Enter a name, company, place or keywords to search across this item. Then click "Search" (or hit Enter).
Go to the Archive Home
Go to Thumbnail View of this Item
Go to Single Page View of this Item
Download the Page Image
Copy the Page Text to the Clipboard
Don't highlight the search terms on the Image
Show the Page Image
Show the Image Page Text
Reset View and Center Image
Zoom Out
Zoom In
Rotate Left
Rotate Right
Toggle Full Page View
Flip Image Horizontally
More Information About this Image
Get a Citation for Page or Image - Copy to the Clipboard
Go to the Previous Page (or Left Arrow key)
Go to the Next Page (or Right Arrow key)
Page: of 627
NEVADA GAZETTE JANUARY 14 & 16, 1865 11
STILES’S QUARTZ MILL.—This mill has not been in thorough operation for some time; but it
is the intention of the proprietor to start it up soon. It is furnished with an excellent battery—or pair of
batteries—of eight stamps, and ten of Knox’s patent amalgamators, which many experienced mill-men
consider superior to anything of the kind in use. Mr. Stiles has also a novelty in the way of a shaking
table—one of his own invention—which, so far as our judgment goes, is the best we have ever seen. It is
a circular pan about four feet in diameter, with the bottom slightly convex, so that it is about an inch and
a-half higher at the center than at the circumference. The bottom is covered with amalgamated copper
plates, and has near the center several curved strips of wood, which serve to keep the heavy metallic
particles which the pan may contain from moving with the waste water and sand toward the center, where
the latter are discharged through a tube, the mouth of which is three or four inches above the bottom of
the pan. Around the top of the tube is a horizontal rim two or three inches in width, which arrests any
metallic particles which may possibly happen to get to the center. This pan rests upon at the center, and
is violently agitated by a force applied at one side. The pulp, after passing through the Knox pans and
undergoing thorough amalgamation, is subjected to the usual “cleaning up” process, after which it is
passed along to the shaking-pan, which effectually divests it of everything valuable. The pan, when in
operation, is cleaned up every two hours, and the residium [sic] is found to consist of sulphurets, silver,
quicksilver and considerable amalgam. Mr. Stiles has been running his pans for several weeks upon
tailings purchased from other mills, and we understand that he has found the business quite profitable.
He intends, however, soon to begin crushing rock. In amalgamating in the Knox pans he uses steam for
heating the mass of pulp and quicksilver, which greatly assists the process and renders it more perfect. We
are glad to know that the mill will soon be in complete operation.
MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1865
FINE PHOTOGRAPHS.— Our friend Charles Ferrand, whose gallery is on Pine street, is now
taking some card photographs which are equal in execution and finish to any we have seen from the best
galleries at the Bay. Mr. Ferrand has devoted himself with much assiduity to the details of his profession,
and his pictures of all kinds give abundant evidence of his taste and skill as an artist. Parties desiring
pictures should call and examine his specimens.
THE GRASS VALLEY IMBROGLIO.—We have taken some pains to ascertain the facts in
relation to the meeting between Mr. Bennett of the Grass Valley Union and Ridge of the moral pestilence
on Friday evening last, aside from the statements of the principals, and we are convinced that on that
occasion and afterward Mr. Bennett acted as became a gentleman and a man of courage, and Ridge like
the cowardly dog he is. The base conduct of the latter is severely reprobated even by Copperheads.
DISTRICT COURT—DECEMBER TERM—HON. T. B. MCFARLAND PRESIDING.—The following
business was transacted in this Court on Saturday:
Moore vs. Morrow—Findings filed and judgment rendered for plaintiff.
Browning vs. Roscoe—Decree of foreclosure ordered.
Middle Yuba Water Co. vs. Eureka Lake Co.—Ordered that defendant have leave to file amended
answet.
Court adjourned to Friday, January 20th.
A CONFIDENCE OPERATOR.—We learn that an individual who has figured quite prominently in
mining operations in this vicinity, and has been superintending the operations near this city of a mining
and milling company of which he is a member, was surprised and detected in an extensive defalcation
by the sudden and unlooked-for arrival in this city of one of the principal stockholders in the company,