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April 14, 1869 (4 pages)

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ad ee ee rir see fect of coc oe sng nag At Laren Flat the extensive enter. page poo of miners. The writer says : The resolution of Sargent, ®. introduced a few days since in the. . House, has,so far,met with no response: . to segregate the'mineral lands and prevent them from passing to railroad corporations wader grmret Congress that Be __“""__ prise ef epening the rich channel which ; passes through the hill on the opposite side to Sucker Flat,has been undertaken _ by parties who have sufficient capital to put it through, and it will no doubt result in the opening ef the rich channel which; passes from Sinartsville to Wretiehi. Corral and. the ridge in this --Neaieteamagn Alene the Gusti from Quaker Hill to Steep Hollow and at the Cascades is one of the finest gravel “geen, and he pre= dicts it Will-B6 ‘Gn of fie finest hydraulic mining districts in the county, On the Little ork ridge, Cozzens, ; ork ig Several sets ‘and Sikeg thsecluaghy at They have one of thé finest gravel ranges in the county, and will this year succeed in —te ate ere: -The nb tility: and eawinge . of ground worked this season in the hydraulic . . districts will be larger than for séveral years. The location of; “quartz ledges has not been so extensive during the last month, as before the aggregate, . aly Wiiounting to 14,200 feet, but a large amount of work ‘has been done upon quarts ledges. At Eureka, the ‘Spring work has been commenced, and the town. is quite lively at present. A number of the ledges at this place ought. te be paying mines before next. ~ Pall.. In. Nevada. township considerable work. is being done. Parties are sinking upon the Talbott ledge in Willow Valley. The Banner and Pitteburg are yielding handsomély, and other mines will secon be started up, the Mohawk amon among “them. It is reported that the California will probably be atarted before Fall, and the old Nevada mine, from which Jarge sums of money -have-been taken will, it is said, soon fall into the hands of men who have the means and who will work it by opening an incline upon it. The Rising Star, Cornish and other mines down the creek are looking well. aS Grass Valley township still maintains its character as the leading quartz dis‘trict of the State. During the past month a number of new locations have been made-and several mining compa. Miles are starting up. The older mines continue to yield‘ large returns, ‘\ gaining prospects were never better than at present, and the times are sire to be better in consequence. = _ Lrpera Donation, are Friday. last __whe Superintendent of the Crown Point. and Kentuck mines, Gold Hill, received a check of $500 from the well known wholesale provision house of Booth & Co., Sacramento, with the accom panying communication, which explains itself, and proves the gentlemen composing the firm to. be noble and goodhearted : a Sac ixenn April 8, 1869, J. P. Jones, Bea. G Gold Hill—Dear .. Sir: Herewith find our check for $500, ' whieh we desiré to contribute to the of the families of the men who lost theirdivesin the terrible calamity that has befallen your community.— . , Please make such appropriation as your own judgment’ may deem best, and, oblige yours, very rely, OOTH & co, : Victor eas receives over four thousand letters a year, written by people from ‘all parts of the world, te DréxeEns is to give ‘morning romdings “Yn London, that the actors may be enabed to hear him, The} mineral lands had not passed to railroad corporations without adequate inquiry or knowledge of their character ; if the whole expense of saving known mines has not devolved on the miners themselves or left to chanee, and if the sys— tem adopted by the Government does not preclude any definite knowledge of the character of lands in the mineral regions, to the great loss to the United States of much of ite mineral domain, This resolution opens up the practice of af the Interior Department in dealing with the railroad in mineral regions, elicits information and prepares shia way, for role. Wuirr Prine Attn —From the Te The -saaclatian — ‘cop at joaniay, ond. _hodies of . ‘Tum estate af the late Senator Gruthstor rec rie—valded . ‘at about 1,000,000-—has: GROCERY & PRODUCE STORE, Wai. Cleaviand of this city, from a ange: me setae sh tae: COMMERCIAL STREET, — miner in White Pine. The letter con. ters. Next door to Keeney’s Hardware Store. tains about the .same statemepits in re. Legislature R.