January 25, 1879 (4 pages)

ds THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT. NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, { ; —s Te BES Jannary 25, 1879. —— pete urday, Mines starts Up. The prevailing st rm has given 4 decidedly brisk appearance to many _. gravel mines already, and work will De-started in all the moment there 1s a steady supply ot water for them. ¥ FLUME LUMBER COMPANY. Aw Interesting Description of. a Mammoth Nevada City-Enterprise. {Cor, 8. Fi Bulletin, Jan. 20.) ‘ Tn the rough mountains theré are no opportunities for driving logs,outef on side of the Truckee river and , its: . branches. ° The practice #& to plant . the millin the hearts! the .timber where as‘mueh-as possible canbe got to the saw without-any up-hill haalin, trusting to flames or wagon roads to get the lumber out to market.— The Manzanita Company, near 5uley our correspondent recently visited . gar Loaf, were reported tohave commenced washing yesterday _In this . one claim émployment is given to between 40and 50 men, it being the dojirg of the owners to push work a iead as fast as possibie. Hirschman & Co., near fOr: Speake “their property. for all it worth, a3 soon as the Ditch Company can furnish.them water. “At Chalk Bluff, Hussey’s, Hayward's and the Birds-eye Creek Companies. are all making the dirt fly at a lively rate. = The . Cascade ditch: is running @ good-sized head of water, and the following claims will all be in full . Plast shortly, some of them having washing already: the and Florence Co., at Jacobs & Sargent at aud Sim Jordan's at is commenced ‘Camden Co. “Hunt's Hill; Quaker, Hill; Scott's Flatt. The North one of the representative mills of. California, and saw all the modus operandi, from standing tree to lumber pile. “LeavingNevada City in company WitheMr. Cooper, the Superintendent and Originator of the -enterprise, we reached the_bill, 8miles off, just_at night-fall. sOws.road Ted through an. old miningeeuntry usfar as Scott's Flat, where weforded Deer } Creek, about the middle of our ride. From here the conatry was an unbreken, untraveled wildermess when the . leompany_ went —to work. ‘The-first thing was to build. the road alang . which we row flew at an exciting pace. Thettack wasat intervals wide enough for teams to pass, but most of the way it left-only a few feet between us and the deep canon en our left. The qnly recommendation I cyuld bestow on this piece of _ work isthatitus level. Instead of going Bloomfield and Milton . across any of the points which run ing = a+ A F Companies w Il le gr uling cw; the’ gntside ths canyon, ib euts around vol as fast as ever ul & few hours if there is fiot an ent: rely unig up of the weather. . ——— mre, expected clearit ae Pot Calling Kettle Black. The Bee says: “In the course of the debate in the Coustitutional Convention, Thursday, Reynolds asked, ‘Shall we trust the Legislature 1 Instantly the response ig from all parts of came thunderit {he room ‘No! A member added % 2 = theytmight be trusted for the scrip.’ tt would. seem that Constitutionmakers have: not much admiration for the average le zislator.” And it the. people of California were asked, “Shall we trust the Constitutional Convention in any= thing?’ a shout would immediately come from evey part of the State, ‘ «No, no, no!” The public do not have an exalted idea of the statesameén now at the Capital. ° “7 nothing? is just as-certain if Mere Ditches Wanted. Never before has there been so ‘ r great a demand upon the South. Yu. for water as 18 The number of ba Canal Companyexperienced now, mining enterprises have for some time been gradually increasing, until the Company finds that its ditches are far tob small to carry the-amount required, The Snow Mountain ditch when running a full head will not supply near enough water to answer thie’ purposes of the miners who rely upon it,and the Caseade ditch should be double its present size to permit of all orders being filled. These are favorable signs of the county's prosperity, The Canal Company are increasing their facilities as rapidly as is practicable, and in time hope to be able to fill whatever orders may be given them for water. -s Afraid of a Drenching. The good people of the lower val-leys were considerablealarmed Wednesday, when they heard that a heavy storm was prevailing in the mountain, regions. The memory of former floods stirred up. the fears -¢f Marysyille folks especially, and their inquiries as to the prospects of our sending another ocean of water down on them came flashing over the wires at frequent intervals during the day. ‘Word reczived from that neighbo:hood yesterday indicated that 10 damage had Yet been done, and con» fidence was_expressed that no ser 0 is results were in store for them. Comparative Rainfall. The’ following is the co.nyarative riinfall of last year and the present season, up to Jan, 23:, <4 . Sept. 78, .69in. Oct. °77, (1:85 in. -. Oct. “* 2532 ine Noy. **. 4.3bin, 4 Nov, “ 2.88 in. Dec. ‘* 2.63 in: . Dee ‘*. 