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1. paleobotanical fossil deposits in ancient gravels [1]
from Bill Slater's posting: "A number of our hydraulic mines have important paleobotanical fossil deposits exposed by hydraulicking." On that subject (both fossils and recent human bones found in gold-bearing ancient gravels), I believe that it is the entire second volume of Whitney 1880 (see full citation below) that describes these findings from the perspective of 120 years ago. Whitney 1880 Whitney,J. D. The Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California. Contributions to American Geology. Vo
2. The hydraulic mining maillist and the mining ditch research web site are launched! [1]
Hello - Take a look at the first two active pages (the home page and the mail-list page) of the new project web site at: http://www.cwo.com/~cecrouch/ Regarding the Mail List: This is your first "content" posting via the new maillist at RootsWeb.com. (As noted below, you may get two versions of it.) You should already have gotten a posting with instructions on how to unsubscribe, and outlining the restrictions RootsWeb has on posting attachments (none allowed) and format (no HTML). And OOPS! - I am sor
3. Re: CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D Digest V00 #2 [1]
not sure of all this pc juju but I'll introduce myself and interests. I'm a FS district archaeologist on the Nevada City Ranger District. The NCRD is the mining ditch capitol of the world (or at least California). The district is the locality of major hydraulic placer mines Alpha, Omega, Sailor Flat, Buckeye Diggins, Liberty Hill, Moores Flat, Orleans Flat, and is adjacent to Malakoff, Red Dog, You Bet, Gold Run, Dutch Flat, Columbia Hill, to name a few. We estimate we have at least a thousand miles of
4. Re: CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D Digest V00 #3 [1]
Craig - is there susposed to be something attached? or is this just telling me to visit the website? Thx Nolan CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D-request@history.ro otsweb.com To: CA-HISTORY-HYDRAUL
5. Hydraulic Mining Ditches web site address changed! [1]
The new URL for the web site ("Bringing water to the mines...") is: www.cwo.com/~ditches Thank you, Craig Crouch 5307 Hawkhaven Court Rocklin, CA 95765 ditches@cwo.com OR cecrouch@cwo.com (916) 632-1407
6. The hydraulic mining maillist and the mining ditch research web site are launched! [1]
Hello - Take a look at the first two active pages (the home page and the mail-list page) of the new project web site at: http://www.cwo.com/~cecrouch/ Regarding the Mail List: This is your first "content" posting via the new maillist at RootsWeb.com. (As noted below, you may get two versions of it.) You should already have gotten a posting with instructions on how to unsubscribe, and outlining the restrictions RootsWeb has on posting attachments (none allowed) and format (no HTML). And OOPS! - I am sor
7. The ditch work begins with a trip to Placerville! [1]
Hello, everyone -- I met with Denise McLemore (USFS) and Jean Starns (author) this Monday in Placerville. (My weekday field trips will generally be on the alternate Mondays that I have off from work.) Jean contributed an 1866 map of Amador County and information on deeds for mining ditches in the Georgetown area. I cannot promise to have this posted on the website for some weeks, but it will be there eventually. I have scanned the map, and within a few weeks I hope to make it available to you all (alon
8. Re: CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D Digest V00 #5 [1]
I think Whitney was the guy who got the idea of "Pliocene Man" in North America going. Bill Slater Archaeologist Nevada City RD Tahoe National Forest bslater@fs.fed.us (530) 478-6287 CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D-request@history.ro otsweb.com
9. Re: CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D Digest V01 #6 [1]
Hi Craig With respect to the question regarding the Craig monitor, the Craig=20 brothers and Richard Hoskins, who invented the Little Giant joined forces in= =20 an arrangement which permitted both to operate as separate entities. In late= r=20 years it was learned Craig and Hoskins had entered into a compact to drive=20 out the competition and control the market=97which they soon succeeded in=20 accomplishing. Both the Globe Monitor (Craig's monitor) and the Little Giant= =20 were manufactured at the E
10. Where has the Craig monitor gone? [1]
Cassie - There are a number of hydraulic monitors in museums and city parks scattered around the Mother Lode. I know of some at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds, for example. The only working example (an it might be a Craig Giant) that I know of is at: Malakoff Diggins State Park 23579 North Bloomfield Road Nevada City, CA 95959 530-265-2740 It was demonstrated on the (paved) main street of Bloomfield for us by a Park Ranger last summer. [If you happen to contact them, I'd appreciate getting their e
11. Craig Moniter [1]
Hi Craig- I don't have any catalogs or anything like that. I will ask in the family to see if they have anything. I got the names of the monitors wrong. It was Little Giant and Globe. I do have info from assorted books: Joe Craig patented the monitor in 1869 and established a foundry and machine shop in Marysville to build the nozzles. He manufactured them there for years but moved the factory to San Francisco after a few years. He later sold out. I think his father Randolph R. Craig might have been invo
12. Denise McLemore/R5/USDAFS is out of the office. [1]
I will be out of the office starting 04/17/2001 and will not return until 04/23/2001. I will respond to your message when I return. If you need an immediate response or info is time sensitive, please forward to Judy Rood. Email address jrood@fs.fed.us. Thanks.
