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May 25, 1871 (4 pages)

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" ~ 1 ap a a on a Me ein -* faytremcesie “THURSDAY, «MAY 25, 1871. aE T. OURO eae The beds ot sacient rivers, now filled with aurterods gravel, being tar above ‘the beds of the present rivers that cross thém, a fallte “afforded by which the tailing# are: disposed’of’ after the first. washing. Flumes as long as possible ‘are provided in which the washings may be dissolved and the gold collected. Sometimes the tailings are caught by means of dams’ in ravines or guiches, atter one washing, and allowed to lie and decompose, when they are again sluiced with satisfactory resalts.— Where the.gravel is cemented, or con» tains pipe clay, a. great. deal of. gold is carried through tlie gluice and lost. A Rugsian engineer, says the Bulletin, sent out by his Government ‘to examine and report upon our modes of mins ing, after conducting u series of ex~ periments, concluded that twenty-six per cent. of the gold was wasted in the first washing of the gravel of the Bine Lead. He. expressed the belief that no such wasteful system would be tolerated in any other country. The second washing of rich gravel has generally paid, and a tail sluice has come to be regarded as among the very best _property in the mining region. _ It has often. bewn necessary to run the. tailing from extensive diggings into the bed of a river or lesser stream to which there is little descent. -piled—ten;-twenty;—fifty, and—even—a hundred feet:dvep, for-mi'es in length. That good things of this kind are left untouched does not seém strange when it is eoneldéréd that old miners, who have sven the uncertainties attending their calling, grow cautious, and even cowardly, and when it is considered there.ia little capital in the mining region. The successtul operater, generally, invests his spare cash elsewhere. The country is full of wen who have made lucky strikes in the mines and have gone elsewhere to enjoy their for. tunes. So nearly universal is the rule, ( that no portion of the country has less capital than that which has produced enough of it to sensibly affect values the world over, and no.secticn has less faculties to obtain it, Young: men who can spare a few years, or men with abundant capital and enterprise, and discretion to use it, cao find a theatre for operations in the mining region. Thus we account for good things remaining untouched, Mining is becoming more of a science. Well, directed capital and: labor are more sure of success. And in no kind of mining is success-more suré than in working large, deposits.of . tailings, whith ‘have been washed but once. The miner always kuiows what ie ahead ofhim. (If he cats away rock to get at his prize he can calculate what is is, and what will’be the cost, He can cons fidently count on no barren plades of great extent in bis lead.’ “He tan lear the nature of the ground he owns, and eat know ‘all the difficulties in advance. Let him obtain the «requisite grade for his flame, look oat fora place to discharge the gravel, that: it -maynot back up on him, anchor bis flame securely, that the floods of winter may not wash it away, and he ie all right. metimes but a small sam is neck essuty to make an extensive. deposit Pa , and at the same time afford tice for working claims above; for which much would be gladly paid. Sometimes a large amount of capital is required, but the prospect of good re. turné is greater than in thousands of cases where money is expended biidaly and without stint, The object of th article ig te attract attention toienterprises of a character divested as ‘much . aa. possible of a gambling nature, and . among them are sdch as these of which we write. As an instance of enterprise in the. way of tail eluiging; and in the right direction, may be mentioned a om jer, 8 gtade = =e . stores of gold and quicksilver saved, . avoided anil general convenience for There . ¥ ” the accumulations of yeara have been jg PAPPesr_ to entertain much respect tain by s of @ tmngel not m cheats alee in length, by whitch mile ° tailings which have been accumuléting, for years, can be washed, and their . dreds of fst higher a: of the The Timber Lands. It is a notable fact that while some} ef the cow county and San Francisco joarnals have opposed the Timber Land bill proposed by Sargent jn the dast Congress, those who are employed in the business universally indorse the measure, and immense petitions in its favor were sent to Congress. _A cor~ respondent writing from Meadow Lake township, speaking of the lumbering business, says; “The lumbering business is being vigorously ‘prosecuted in the. vicinity-of the Truckee, with a large demand from Nevada und Utah. In this branch of business the prospects are better than for two years past. The people are anxious: for the passage of the-timber land bill, so that the timber may be had by reasonable and fair means. As it now stands, everybody is partaking promiscavusly of timber on the public lands, from which the Government derives no benefit ; and it is almost necessarily so, because timber and Jumber thust be had; Homes and shelter in timberless