96m. Jan, 23d 10.41 in, . Jan, 23d, 5,00 in. Total rainfall to Jan. 23, ‘7S, 18:72 in. iwio. -—do Jan. 23, 79, 11.85. Diff. in favor of last yéar, 6.87 in, = 2 Missks Ipa D. anp Apa D. Cotsy, twin sestars,. were married in New Hamopshiré.on Christmas Eve, and it isasserted thatthey looked s0 exactly __alike that nobody but. the grooms them ou ajrue, and as we whizged around the corners we often slewedl out tothe very edge of tbe bank, which descended for 309 feet at a sharp angle. tions as to the probabilities and, effects of a. roll into the creek gives Yo indulge in caleulaone a realiding ‘sense of mountam scenery. We soon began to ¢ee the evidences.of the lumberman, ~7An dccasional stump stood out where it was easy to reach; while its neighbors escaped by just heing too hard to get to pay for the long haul. _A_ short turn in the road revealed the mill away below us on the.ereek, which we reached by a detour over a very steep road. In our descent we found-a piece-of work which illustrates the toils of lumbering in the Sierra. In a small ravine a corduroy of. large logs laid on a base ef great trees felled and slid down the hill forthe purpose, had been eonstruetedfor the saw-logs to be hauleddown over,— Half a dozen yoke of patient oxen drag the big “wagon up. ‘It is governed in its downward trip by a break which holds it ancits heavy load with perfect ease. We found comfortable quarters and a warm supper awaiting us—of course there is no luxuyy, no fine carpets, no curtains to catch the dust—a bunk with plenty of good warm blankets is all the hard workers need to “sleep deliciously in the pure mountain air. _ ‘The furniture consists of ‘common pine benches and tables, and” even these are not always as easily obtained as the boys would ‘like. The men logging in’ the woods often build camps of their own, where they can ‘cook and sleep, saving losg trips tothe mill and much time. This arrangement> suits all hands, unléssthey try to furnish themselves from . the scanty supply of, furniture in the mill boarding-house, which they. often do in the middle of the night.— To catch ‘them, at it was a matter of considerable. -interest and the bell: from the neck of a loose 0x was presed into the service, and being nailed to the under side of a mucli_ coveted pine table, scared the thief anil raised the house as it rang away in the middle of the night. and somet.m ‘sa social game of cards, A quiet pipe with one or two soiled weekly newsp pers, fill up the short evenings, for it is early to bed and early to rise, as the saw begins to turn at just 6 o'clock. Next day we took a general turn over the works beginning at the mill which stands at the. junction of two cleat and rapid mountain streams, both of which run through steep and high canyons for miles above. The power used is a water wheel which drags the logs out of the pond.dammed into hold them, puts them on the earriage, picks them up and turns them oter when necessary and runs . them back and forth upon the swift. ly flying saw. The building which encloses the machinery is as unpretentious as it éan be made, Its ends are left open and its sites are only partly cldsed, “A good solid frame’ supports the roof. This flimsy eoncould tell them apart, cern, with its two innocent looking circular saws standing one above the other, can cut 30,000 feet of lumber “every ten hours, and if pressed, could ‘make five million feet a year. ° ; The lumber is run out on a scafSfolding extending from thé saw to the side of .a Vflume twelve miles long. “The slabs and boards are loaded on trucks, the former throwi into a heap, the “latter placed in the -flawne,-dewn whieh they go_ in about anhour toTown Talk, where they . ave piled together and left to dry.— ‘Town ‘Talk is half way’ between Nevada City and Grass Valley. out the V flume all such operations : as this would be impossible. They ; Avenue dp work for three or four bits, whieh+ with teams.would Cost hore than as many dollars. The great question is to get the logs to the mill cheaply. — The means adopted by this company, -as wellas many others;is the horse’ railway. From the mii-pond a track two feet wide ‘runs up the uorth branch of Deer Creek. Small ears} f runup and down here with two. business horses each, carrying trom one to five . logs apiece at the ra . The tramway is qitite a different work itself. many times—ofven near its bed, so that-it-must-be taker ont in-winter+—, at other. places ou high trestles, with plank floors for. the horses’ feet: —~ ‘Again it clings to a ‘narrow bed dug for it. on the canyon wall. ber on the steep side-hills is cut clean to the top of the canyon and snaked down to the landing places with oxen, tramway is extended and sreaches new. tracks. of the work, and would seem to wnhad upon semi-tropical trees in Marysville, the Appeal says: . It is too early to accurately determine how greatly orange, lemon and lime trees have suffered by the late severe céld weasher, that future frosts may not kill all the youngest trees. as thick on Monday evening, the 20th inst., as any time before. if we were asked for judgment as to . effects'to date we would say that very slight damages have occurred to “standard” orapge trees, and that . lemons aid limes ar2 severe sufferers, and in proportien to age. . against the Convention, without -ref; With} t four miles an hour, thus doing the work of four or five ox teams. {t crosses the stream \ t The tam1 As the timberis exhausted, the . 4. eee . ihisis the rough part . practical eyes to be too difficult and . observe its progress, and Russia has serv § 88, ¢ € expensive to be profitable, but so I I . onirwiangedl to take extreme measwell are the means adapted to the . .yres to stop its course. end that the Company expect to get all the timber within five mules of . says that ex-City Tax Gellector Cor-} the mill into the pond at an expense . rj}lo has been vre-arrested, stibseof five dollars per thousand, Following the timber from the build roads and mills, The water . . The tramWagcost high and . Th loss in-warping, . The Company has in the eas¢ . —> +.Freeze at Marysville. M the effect the cold: weather has Besides, we cannot say Ice froze about But ] . five weeks of the time Steadman did rate of<three ort . long a_ time. . that the defalcation, so far as. disstump to the yard at, the flife at} covered, amounts to $17,127—an in‘Towa Talk. the low figures at which the work is done are almost incredible; but the actual cost of cutting and fluming are trifling figures com. pared to-others which enter, into the cost of lumber, *'The first. outlay to secure land, would be nearly $20,000. The flume4 costs $3,000 per mile. which fioats-eut the