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2 JANUARY 3 & 4, 1875 GRASS VALLEY UNION
crushing is done at a custom mill. About 100 tons of ore have been extracted and worked and this
gave an average yield of $75 per ton or a total of $7,500. The percentage of sulphurets is very large,
amounting to 10. The location consists of 1,300 feet, and the course of the vein is north-east and
south-west, with a dip to the northwest at an angle of 60 degrees. The length of the pay zone, as
far as is known, is 400 feet, with an average thickness of 30 inches. The country rock is slate. The
mine is working through a shaft which is now 101 feet deep. Two levels have been opened of the total
length of 400 feet. The hoisting and pumping are done, at present, by horse power. Robert and David
McCook manage affairs at the mine.
American,
Located at Sebastopol, a mile below San Juan. The main water pipe is 32 inches in diameter,
and furnishes a fall of about 250 feet at the bed rock. The American has been working without
cessation ever since 1852, and its present owners are generally among the original locators. An old
tunnel has been in operation for several years, and has been low enough to wash a very large section
of country. Now, however, the tunnel has got so high that they can only wash the top dirt, and for the
past season this is all the washing they have done. About twenty acres of gravel are now ready to be
washed as soon as the new tunnel is completed. The new tunnel is now in 3,100 feet, with 700 more
to run before it will be completed. The American was the second mine that commenced washing
gravel on a large scale. In the infancy of hydraulic mining, the “sand scratchers” thought that 6
inches of water was all that was necessary to run at a time, and thought that more would have the
effect to lose the gold. When the American put in a 12-inch pipe and used a couple of hundred inches
of water, they were thought to be crazy. However, the effect has shown the fallacy of the old idea. The
American has paid its stockholders good dividends for nearly twenty years, and as soon as the new
tunnel is in, they expect to have plenty more of them. Geo. C. Spooner is the Superintendent of the
American. The stock is divided into only fifty shares.
BELFREY.—The town hall has a new belfrey upon it. The new belfrey looks well, and has been
properly proportioned according to architectural rules and ideas. The new belfrey is not quite equal
to the one on St. Peter’s Church at Rome, but still it is a good practical and fine belfrey for a country
town. The bell that swings therein is not a first-class bell. That is, it is cracked. Its tone does not sing
out alarmingly, as a fire bell should. No fireman will jump out of his bed and “git up and git” at the
sound of a cracked bell. The Town Trustees ought to get a new bell for the new belfrey.
GIANT POWDER CAP EXPLOSION.—On Friday last the young sons of H. Vogelman found
a Giant Powder cap, one of the kind used to set off blasts of that Powder, and they proceeded to
investigate the cap. Charley aged about 10 years, held the cap between the forefinger and thumb of
his right hand and picked at the fulminate in the cap with a pin. The cap exploded and tore the ends
of the thumb and two fingers of the right, and the ends of the thumb and one forefinger of the left
hand rather badly. The tips of some of the members had to be cut off. A younger brother standing by
was wounded in the face with a fragment of the cap, and also had his face burned somewhat. The
elder brother was also close by, but was not hurt. Dr. Tompkins is attending the wounded boys.
NEW YEAR'S FESTIVITIES.—Grass Valley enjoyed the New Year’s day in the happiest style.
The German Social Club had a grand ball at West’s Hall, on the night of the 31st, and the festivities
were kept up until broad daylight of the morning of the first. C. H. Bury, of the Exchange Hotel,
gave a ball at Hamilton Hall, the same night, which was highly enjoyed, and which was kept up till a
late, or rather early hoour. On Friday there were numerous receptions all around town, which were
numerously attended. The best of order prevailed all over the town.
A GRAND SUCCESS.—We understand that the grand fancy dress ball managed by the married
ladies of Nevada city, on the night of the 1st, was a perfect success. The attendance was large, and