November 5, 1879 (4 pages)

The Daily Granseript, NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA. Bald Mountain Extension Co. ey The Bald Mountain Extension company. Forest City, Sierra coun= ty, are againin sof; rock with their Wednesday, Nov. 5h, 1879. were center ere scene rte ~New Mining Incerporation. The Consolidated Lome Tree Gold Mining Company, whose claim is located at Forest Springs, have filed articles 01, incorp ration. The capital stoc< has been divided inte 50,yO shares at a par value of $2 per share, a portion of which will at once be put on the market at $1 per share rder-te-raise a -working capital. eo itr-Ortr tunnel in over tweive hundred feet. ‘For the first thousand feet only fifty feet iti a lof hard rock was encountered, and but ten of that at one . point. -More time has necessarily ‘been consumed runring the last two hundred feet, owing to one side of the tunnel being obstructed by hard granite, requiring considerable blasting and a most vigorous application of muscle. The steady increase in richness of the far-famed and extensive gravel lead of the adjoining The Directors are B. W. Dorne, Pat+ rick‘Murphy, Wm, Ahearn, J. F. ‘Noya and Benj. Courant. Patrick Hennessy is assogiated with the above as one of the incorporators. The Consolidated Lone Trice is a quartz enterprise that during its short career has produced some resultsthat are ‘astonishing even im this land of gold-ladened ore. Last summer atunnel was run 168 feet, tappingvthe ledge, which was found to vary from 30 to 36 inches in thiekness, at a depth of 26 feet below the ~gurface There were.no croppings to guide the prospectors intheir work, and had they not possessed ualimited faith in the general character of the country they would never have ‘ undertaken the task of running for the blind chute, After reaching the ledge in this tunnel, they sunk on it for about four feet-and took out between one and two tons of crystalized rock carrying decomposed sulphurets, that is richer than anyone who has not seen it can readily believe A large number of the average spect imens brought to the Trs Nseripr otfice yesterday and subjected to a careful examination showed all thro’ them large streaks of free gold.— _Qchre taken from the lead pays ‘all the way from $3 to $10.50 per pan, according ,to the owners of the claim, , who say that any one is at liberty to make test washings if they so désire. . After running down. on the ciute four feet water began coming in so heavy that operations had to be suspended there. A new tunnel was at once started to strike the iedge at a depth of 120 feet. 112 feet of this distance has been run, leaving 338 feet yet to yo. Two shifts of men are pushing the new tunnel along es rapidly as possible, and next week the force will be increased to three shifts. of the incorporation can be disposed As soon as sultlicient stock of it is the purpose. to erect a mill, and develop the claim on. an e:.tensive scale, If the ledge holds its own to aconsiderable depth, as there seem to be good indications of its doing, it will prove one of the richest mings in the county. oe — Kaspectivg the Claims, Sunday about twenty persons, including the Directors of and stockholders in the enterprise, visited the Adalante gravel mining claim, which is located:four and a half miles north of town between the Blue Tent and Round Mountain mines. The object of their visit was to make a careful inspection of the ground, on whieh some prospecting has already beeii done, and determine,the most practicable point to recommence operations. All present appeared to be encouraged with what was seen,— Next Saturday afternoon the Compa: ny will hafd a meeting and decide whether it will be more advisable to erect works and continue to sink for: bed-rock in the present shaft, or run a tunnel into the ridge for the purpose of striking the channel. It certainly seems as though should either p'an be adopt: d, the blue gravel lead must be eventually gleveloped, for it has been traced close up to the Adalante claim. The property is in the hands of -experienced and enterprising men, . > *The Road to San Juan, Uncle Peter Purdon was in town yesterday. Speaking of wagon road communication between San Juan and the Narrow Gauge railroad, he says that the projected route from Grass Valley would be eighteen miles in length, or five miles longer than the present one from Nevada. He adds that the contemplated outlay of $6,000 in improving the latter will make it one of the best roads in the county, and that $25,000 will not cover the expense of constructing the route from Grass Valley, Ira witling isa Hittle wit, @ scantling must te a little scant, almost beyond a doubt an. indefinite continuation of the blue lead chan‘nek through-the-entire length of the ridge to Sierra City and'Gold Lake. The narrower these, aucient river channels, the larger and more numerous sre the heavy nuggets of, gold therein found. “The: tunnel is being now‘rapidly peshed -ahe: 1.— ‘Three shifts ot eight hours each are steadily employed. Under the direction of the contractors: the timbering is most efficiently done, and the track laid in an air line with scarcely an hair breadth’s variation. It is pronounced by old miners thereabouts to-be thus far the -best constructed tunrel.in the county. The dimensio.s are seven by twelve feet. When this mine has been fairly opened it will afford steady and remunerative employment for years to at least one hundied and fifty men that will give a magical stimulus to the future growth and prosperity of Sievra. The owners are mostly old Fresidents .ef Downieville, substantially backed with abundance of capital, rendering them independent of even of the bonanza princes of San Francisco. None of the stock is for sale at any price. The Sierra boys have our bést wishes prosperity. ‘or continu i — ae ~. Sudden Death of a Pioneer. John L. is who has been a resident of Nevada county for more than a quarter of a century past, trees of various kinds, affordiny lumFlat, at the head died suddeaty at his ranch on Gold of Peck’s ravine, ‘esterday morning at about 11 . been actively engaged in various o'clock. Early-in the day, before rising from bed, he hed spoken of not feeling quite as. well as usual, but Cid not comp ain of any serious trouble. working on a buildingthat was being After breakfast he commenced rected on the ranch, and nothing unusual was observed in his actions until after 10 o’clock, when he suddenly became, delirious, and a few moments afterwards lost the power of speech. Some of the family agsisted him into the house, and sent at ouce for Dr. Welch and Father Meagher. Before the priest and physician had arvived he was dead, Apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause of death. 