countries demand it, but when the land is in market, then the Government wil! receive pay . therefor, and much treuble will be the public secured.” Every shingle nes carey maker, and many who -use and manufacture lumber, remember the annoyance ‘that was occasioned some two yeafs since about the stampage in this county. The law which was then sought to be enforced was passed by the Democracy and is still upon the statute book. Tts enforcement would ruin every man in the State who has occasion to cut timber from the public lands, and all who resist would be liable to be brought before. the United States Courts. I+ was to remove the hardships imposed by the law that the Timber Land bill was designed, That bill unfortunately did not pass, and that men cuts ting timber upon the public lands are permitted to do uo, is owing entirely . to the forbearance of the national au~ thorities. Should officers less disposed to do justly get command of affairs and enforce the Jaw, ‘the entire lumbering business would be ruined, Lam, bermen, shake and shingle makers, and in fact all who.cut -timber upon .the public lands understand this, and there. fore heartily endorse the Timber Land bill as proposed by Congressman Sargent. CRAWFORD IN CoLusa.—The Democracy have been trying the Crawford county plan in Colusa county. As we 1,200 votes, and Johnson 167, making a total ‘of 1,367 votes. As the entire vote of Colusa in the: Presidential can» vaes for both parties was only 1,088, }: and of that number the Democratic vote was 699, the recent contest shows how well the Democracy can handle the Crawford plan in a single handed fight, As the Crawford plan enables the people to select their own ‘sandi‘dates, of course there was no chance for fraud, even in Colusa. If the friends of Haight .oaly continue to grow .as they have in Colusa, he is bound te get the nomination, for Governor. and if it, were not for the fact that voting in the general election ‘must be dene in each county at the same time, the Colusa experiment shows that bis elec~ tion as Governor would be sure. Evidently some of the sovereigns in Colu-. a have been voting éarly and éften. Nerina, Tue San Joaquin Valley Argus does not ‘brethren :the Examiner and the . Plater Herald, nor does it manifest any peculiar reverence or affection for His . a8 “the bigoted slaves of Governor t,” dalle: them his . “satellites,” Ss dare.to differ with Gov.’ . The Standard gives the following ac— have already stated Haight reoaiveis of water on a large mass of molten ‘Roper AT WaeaTiann. —Thursy last the house of Miss Maty . b at Wheatland, . tobbed of $380 . nd @ silver watch. Miss Ballon hay‘ing notified the police at ‘Marysville, they set nbout ferreting out the robber’ : count of their operations: Henry Clay~ ton, a painter, wel) kpown Aere, been engaged at papering Miss Bal. lon’s house and suspicien at once fell on him. Clayton, it was ascertained ‘after the arrest, left Wheatland for Marysville on Friday afternoon, and took the Vallejo train on Saturday morning, Thenext day Deputy Maring been informed by a telegram from ‘Officer Hogan of the facts) arrested and on Sunday brought the prisoner back to Wheatland, via. Sacramento. On arrividg at Wheatland, the officer and prisoner got off the cars and went into James E Moody's saloon. It soon be. came noised sbout that the robber of Miss Ballon was at the station, and the crowd increased rapidly. There was talk of taking him out to the first live "oak treé and hanging thescamp: ~The} officer became alarmed, and by a strategic movement took the prisoner intoa buggy and drove into this city, delivering the man safely at the Station House last evening. The -watch and $250 of the $380 were found on Clayton. “The disposal of the remainder of the tained. Pouiricau Irems.—In Los Angeles Mon day the Democratic primary election re sujted in a victory for the Haight delegates, __ ‘The following are the nominees of the: Democrac; in Colusa’ for county offices: John Boggs for joint Senator ; J. B. Stanton, Sheriff; G. G, . Crandall, County Clerk ;8.-D. Wall, District. Attorney ; W.N. Hurd, Assessor; E. J. Edwards, Coun ty School Superintendent; W. L. Knox’ . Coroner and public Administrator; C. Kopp, Supervisor. For nominee for County Judge the vote was close between Messrs. Shepardson and: Spaulding. Jesse O. Goodwin, of, Marysville, has determined to leave the gubernatorial contest to Booth and Selby, and has entered the Congressional arena in the Third District. Curtna THE ScuRvY, —A writer in 1850 a party of winersin the mountains of Eldorado, prospecting in aa isolated place where they were without fresh meats and vegetable food, were afflicted with scurvy. Six of the worst cases were planted in the earth up te with a chew of tobacco apiece. The result of this attempt at earth cure might have been happy, but for the fact that in the. night coyotes came along and a‘e off all the six heads. A NEGRO very foolishly threw a buckiron ina rojling mill at Paducah, Ky.. a few days since, when a terrific explos sion occurred, throwing the hot metal’ in large flakes in every. direction, and setting fire to the, building. Nobody was hurt, but the darkey had his.
