Here was a small village on the summit of the ridge and it seemed to be in a prosperous mining section.

After some inquiry about a good place to work we concluded to go down a couple of miles northeast of town on Canon creek and go to work if vacant ground could be found.

There was a piece of creek bottom here that had not been much worked.

Georgia Flat above had been worked and paid well, and the Illinois and Oregon canons that emptied into the bottom here were rich, so we concluded to locate in the bottom.

Claims here in the flat were only fifteen feet square.