2 . During his residence in Nevada . county, since 1853, deceased had quartz mining enterprises, besides conducting his ranch, He was held in high esteem for his good qualities of head and heart, and ranked among our best citizens. He leaves a wife, two daughters and two sons to mourn his sudden departure. Three of the children resides in this vicinity, and one of the daughters lives in Plumas county, Meney Paid in. The following amounts have been paid into County Treasurer Payne since October 7th: R. Huckins, road tax Bridgepoit township, $102.60. J. W. Peters, road tax Grass Valley township, $24.30. J. A. Noel, road tax Meadow Lake township, $280.40, J. S. Fowler, special money for Banner Hill school district, $175. H. Davis,~ fives in criminal Cases, $10. : W. H. Smith, sale of county furniture at auction, $13.25. : B. F. Snell, road tax Little York township, $13.50. 8. B. Crawford, road tax Washington tow iship, $87. J. D. White, Clerk’s fees, $250.15. John A. Rapp, Recorder's fees. $310.95. W. H. Montgomery, Sherifi’s fees, $274.61. J.D. White, Auditor's fees, $12, J. N, Payne, licenses, $163.80, W. H. Montgomery, fines $24. G. 8. 8; Getchell, road tax Nevada township, $456.30. Lotter from Wathing.on Territe-7 sources. Eastern Oregon also is a beautiful country and the immigration this year will not fall below six thousand people. around Wal'a Walla is about _fiftyseventy miles long. This immerse tract of land, as you are aware, is pa‘tly in W:.shington Ter. and partly in Eastern Oregon. The-country ple suppose. Nearly all this vast traet of.country will produce from 25 to 60 bushels of wheat to the acre. Last week I went in company with Mr. Inge to the couaty seat of Umatilla via Pendleton, 40 miles from Walla \\.ia. Wepassed through the Indian ReservaZioa which is 24 miles square, bounded on the northeast by Wild Horse creek. Itisa beautiful tract of land, covered with brnch grass almost knee high. The soil is very rich and it is said that all the reservation, if t.lled and sowed in grain, would produce fifty bushels to the acre. This reservation is to be thrown open to settlers sho ly. When we came back from Pendleton, we came through the country outside the reservation, which is partly under cultivation, and equal to the Walla Wal'a valley is very picturesque with its level _ lains, rolling hills, beautistreams and rivers whose banks are reservation in all respects. clothed with willows andevergreens. The Blue mountains loom up in the back ground clothed in beautiful tall ber and rails for the. settlers of the valley, Iu winter taese mountains are clad in snow and only fit for the habitation of the bear and other wild George H. Faull, who went. from Nevada City to Bodie about two, which isnow occupying the atten‘years ago. and six months since re-. tion of the courts and public in. Calmoved to Walla Walla, W. T., , ifornia, the San Francisco Chronicle writes as follows from the latter says: ‘‘Whk cher, in any event, the place:. Within the past year WashCourts can settle it or not, is an open ing Ter. has been favored with 7600: ques‘ ‘on; butitis not likely to be emigrants and yet there is room for “séttled exactly aseither of the antaoseveral hundred thousands, as you nistic parties now apprehend. @M~iwill perceive after I shall :ave done! ing will not be stopped, nor wi'l the describing this country'‘and its re-. lands and the towns be destroyed. . To interdict hydraulic mining at this animals. The climate in the valley is mild during winter, and we hardly ever get over six inches of snow Plowing and sowing goes on all wina little. and vegetables in abundance. truth, this country may be called the garden of the world, — One hundred miles east from Walla Walla we fiud the country known. asthe Pulance. It consists of about one hundred miles square rolling prairie, and isa good grain and stock country. Hundreds of immigrants pass through Wa'a Walla every week enroute to the Pulance country. Then there is the country along Snake river fromitsmouth at the Columbia fiver to Lewiston, Idaho, which cannot be surpassed as a stack and grain country. It has bunch crass in abundance aud will raise 60 bushels of wheat to the acre. For years the people of this. grand and beautiful country have — waited in hopes that the attention of capthis way anda market ‘created for their produce, It affords me pleasure to say that their hopes are being realized and the sound of the iron la Walla valley. our market will be equal to any on the Wacific Coast. The N, P. R. R., according to Gen. Sprague's report, will be completed inside of four years. The company is said to have all the capital necessary for its completion and equipment. A Geod Appointment. ~ Hon. Thornton F. Battelle been appointed Postmaster of Loyalton, Sierra county. This worthy gentleman but afew years ago ably represented that elevated agriculturaland mining region in the State Legislature creditably t’ himself and constituents, In early times he was among the foremost. of the Nevada county miners in inaugurating the Iden era which in time has made this notable mining district second to none. o_o 2 > Upon himself and his 800 wives i J. Michel, rent, $30. Us dame of Turkey spends $10,00078 . valley can raise fruits of all kinds . idly. In} dyked and provided with facilities ital and immigzants might be turned . has! The Slickens