material-is rented at,$12 per day from the South Yuba Canal. Company. way has cost a lot_of money. ons, oxen and horses wear out fast. splitting and breaking is great and . interferes with dividends very materiadly. aud north-canyon two bodies of timber within easy reach which will keep them cutting for the next ten years, General Notes. : Ex-President. Grant and family sailed Thursday from Marscilles, ‘France, in the French Mail’Steamer ‘Labourdaris for India. Tim Henderson, stage and express agent at Blackfoot, Idaho, and well} known throughout the West, died Thursday morning of rheumatism, A Paris -correspondent. declares that he knows, on the best of authority, that _President’\MacMahon had determined-te-resign if M. Dufaure was ousted and he (MacMahon) deprived of control. * At alarge meeting of the Clinton +J-£ Jacquese City Society, Brooklyn, Wednesday evening, the resignation of Dr. Buddington was Congregational accepted. expressing-tee warmest affection for him. In the examination of Steadman, the San Francisco “bucket shop” operator, it was shown that the first + his prefits were. over $18,000, The day before his failure he took in-$11,200, and he. claims that he paid out $17,000. After a lerig and laborious search . Ewal has at last succeeded: in firtl. ing the San Francisco Boar. of Education, who had “eluded him for so He appeared before them fer examination Wednesday evening, «nd refusing to answer, certain questions, was fined” $800 and sent to-Jail. The plague in Russia is probably extending westward. fromthe lower Volga, but to what extent the telegraph has not yet informed us. Itis+ ‘irilent plague which so the same V often devastated Southern Europe. Scientific men and physicians are going from the various governments to A Los Angeles telegram of the 22d quent investigations having shown crease of $5,450 over the anount, first reported. His bail was -in~ creased to $10,000. Suit was commenced ‘against .his bondsmer, an attachments were levied on their property Thursday. The Idaho Legislative Council passed aresolution on the 22d declaring the organization of the House illegal. ‘This. is the body from which the Republican members withdrew in.a body on the first day of the session, and which the Democrats assumed to organize without having a legalquorum. The present action of the Council is génerally approved, and it certainly is a feather in the = of the Republican members of the-House. — ae Constitutionality Questioned. Arguments in the conteript case . of Creed Hammond et al. vs Judge Eugene Fawcett, Judge of the Fiest District Court, on a writ of certiorari were concluded in.the Supreme Court Wednesday, and the éase submitted. ment A, A. Cohen claimed that if Judge Fawcett was eligible under the Constitution to the office of Delegate to the Constitufional Convention, he was not duly elected thereto, ~because the body sitting at Sacramento and assuming td be a Convention was, not so in law. The Bulletin says this coriclusion was arrived at from the faet-that thepsesent -Constitution. requires that a majority of all. the votes cast should be in fayor of a Convention, while the Legisla——— >< o— — Foot Frozen, A week ago a Grass Valley miner, Hughey McKay, who had been working in-the Meadow Lake District, left there for the purpose of returning home. He was on foot, and in making the journey one of his feet became badly frozen, and at the present time he is laid up with a badly inflamed foot, but there is hope that the member may be saved from amputation.—Union,. = e > ee —--— ‘Phenix Guild Party. » Unfortunately the stormy condihdition of the weather Fhursday~evening interfered somewhat with the attendance at the Guild party,-in. Temperance Halk. Those who were present, however, Say a very pleasant time was had. Messrs» Muller and Hunt was good, and the. ladies ofthe society did The ‘music by ture only provided: for ascertaining how .many votes were cast for or erence to whether the votes for were @-majority of all the votes cast; and as the votes for the Conventien were not a majority of allthe votes cast, the Convention is not a legal body. } New Year’s Calls Net Made, The New York Sun says Mr. Carl Schurz-did not call upon Gen. Phil. Sheridan. Gen. Phil. Sheridan did not call upon Gen. Benjamin Butler. Gen. Benjamin Butler did not call npon Mr. Dennis Kearney. Mr. Dennis Kearney did not call upon Mr. William H. Vanderbilt.~Mr. William H. Vanderbilt did “not call upon the Hon. Jeremiah S. Black. — . The Hon, Jeremiah S. ‘Black did not call upon the Hon. Simon Cameron. The Hon. Simon Cameron did not cat upon the Widow Oliver, DIED.’ everything within their power toadd In Grass Valley, Jan.:22, 1879, William, shi of Adam and Elizabeth Lucen, aged.1 = the enjoyment of those present. year, 3 : 4 re A resolution wassqpanciduprcnes . of business San Francisco, California. y In the course of his argu. ’ _ a, Yesterday's Arrtvals at THE UNION. \NEVADA CITY CAL. Jaceb Naffziger, Preprictor. HC Perkins Malakoff A Burroughs G V J Collier Lowell Hill GN Smith City 4-E Robinson City’ LA Upson Sacra eg ah naker H F Young Providen Mi D D Welch City P Byrne & w City Yesterday's Arrivals at THE NATIONAL HOTEL, NEVADA CITY, CAL. Chas, E. Pearson, Proprictor. A McBride City FM Hathaway City H Cottan.M Fiat U & Lawrerces F C R Hunt City . W Tyner M Fiat H Watgon Derbec Sha T Harris San Juan — C ‘Young w & c Los An GA fiailey City W James City, H Webster Grass Val ies a Assessment Notice. NLORENCE BLUE GRAVEL MINING + Com pany. ‘Location of~ principal place hocas tion of works Hunt's Hill, Nevada County, California. Notice is hereby given, that ata meeting of the Directors, held on the 22d day of January; 1979, an assessment, No. 3, of Three Cents per share was levied upon the capital stock of the Corporation, payabletinmediately in United States gold eoin, to the Secretary at the otfice of the Company. Any stock upon which—this-agsessment shail remain unpaid on the 25th day ot Fcbruary, 1879, will be delinquent, and advertised for sale “at publics i HOTEL, . e Cheap Geods _ AFEBOid at reduced rates and repr represented as first-class at GAYLORD: & “ROBINSON'S; The Man who claims to make moncy by selling goods for less than cost, intends cither to cheat his’ Gisteme crs or DEFRAUD his ertditors, ty We ker He be Bal Wzarrnt every article sold, and.