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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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nt to the towns of Mt. Bullion and the countyseat, Mariposa. The plant consists of a flume 400 feet long by 16feet wide and 6 feet deep which carries water under a 34-foot headto three Pelton wheels which are 27, 30 and 40 inches in diameter,respectively. The plant is capable of developing 600 horsepower andthe power is generated by two Westinghouse dynamos. The Pacific Gas and Electric power line comes from Tuolumne Countyto the Penon Blanco mine and thence through the town of Coultervilleto the Potosi gold mine owned by the Merced Gold Mining Company. A company formerly had a power plant at Exchequer on the MercedRiver, but their plant was washed out during the heavy freshet of thewinter of 1913. The San Joaquin Power and Light Company, whichgenerates power from Merced Falls in Merced County, owns a powerline which extends as far as the Mt. Gaines mine in the Hornitosmining district. This company also uses the Exchequer line for trans-mitting power. 70 jNlINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES.
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Mariposa Commercial and Mining Companys dam and hydroelectric plant on the MercedRiver at Bagby, Mariposa County, California. GEOLOGY. Mariposa County is about 65 miles long and 35 miles wide. Theserpentine, ampliibolite schists and metamorphic slate belt comes asfar south as the Mariposa Grant and south of this estate the granitesof the eastern portion of the county crowd over toward the west, thusending the so-called Mother Lode. The Grant boundaries appearto be well chosen so far as including most of the Mother Lode veinsouth of the Merced River is concerned, for, outside of these boundaries,the veins are smaller. In the southeastern section of the county there is a limestone beltwith a northeast and south\\est direction which extends for some dis-tance through the count3\ This limestone belt carries copper in con-siderable quantities. The formation in the eastern part of the countywhich is taken up by the Yosemite National Park, is mostly of graniteand heavily timbered. No mineral

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