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Title: 1852 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 139 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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NEVADA JOURNAL JANUARY 3, 1852 93 wonderful changes that have transpired in our outskirts. A year ago last Christmas we took a long walk down Deer Creek, the whole extent of the stream was deserted, save here and there where stood a solitary cabin, and at the Gold Tunnel, where operations had commenced. The rich quartz leads since developed then slept in their native hills undisturbed and unthought of; the lack of water had discouraged the miners in the placer diggings, and everything betokened a deserted region. A few days ago we passed over the same ground, and the changes contrasted most forcibly with what we have described. At intervals of a thousand feet apart, often nearer, are scattered mills in operation and in course of erection, of the most substantial character... . At Gold Flat several mills are operating and being erected. At Rush Creek they are also erecting mills. Grass Valley has been almost created the past year by its quartz, and there more than anywhere else in California, on so large a scale, have quartz operations been successful. The great demand for lumber for mills and other purposes, has called into operation a large number of saw mills the past year, some of them of the first class in the country. Yet the demand for lumber is beyond the supply, and the price is kept up. The placer and cayote washings in this city have greatly changed in character the past year. Sluices and Grizzlys have been generally introduced for washing, and diggings before unremunerative have been made to pay. Large hills have been dug into and washed to their base—thirty, forty and fifty feet down. Scientific mining has been so generally practised that the general gain has been greater the past year than it was the previous one, when raw miners dug into the untouched ravines, and looked for pockets and nooks, disdaining dirt that would now be considered rich. Within the past year, we have had several beautiful churches erected in our city. The general character of the city has improved. There is much less gambling carried on, less drunkenness, less fighting, and a higher tone in society generally. We have had also many families settling down in our midst, and perhaps to the humanizing influences of correct female society are to be attributed many of the beneficial results in morals we have named. . . . The Whig meeting on Thursday evening last was adjourned till Monday next at one o’clock P.M., at the county court room, formerly the Eagle Hotel, on Broad street. REMEDY FOR RATS—Mix up with bread and butter, or paste, a strong dose of calomel [mercurous chloride, a heavy white tasteless purgative], and put it where rats will get it, and you will not again be troubled with them. So think we after trying the experiment. Our city is overrun with rats, and is getting worse in this respect constantly. If ten pounds of calomel, which would not cost more than $25, were distributed over the city, the vermin would disappear entirely from our limits in a weak. Householders and others should try the experiment on their premises, and we will warrant its success. NEVADA CIty, Jan. 2d, 1852. TO THE EDITORS NEVADA JOURNAL:— The works of the Bunker Hill Quartz Mining Company have been in operation for three days and as a question of vital importance to the quartz interests of California was involved in the experiment, we deem it due to the public and to stockholders not yet apprised of the issue, to make the following statement: We are able to crush eighty tons of quartz daily, and our furnace (which works admirably) will melt forty tons, with ease, within the same time, at a cost for fuel of one half of the original estimate. All of the metal in the quartz is fused and assumes a globular form as it drops into the receiver below. That which remains in the calcined quartz also assumes the same