“¢hatlenge competition on payment is made before, will be sold on SatE rices, for urday, the Fifteenth day of March, 1879, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. KF. A. MoGEE, Secretary. Office--Room 32, Merchants’ Exchange, California Street, San Francisco, California, ST, VALENTINE’S PARTY. —— —THE— Young Men’s Sccial Club, _ WILL GIVE A PRIZE CALICO PARTY, AT HUNT'S HALL, NEVADA ciTry, Friday Evening, Feb. 14, 1879. COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEM ENTS; J. E. Brown, c,d. Naffziger, J.D. Fleming, H. V. Rearuan, A. Nivens, H. Murchie, G, W. Hentze, £. M. Browy, L. S. Calkins, Kh, Scott, J, Ke-Broderigky: — G, Nihell, P. C. Byrne, C. Miller, W. Baxter, J. B Gray, 8S. A. Bulfinch, ¥. A. Sackett, M. Sukeforth, ACK. Lerd, ene Three Elegant Prizes, ‘Costing 85 Dollars, will be given to the three ladies wearing the most tasty CALICO costumes. The committee of award to. congist of five gentlemen to be selected from the guests present. : Music by Muller's Full Orchestra. Dancing from 9 to 1 o’vlock. Grand March to commence at 9 o'clock sharp, TICKETS, 32 50. Admission to the Gallery 50 Cents. ; g A cordial invitation is extended to all. January 21, 1879-td * AMERICA'S GRAND NOVELTY. NEVADA THEATRE, Wednesday Evening, Jan. 29th. HE JUSTLY.CELEBRATED and Great Original Mme. Rentz’s Minstrels! And the Superb and Peerless MABEL SANTLEY’S BURLESQUE COMPANY ! Absolutely the most brilliant, novel and atbraving the following gigantic constellation of stars: Mabdel Santley, . Kate Raynham, Marie Pascoe, —. Florie Plimsoll, Emily Hudspeth, May Ten Broeck, From the principal Londdn Theatres. Their first appearance in America, Rosa Lee, Sallie Adams, . Hattie Forest, McDermott Sisters, Lida Kenyon, Lulu Mortimore, . Blanéhe Meader, Juliette Pascal, J. EK. Henshaw, John Gilbert, James Collins, Hi Henry, * Alf Hanson.Presenting a Magnificent Repertoire of European and American Serisatlons. ° TR. Notwithstanding «cthe immense expense, Prices will remain as usual. Reserved seats can be secured at Vinton’s Drug Store, 1 jan24 : Notice to Creditors. . hg OF CONRAD HEINZ, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the ‘indersigned, administrator of the estate of Conrad Heinz, deceased, to the crediters-of and all ‘persons having claims against the said de. ceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within four months after the first publication of this notice, to the said administrator at Truckee, Nevada County, ‘Califori Wa EDWARD J. HEINZ. ia. os Nevada City, January 15, 1579. janl7 Assessment Notice. DALANTE BLUE GRAVEL MINING iA Co, Location of principal place of busineas, Nevada City, California. Location of works, Blue Tent District, Nevada County, California. 5 Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Directors, held on the eighth day of January, 1879, an assessmentt (No. 2,) of fifteen (15) Cents per share was levied upon the-capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately to the Secretary. *‘ Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 17th day of Februaty, 1879, will be delinquent and aivertised for sale at public auction, and unless = bdo: is made befdre, will be sold on yednesday,— March 5th, 1879, to pay the deLinquent assessnient, together with costs of 7. advertising and expenses of sale. , E. W. BIGELOW, Setretary. Racer ae ae tractive entertainment in the world, em-~* . First Crass Coons ' Clap-trap advertisements may win for a while, butwe intend to conduct our business “‘on the square,” 30 as to be able to compete with other responsible firms . for PERE LAGS TRUDE We can sell inferior and dam. aged Goods as cheap as any one . else, but we don’t propose to keep them. We solicit a comparison of qualities and prices. a All bills will be presented for settlement every 30 days. a Gaylord & Robinson . Nevada, Dec. 18, 1873. WILLIAM WOLF’S ! PRICELIST. c= FOR CASHSS Subject to Correction 4 $2 75 Flour, per 100 lbs, . Wheat, per 100 Ibs, 225 Bran, per 100 lbs, 125 Potatoes, per 100 lbs, 250 Crushed Sugar, 7-12 lbs, 100 Brown Sugar, 10 lbs 100 Green Coffee, 6 Ibs 100 Rice, 14 Ibs 100. Beans, 20 lbs 100 Soap, "8 bars 2 Soap, per box 50 Candles, tie # . Candles, perbox 200 Oysters, . 7cansfor1 00 Salmon, 7-cansfor 100 . Tomatoes, 6 cans for 100 Green Corn, 5 cans for” 100 String Beans, 5cansfor 1 00 Green Peas, 4cansfor 100 Kerosene, per gallon, 39 Kerosene, per 5 gallon can 1 50 Bacon, perpound. 131-12 — Good Green Tea 35 English Breakfast, “ ” 50 “ Butter, perpound 121-2 Ck Pi ee a Washing Powder, 3 papers 25 Ground Coffee, per paper 4035 Pearl Barley, 3 pounds Spices; all kinds, per bottle 10 Pickles, per bottle 25. Pickles, 5 gallon kegs 200° Salt Pork, 25 pound kegs 350" Bath Brick, Q2for 29 Everything else in proportio2. WILLIAM WOLF, Main Street; Nevedd City: December 5, 1878, NB — ie & ae i § eee TIME tae . . ene ea. 5 ies There \ Paptist ch The bus et appear Theveis all doing these day Herzin; ela new street, ne The lac win that” “C, party Shortly sun tried Dehind th ed. ‘The sp a ae ‘Onl outd there Sayeek's—¢ Wunder handsom froni Sac They are Hotel. John fireman’ disaster . He recel jread ane mention G. anc FON amend t a deman the. cat ‘ranted ing bee fully ad be. ente plaintiff dict of t fact, an his dees propert: mands, elue him have te ed to pi Court Saturde “Tr Ana at this While» the Tr they 4 mixed er haw “Jon: did not edition Yéster thing weeks . empha the ¢ died a A The neadar writin ty it than . north, ter is yester Bown and a It wa eral ] that. Th TROSt towa: while Seago the] ming

