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704 REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST.
HURST & ELIASON.

East side of river above the mouth of Dutton's Creek, Sec. 35, T.
N., R. 10 W.j one hundred acres; river bank, old bench; width
deposit about one thousand eight hundred feet, extending in leng
about one mile in bend of river. Amount of ground worked, se\
acres; average depth, seventy-five feet. This claim yields about $1 p
cubic yard. The season is limited on account of shortness of the wa1
supply from Dutton's Creek, heading in the Oregon Range. There a
two ditches, one mile and one half mile in length, the pressure from t
upper ditch being two hundred and fifty feet and from the lower ninet
nine feet. Water is collected in reservoirs, three in number. By tl
means the company have a run of about two hours daily for a season I
five months, having one monitor (No. 3), nozzle, four and five inch<
with a length of four thousand feet of eleven and fifteen-inch pip
Sluices: One hundred and twenty boxes, twelve feet each; width, for
inches; height, thirty-six inches; blocks, six inches; no undercurrei
Fineness of gold, .970 (sample in Bureau). Gold mainly on bedroc
Bedrock formation, black slate, at an angle of 55 degrees. Amount
ground worked during the season, about one eighth of an acre, yieldii
from $4,200 to $4,500. Men employed, from two to four.

MOUNT MORENSIS COMPANY (jUNKINS & CO.).
Sees. 9, 15, and 16, T. 33 N., R. 10 W.

Mount Morensis Claim 150.76 acr<
Railroad Claim 156.96 acre
Dolly Varden Claim 48.35 acr<

On Oregon Gulch. Water, when working, is obtained from Conn<
Creek and Limekiln Gulch.
A. N. HAYES 5 MINE.
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(West Side). Comprises the following claims:
McKinney, T. 33 N., R. 11 W., Sections 12 and 13 113.44 acre
Picket, T. 33N., R. 11 W., Sections 12 and 13 45.95 acre!
Keno, T. 33 N., R. 11 W„ Sections 12 and 13 123.62 acre!
Baker's Bar, T. 33 N., R. 11 W., Sections 12 and 13. 32.34 acre,
Boston, T. 33 N., R. 11 W., Sections 12, 13, and 14 135.68 acre

Located in the Junction City Mining District, opposite the town <
Junction. There are two benches of gravel deposits; average depth <
the lower bench, eighty feet; of the upper bench, one hundred and twent !
feet. Many of the bowlders are quite large, requiring blasting. Th
deposits are from one quarter to one half mile in width, the lower benc :
having been worked with the exception of a few acres under cultivatioj
by the company as a hay ranch. The monitors are at the present tim
running on the second bench, having worked ground to the extent c
eight hundred by one thousand feet. The average yield, as gathere
from the Superintendent, is about 25 cents a cubic yard — over $45,00
per acre.
This company has the finest water supply of any below Trinity Cenj
ter, securing it from Canon Creek. Their main ditch is nine miles lon£;
and follows up the west side of Canon Creek. At the foot of the ditcl