& P. SUMMERS..,.. -#ee+saProprictor. gard to the district that we have herejg mmonn he noes Lag jialabre ade __ W. SS. McROBERTs, _ tofére published. ‘He says of the Eber. pee Sieur eee vet fer} FAS arse otis iment which is i hardt: “There is a buneh of ore on top,. ing the session. —— Pabnvcw sense var 1 that -baneh they have is down 175 feet. It is just the same in the Hidden Treasure, on Chloride Flat and=every place in the country where they have subk. Nothing has h the top strata, and the rich top strata is not very extensive. This is proved by the very few places in which i+ has been been sunk. In many of them there is no chloride at top or bottom, but wher. ever it is found it is exceedingly rich. People are in. the.district from every part of the world, and it is impossible to tell what they are going to do.— Nearly every man you meet is worth from $50,000 to $100,000, and still with dollar to get a square meal.’ You can see hundreds coming ‘ato town every day with their load of Tianketd, weary and foot sore, cursing the country, and the men who first t discovered it.” land Empire we condense the following * City Attorney of Treasure City. A boulder weighing twenty tons rolled down the hill near the Eberhardt on the 10th. It crashed through the works of the La Patria mine, totally demolishing them. Aman in its road became so terrified that he fell to the ground, and it passed over without in. juring him. It then rolled on, demolished a cabin, from which @ man had itself in the ruins. The works.of the mine were . entirely destroyed. The bodider was started from its place by the melting snow which, toftened the a . ground, A cave has jee dene in, the Loug-Looked-for-Carson mine. One chamber 25x40 feet has been examined, but the remainder has not been explored. . The sides are of limestone, intermixed ~ with mineral. bearing quartz which is said to be rich. ALASKA.—The Alaska Herald says: “A native of St. Paul Island, Alaska, informs us that the whole valley of that island is covered with the flesh and bones of seals to the depth of a foot or more, -It is thought this debris will make very rich guano, as the deposits have been going on for many years, both on St. George and St. Paul islands. Should this be the case they will constitute a valuable article.of traffic Last Winter in the San Vrancisco Bay, the divers,a bird well known in our waters, were killed by thousands, They are purchased by the furriers of this city, for the London market. The skins sell here at 50 and 75 cents apiece; in London at $5 apiece. This bird is numerous in Alaska waters and could possibly ‘be purchased at five cents apiuce. Money Oxpers.—In the San Francisco Post Office,during the last quarter, comprising a value of $128,986 03— averaging over $35.to each. ——— on-which amounted to $695 5! Remittances received from me offices amounted to $181,495. ~The ordérs drawn by other money order offices and paid here amounted to $54,086 25. This amount -was-drawn in 1,862 orders. The amount deposited by Postmaster Smith with the Assistant U.S. Treasurer in this.city, to the credit of the money order account, in the. three months ending March 81st, is $256,079. Hiew FounrAin.—A fountain on the grounds of Seth B, Hunt, at Benning. ton, Vermont, is the highest but one in ‘the world. It is drawn from the hills through a six inch pipe, throwing a stream 168 feet high. It appears at a short distance like a single silvar bar. Lir—e INsuRED.