ds THE DAILY TRANSCRIPT. NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA, { ; —s Te BES Jannary 25, 1879. —— pete urday, Mines starts Up. The prevailing st rm has given 4 decidedly brisk appearance to many _. gravel mines already, and work will De-started in all the moment there 1s a steady supply ot water for them. ¥ FLUME LUMBER COMPANY.. Aw Interesting Description of. a Mammoth Nevada City-Enterprise. {Cor, 8. Fi Bulletin, Jan. 20.) ‘ Tn the rough mountains theré are no opportunities for driving logs,outef on side of the Truckee river and , its: . branches. ° The practice #& to plant . the millin the hearts! the .timber where as‘mueh-as possible canbe got to the saw without-any up-hill haalin, trusting to flames or wagon roads to get the lumber out to market.— The Manzanita Company, near 5uley our correspondent recently visited . gar Loaf, were reported tohave commenced washing yesterday _In this . one claim émployment is given to between 40and 50 men, it being the dojirg of the owners to push work a iead as fast as possibie. Hirschman & Co., near fOr: Speake “their property. for all it worth, a3 soon as the Ditch Company can furnish.them water. “At Chalk Bluff, Hussey’s, Hayward's and the Birds-eye Creek Companies. are all making the dirt fly at a lively rate. = The . Cascade ditch: is running @ good-sized head of water, and the following claims will all be in full . Plast shortly, some of them having washing already: the and Florence Co., at Jacobs & Sargent at aud Sim Jordan's at is commenced ‘Camden Co.. “Hunt's Hill; Quaker, Hill; Scott's Flatt. The North one of the representative mills of. California, and saw all the modus operandi, from standing tree to lumber pile. “LeavingNevada City in company WitheMr. Cooper, the Superintendent and Originator of the -enterprise, we reached the_bill, 8miles off, just_at night-fall. sOws.road Ted through an. old miningeeuntry usfar as Scott's Flat, where weforded Deer } Creek, about the middle of our ride. From here the conatry was an unbreken, untraveled wildermess when the . leompany_ went —to work. ‘The-first thing was to build. the road alang . which we row flew at an exciting pace. Thettack wasat intervals wide enough for teams to pass, but most of the way it left-only a few feet between us and the deep canon en our left. The qnly recommendation I cyuld bestow on this piece of _ work isthatitus level. Instead of going Bloomfield and Milton . across any of the points which run ing = a+ A F Companies w Il le gr uling cw; the’ gntside ths canyon, ib euts around vol as fast as ever ul & few hours if there is fiot an ent: rely unig up of the weather. . ——— mre, expected clearit ae Pot Calling Kettle Black. The Bee says: “In the course of the debate in the Coustitutional Convention, Thursday, Reynolds asked, ‘Shall we trust the Legislature 1 Instantly the response ig from all parts of came thunderit {he room ‘No! A member added % 2 = theytmight be trusted for the scrip.’ tt would. seem that Constitutionmakers have: not much admiration for the average le zislator.” And it the. people of California were asked, “Shall we trust the Constitutional Convention in any= thing?’ a shout would immediately come from evey part of the State, ‘ «No, no, no!” The public do not have an exalted idea of the statesameén now at the Capital. ° “7 nothing? is just as-certain if Mere Ditches Wanted. Never before has there been so ‘ r great a demand upon the South. Yu. for water as 18 The number of ba Canal Companyexperienced now, mining enterprises have for some time been gradually increasing, until the Company finds that its ditches are far tob small to carry the-amount required, The Snow Mountain ditch when running a full head will not supply near enough water to answer thie’ purposes of the miners who rely upon it,and the Caseade ditch should be double its present size to permit of all orders being filled. These are favorable signs of the county's prosperity, The Canal Company are increasing their facilities as rapidly as is practicable, and in time hope to be able to fill whatever orders may be given them for water. -s Afraid of a Drenching. The good people of the lower val-leys were considerablealarmed Wednesday, when they heard that a heavy storm was prevailing in the mountain, regions. The memory of former floods stirred up. the fears -¢f Marysyille folks especially, and their inquiries as to the prospects of our sending another ocean of water down on them came flashing over the wires at frequent intervals during the day. ‘Word reczived from that neighbo:hood yesterday indicated that 10 damage had Yet been done, and con» fidence was_expressed that no ser 0 is results were in store for them. Comparative Rainfall. The’ following is the co.nyarative riinfall of last year and the present season, up to Jan, 23:, <4 . Sept. 78, .69in. Oct. °77, (1:85 in. -. Oct. “* 2532 ine Noy. **. 4.3bin, 4 Nov, “ 2.88 in. Dec. ‘* 2.63 in: . Dee ‘*. 