Troubles. Speaking of the debris question stage would be no-remedy for. the evil compiained of. The rivers 4a e The country! alreody :ullof debris, andevery creek, brookand guch that feeds them: * ? «Keeping. Down Expenses. ». An economical old curmudgeon is the paternal ancestor of a certain ‘Nevada City niise, if all accounts be ‘true. The young lady is the recipient of eq Js five or $ix evenings each week from various members of the opposite sex. Pater familias not object to sucha state of affairs so long as he has his own way about certain things connected with the srequent visitations. Every night, just as the clock strikes nine, he slides into the parlor unce:emoniously. deposits a small old fashioned oil lamp on the centre table, tuins off the gas, and retires again appardoes claim, the Bald Motntain, indicates five miles -wide by o1e huntred—andShou'd “mining all cease now, it would require half a century—pvobably half a dozen centuries—to clean them out and restore their beds to their condition in 1852. What,then, -is rolling, and not levelas many.peoshall be done. What, can be done? . We cannot dig the debris out. That \would be more than a herculean undertaking. It is there to stay at least nutilthe child born yesterday shall reavh old age. It is idle to expect any substantial e-sistance either from the State er from. the nation. There is nothing im our system of government that is paternal. * * * * Nobody will help the farmers and land-owners directly interested in this emergency.” They will have to . help themselves as the Hollandeé:s did. And if they do wisely and well they will be able, like the Hollanders, to turn aseeming calamity into a great blessing. _If they wil! combine and dyke in their lands against the annual winter and spring overflows, as the Netherlends have been protected against Sc’ieldt and Mouse, by floodgates for irrigation, they will soon discover in the abundance of their harvests that it is better, far better, to have the rivers running on a level with their farms than in their or'ginal deep channels. In this way some hundreds of thousands of acres of lani hitherto believed to be no account, may be converted into fertile fields; adding millions of bushels of grain to the yearly produétion of the State, and that with positive certainty. The season of hivh water is the season when ir. igation or the flooding of the grain crop is needed, that is to say, from Januter except when snow ison the . ary toMay. No irrigation is requirground or when the ground is frozen . ed for grain atter the middle of May, The people of Walla Wal'a' when the rivers begin to recece rapIf Bear River were properly for flooding the land during the winter aid spring months its valley would become a paradise of fertility instead of the desert it how is.” ——_~-— General News. ‘The strike of cabinetmakers infSan Francisco continues, Sixty-seven persous have perished ; from bush fires in the Province of ees aes Ee os One-third of the tewn of Mound City, Ill., was burned Sunday, including the Court-house. The funeral of General Hooker will take placein New York to-day, and the remains will be taken to Cincinnati for burial. The funeral of the late Senator . Chandler will take place at Detroit . have arrived from Chicago. Daniel Harrigan shot and killed ' John McDonnell in San Francisco on 'the2l. The parties had quarreled horse is heard coursing through Wal-. in a saloon and went to the street to While I write . fight, when the shooting took place. there are three hundred and_ fifty . A Mrs. Graves, who, with her ‘husmen engaged near the mouth of Snake . band, kept a saloon and boarding river, grading for the Northern Pa-. house on Davis street, San Franciscific Railroad, They will work at it. co, was burned to death on the 2d. all winter. It will be but alittle time . Her husband was also'badly injured uutil Walla Walla valley isconnected . by the flames from their burning with New Tacoma on the Sound, and rookery. John Church, foreman, and Wm. Carrigan, a_printer, had a_fight ‘in the Virginia City Enterprise office . on the 2d, during which the latter . was stabbed in the shoulder. Church . had ordered Carrigan out of the office, and the latter refused to go, when Church undertook to eject him, Panama advices states that Paraf, the oleomargarine swindler, who went from San Francisco to Santiago and organized mining frauds ago, has been sentenced to five years’ exile in Valvidia under guard. loss of many thousands of dollars upon several of the most estimabie a time solemnly believed in the humbug. Works Santiago frauds. any ove in the room. > oe oldest aud most esteemed citizens of Sierra and Plumas counties, now @ prominent attorney of San Francisco, will be a candidate for the’ posithe incoming session of the Legislature this winter. Mr. Cowdery has the best wishes of al] his old mountain frieadS who warmly recommend him for the honors to which he aspires. THE story is told of a romantic youth who followed Tennyson and his wife a whole half day in the hope of-catching some pearl of exquisite thought from his lips. He was reing him givethe order, ‘“T'wo beers!” to the waiter. THE converts of the American Board in Ceylon, contributed an average of three hundred and fifteen dollars each last ear, showing prog.ess toward se f-support. Yesterday's Arrivals. at THE NATIONAL HOTEL, NEVADA CITY, CAL. Chas. E. Pearson, Proprietor. CS Benham Allegh J Bell Fall Creek B Guseetti Ranch J Sinithamirgss Val C Lobner Railroad H Kelly do W J Hill Litt York T Mack do W Young Fall Creek ZShockin Marysville Mrs Wickeisham S F Mrs McGee do 4 J Swartz Downieville GC E Whitney San Fra en.!y bliss‘ully ignorant that there is — For Speaker of the Assembly. .’ Frank Cowdery, Esq., one of the tion of Speaker of the Assembly at . warded late ia the afternoon by hear} . CRACK PROOF — Pure Rubber BOOTS AND 5 COATS! ‘RUBBER a THESE Boots app SUPERIOR To ayy OTHER BOOT Mapp _ THE LINES on’ THE BOOTS SHOW PURE MADE IN THE Boop MAKING IT IMPoggy. BLE TO CRACK. ayy .BOOTS NOT sHow INGTHE LINES arg NOT GENUINE CRACK PReor, PARTIES ARE Yak ING IMITATIONS oF THEM. Ard Buy the Genuine Boots And Water and Crack-Proot ? COATS, _ MANUFACTURED EXPRESSLY FOR K. CASPER, For /the use of the Mining Community, and which have been long wanted. If you want a new style Pure Rubber Water-Proof Coat,GUARANTEED, GET IT AT. K. CASPER’S STORE, Double Shoulder and Back. He will take back any Coator Bootsif they are not as represented. SPRINGS A F Marten San Fr’ J H Byrnes Grass V M Bsidalss city J W Pahner Grass Na J Early Reming H H Sinith N Bloomftel A T Lvird citv A Ray San Juan For Sale at K. CASPER’S, to-day, at which place his remains’ there and was imprisoned two years Paraf’s frauds in Santiago entailed a members of the community, who for costing hundreds of thousands of dollars were erected at for the reduction of ores acoording to Paraf’s method, which remain to this day a monument of his M C Clark city Mis Puff Alleghany’ Mrs Shadd Alicghany A A Smith N Bloomfie G W Hilderbrandt Al W W Wear Ranch C Hill city A Macklin city Yesterday’s Arrivals at THE UNION HOTEL. NEVADA CITY, CAL, \ Jacob Naffziger, Proprictor. E Brimskill Washin-to B Goscetti do J Robinson Central H M Church Buckeye R J Chambers ‘Bodie S$ Cinese Washinton W Rutt NElooufield W F Carter Allexzhan E 8 Bobo city Ms Stoddard & € GV C’Seaman-"9 HC ntzSan Fran © Bue levy Washing E Aust'1 Wheat end F J Howell N S Juan 1S Bradley city JIS Rava d city H M Place Ome ja TW Mcintyre do CM Peck do G Orten do J E Byrne Crass Val : M-Fee'ey Fall creek J Warner Oakland H MeGinn W hinsto Dr Leverton city H Helms Marys,ille W Hanre. Derbee Mine L Loycen city L ©. iath city C McE vy city P Dunn Willow Valley C Briston do : CORN. At Grass Valley, Nov. 2, 1879, to Thomas Williams end.wife, a daughter. At Grass Valley, November 3, 1879, to William Hucunin and wife, a son. ya = MARRIED. At the residence of Dr. L. R. Webster, Grass Valley, Nov. Ist, 1879, by the Foy. G. F. G. Morgan, Dr. John A: Miller, of San Francisco, and Miss Veronica B. irisch, of Grass Valley. : EEE ' DIED, ——S Near Nevada City, November 4, 1879, John L. Williams, a native of Vhio, aged 66 years, 3 months and 5 days. — Grading of Union Street. x ROPERTY HOLDERS fronting on Union Street, in the City of Nevada, are hereby notifiea that it isthe intention of the Trustees of the City of Nevada to oreain said street to be graded and macadamized from Broad street to Main street. Passed November 2u, 1879. © J. C, LOCKLIN, President. K. .Caspsr, Clerk. nd Netice to Crediters. STATE CF PHILIP SACK DECFASED. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, Administratcix of the estate of Philip Sack, deceased, to the creditors of, and all p2rsons having clain:s against the s id dececeat, to exhivit them with the nec s:ary vouchers, withi1 four mont.s after the first publicat'on of this notice, to the said Admministratrix, at her residence in the town oi Cherokee, County o° Nev St ite of Califoriia. ~ LIZZIE RICH, Adininistratrix of the cs’ te of Philip Sack deceasex., Dated at Cherokee, the 2d day of November, 18.9. W. D. Long, Att'y for Administratrix. . 05 Oh ! every one that Thirst ! . DRAW RICH TO JAMES HOOPER’S SALOON, COMMERCIAL STREET. Oatober 25, 1879. Nevada City, Cal. QUICKSILVER FLASKS WANTED! In good order, full size, with stoppers. Give quantity and price delivered at R. R. Depot, San Francisco. Address, P. D. Q., P. 0. Box 1078, San Francisco. 1879. FALL OPENING OF: : MRS. M. A. STERLING'S Dry Geods and Millinery Stere, COMMERCIAL STREET, NEVADA CITY. A VERY LARGE AND CHOICE STOCK OF DRESS AND FANCY GOODS, Of the LATEST STYLES have just been re ceived from San Francisce. The Millinery Department Is complete, comprising the Latest Novel ties in Hats, Feathers, Flowers, Ribbens, Velvets, Ete. j From my long experience in the sale of Millinery and Fancy Goods, I would request the ladies of Nevada City and County to call and examine my new stock of goods before potapenngd elsewhere, feeling assured that can give vetter setisfaction than any other Dry Goods Store in the mountains. ; The ladies inattendance will do all in their power to give satisfaction, and make your calls pleasant. Se MRS. M.A. STERLING. ol7-In ‘MINE FOR SALE. e oe Ta HOME MINE, ITUATED ON DEER CREEK, ADJOINING THE WYOMING, IS FOR SAL Ad Very Cheap. Enquire of EPHEN MOORE, i. a2 Ry SEWEEE, . October ‘ 3-lm Grass Valley. — THE DAILY ‘WEVADA CITY, EBvief Mm Sore throats are No gravel gold t prought in. The, Srgent & down 65 feet. The Grand Jury plete their labors t There Was a 8¢ the residence of G night before last. ‘The quartz mi Nevada City distri better every day. The roads leadin ‘better thaa they . previous time-sHtes The Narrow Ga larger freight? bu than during any . the completion of There are still ~ mining in the Yuk of Purdon’s bridg companies are Wo: river. All of th doing fair.y. Rétined: sugars half a cent per pe Since October 1411 has raised 2} ‘cent ions of unswceeten haunt some of our Dr. Buelow has as executor of the Lopez; deceased, f attendance on the . was originally bro Garthe, but on m« achange of venue _gon’s eourt has be os Snow in th The darkened 2 zon for the past { edly threatene ls the sky. is as c.ear chances are by cl deemed to b: now ofno deep snow until January, 1] case for years. pas heaval of the ele: the fall of Autum The Liter All persons wh a literar,, and al are requested to 1 Church on Moad: *. M, for the put permanent organ Kh. M. Pr H. V. Re J. M. W Person: -Ed. Marselus Oakland. Geo. M. Mott Crocker & Co. town. J. E, Byrtie ] from a several m Francisco. B1,S75.07 Pi Whiat $10 did the mutual safet explaining every erring rules for : Our customers i: country are reali ery month. Se Address Simpso: Place, New You Party at A dancing par the boarding ho ou Thursday ev which all are in . Music has been Tickets includin Bry “Straw at Brand and I Fresh Candy 030 B Valuable Qu The Stiles’ Q for sale at a gre ‘ ther particular: hee, The Impeor Is cr6wded . afat importatio consist of th dress and fancy moth store is s 8 hardly room the goods will cost, to make tations which Ladies should *xamine the g k