clothes nearly all burned off him. TuE boys of the Troy polytechnic institute have been denied: admission wo the national college rowing associa~ tion, becguse their institution is “only a school.” Naturally they are very mad about. A MAN eating his dianer at Boston, parently dead, but doctor epened his esophagus, took out 9, big chank of meat, andthe man is now as well as ever. ar do are now refiaing yellow Peravian sugar at the rate of ten tons per day. They have yet a considerable quantity . Governor Haight: < It speaks of the fore} their cellar, irom which shey will real~, : ise considerable pagar, 3 A. MAN out West committed suizide: recently by drowning in six’ inches Of oT wales, He. could not have denesis alone, but his wife, Deyn NZ ‘stolen money ($130) is yet to be aseer~ . their neeke and left-alone over night . this SCANDINAVIAN saudi appears to bi gh oak’ ‘It was the fargestda . en the numbers rea about 404 from Sweden, and 4,0 froth Norway. Last season’ there was a congjderable redaction, the umber being hardly half thatin the previous . ann years mentioned. At the rate imigrants are now, coming, the number Knights Landing. Davisville, ete, had wilt be much farger than ast year, though not-as large as in 1969. Many of them are farmers who have sold off . everything at home with the intention uf reinvesting in farm lands on their arrival in the United states. Mouwr Diasxo. —'The Solano Republican ig authority for the subjoined: Theodore shall Isaac A. Shields, of Vallejo, (hav~ . 37, Hittell, author uf Hittell’s Digest, has located 160 acres of land on the summit of Mount Diablo, and intends erecting an observatory for the accommodation of viewists. Woodward is intending to buildea hotel on Deer Flat—on the side of the mountain—for the accommodation of tour iste. Two hundred people on Nantucket Island are employed during the winter in taking clams, which are sold fer $10 per barrel. Last season about 1,400 barrels were shipped. from the island. ome For County Clerk. J, ROGERS, present @ &@ candidate for te-nomination to the ofof County Clerk of County, subtothe decision of the Democratic NomiConvention. ° my26 Republican County Committee. OTICE is here given that s meeting < " PIC ie herby Central it =. City, on Satur. 3d, 1871, at 2 o’clock, Pp. m., for the Pp of fixing a day for the County Contransaction of other importCOUNTY BOARD OF EXAMINATION ee OTICE is hereby that « meeting o# City, commencing on: Wednesday, June Jth, wen at 10 o'clock a. M.,. and continuing through the 8th, and 9th. All parties desiring certifiestes as Teachers, or ts for renewal of to present themsel for examination on the first day of the eet "a Countly pt. of Public Schoo Nevada, May 24th, 1 ‘ For County ara ULIUS GREENW. announced Bi fy + hogy ony hoip lly len Treas. urer, subject to the Democratic Convention. my USIOA M SICAL Ae AND vVoWill give an Evening’ hfertainmnent at he" CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. veld sis S Thumiay. Brning. ey ai . aa 07, Aleve of ea Sig sola ‘TICKETS FIFTY ‘CENTS: / m0 May 8th, fell back ingengible and aps}: NOTICE Te caEDrrens.)_ ee SURE doe of syrup made of last’ ‘yeur’s parent abt Yo » incumbent, will be . . q e eclipsed all rivalry, ee demand for it has increased in heavier and heavier mS ee ot: last, the regular sales of this preparation exceed those of all other -stomachics combined. bminént members of ‘the medical proféssion and hospital surgeons without number, have candidly sdmitred that the pharmacopaeia of the faculty contains no prescription that produces such beneficixl etfects in dyspepsia, general debility and nervous diséases, as Hoéstetter’s Bitters. To use the language of a venerable physician of New York,.