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Title: 1877 Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Nevada County News & Advertisments # of Pages: 238 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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119 JUNE 24 & 26, 1877 GRASS VALLEY UNION to each weekly. Upon the alarm of fire water consumers ae requested to close their taps, as a failure to do so will render them liable to penalties. J. J. DORSEY, .Agent. TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1877 DIED. At Denver, Colorado, June 24th, 1877, FRED youngest son of Andrew J. and Elvira C. Compton, aged 11 years, a naive of Havana, N.Y. GOLD HILL MINE. A contract for hoisting and pumping machinery was yesterday entered into between the Gold Hill Mining Company and James M. Lakenan, the well known foundry man and machinist; the machinery to be used on the Gold Hill. This mine is the oldest quart mine in Grass Valley, and is supposed, with abundant reason, to be the oldest mine of that kind on the Pacific Coast. It was located in 1850 and up to 1865 did not return less than $4,000,000 worth of gold bullion. In those days the washing was carelessly done and many a very valuable piece of Gold Hill ore found its way into places other than the batteries of the mill. The writer of this remembers that the Gold Hill mine was the first he ever visited and that the miners underground did not hesitate to make him a present of more than one rich and beautiful specimen of the quartz. That seemed to be a habit there, and no one appeared to desire to prohibit the custom. So it is fair to presume that to the $4,000,000 taken out of the mine, down to the depth of 300 feet, and regularly returned to the owners, some hundreds of thousands of dollars should be added. The mine has not been worked to a lower depth than 300 feet on the incline or slope. The quartz in the mine has, at times, been knit together with gold. The resumption of work by a strong company of this oldest quartz mine in the State is a matter for congratulation to Grass Valley. It may be that Massachusetts Hill, of which Gold Hill is part, will follow the example and that still another old and known to be rich property [will] be developed. The hoisting and pumping machinery used heretofore on the North Star mine will be put up at Gold Hill, and will be ready for operation in forty days. This machinery is of the very best description and will easily handle all the water in the mine and will enable sinking to an indefinite depth. Mr. George Lord, one of our most experienced and intelligent miners, and who is perfectly familiar with the ground at Gold Hill, will be Superintendent. Around the World. Mr. Brassey put a girdle round the earth in forty-six weeks. His steam yacht, Sunbeam, sailed from Cowes on July 6th, called at Turbay, Madeira, the Cape Verdes and Rio Janeiro, passed through the straits of Magellan, touched at Valparaiso, Bow Islands, Tahiti, Hawaii, Ascension, Yokohama, Hongkong, Canton, Singapore, Malacca, Aden, Alexandria, Malta, Gibraltar and Lisbon, and arrived at Cowes on May 27th. The number of miles traversed under sail was over 20,000; the log covered 85,400 miles. On the coast of Patagonia the voyagers recued a crew of fifteen hands from a bark which had been wrecked. In Japan they were present at the opening of a railway by the Mikado. In a letter to the London Times Mr. Brassey exclaims: “How infinitely easy is the task of the modern circumnavigator compared with the hazardous explorations of Magellan and Captain Cook’ when the chronometer was an instrument of rude and untrustworthy quality, when there were no charts, and the roaring of the breakers in the dead of night was the mariner’s first warning that the coral reef was near.” It was certainly a yacht cruise worth taking.