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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
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Peay a ~
wo Volume ate. oO! a in
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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
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