13. Re: CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D Digest V01 #6 [1]
I got information that there is no E mail address for Malakoff State Park. The person I got that from is new there so I'll keep checking Bill Slater Archaeologist Nevada City RD Tahoe National Forest bslater@fs.fed.us (530) 478-6287 CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D-request@ro otsweb.com
14. Re: CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D Digest V01 #8 [1]
Hello, this is Powell again, One more item on the Craigs which is a direct quote from my book. "In the latter part of 1853, [the year hydraulic mining was invented] the first iron pipe was introduced into the hydraulic mines of California by R. R. Craig at American Hill, near Nevada City. This innovation, although amounting to nothing more than 100 feet of stove pipe. was so successful it came into general use." Thank you, Powell Greenland
15. Re: CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D Digest V01 #6 [1]
There is an operating monitor at North Star replete w/Pelton Wheel in working order on display. One of my friends rehabilitates historic mining equip. He is the person who set up the display @ North Star. He is an excellent resource for projects involving machinery. I could provide his name and phone number to others who might like to use his talents pending getting his ok to do so. There are a number of monitors at N. Bloomfield, one that is operational. I'm getting thier E-mail address...the phone
16. Craig Monitor [1]
R. R. Craig was Randolph Riley Craig father of Joseph Riley Craig. Randolph Riley Craig did not invent the nozzle, his son Joseph did at the age of 20. Perhaps his age had something to do with it. A family story is that the Globe and Little Giant was invented and an older man was thought to have invented it but it was actually Joe, the baby in the family. He held the patent. I thought that the older man was another son but I really don't know. Joe was in partnership with at least one brother in ownership of
17. Re: CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D Digest V01 #7 [1]
Hello Craig, Here is a little more info that may be useful. In all the literature and newspapers I have read on the Craigs only initials are used to identify them. R.R. Craig, which could very well be Randolph R. and J. Craig, who is probably Joe. Could the literature possibly be mistaken and instead of brothers they were a father and son team? According to newspaper articles, R.R. was the inventor. The Globe Monitor was invented in Nevada City and was first manufactured by the Nevada Foundry (l
18. Monitors [1]
Thanks for the location info. The next time I am in CA I want to check them out. I really wanted to see Little Giant or Globe because one of them was at Sutters Fort and I grew up going there. Incidently, the website link said a man named Hoskins invented Little Giant but it was Joe Craig who did so. He held the patent for Globe and Little Giant. Cassie
19. New web page on the Evolution of the Hydraulic Monitor [1]
In response to Carrie's query, I have added A. J Bowie's history of the development of the hydraulic monitor at: http://www.cwo.com/~ditches/monitor.htm Carrie asks about a possible connection between the use of nozzles in the monitor and in fire-fighting. Nozzles were very old technology by the 1850s, having been used by the Romans and others to speed up and focus the flow delivered by a pipe or hose. In fact, Philip Ross May, on page 39 of "Origins of Hydraulic Mining in California" (1970) indicates
20. the USGS Folio Map Samples have moved, and news of the Pacific Slab hydraulic mining site [1]
To correct my prior e-mail: The samples of the circa-1900 USGS maps (topography and economic geology) for the Sierra Nevada are really found at: http://www.cwo.com/~ditches/GeoAtlas.htm Several weeks ago, I made a posting to determine the status of the (Pacific Slab) hydraulic mine site that was recently purchased by the US Forest Service. Some months ago, Carmel Barry-Schweyer (Placer County Archives) mentioned that the USFS had finally obtained title in a land swap to an abandoned hydraulic mine that wa
21. Update on the ditch research project and web site [1]
Hi, everyone - It's been a couple of months since I've posted, so here's an update on the web site and etc.. * The first effort at a links page is up. http://www.cwo.com/~ditches/webres.htm * The photo of Mark Mallicoat's new addition to his hydraulic monitor collection is up at: http://www.cwo.com/~ditches/imagelib.htm Mike made a posting on the monitor on September 8th, but (sorry!) you can't distribute attachments (like images) through the RootsWeb maillist. So, if you have a picture to share w
22. Denise McLemore/R5/USDAFS is out of the office. [1]
I will be out of the office starting 11/13/2001 and will not return until 11/16/2001. I will respond to your message when I return. If you need an immediate response or info is time sensitive, please forward to Katy Coulter. Email address kcoulter@fs.fed.us. Thanks.
23. Monitor [1]
Just picked up this piece this past weekend in Nevada City. I aquired it from Mike Nevius who got it out of Forbestown. I am pretty excited about it and still have some additional work to do in terms of setting it up but I got it home and in the yard so I am one happy camper. Pretty quiet out there. Mark Mallicoat
24. June 2002 Nevada City Show [1]
Yesterday we had an informal meeting at the Miners Foundry in Nevada City, CA to begin our preparations for the Mining Artifact Collectors show next June 29th. The location is going to be terrific and Mike Nevius had booked the hall so that part is a done deal. We have lots of ideas as to what can make this a fun show for the whole family. The location is in downtown Nevada City so there is much to do for the wives or kids that get bored after looking at mining artifacts for an hour or two. Here are ju
25. Re: CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D Digest V00 #10 [1]
are there some guts to this message (like an article or other write up from Frank and Mary) that in my luddism I am not perceiving? Bill Slater Archaeologist Nevada City RD Tahoe National Forest bslater@fs.fed.us (530) 478-6287 CA-HISTORY-HYDRAULIC-MINING-D-request@history.ro
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