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Mineral Resources.—There is considerable mineral land in this county some of which is remarkably rich. If there was a sufficient supply of water to aid the miner in his operations, the yield of gold would be large
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Mineral Resources.—There is considerable mineral land in this county some of which is remarkably rich. If there was a sufficient supply of water to aid the miner in his operations, the yield of gold would be large. Nearly all the streams contain more or less gold.
Ditches and Canals.—Ditches,. 2, length, 9 miles. Cost, $35,000. One conducts the water from Indian Creek to Happy Camp, a distance of five miles, and the other the Klamath to Bunker Hill.
Finances, May, 1858.—Floating debt, including amount due Klamath County, $13,833. Receipts, since date of organization, $6,172. Expenditures, $14,444. Amount taxable property, $518,251.
Attorneys.—Crescent City: H. L. & L. M. Preston, John P. Haynes.
Physicians.—Dr. Bailey, Charles Desch, Dr. Grove, David Hoover, B. Ma-' son, Dr. Mellen, Ferdinand Metgradt,
IX. —EL DORADO COUNTY.
COUNTY SEAT—PLACERVILLE. El Dorado County, organized 1850. Boundaries: North by Placer, east by Utah Territory, south by Amador and Calaveras, and west by Sacramento.
Topography.—This county is one of the most important in the Stato, both in point of population and the extent and character of its resources. Its entire area may be regarded as mineral land, although there are innumerable small valleys throughout the mountain region, which are most admirably adapted for agricultural and grazing purposes, and which in productiveness are not excelled by those of any other portion of the State. The eastern section is mountainous, abounding with almost inexhaustible forests of the finest timber, principally sugar, pitch and spruce pines, with several varieties of the oak and ash. Lower, and near the Sacramento valley, there is an abundance
of timber for fuel, etc. Area of the county, two thousand two hundred and fifty square miles, of which sixteen hundred are mineral lands. Amount of land inclosed for agricultural purposes, twenty-two thousand one hundred and eighty acres; in cultivation, seven thousand one hundred and thirty.
Legal Distances.—From Sacramento, fifty miles; from Stockton, ninetyfive miles, and from San Quentin, one hundred and eighty miles.
Eleventh Judicial District.—Hon. B. F. Myres, District Judge. Sessions, second Monday in February and May, and third Monday in August and November.
Eighteenth Senatorial District.—Hons. S. F. Ham