The Daily Granseript, NEVADA CITY, CALIFORNIA. Bald Mountain Extension Co. ey The Bald Mountain Extension company. Forest City, Sierra coun= ty, are againin sof; rock with their Wednesday, Nov. 5h, 1879. were center ere scene rte ~New Mining Incerporation. The Consolidated Lome Tree Gold Mining Company, whose claim is located at Forest Springs, have filed articles 01, incorp ration. The capital stoc< has been divided inte 50,yO shares at a par value of $2 per share, a portion of which will at once be put on the market at $1 per share rder-te-raise a -working capital. eo itr-Ortr tunnel in over tweive hundred feet. ‘For the first thousand feet only fifty feet iti a lof hard rock was encountered, and but ten of that at one . point. -More time has necessarily ‘been consumed runring the last two hundred feet, owing to one side of the tunnel being obstructed by hard granite, requiring considerable blasting and a most vigorous application of muscle. The steady increase in richness of the far-famed and extensive gravel lead of the adjoining The Directors are B. W. Dorne, Pat+ rick‘Murphy, Wm, Ahearn, J. F. ‘Noya and Benj. Courant. Patrick Hennessy is assogiated with the above as one of the incorporators. The Consolidated Lone Trice is a quartz enterprise that during its short career has produced some resultsthat are ‘astonishing even im this land of gold-ladened ore. Last summer atunnel was run 168 feet, tappingvthe ledge, which was found to vary from 30 to 36 inches in thiekness, at a depth of 26 feet below the ~gurface There were.no croppings to guide the prospectors intheir work, and had they not possessed ualimited faith in the general character of the country they would never have ‘ undertaken the task of running for the blind chute, After reaching the ledge in this tunnel, they sunk on it for about four feet-and took out between one and two tons of crystalized rock carrying decomposed sulphurets, that is richer than anyone who has not seen it can readily believe A large number of the average spect imens brought to the Trs Nseripr otfice yesterday and subjected to a careful examination showed all thro’ them large streaks of free gold.— _Qchre taken from the lead pays ‘all the way from $3 to $10.50 per pan, according ,to the owners of the claim, , who say that any one is at liberty to make test washings if they so désire. . After running down. on the ciute four feet water began coming in so heavy that operations had to be suspended there. A new tunnel was at once started to strike the iedge at a depth of 120 feet. 112 feet of this distance has been run, leaving 338 feet yet to yo. Two shifts of men are pushing the new tunnel along es rapidly as possible, and next week the force will be increased to three shifts. of the incorporation can be disposed As soon as sultlicient stock of it is the purpose. to erect a mill, and develop the claim on. an e:.tensive scale, If the ledge holds its own to aconsiderable depth, as there seem to be good indications of its doing, it will prove one of the richest mings in the county. oe — Kaspectivg the Claims, Sunday about twenty persons, including the Directors of and stockholders in the enterprise, visited the Adalante gravel mining claim, which is located:four and a half miles north of town between the Blue Tent and Round Mountain mines. The object of their visit was to make a careful inspection of the ground, on whieh some prospecting has already beeii done, and determine,the most practicable point to recommence operations. All present appeared to be encouraged with what was seen,— Next Saturday afternoon the Compa: ny will hafd a meeting and decide whether it will be more advisable to erect works and continue to sink for: bed-rock in the present shaft, or run a tunnel into the ridge for the purpose of striking the channel. It certainly seems as though should either p'an be adopt: d, the blue gravel lead must be eventually gleveloped, for it has been traced close up to the Adalante claim. The property is in the hands of -experienced and enterprising men, . > *The Road to San Juan, Uncle Peter Purdon was in town yesterday. Speaking of wagon road communication between San Juan and the Narrow Gauge railroad, he says that the projected route from Grass Valley would be eighteen miles in length, or five miles longer than the present one from Nevada. He adds that the contemplated outlay of $6,000 in improving the latter will make it one of the best roads in the county, and that $25,000 will not cover the expense of constructing the route from Grass Valley, Ira witling isa Hittle wit, @ scantling must te a little scant, almost beyond a doubt an. indefinite continuation of the blue lead chan‘nek through-the-entire length of the ridge to Sierra City and'Gold Lake. The narrower these, aucient river channels, the larger and more numerous sre the heavy nuggets of, gold therein found. “The: tunnel is being now‘rapidly peshed -ahe: 1.— ‘Three shifts ot eight hours each are steadily employed. Under the direction of the contractors: the timbering is most efficiently done, and the track laid in an air line with scarcely an hair breadth’s variation. It is pronounced by old miners thereabouts to-be thus far the -best constructed tunrel.in the county. The dimensio.s are seven by twelve feet. When this mine has been fairly opened it will afford steady and remunerative employment for years to at least one hundied and fifty men that will give a magical stimulus to the future growth and prosperity of Sievra. The owners are mostly old Fresidents .ef Downieville, substantially backed with abundance of capital, rendering them independent of even of the bonanza princes of San Francisco. None of the stock is for sale at any price. The Sierra boys have our bést wishes prosperity. ‘or continu i — ae ~. Sudden Death of a Pioneer. John L. is who has been a resident of Nevada county for more than a quarter of a century past, trees of various kinds, affordiny lumFlat, at the head died suddeaty at his ranch on Gold of Peck’s ravine, ‘esterday morning at about 11 . been actively engaged in various o'clock. Early-in the day, before rising from bed, he hed spoken of not feeling quite as. well as usual, but Cid not comp ain of any serious trouble. working on a buildingthat was being After breakfast he commenced rected on the ranch, and nothing unusual was observed in his actions until after 10 o’clock, when he suddenly became, delirious, and a few moments afterwards lost the power of speech. Some of the family agsisted him into the house, and sent at ouce for Dr. Welch and Father Meagher. Before the priest and physician had arvived he was dead, Apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause of death. 