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Great Ext e hr prise.—The Calaveras Chronicle informs us that the greatest enterprise in California is the Mokelumne Hill Canal and Water Company's flume. The completion of the contract will exhibit aline of improvement some thirty-five milesin length, that will have no equal in California, in view of its excellent and durable construction; and in point of productiveness no superior, as no section is more fertile in treasure than that which is traversed by this valuable work. Parties are busily employed in chopping and preparing the timber, and twelve men are working day and night in piercing the saddle of the mountain at the head of Poor Man's Gulch. This tuunel is to be six hundred and forty-one feet long. Much speculation and many estimates have been made on the subject of this tunnel, the characters and amount of rock, but the presumption with us is. that it is cement or lava of a moderate degree of hardness, and that the operators will dislodge it with more facilty than has been anticipated. The vast amount of timber, and the fine saw-mill at the comtrol and in the hands of the Water Company, have dictated the style of this improvement, and hence it is jlumed the whole distance, so as to admit the transportations of fifteen thousand feet of lumber per day. without interference with facilities to miners. The company will In* enabled to deposit in the lower district such amounts (and at such prices) of valuable lumber, as will preclude a further dependence on Oregon, or the Humboldt, and establish the current of supply on its proper basis.— Sonora Herald.
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Downieville Sierra Citizen
Downieville, California, US
Sat, Feb 18, 1854
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