— Michael McCormick, one of the miners killed in the Crown Point, had insured his life, only five days before, for $2,500 in the Pacific Mutua Life Insurance Company of California. _ the number of orders issued was 3,618, . News iraun—W e get the bitowing from the Union: The want of rolling stock and accommodations on the route from making an excursion td the Pacific this Summer. Sickles is*spoken of as Minister to Mexico and Pile to Brazil. Curtin isto go to Russia and Shellabarger to Portugal, John Jay to Austria and J. Rus. sel Jonesto Belgium. The colored men have been nominated as follows: Clay . — to Liberia, Bassett to Hayti and Hudson to Guatamala. There is a report thata fast privateer of 700 tons-left. New York recently to aid the Cubans. She was well armed and had 120 men, mostly Americans.— A great deal of Cuban sympathy is rising in New York ; both branches of the Common Council of the city on Monday passing “resolutions “encouraging the rebels, and the Cuban J unty had a meeting from which it is inferred an expe-, dition has sailed from Southern port . for Cuba, commanded by a uistinguished American Generals + Success oF THE GIANT PowDER.— Capt. 8. W. Lee, Superintendent of the Empire mill and mine,has experimented more extensively with the Giant Powder than any other miner in this district. He concludes that the new explosive is all that is claimed for it, and that it must very. soon come into universal use in the mines, As an example of what can be done with the Giant Powder, Capt. Lee, informs the Union that four men took out twenty three tons of rock in two days with it, and that each man averaged eight feet per day in drilling, beside working out their drill holes. The th level of the Empire mine is now “with Giant Powder, exclusive of all other kinds, and very soon it will be used in all the other = THE Stockton "Fidependent of April 8th, says: “Walker Tyler arrived yes.terday, having made the trip to Sacra. mentoand back on a velocipede. He started from Woodbridge at 8 0’clock yesterday morning, and arrived in this city at 11, making the distance of 14 miles in three hours. A Wurre Pine laborer, in digging o grave the other day, struck chloride, located a claim, refused to permit the burial of the corpse thereon, and the friends of the deceased were compelled to move on. THE fools are not all dead yet. E. R. Hatch, of Connecticut, offers,. for $20,000 to ride gaily over Niagara Falls,
qany day next Summer, as he believes the descent to be net only possible, but easy and geife. A BUST ‘of the late James T. Brady will be placed i in the Law Institute,New York, us i WILLARD's Hotel in Washington took in $4,000 a day during inauguration week. ee . the richest I have ever seen, but after. found though thousands of holes have} a . sentence of f death in he Maio State! “THERE are “fourteen conviets under . 5 . for arson, _ Rev. Dr. Berkley in opposition to the — suffrage movement. : : pet worth of horseflesh in the UniTHE Reveille says ye thes the quarterly licenses just collected at White Pine, under the —s Act, amount to $1,079. : M. Prerry; the ‘Parisian: Perfect. of Police, receives. a salary of 60,000 francs per annuni. \ He 18 a Corsican by birth, and formerly practiced law at Ajaccio. MARRIED in Fun oor WEDDED IN says that, not a thousand miles from ‘White. River Junction, a serio-comic affair occurred, which made the parties: to the joke laugh out of the other side of their mouths, A correspondent, who describes the affair, says: They have got. whe Bo the fanniest snarl across Mane river that you ever heard of.~ rty. last week, at one ——’s, after exls ting the pordinary games, and wanting som new, mock marriages were crit were drawn by lots, and four couples stood up to be marred The eam was performed, they were duly pronounced ‘man and wife, by the laws of the State and before these witnesses.’ . Afterward they ascertained the man officiating was a Justice of the Peace, and the . were legally married. They are in the greatest alarm about it that ever was, of them. Professor ——, of T-—— Seminary, expécts a lady up from below in about a fortnight to marry him, and neatly every one involved is expecting to be married right away ; one other gentleman to a lady below, and they feel‘like death. They have searched all the law books, and consulted authorities far and near, and oo’ only proves the Knot. still tighter. The Justice has been fined for each couple. Héesays he is from another county and ean not do business here, and sup eg the marriages not t is ‘they are legally married, and can onl be divorced by the Legislature. 