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150 MAY 9 & 10, 1866 GRASS VALLEY UNION
ON Thursday last, says the Amador Ledger, a drove of Chinamen, nearly one hundred in number,
passed through this place, bound for Idaho.
OUR COPPER INTERESTS.—The copper mines of Nevada county are just now exciting the
attention of our people at home as well as of capitalists abroad. A number of very excellent copper
discoveries have been made in Greenhorn, which promise to successfully compete with, if not excel, any
in the State. The Fox claim is perhaps as good a copper mine as can be found in California. Mr. James
Davis, of Nevada, and others, who located northern extensions of this celebrated ledge, have been offered
seventy-five thousand dollars for their claim of one thousand feet. We have been shown some rock taken
from their claim, which assays twenty-eight per cent. copper. J. T. Davis, of Grass Valley, and others,
have a southern extension, which is known as the Grady claim. These parties have taken out specimens
of excellent copper at a depth of four feet from the surface. Competent judges in San Francisco pronounce
these copper claims as being the most valuable in the State. If such a statement can be sustained
when these companies have scarcely prospected their mines, what will be the result when the work of
development has been pushed? . . . These mines are located eight miles from Grass Valley, in an easterly
direction, and on the line of the Pacific Railroad.
COUNTY COURT.—The regular term of the County Court commenced on Monday, and the
following business was transacted:
Charles W. Sherwood, presenting his first papers and proving continued residence for five years, was
granted papers of citizenship.
Venire issued for Grand Jury, returnable Tuesday at ten o’clock A.M.
Venire for Trial Jury issued, returnable on Monday, the 21st.
McWayn [sic] et al. vs. L. J. Sherman—Set for trial June 25th.
McCue vs. His Creditors—Set for hearing May 21st.
People vs. John Lloyd—Set for trial June 22d.
Court adjourned until this morning, at ten o’clock.
THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1866
BLASTING OIL.—Blasting oil was invented by a German chemist named Nobel, and its
manufacture for commerce was commenced in Sweden in February, 1865. Since then its use has spread
considerably.
AN occasional diamond is found at Cherokee says the Butte Record, although no regular search is
made for them. Doubtless any systematic process by which they could be separated from the tailings and
debris thrown out from the washings for gold would reveal them in profitable profusion. The one recently
found in some tailings by Durette is the largest that has yet been found in that vicinity. It is not a diamond
of the first water, being of a straw tint, but it is a veritable and valuable diamond.
MORE STAGES STOPPED.—Homer Thompkins, who came down on Tuesday afternoon, reports
that both of the Washington stages were attacked on that day by highwaymen, near the Six-Mile house,
while on their way up. We have not been able to get many particulars. Marker, it appears, was ahead,
and instead of stopping when ordered, he and another man on the driver’s seat drew their pistols, and
whipping up the animals, passed on, leaving the robbers on the road. Latta’s stage was stopped, and one
of the passengers, named McKee, was relieved of forty dollars. We believe the other passengers had no
money, or but small amounts.