96m. Jan, 23d 10.41 in, . Jan, 23d, 5,00 in. Total rainfall to Jan. 23, ‘7S, 18:72 in. iwio. -—do Jan. 23, 79, 11.85. Diff. in favor of last yéar, 6.87 in, = 2 Missks Ipa D. anp Apa D. Cotsy, twin sestars,. were married in New Hamopshiré.on Christmas Eve, and it isasserted thatthey looked s0 exactly __alike that nobody but. the grooms them ou ajrue, and as we whizged around the corners we often slewedl out tothe very edge of tbe bank, which descended for 309 feet at a sharp angle. tions as to the probabilities and, effects of a. roll into the creek gives Yo indulge in caleulaone a realiding ‘sense of mountam scenery. We soon began to ¢ee the evidences.of the lumberman, ~7An dccasional stump stood out where it was easy to reach; while its neighbors escaped by just heing too hard to get to pay for the long haul. _A_ short turn in the road revealed the mill away below us on the.ereek, which we reached by a detour over a very steep road. In our descent we found-a piece-of work which illustrates the toils of lumbering in the Sierra. In a small ravine a corduroy of. large logs laid on a base ef great trees felled and slid down the hill forthe purpose, had been eonstruetedfor the saw-logs to be hauleddown over,— Half a dozen yoke of patient oxen drag the big “wagon up. ‘It is governed in its downward trip by a break which holds it ancits heavy load with perfect ease. We found comfortable quarters and a warm supper awaiting us—of course there is no luxuyy, no fine carpets, no curtains to catch the dust—a bunk with plenty of good warm blankets is all the hard workers need to “sleep deliciously in the pure mountain air. _ ‘The furniture consists of ‘common pine benches and tables, and” even these are not always as easily obtained as the boys would ‘like. The men logging in’ the woods often build camps of their own, where they can ‘cook and sleep, saving losg trips tothe mill and much time. This arrangement> suits all hands, unléssthey try to furnish themselves from . the scanty supply of, furniture in the mill boarding-house, which they. often do in the middle of the night.— To catch ‘them, at it was a matter of considerable. -interest and the bell: from the neck of a loose 0x was presed into the service, and being nailed to the under side of a mucli_ coveted pine table, scared the thief anil raised the house as it rang away in the middle of the night. and somet.m ‘sa social game of cards, A quiet pipe with one or two soiled weekly newsp pers, fill up the short evenings, for it is early to bed and early to rise, as the saw begins to turn at just 6 o'clock. Next day we took a general turn over the works beginning at the mill which stands at the. junction of two cleat and rapid mountain streams, both of which run through steep and high canyons for miles above. The power used is a water wheel which drags the logs out of the pond.dammed into hold them, puts them on the earriage, picks them up and turns them oter when necessary and runs . them back and forth upon the swift. ly flying saw. The building which encloses the machinery is as unpretentious as it éan be made, Its ends are left open and its sites are only partly cldsed, “A good solid frame’ supports the roof. This flimsy eoncould tell them apart, cern, with its two innocent looking circular saws standing one above the other, can cut 30,000 feet of lumber “every ten hours, and if pressed, could ‘make five million feet a year. ° ; The lumber is run out on a scafSfolding extending from thé saw to the side of .a Vflume twelve miles long. “The slabs and boards are loaded on trucks, the former throwi into a heap, the “latter placed in the -flawne,-dewn whieh they go_ in about anhour toTown Talk, where they . ave piled together and left to dry.— ‘Town ‘Talk is half way’ between Nevada City and Grass Valley. out the V flume all such operations : as this would be impossible. They ; Avenue dp work for three or four bits, whieh+ with teams.would Cost hore than as many dollars. The great question is to get the logs to the mill cheaply. — The means adopted by this company, -as wellas many others;is the horse’ railway. From the mii-pond a track two feet wide ‘runs up the uorth branch of Deer Creek. Small ears} f runup and down here with two. business horses each, carrying trom one to five . logs apiece at the ra . The tramway is qitite a different work itself. many times—ofven near its bed, so that-it-must-be taker ont in-winter+—, at other. places ou high trestles, with plank floors for. the horses’ feet: —~ ‘Again it clings to a ‘narrow bed dug for it. on the canyon wall. ber on the steep side-hills is cut clean to the top of the canyon and snaked down to the landing places with oxen, tramway is extended and sreaches new. tracks. of the work, and would seem to wnhad upon semi-tropical trees in Marysville, the Appeal says: . It is too early to accurately determine how greatly orange, lemon and lime trees have suffered by the late severe céld weasher, that future frosts may not kill all the youngest trees. as thick on Monday evening, the 20th inst., as any time before. if we were asked for judgment as to . effects'to date we would say that very slight damages have occurred to “standard” orapge trees, and that . lemons aid limes ar2 severe sufferers, and in proportien to age. . against the Convention, without -ref; With} t four miles an hour, thus doing the work of four or five ox teams. {t crosses the stream \ t The tam1 As the timberis exhausted, the . 4. eee . ihisis the rough part . practical eyes to be too difficult and . observe its progress, and Russia has serv § 88, ¢ € expensive to be profitable, but so I I . onirwiangedl to take extreme measwell are the means adapted to the . .yres to stop its course. end that the Company expect to get all the timber within five mules of . says that ex-City Tax Gellector Cor-} the mill into the pond at an expense . rj}lo has been vre-arrested, stibseof five dollars per thousand, Following the timber from the build roads and mills, The water . . The tramWagcost high and . Th loss in-warping, . The Company has in the eas¢ . —> +.Freeze at Marysville. M the effect the cold: weather has Besides, we cannot say Ice froze about But ] . five weeks of the time Steadman did rate of<three ort . long a_ time. . that the defalcation, so far as. disstump to the yard at, the flife at} covered, amounts to $17,127—an in‘Towa Talk. the low figures at which the work is done are almost incredible; but the actual cost of cutting and fluming are trifling figures com. pared to-others which