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GRASS VALLEY UNION JULY 20, 21, 22, 1865 385
case with a good deal of interest, and in the quick twinkling of the eye of some of them we could perceive
an under current that seemed to say if we had the majority we would show you whether white men or
Chinamen should rule this country.
FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1865
A PROMISING MINE.—The Idaho is the name of a claim located on Eureka Hill, and owned
by Messrs. Findley, Coe, Young, Hen—ing, O’Connor, Coleman and Dorsey. This is the first easterly
extension of the celebrated Eureka mine, and cannot but turn out to be an immensely rich claim. The
owners are now sinking a shaft and putting up machinery. They expect to have to go down about one
hundred feet before striking the ledge. This company calculate that they will have to spend some fifteen
thousand dollars before cutting their ledge, but as they are all of them well able to contribute their quota
of the amount, we may expect that thework and expenditure necessary to develop the mine will be pushed
without interruption.
DEALER IN IRON.—On Wednesday afternoon a Chinaman took some old iron to the Mill street
Foundry and offered it for sale. Mr. M. C. Taylor, proprietor of the foundry, suspecting that John hadn’t
come honestly by the iron in question, left the Chinaman in charge of the workmen and started up town
for the purpose of stating his suspicions to an officer. In the meantime the Chinaman, who had doubtless
smelt a rat, watched his opportunity and while no one was paying attention to him, sloped. When Mr.
Taylor and the officer reached the foundry they found that the Celestial had skedaddled, leaving the iron
behind him. This action on his part was at least pretty strong circumstantial evidence that he had stolen
the iron.
AGENCY.—Mr. Samuel George, a gentleman well and favorably known in this community has
taken the agency of the British and California Banking Company for this place. Mr. George has been a
resident in the mountain towns of California for a period of thirteen years, and from his long and intimate
connection with mines and mining interests, and possessing a full knowledge of the necessities of the
miners in the matter of transmitting money to their friends in Europe, he is, perhaps, better qualified for
the position he has assumed than almost any other man in our midst. The facilities offered by this agency
will be perceptible at a glance. See advertisement in another column.
COLFAX.—The new town laid out by the Pacific Railroad Company one-half mile from
Illinoistown is to be known as Colfax. So says the Stars and Stripes.
SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1865
CELESTIAL DISPUTES .—If it is possible to find an honest, competent Chinaman in our midst,
we would suggest that he be invested with the powers of a Justice of the Peace, for the purpose of
determining the many disputes that are daily arising between rival houses of Chinadom. We felt, while
listening to the Chinese case before Judge O’Connor yesterday, that it is taxing the patience of a white
man to too great an extent to compel him to sit and elicit testimony from the celestials in order to
determine which side is right and which is not. The interpreters themselves did not understand the English
language sufficiently to warrant them in acting in that capacity; and altogether we think that had Job, to
whom Scriptural history accords the palm for patience above all other men, had been fillling the position
of Justice of the peace on this occasion, he would have declared that he had no jurisdiction over Canton
and Hongkong, and left the bench in disgust.