rtz-mill or mining-ditch in the county.
The mining districts are very mountainous and difficult of access. They
obtain most of their supplies from Crescent City. The mining is chiefly
in shallow placers, in deep and narrow ravines, and on bars of the
Klamath River.

Klamath county lies immediately south of Del Norte, and is about the
same size. It is almost exclusively a mining county, and has a
population of about eighteen hundred. The diggings are placers in the
bars and banks of the Klamath River and its tributaries, the Trinity
and Salmon Rivers, and many small creeks. The principal mining places
are Orleans Bar, Gullion's Bar, Negro Flat, Cecilville, Weitspeck and
Red Cap. The whole county is very rugged and mountainous, and much of
it is covered with heavy timber. The diggings are so difficult of
access, and are so protected by mountains against ditches, that they
will last for many years. There is probably no part of the state where
the single miner, without capital, has a better chance to dig gold with
a profit. Nearly the whole beach of the county is auriferous.

_Siskiyou._--Siskiyou county lies east of Del Norte and Klamath, is
forty miles wide from north to south, one hundred miles long from east
to west, and reaches to the eastern boundary of the state. It has a
population of 7,629, the large majority of whom are engaged in mining.
The mining district is all in the western end of the county, along the
banks of the Klamath River and its tributaries, the Scott and Shasta
Rivers. The Klamath runs through a deep _canon_; the Scott and Shasta
Rivers, have pleasant open valleys, but the diggings along their banks
are chiefly among the _canons_ near the Klamath. Hydraulic and tunnel
claims are rare. There are six quartz-mills in the county, and fifteen
mining ditches, of which last the principal is the Yreka canal, forty
miles long, bringing water from the head of Shasta River to the town of
Yreka. In 1859, there were four quartz-mills in the county, one of
which was at Mugginsville, one in Scott's valley and two in Quartz
valley. I have no information about the situation of the two built
since that time. The principal mining towns are Yreka, Scott's Bar,
Hawkinsville, Johnson's Bar, Deadwood and Cottonwood.

_Trinity and Shasta._--South of the western part of Siskiyou and the
eastern part of Klamath, lies Trinity county, ninety miles long from
north to south, and about twenty miles wide on an average. The north