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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 29, 1852 99 Several scurrilous paragraphs have of late found their way into some of the newspapers, the object of which is an underhanded attack on E. F. W. Ellis, for the manly and independent course he has pursued in the Legislature. That those who are interested in a profligate waste of time and means should make him an object of attack is not at all surprising—and if they do not yet find him in their way, we have mistaken the indications that way we have already seen. MUSKETO CREEK DIGGINGS—A new and perhaps somewhat important discovery has been made on this branch of Deer Creek, [in Willow Valley] some three or four miles from this place—extensive surface diggings, paying from ten to twenty-five dollars per day to the hand, with a long tom. This discovery has been made within the last ten days and did not become generally known until within three days past. The lead, it is said, appears to run into the hill, and some suppose it will lead to still further discoveries in the way of cayote diggings. [Joseph W.] Gregory will close his shipments of gold dust by the steamer of the first on (Thursday) evening at 10 o’clock, up to which time he will draw drafts at his office in Nevada, which he confidently expects to send through to New York in 24 days from San Francisco. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22d Business calling me to Auburn and Ophir the past week, I made a trip through that region. I was much pleased with the evidences afforded of a flourishing and permanent business and mining interest—both at the above named places, and along the stage route. Ophir is a small, busy town, pleasantly located, with large expectations from quartz, and also from its placers, when the Bear River ditch is completed. Auburn is a larger and more important point, and business in it, I was informed, was excellent. ... A stage line will be run through from Auburn to Nevada in the course of a couple of months... . Mr. [Charles] Lovell has engaged a company in [San Francisco] for the Nevada theatre. THE LEGISLATURE ASSEMBLY [January 24].—Mr. Parrish called up the joint resolution of the Senate, instructing the Treasurer to set apart $50,000 of any monies not otherwise appropriated, as a contingent fund for the use of the Legislature. He also moved to amend the resolution, by adding thereto the words, “and for the per diem pay of members and salaries of officers.” Mr. Ellis of Nevada said: If there was anything to which he was pledged it was never to give a vote in this House which might have a tendency to depreciate the credit of the State. The value of the State stocks in the market must be increased or diminished by the acts of this Legislature. He regarded the $50,000 which it was proposed to appropriate by this resolution (for a contingent fund for the use of the Legislature and for the per diem pay of members and salaries of officers) as already pledged to pay the debts of the State. There were creditors here, destitute of means, with orders in their pockets—orders which should be cashed—and he did not believe the Legislature had any right to divert funds which ought to be sacredly applied to the payment of these orders. Some provision must be made to meet the interest on the War Loan Bonds, falling due on the first day of March next. The Government had better stop—the Legislature had better adjourn, and members had better disperse, rather than involve the State in additional embarrassment. A motion to indefinitely postpone was however finally agreed to—ayes 28, noes 22....