“‘The Bitters are the. purest stimulant and the safest tonic we have.. But the. u-es of the great vegetable antidote are much more comprehensive than such praise would ‘mply. As 4 preparatory antidote'te epidemic disease. &@ genial stimulant, a promoter of constitutional vigor; an appetizer, a stomachic, and a remedy for nervous debility, no mediciuai preparation has ever attained the reputation Of Hoatetter’s Bitters. 1t is the housebold tonic of the American people, and in all buman probability will be so for centuries to come. The magnates of science recognize ite merits; and that it is emphatically the medicine or ‘the masses, is proved by its Vast and ever increasing sales. ‘PAIN KILLER! PERRY DAVIS & SON. ,PROVIDENCE, R. I. PROPRIETORS. 184% 1871. + —Tfravelers-are8 aye-Hable. to sudden™at= i tacks Of Lysentery und Choiera Morbus, aid Unese Occurring when absent irom hole, are Very unpleasant. ‘ie Pain KILLER may ai ways be relied upon in such ¢anes, Ax soun. 4a you-teel the syinptouns, lake une teuspoun-— tnd in &@ gill of pew MU and mvlasses uua « gull Of how water, stir Wel Logether and drink — the dose every bour until re— he df the pais -bevere, bathe we . bOWSis and back with the Meaicwe cicar, in cases of Asthma and Putuwic, take a teaspoonful in a gilt o: hut water sweetened well with. molasses; also bathe the stoumacu and throat taichiuily with the medicine, clear. thy S--Lb takes ORG eoTenCES ti Tp taper than siilbidien be cver ay, 80 Often’ e i to hurts having their’ sain pierced with hooas, a ni can be relieved by bathing wii 88 8000 Se the accident vtcur: , in Sg the anguish is soon abatea ; bathe are . 48 Uilen as ORC 1h ve mibutce, way Laree ur four tunes, and you will seldom have any truuable, ‘Lhe bites and scratches of dogs ‘and cats are soup og 1 by bathing witn tue Pau Maller ch e DEDICATION BALL. A GRAND BALL will be given by the MASONIC AND ODD FELLOWS BRATERNITIES, wN THEIR NEW HALL, AT MOORE'S FLAT, Tuesday Eve'g; July 4th, 1871. ‘+, With ese: is pro to public are cordially inyi eteend.” t} eRe z. Geraci iy 7 pave re eee te) Ch, Allenberg, ! -C, Clark, : TA Glee, . oh. Alleuberg. ~ —— Allen . m West. W.Dy Lang, yy Perk ‘WOOLSEY’ . W, * ’ John Lane, i —— Lo *‘Buzzing.' buzzing am county. TI! be held on effort is bei in this coun as numeroy they may 8 gation, bat dent of, sac are offered. cure the co) Convention Grass Valic cation of ar eality. Th will havea township. “ly much ia order of i The Conon Everybod: be given by. gational ( Chi stay away wi Index, speak says: Notw: alded his wo ist, and perf prepared for If eloquence to-music; M Music, forh ing the sim] an irresista over the m less. complet of kindness ston, bub tl with a path most indese We state McElvy, . made appl ’ tration in . deveased, _ such appli a brother « cation for: been set fo Le ' Binklem teet on Bo township. & Peter J 2,640 feet and Ready ing purpor The Diffe: Passeng came by f this city o'clock.reached the stage. ning the « nounced 2 tion for C ooratic..C good Cler his electic to the zi Just thi @o and _etore,at t viuky, -€ " alll goods atyle, and to bay. dreds goo mings, et ments in