7 ACCORDING to‘the annual registration report: the fatality of consum ption has decreased nearly twenty-five per cent. in Massachusetts during the past fifteen years. sneseenrnanetneraereenetn titcenn nar OTTO LUTJE’S Candy Manufactory, Confeetion= ery and Refreshment Saloon, Next to Morris & Nathan's Store, NO. 8 MILL STREET, GRASS VALLEY. T*2 establishment he has been fitted u ificent Style and persons up, in poapenrg ALLEY will find it a splendid t, Refreshments. _ Refreshment Room is jbandsomely furnished and tables supplied with Ice Cream, Strawbe: ries & Cream, Fotntain Soda, — Wee tani t Srrepe eels we warm Also, overens tr. in .eve et COFFEE," TEA, Ete seca CAKES AND CANDIES at wholesale and retail and made to order. Retail dealers in Candies will pf it greatly to their advantage to give me a ODD FELLOWS’ CELEBRATION The Fittieth Anniversary Of the introdnction of Oda Fellowshi Ag the United States, will be celebrate GRASS VALLEY, ON M DAY vicssesccarens Peeee APRIL Mth. Orator of the Day : Rey. W. H. Hi, of Sacramento City. ( The Exercises will consist of a-Proe cession, Oration, Music, and to conclude in the Evening with a Grand Ball and Supper at AMILTON HALL, en ee: “j Arrang ente—C. C. Smith, Anderson, 2 aick, ME M stevensoa, 5. Hevertee, ee arris; J. M. Lakenan, R. Wilder, Williams, B. Nathan, J. Wits InviraTion ComMITTEEates = Valley oe No. 12—S, .D. Bosworth, G@. W. Dixon, Anderson, C. ©. Smith; A. sees, B. F. Harria, 8. ae N. "Laken ustomah ize, No. 16—Ches, Marsh FP. Bean, J k, &. F. Spence, H. €. Mekal: big. ad WK Goe, ountain Hose Lodge . No. 26.— PF. P. Mon Loses mhn Landis, a ra: ng, wlan, Geo. MBCEPTION arene Pete Bs John Tad Sie by Townes 7 oe sO Martin Qui af Grant FrLoor pe ha Stone, a. A. ress C. Smith, seme be had at G, oy & Ross, So aeiabei of St. Louis is -out }for peng gp Montpelier (Vt.) Jour-} many the first question is, ‘Loan mea} Accordingly names asa . to be legal. certainly a funny scrape, #till_funnier—by the fact thar all the parties belong to the} “uppef ten.” e best.opinion is that ¥. to be hela § ing all sorts of Fam 4 PRICES. < re Uni. . ti 89 give me call ‘ : rag ae a3 mR ©0 THE PUBLIC! oe HARDWARE. HARDWARE. . GEORGE E, ‘B TORNER, PINE STREET, NEVADA CITY, Meavy aod Shelf Hardware, . } rem, . Steel, . Iron and Lead Pipe, Mining and Agricultural Tools, Aud all Goods in Ihe Hardware LOWEST CASH PRICES! _ AGENT FOR THE 7 PACIFIC SILVER PLATE CO, ~ And s fine assortment of ~~ PLATED WARE, CUTLERY, And other articles always on hand. Cooking and Parior Stoves, _ Cooking Utensils, Tinware, ee &e, &C. Also a Large Stock of §@™~ MECHANICS, MINERS, FARMERS, and the public generally in need of anything in.the Hardware line will find it to their interest to call on Cc. E. TURNER. Nevada, April Tth. SPENCE & CO. . Willadvertise the‘! shortly. FOR CITY TREASURER. T THE SOLICITA ATE eh TION OF A NUMBER pny Ht. PARKER, Will be a candidate for Cit Town Election to held on aay Way FOR CITY TREASURER. rpBE FRIENDS. OF leah GEORGE R., CRA a pd asa CRA WE om i, urer at t Sharter day, May 8d, 1900" Election to be held Mon FOR CITY . MARSHAL. HARLES Ww. ce CORNELL is hereby announced as a candidate for the office of Charter City Marshal, at the Se { May, oe =o FOR CITY MARSHAL. B. JEFFERY at the solicitation . f Ba ue an will be a candidate 4 onday, May 3d, 1869. A Good Book for Agents ! ‘RESOURCES 4 PACIFIC SLOPE. STATISTICAL and. Descriptive fans A ry of the Mines and Minerals, Clima ” an pography, Agriculture, Commerce a the Pacific States and Territoties ; ni Courant WER sae ROWE and Pal cg by HON. Peay a ~ wo Volume ate. oO! a in Se Se eure to customers at the put LOW aS CASH f 3 ox x TARGE STOCK OF CROCKERY and GLASS WARE, PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISH for th Marshal, at the Saaeter Blection . tudermachos to Buber! aft. is* comn of th exten tion . Ca: “time conge He e 1852, was.: He } “rath the Lidd clare zens: Heln tor t In stay rame ve. . a quit > well yest ner, COP} . nish the ple our ions Val