enter, into the cost of lumber, *'The first. outlay to secure land, would be nearly $20,000. The flume4 costs $3,000 per mile. which fioats-eut the material-is rented at,$12 per day from the South Yuba Canal. Company. way has cost a lot_of money. ons, oxen and horses wear out fast. splitting and breaking is great and . interferes with dividends very materiadly. aud north-canyon two bodies of timber within easy reach which will keep them cutting for the next ten years, General Notes. : Ex-President. Grant and family sailed Thursday from Marscilles, ‘France, in the French Mail’Steamer ‘Labourdaris for India. Tim Henderson, stage and express agent at Blackfoot, Idaho, and well} known throughout the West, died Thursday morning of rheumatism, A Paris -correspondent. declares that he knows, on the best of authority, that _President’\MacMahon had determined-te-resign if M. Dufaure was ousted and he (MacMahon) deprived of control. * At alarge meeting of the Clinton +J-£ Jacquese City Society, Brooklyn, Wednesday evening, the resignation of Dr. Buddington was Congregational accepted. expressing-tee warmest affection for him. In the examination of Steadman, the San Francisco “bucket shop” operator, it was shown that the first + his prefits were. over $18,000, The day before his failure he took in-$11,200, and he. claims that he paid out $17,000. After a lerig and laborious search . Ewal has at last succeeded: in firtl. ing the San Francisco Boar. of Education, who had “eluded him for so He appeared before them fer examination Wednesday evening, «nd refusing to answer, certain questions, was fined” $800 and sent to-Jail. The plague in Russia is probably extending westward. fromthe lower Volga, but to what extent the telegraph has not yet informed us. Itis+ ‘irilent plague which so the same V often devastated Southern Europe. Scientific men and physicians are going from the various governments to A Los Angeles telegram of the 22d quent investigations having shown crease of $5,450 over the anount, first reported. His bail was -in~ creased to $10,000. Suit was commenced ‘against .his bondsmer, an attachments were levied on their property Thursday. The Idaho Legislative Council passed aresolution on the 22d declaring the organization of the House illegal. ‘This. is the body from which the Republican members withdrew in.a body on the first day of the session, and which the Democrats assumed to organize without having a legalquorum. The present

action of the Council is génerally approved, and it certainly is a feather in the = of the Republican members of the-House. — ae Constitutionality Questioned. Arguments in the conteript case . of Creed Hammond et al. vs Judge Eugene Fawcett, Judge of the Fiest District Court, on a writ of certiorari were concluded in.the Supreme Court Wednesday, and the éase submitted. ment A, A. Cohen claimed that if Judge Fawcett was eligible under the Constitution to the office of Delegate to the Constitufional Convention, he was not duly elected thereto, ~because the body sitting at Sacramento and assuming td be a Convention was, not so in law. The Bulletin says this coriclusion was arrived at from the faet-that thepsesent -Constitution. requires that a majority of all. the votes cast should be in fayor of a Convention, while the Legisla——— >< o— — Foot Frozen, A week ago a Grass Valley miner, Hughey McKay, who had been working in-the Meadow Lake District, left there for the purpose of returning home. He was on foot, and in making the journey one of his feet became badly frozen, and at the present time he is laid up with a badly inflamed foot, but there is hope that the member may be saved from amputation.—Union,. = e > ee —--— ‘Phenix Guild Party. » Unfortunately the stormy condihdition of the weather Fhursday~evening interfered somewhat with the attendance at the Guild party,-in. Temperance Halk. Those who were present, however, Say a very pleasant time was had. Messrs» Muller and Hunt was good, and the. ladies ofthe society did The ‘music by ture only provided: for ascertaining how .many votes were cast for or erence to whether the votes for were @-majority of all the votes cast; and as the votes for the Conventien were not a majority of allthe votes cast, the Convention is not a legal body. } New Year’s Calls Net Made, The New York Sun says Mr. Carl Schurz-did not call upon Gen. Phil. Sheridan. Gen. Phil. Sheridan did not call upon Gen. Benjamin Butler. Gen. Benjamin Butler did not call npon Mr. Dennis Kearney. Mr. Dennis Kearney did not call upon Mr. William H. Vanderbilt.~Mr. William H. Vanderbilt did “not call upon the Hon. Jeremiah S. Black. — . The Hon, Jeremiah S. ‘Black did not call upon the Hon. Simon Cameron. The Hon. Simon Cameron did not cat upon the Widow Oliver, DIED.’ everything within their power toadd In Grass Valley, Jan.:22, 1879, William, shi of Adam and Elizabeth Lucen, aged.1 = the enjoyment of those present. year, 3 : 4 re A resolution wassqpanciduprcnes . of business San Francisco, California. y In the course of his argu. ’ _ a, Yesterday's Arrtvals at THE UNION. \NEVADA CITY CAL. Jaceb Naffziger, Preprictor. HC Perkins Malakoff A Burroughs G V J Collier Lowell Hill GN Smith City 4-E Robinson City’ LA Upson Sacra eg ah naker H F Young Providen Mi D D Welch City P Byrne & w City Yesterday's Arrivals at THE NATIONAL HOTEL, NEVADA CITY, CAL. Chas, E. Pearson, Proprictor. A McBride City FM Hathaway City H Cottan.M Fiat U & Lawrerces F C R Hunt City . W Tyner M Fiat H Watgon Derbec Sha T Harris San Juan — C ‘Young w & c Los An GA fiailey City W James City, H Webster Grass Val ies a Assessment Notice. NLORENCE BLUE GRAVEL MINING + Com pany. ‘Location of~ principal place hocas tion of works Hunt's Hill, Nevada County, California. Notice is hereby given, that ata meeting of the Directors, held on the 22d day of January; 1979, an assessment, No. 3, of Three Cents per share was levied upon the capital stock of the Corporation, payabletinmediately in United States gold eoin, to the Secretary at the otfice of the Company. Any stock upon which—this-agsessment shail remain unpaid on the 25th day ot Fcbruary, 1879, will be delinquent, and advertised for sale “at publics i HOTEL, . e Cheap Geods _ AFEBOid at reduced rates and repr represented as first-class at GAYLORD: & “ROBINSON'S; The Man who claims to make moncy by selling goods for less than cost, intends cither to cheat his’ Gisteme crs or DEFRAUD his ertditors, ty We ker He be Bal Wzarrnt every article sold, and.