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CANALLING OPERATIONS—UNSUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS—COFFEE MILLS AND GOLD' WASH¬ 
ERS—FORMATION OF BARS—GOLD REMOVED FROM THE MOUNTAINS DURING THE RAINY 
SEASON—SNOW ON THE MOUNTAINS, AND ITS DISSOLUTION—RISE AND FALL OF THE 
RIVER—STOCK SPECULATIONS—QUICKSILVER MACHINES—SEPARATION OF GOLD AND 
QUICKSILVER—INDIVIDUAL ENTERPRISE—INCENTIVES TO EXERTION—EXPENSES. 
To give the reader a more definite idea of the success attend¬ 
ing mining, I will detail the result of the different operations 
in the vicinity of my place of business, commencing one 
mile above and extending four below; this is said to be as rich 
as the same extent on any river in the country. The Man¬ 
hattan Bar was canalled and dammed by the Manhattan Co., 
being a party of New Yorkers, including Gen. Winchester and 
brother. After expending a large amount in turning the water 
from the bed of the river, they purchased several quicksilver 
machines at one thousand dollars each, and immediately put 
them in motion. It required but few days’ to convince them of 
the failure that must attend the enterprise; the machines did 
not collect enough to pay the men who worked them, and they 
were immediately abandoned for the common rocker, which, in 
their turn, were abandoned together with the entire work. 
The next in order was the Vigilance Bar; here a large 
amount of money was expended, and almost the entire summer 
devoted to the construction of a dam and canal, all of which 
proved an entire loss to the parties concerned; they did not get 
enough to pay for the provisions consumed during the construc¬ 
tion of the work v In the immediate vicinity of this was the 
Union Bar; a still greater amount in money and labor was ex¬ 
pended here, but, as in the case of the Vigilance Co., it proved 
a total failure. In these two cases, sixty men had spent the 
entire summer in hard labor, and now were obliged to encoun- 
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