2 . During his residence in Nevada . county, since 1853, deceased had quartz mining enterprises, besides conducting his ranch, He was held in high esteem for his good qualities of head and heart, and ranked among our best citizens. He leaves a wife, two daughters and two sons to mourn his sudden departure. Three of the children resides in this vicinity, and one of the daughters lives in Plumas county, Meney Paid in. The following amounts have been paid into County Treasurer Payne since October 7th: R. Huckins, road tax Bridgepoit township, $102.60. J. W. Peters, road tax Grass Valley township, $24.30. J. A. Noel, road tax Meadow Lake township, $280.40, J. S. Fowler, special money for Banner Hill school district, $175. H. Davis,~ fives in criminal Cases, $10. : W. H. Smith, sale of county furniture at auction, $13.25. : B. F. Snell, road tax Little York township, $13.50. 8. B. Crawford, road tax Washington tow iship, $87. J. D. White, Clerk’s fees, $250.15. John A. Rapp, Recorder's fees. $310.95. W. H. Montgomery, Sherifi’s fees, $274.61. J.D. White, Auditor's fees, $12, J. N, Payne, licenses, $163.80, W. H. Montgomery, fines $24. G. 8. 8; Getchell, road tax Nevada township, $456.30. Lotter from Wathing.on Territe-7 sources. Eastern Oregon also is a beautiful country and the immigration this year will not fall below six thousand people. around Wal'a Walla is about _fiftyseventy miles long. This immerse tract of land, as you are aware, is pa‘tly in W:.shington Ter. and partly in Eastern Oregon. The-country ple suppose. Nearly all this vast traet of.country will produce from 25 to 60 bushels of wheat to the acre. Last week I went in company with Mr. Inge to the couaty seat of Umatilla via Pendleton, 40 miles from Walla \\.ia. Wepassed through the Indian ReservaZioa which is 24 miles square, bounded on the northeast by Wild Horse creek. Itisa beautiful tract of land, covered with brnch grass almost knee high. The soil is very rich and it is said that all the reservation, if t.lled and sowed in grain, would produce fifty bushels to the acre. This reservation is to be thrown open to settlers sho ly. When we came back from Pendleton, we came through the country outside the reservation, which is partly under cultivation, and equal to the Walla Wal'a valley is very picturesque with its level _ lains, rolling hills, beautistreams and rivers whose banks are reservation in all respects. clothed with willows andevergreens. The Blue mountains loom up in the back ground clothed in beautiful tall ber and rails for the. settlers of the valley, Iu winter taese mountains are clad in snow and only fit for the habitation of the bear and other wild George H. Faull, who went. from Nevada City to Bodie about two, which isnow occupying the atten‘years ago. and six months since re-. tion of the courts and public in. Calmoved to Walla Walla, W. T., , ifornia, the San Francisco Chronicle writes as follows from the latter says: ‘‘Whk cher, in any event, the place:. Within the past year WashCourts can settle it or not, is an open ing Ter. has been favored with 7600: ques‘ ‘on; butitis not likely to be emigrants and yet there is room for “séttled exactly aseither of the antaoseveral hundred thousands, as you nistic parties now apprehend. @M~iwill perceive after I shall :ave done! ing will not be stopped, nor wi'l the describing this country'‘and its re-. lands and the towns be destroyed. . To interdict hydraulic mining at this animals. The climate in the valley is mild during winter, and we hardly ever get over six inches of snow Plowing and sowing goes on all wina little. and vegetables in abundance. truth, this country may be called the garden of the world, — One hundred miles east from Walla Walla we fiud the country known. asthe Pulance. It consists of about one hundred miles square rolling prairie, and isa good grain and stock country. Hundreds of immigrants pass through Wa'a Walla every week enroute to the Pulance country. Then there is the country along Snake river fromitsmouth at the Columbia fiver to Lewiston, Idaho, which cannot be surpassed as a stack and grain country. It has bunch crass in abundance aud will raise 60 bushels of wheat to the acre. For years the people of this. grand and beautiful country have — waited in hopes that the attention of capthis way anda market ‘created for their produce, It affords me pleasure to say that their hopes are being realized and the sound of the iron la Walla valley. our market will be equal to any on the Wacific Coast. The N, P. R. R., according to Gen. Sprague's report, will be completed inside of four years. The company is said to have all the capital necessary for its completion and equipment. A Geod Appointment. ~ Hon. Thornton F. Battelle been appointed Postmaster of Loyalton, Sierra county. This worthy gentleman but afew years ago ably represented that elevated agriculturaland mining region in the State Legislature creditably t’ himself and constituents, In early times he was among the foremost. of the Nevada county miners in inaugurating the Iden era which in time has made this notable mining district second to none. o_o 2 > Upon himself and his 800 wives i J. Michel, rent, $30. Us dame of Turkey spends $10,00078 . valley can raise fruits of all kinds . idly. In} dyked and provided with facilities ital and immigzants might be turned . has! The Slickens Troubles. Speaking of the debris