“¢hatlenge competition on payment is made before, will be sold on SatE rices, for urday, the Fifteenth day of March, 1879, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. KF. A. MoGEE, Secretary. Office--Room 32, Merchants’ Exchange, California Street, San Francisco, California, ST, VALENTINE’S PARTY. —— —THE— Young Men’s Sccial Club, _ WILL GIVE A PRIZE CALICO PARTY, AT HUNT'S HALL, NEVADA ciTry, Friday Evening, Feb. 14, 1879. COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEM ENTS; J. E. Brown, c,d. Naffziger, J.D. Fleming, H. V. Rearuan, A. Nivens, H. Murchie, G, W. Hentze, £. M. Browy, L. S. Calkins, Kh, Scott, J, Ke-Broderigky: — G, Nihell, P. C. Byrne, C. Miller, W. Baxter, J. B Gray, 8S. A. Bulfinch, ¥. A. Sackett, M. Sukeforth, ACK. Lerd, ene Three Elegant Prizes, ‘Costing 85 Dollars, will be given to the three ladies wearing the most tasty CALICO costumes. The committee of award to. congist of five gentlemen to be selected from the guests present. : Music by Muller's Full Orchestra. Dancing from 9 to 1 o’vlock. Grand March to commence at 9 o'clock sharp, TICKETS, 32 50. Admission to the Gallery 50 Cents. ; g A cordial invitation is extended to all. January 21, 1879-td * AMERICA'S GRAND NOVELTY. NEVADA THEATRE, Wednesday Evening, Jan. 29th. HE JUSTLY.CELEBRATED and Great Original Mme. Rentz’s Minstrels! And the Superb and Peerless MABEL SANTLEY’S BURLESQUE COMPANY ! Absolutely the most brilliant, novel and atbraving the following gigantic constellation of stars: Mabdel Santley, . Kate Raynham, Marie Pascoe, —. Florie Plimsoll, Emily Hudspeth, May Ten Broeck, From the principal Londdn Theatres. Their first appearance in America, Rosa Lee, Sallie Adams, . Hattie Forest, McDermott Sisters, Lida Kenyon, Lulu Mortimore, . Blanéhe Meader, Juliette Pascal, J. EK. Henshaw, John Gilbert, James Collins, Hi Henry, * Alf Hanson.Presenting a Magnificent Repertoire of European and American Serisatlons. ° TR. Notwithstanding «cthe immense expense, Prices will remain as usual. Reserved seats can be secured at Vinton’s Drug Store, 1 jan24 : Notice to Creditors. . hg OF CONRAD HEINZ, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the ‘indersigned, administrator of the estate of Conrad Heinz, deceased, to the crediters-of and all ‘persons having claims against the said de. ceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within four months after the first publication of this notice, to the said administrator at Truckee, Nevada County, ‘Califori Wa EDWARD J. HEINZ. ia. os Nevada City, January 15, 1579. janl7 Assessment Notice. DALANTE BLUE GRAVEL MINING iA Co, Location of principal place of busineas, Nevada City, California. Location of works, Blue Tent District, Nevada County, California. 5 Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Board of Directors, held on the eighth day of January, 1879, an assessmentt (No. 2,) of fifteen (15) Cents per share was levied upon the-capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately to the Secretary. *‘ Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 17th day of Februaty, 1879, will be delinquent and aivertised for sale at public auction, and unless = bdo: is made befdre, will be sold on yednesday,— March 5th, 1879, to pay the deLinquent assessnient, together with costs of 7. advertising and expenses of sale. , E. W. BIGELOW, Setretary. Racer ae ae tractive entertainment in the world, em-~* . First Crass Coons ' Clap-trap advertisements may win for a while, butwe intend to conduct our business “‘on the square,” 30 as to be able to compete with other responsible firms . for PERE LAGS TRUDE We can sell inferior and dam. aged Goods as cheap as any one . else, but we don’t propose to keep them. We solicit a comparison of qualities and prices. a All bills will be presented for settlement every 30 days. a Gaylord & Robinson . Nevada, Dec. 18, 1873. WILLIAM WOLF’S ! PRICELIST.. c= FOR CASHSS Subject to Correction 4 $2 75 Flour, per 100 lbs, . Wheat, per 100 Ibs, 225 Bran, per 100 lbs, 125 Potatoes, per 100 lbs, 250 Crushed Sugar, 7-12 lbs, 100 Brown Sugar, 10 lbs 100 Green Coffee, 6 Ibs 100 Rice, 14 Ibs 100. Beans, 20 lbs 100 Soap, "8 bars 2 Soap, per box 50 Candles, tie # . Candles, perbox 200 Oysters, . 7cansfor1 00 Salmon, 7-cansfor 100 . Tomatoes, 6 cans for 100 Green Corn, 5 cans for” 100 String Beans, 5cansfor 1 00 Green Peas, 4cansfor 100 Kerosene, per gallon, 39 Kerosene, per 5 gallon can 1 50 Bacon, perpound. 131-12 — Good Green Tea 35 English Breakfast, “ ” 50 “ Butter, perpound 121-2 Ck Pi ee a Washing Powder, 3 papers 25 Ground Coffee, per paper 4035 Pearl Barley, 3 pounds Spices; all kinds, per bottle 10 Pickles, per bottle 25. Pickles, 5 gallon kegs 200° Salt Pork, 25 pound kegs 350" Bath Brick, Q2for 29 Everything else in proportio2. WILLIAM WOLF, Main Street; Nevedd City: December 5, 1878, NB — ie & ae i § eee TIME tae . . ene ea. 5 ies There \ Paptist ch The bus et appear Theveis all doing these day Herzin; ela new street, ne The lac win that” “C, party Shortly sun tried Dehind th ed. ‘The sp a ae ‘Onl outd there Sayeek's—¢ Wunder handsom froni Sac They are Hotel. John fireman’ disaster . 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