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FIG. 138. Stone ruins between Lotus and Pilot Hill along creek, DMBS Pla-H2. 



Fio. 139. Arrastre walls, 1 mile north of Baileys, DMBS Pla-H3. 



PILOT HILL 



Of Pilot Hill little remains except a few scattered remnants of stone 

 cellars. Just beyond on the left is Baileys and the picturesque three story 

 porticoed brick inn, now owned privately. One mile above Baileys on the 

 left side of the road across the creek is one of the few remaining old 

 arrastres of the Mother Lode. The mill basin (Fig. 139) is nine feet in 

 diameter and two feet high and constructed of white quartz. The heavy 

 mill stones or "drags" have been removed, and a few lie scattered on the 

 surface nearby. 



COOL 



Five miles north of Baileys near the site of Cool are some old lime 

 kilns which operated in the 'sixties. The two kilns on the right side of the 

 road have straight faces and curved sides. They are constructed of dressed 

 limestone blocks and lined with quarried meta-andesite- which was more 

 heat resistant (Fig. 140). The ruins of several building foundations 

 made of the same limestone which was burned in the kilns are nearby, and 

 the quarry pit may be clearly seen. Just beyond is the modern Cragco 

 Company quarry. 



KELSEY 



At the little town of Kelsey, six miles north of Placerville, on High- 

 way 93 to Georgetown, a frame cabin has been reconstructed on the site 

 once occupied by the blacksmithy of James Marshall, famed as the orig- 

 inal discoverer of gold at Coloma. This cabin once housed a museum, the 

 only remaining exhibit of which is a granodiorite muller stone from an 

 old arrastre, the primitive manual mill employed by Mexicans in the very 

 first efforts in California to reduce gold from hard rock ores (Fig. 141). 



LOUISVILLE 



A mile and a half north of Kelsey, at the abandoned settlement of 

 Louisville, is the ruins of a house, made of slabs of laminated schist set in 

 mud mortar (Fig. 142). 



GEORGETOWN 



Georgetown, on Highway 93 ten miles north of Kelsey and once 

 known as ' ' Growlersburg, ' ' is one of the towns located in areas having 

 abundant lateritic brick clays, and this natural feature is reflected in the 

 choice of building materials. No stone buildings are to be seen nor are 

 there foundations or fences of stone. 



The present I. 0. 0. F. Hall, formerly an hotel managed by Madame 

 Balsar, is a two story brick building erected in 1859. It has been remodeled 

 twice. The row of brick buildings along the north side of the main street 

 includes one which functioned as a Union Armory during the Civil War. 