question stage would be no-remedy for. the evil compiained of. The rivers 4a e The country! alreody :ullof debris, andevery creek, brookand guch that feeds them: * ? «Keeping. Down Expenses. ». An economical old curmudgeon is the paternal ancestor of a certain ‘Nevada City niise, if all accounts be ‘true. The young lady is the recipient of eq Js five or $ix evenings each week from various members of the opposite sex. Pater familias not object to sucha state of affairs so long as he has his own way about certain things connected with the srequent visitations. Every night, just as the clock strikes nine, he slides into the parlor unce:emoniously. deposits a small old fashioned oil lamp on the centre table, tuins off the gas, and retires again appardoes claim, the Bald Motntain, indicates five miles -wide by o1e huntred—andShou'd “mining all cease now, it would require half a century—pvobably half a dozen centuries—to clean them out and restore their beds to their condition in 1852. What,then, -is rolling, and not levelas many.peoshall be done. What, can be done? . We cannot dig the debris out. That \would be more than a herculean undertaking. It is there to stay at least nutilthe child born yesterday shall reavh old age. It is idle to expect any substantial e-sistance either from the State er from. the nation. There is nothing im our system of government that is paternal. * * * * Nobody will help the farmers and land-owners directly interested in this emergency.” They will have to . help themselves as the Hollandeé:s did. And if they do wisely and well they will be able, like the Hollanders, to turn aseeming calamity into a great blessing. _If they wil! combine and dyke in their lands against the annual winter and spring overflows, as the Netherlends have been protected against Sc’ieldt and Mouse, by floodgates for irrigation, they will soon discover in the abundance of their harvests that it is better, far better, to have the rivers running on a level with their farms than in their or'ginal deep channels. In this way some hundreds of thousands of acres of lani hitherto believed to be no account, may be converted into fertile fields; adding millions of bushels of grain to the yearly produétion of the State, and that with positive certainty. The season of hivh water is the season when ir. igation or the flooding of the grain crop is needed, that is to say, from Januter except when snow ison the . ary toMay. No irrigation is requirground or when the ground is frozen . ed for grain atter the middle of May, The people of Walla Wal'a' when the rivers begin to recece rapIf Bear River were properly for flooding the land during the winter aid spring months its valley would become a paradise of fertility instead of the desert it how is.” ——_~-— General News. ‘The strike of cabinetmakers infSan Francisco continues,

Sixty-seven persous have perished ; from bush fires in the Province of ees aes Ee os One-third of the tewn of Mound City, Ill., was burned Sunday, including the Court-house. The funeral of General Hooker will take placein New York to-day, and the remains will be taken to Cincinnati for burial. The funeral of the late Senator . Chandler will take place at Detroit . have arrived from Chicago. Daniel Harrigan shot and killed ' John McDonnell in San Francisco on 'the2l. The parties had quarreled horse is heard coursing through Wal-. in a saloon and went to the street to While I write . fight, when the shooting took place. there are three hundred and_ fifty . A Mrs. Graves, who, with her ‘husmen engaged near the mouth of Snake . band, kept a saloon and boarding river, grading for the Northern Pa-. house on Davis street, San Franciscific Railroad, They will work at it. co, was burned to death on the 2d. all winter. It will be but alittle time . Her husband was also'badly injured uutil Walla Walla valley isconnected . by the flames from their burning with New Tacoma on the Sound, and rookery. John Church, foreman, and Wm. Carrigan, a_printer, had a_fight ‘in the Virginia City Enterprise office . on the 2d, during which the latter . was stabbed in the shoulder. Church . had ordered Carrigan out of the office, and the latter refused to go, when Church undertook to eject him, Panama advices states that Paraf, the oleomargarine swindler, who went from San Francisco to Santiago and organized mining frauds ago, has been sentenced to five years’ exile in Valvidia under guard. loss of many thousands of dollars upon several of the most estimabie a time solemnly believed in the humbug. Works Santiago frauds. any ove in the room. > oe oldest aud most esteemed citizens of Sierra and Plumas counties, now @ prominent attorney of San Francisco, will be a candidate for the’ posithe incoming session of the Legislature this winter. Mr. Cowdery has the best wishes of al] his old mountain frieadS who warmly recommend him for the honors to which he aspires. THE story is told of a romantic youth who followed Tennyson and his wife a whole half day in the hope of-catching some pearl of exquisite thought from his lips. He was reing him givethe order, ‘“T'wo beers!” to the waiter. THE converts of the American Board in Ceylon, contributed an average of three hundred and fifteen dollars each last ear, showing prog.ess toward se f-support. Yesterday's Arrivals. at THE NATIONAL HOTEL, NEVADA CITY, CAL. Chas. E. Pearson, Proprietor. CS Benham Allegh J Bell Fall Creek B Guseetti Ranch J Sinithamirgss Val C Lobner Railroad H Kelly do W J Hill Litt York T Mack do W Young Fall Creek ZShockin Marysville Mrs Wickeisham S F Mrs McGee do 4 J Swartz Downieville GC E Whitney San Fra en.!y bliss‘ully ignorant that there is — For Speaker of the Assembly.. ..’ Frank Cowdery, Esq., one of the tion of Speaker of the Assembly at . warded late ia the afternoon by hear} . CRACK PROOF — Pure Rubber BOOTS AND 5 COATS! ‘RUBBER a THESE Boots app SUPERIOR To ayy OTHER BOOT Mapp _ THE LINES on’ THE BOOTS SHOW PURE MADE IN THE Boop MAKING IT IMPoggy. BLE TO CRACK. ayy .BOOTS NOT sHow INGTHE LINES arg NOT GENUINE CRACK PReor, PARTIES ARE Yak ING IMITATIONS oF THEM. Ard Buy the Genuine Boots And Water and Crack-Proot ? COATS, _ MANUFACTURED EXPRESSLY FOR K. CASPER, For /the use of the Mining Community, and which have been long wanted. If you want a new style Pure Rubber Water-Proof Coat,GUARANTEED, GET IT AT. K. CASPER’S STORE, Double Shoulder and Back. He will take back any Coator Bootsif they are not as represented. SPRINGS A F Marten San Fr’ J H Byrnes Grass V M Bsidalss city J W Pahner Grass Na J Early Reming H H Sinith N Bloomftel A T Lvird citv A Ray San Juan For Sale at K. CASPER’S, to-day, at which place his remains’ there and was imprisoned two years Paraf’s frauds in Santiago entailed a members of the community, who for costing hundreds of thousands of dollars were erected at for the reduction of ores acoording to Paraf’s method, which remain to this day a monument of his M C Clark city Mis Puff Alleghany’ Mrs Shadd Alicghany A A Smith N Bloomfie G W Hilderbrandt Al W W Wear Ranch C Hill city A Macklin city Yesterday’s Arrivals at THE UNION HOTEL. NEVADA CITY, CAL, \ Jacob Naffziger, Proprictor. E Brimskill Washin-to B Goscetti do J Robinson Central H M Church Buckeye R J Chambers ‘Bodie S$ Cinese Washinton W Rutt NElooufield W F Carter Allexzhan E 8 Bobo city Ms Stoddard & € GV C’Seaman-"9 HC ntzSan Fran © Bue levy Washing E Aust'1 Wheat end F J Howell N S Juan 1S Bradley city JIS Rava d city H M Place Ome ja TW Mcintyre do CM Peck do G Orten do J E Byrne Crass Val : M-Fee'ey Fall creek J Warner Oakland H MeGinn W hinsto Dr Leverton city H Helms Marys,ille W Hanre. Derbee Mine L Loycen city L ©. iath city C McE vy city P Dunn Willow Valley C Briston do : CORN. At Grass Valley, Nov. 2, 1879, to Thomas Williams end.wife, a daughter. At Grass Valley, November 3, 1879, to William Hucunin and wife, a son. ya = MARRIED. At the residence of Dr. L. R. Webster, Grass Valley, Nov. Ist, 1879, by the Foy. G. F. G. Morgan, Dr. John A: Miller, of San Francisco, and Miss Veronica B. irisch, of Grass Valley. : EEE ' DIED, ——S Near Nevada City, November 4, 1879, John L. Williams, a native of Vhio, aged 66 years, 3 months and 5 days. — Grading of Union Street. x ROPERTY HOLDERS fronting on Union Street, in the City of Nevada, are hereby notifiea that it isthe intention of the Trustees of the City of Nevada to oreain said street to be graded and macadamized from Broad street to Main street. Passed November 2u, 1879. © J. C, LOCKLIN, President. K. .Caspsr, Clerk. nd Netice to Crediters. STATE CF PHILIP SACK DECFASED. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, Administratcix of the estate of Philip Sack, deceased, to the creditors of, and all p2rsons having clain:s against the s id dececeat, to exhivit them with the nec s:ary vouchers, withi1 four mont.s after the first publicat'on of this notice, to the said Admministratrix, at her residence in the town oi Cherokee, County o° Nev St ite of Califoriia. ~ LIZZIE RICH, Adininistratrix of the cs’ te of Philip Sack deceasex., Dated at Cherokee, the 2d day of November, 18.9. W. D. Long, Att'y for Administratrix. . 05 Oh ! every one that Thirst ! . DRAW RICH TO JAMES HOOPER’S SALOON, COMMERCIAL STREET. Oatober 25, 1879. Nevada City, Cal. QUICKSILVER FLASKS WANTED! In good order, full size, with stoppers. Give quantity and price delivered at R. R. Depot, San Francisco. Address, P. D. Q., P. 0. Box 1078, San Francisco. 1879. FALL OPENING OF: : MRS. M. A. STERLING'S Dry Geods and Millinery Stere, COMMERCIAL STREET, NEVADA CITY. A VERY LARGE AND CHOICE STOCK OF DRESS AND FANCY GOODS, Of the LATEST STYLES have just been re ceived from San Francisce. The Millinery Department Is complete, comprising the Latest Novel ties in Hats, Feathers, Flowers, Ribbens, Velvets, Ete. j From my long experience in the sale of Millinery and Fancy Goods, I would request the ladies of Nevada City and County to call and examine my new stock of goods before potapenngd elsewhere, feeling assured that can give vetter setisfaction than any other Dry Goods Store in the mountains. ; The ladies inattendance will do all in their power to give satisfaction, and make your calls pleasant. Se MRS. M.A. STERLING. ol7-In ‘MINE FOR SALE. e oe Ta HOME MINE, ITUATED ON DEER CREEK, ADJOINING THE WYOMING, IS FOR SAL Ad Very Cheap. Enquire of EPHEN MOORE, i. a2 Ry SEWEEE, . October ‘ 3-lm Grass Valley. — THE DAILY ‘WEVADA CITY, EBvief Mm Sore throats are No gravel gold t prought in. The, Srgent & down 65 feet. The Grand Jury plete their labors t There Was a 8¢ the residence of G night before last. ‘The quartz mi Nevada City distri better every day. The roads leadin ‘better thaa they . previous time-sHtes The Narrow Ga larger freight? bu than during any . the completion of There are still ~ mining in the Yuk of Purdon’s bridg companies are Wo: river. All of th doing fair.y. Rétined: sugars half a cent per pe Since October 1411 has raised 2} ‘cent ions of unswceeten haunt some of our Dr. Buelow has as executor of the Lopez; deceased, f attendance on the . was originally bro Garthe, but on m« achange of venue _gon’s eourt has be os Snow in th The darkened 2 zon for the past { edly threatene ls the sky. is as c.ear chances are by cl deemed to b: now ofno deep snow until January, 1] case for years. pas heaval of the ele: the fall of Autum The Liter All persons wh a literar,, and al are requested to 1 Church on Moad: *. M, for the put permanent organ Kh. M. Pr H. V. Re J. M. W Person: -Ed. Marselus Oakland. Geo. M. Mott Crocker & Co.. town. J. E, Byrtie ] from a several m Francisco. B1,S75.07 Pi Whiat $10 did the mutual safet explaining every erring rules for : Our customers i: country are reali ery month. Se Address Simpso: Place, New You Party at A dancing par the boarding ho ou Thursday ev which all are in . Music has been Tickets includin Bry “Straw at Brand and I Fresh Candy 030 B Valuable Qu The Stiles’ Q for sale at a gre ‘ ther particular: hee, The Impeor Is cr6wded . afat importatio consist of th dress and fancy moth store is s 8 hardly room the goods will cost, to make tations which Ladies should *xamine the g k