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144 AUGUST 11, 1854 NEVADA JOURNAL
. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1854.
[Miners of Pleasant Flat on Big Deer Creek met on August . and adopted laws for Pleasant Flat
Mining District. Chairman E. Mills, and E. P. Palmer Secretary. ]
[Miners of Little Deer Creek adopted laws for the Little Deer Creek Mining District on August 5. G
B. Densmore, President, Wm. H. Furt, Secretary, and George Davis, Recorder. ]
Deer Creek.
“That which is one man’s woe is another’s weal.”
Now that water cannot be had to work the placers on the higher ground, the river and creek diggings
are becoming available. One day the past week we took a stroll down Deer Creek as far as the mouth of
Wood’s ravine. We found some eight or ten companies at work below Nevada. One or two of them have
not yet succeeded in fairly opening their claims, but will no doubt, come out “right side up,” in a short
time. .. The next Company we visited, we found our friend [John] Turner of Woods’ ravine into it with
commendable zeal. This company last year took out several thousand dollars, and thus far the prospect is
they will do equally well—perhaps better. They are making some $20 to $30 per day to the hand. Success
attend them. .. While on this excursion, we were led to contemplate the fortunes lost in experimenting in
quartz. Some of the mills along the creek are really good structures. The Revere (the machinery since all
removed) was one of the most expensive affairs of its ttme. Bunker Hill, intended to run by water, for
which purpose it has one of the best wheels that can be made, and which gives it as much power from a
given small amount of water, as any we have ever seen. The other work in this mill, are all on the same
superior order.
The Tremont, within a few rods of the Bunker Hill, is another structure of considerable merit,
having two excellent engines, and all the apparatus necessary for quartz mining. Just below this is the
Wyoming, another water power, and containing some very superior machinery. And within a few yards of
this is the Ural. All these are located within less than a mile; the extremes, and we venture to say the
average cost of each has not been less than $50,000, taking in all not less than $250,000, actual
expenditure, for which the persevering and enterprising projectors never realized even a moiety of their
money.
The failure of the quartz on that hill was at one time a serious draw-back on our town, and many
persons then prematurely pronounced her funeral dirge. But the fog and mist have since cleared away and
Nevada has recovered not only from the losses of capital, but the loss of credit also; and we can now
boast of as busy a little city as graces any portion of the mountains of California.
MOUNTAIN CORN.—For the benefit of an absent friend, as well as others who are incredulous
about the capacity of the native soil of this region to produce corn or other vegetables, we would say that
on Tuesday last we made an excellent dinner of new corn grown on our own garden in the eastern
extremity of Nevada city, on ground formerly occupied by a growth of pine trees, and which has never
had the benefit of manure. The corn was of the small Canada Flint, but the ears were well filled, well
shaped, and what is too often not the case in California, entirely free from vermin.
CHEROKEE.—The miners at present are awaiting the coming of water. The Grizzly ditch is now
being greatly enlarged and improved, which will in a short time much increase their facilities. The
deposites [sic] in this vicinity are among the best in the country, and always have afforded big wages to