 
at Michigan Bluff, 118. 
at Monte Cristo, 464. 
at Montezuma, 391. 
at Mokelumne Hill, 128. 
at Morning Star Mine, 117. 
at Morristown, 459. 
near Nevada City, 189. 
at North Star and Sailors’ Union Mines, it 
at Omega, 410, 411. 
in Polar Star Mine, 425. 
