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NEVADA JOURNAL MARCH 13 & 20, 1857 63
Universalist services will be held for a few Sabbaths, in the Court House, at 7 1/2 P.M.
We condense the communication of “Alpha” for want of room. It was received as we were going to
press:
Messrs. Editors:—The Democrat of this week, in speaking of the outrage upon Mr. Rich,
does great injustice, not only to the citizens of Alpha, but to the physicians. It is not true that
nothing was done for him during the night after the assault. His wounds were dressed, and
everything done for him which humanity and skill could do; and before Dr. Von Poellnitz was
sent for, his wounds were so well attended to, that upon his arrival he did not think best to
change the dressings, or do any thing for him, saying “it was of no use” as he could not live;
and the next day went away, leaving the wounds and the patient as he found them.
Yours, ALPHA.
We hear from Alpha, that Rich is still alive. The examination of Nevils [sic] is progressing. No
doubt is entertained there of his guilt.
[CONSTABLE’S SALE in favor of E. C. Purtymun, John Ramos & George Church, against A. Cavan for the
sums of $32.00, $163.00, and $107.94. Will sell two story house on lot owned by John Ramos on Commercial
street; on April 4, 1857.]
[SHERIFF’S SALE in favor of Allen Tichorst against [Moore] & Foss for the sum of $300.00. Will sell right
and title of said Moor & Foss to their Steam Saw Mill, situated on the Red Dog road, and known as the Nevada
Lumber Co. Mill; on March 28, 1857.]
. FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1857.
EXTREMES MEET.—On Sunday last, our citizens were regaling themselves on ice cream, and
within six miles of here “up the hills” the snow lay on the ground to the depth of three feet.
MINING NEWS.
Since the late rains, the ditches are all running full of water, and the miners, everywhere in this
vicinity, are “pitching in,” with all their might. Notwithstanding the present water ditches are full,
however, it is easily seen that even now, there is a very great deficiency in the supply of this much needed
article. The present mode of mining is so very different from the operations of a few years ago, that
although the supply of water doubles every year, from the increased number and capacity of ditches still
the deficiency seems to be as great now as ever. The amount of water now used by one company of four
or five men, two or three years ago would have kept two or three hundred men at work. The main
difference is that then, men did the work, using the water merely as an auxiliary, and the amount of work
done depended on the number of men employed. . . .
Among the mining operations we have seen, those of A. T. Laird, most astonish the beholder. Under
his operations the hill between Nevada and American Hill is rapidly disappearing from view. The face of
the diggings presents a wall of some seventy or eighty feet in heighth, which is brought down in slides, as
the operators desire, by means of the hose. In this way, over a half acre of ground—we should think,
varying in depth from 20 to 80 feet, has been washed off and sent down the creek. Besides this, Mr. Laird
has just opened some extensive diggings on American Hill. ..
We also noticed several other extensive cuts on American Hill, where the amount of work done