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WHO KEEPS THE GREAT CLOTHING. EMPORIUM, CORNER OF
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SHEET MUSIC AT DIXON'S.
GRASS VALLEY TOWNSHIP DIRECTORY.
J. C. DEUEL, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, -- AND NOTARY PUBLIC, No. 18 MILL STREET, GRASS VALLEY.
M. KIRKPATRICK. E. W. MASLIN.
KIRKPATRICK & MASLIN,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW,
OFFICE: Up Stairs, opposite Exchange Hotel, south side Main Street, Grass valley. Mining Titles Investigated, and Abstracts thereof prepared.
MYLES P. O'CONNOR, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT L JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, NEVADA COUNTY. OFFICE-No. 42 MILL STREET,
Residence-No. 127 Main Street. Grass Valley.
MAIN AND MILL STREETS, GRASS VALLEY ? B. GAD.
BEAUTIFULLY DRESSED DOLLS, AT DIXON'S.
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GOLDKOFFER & BRAUN, BOSTON RAVINE BREWERY,
Mill Street, Boston Ravine.
The best of Lagar Beer manufactured, and delivered in all parts of the County in quantities to suit customers. Saloons and Families supplied every day at their residences or places of business. Orders left at the Brewery will be promptly attended to.
JOHN BENNETT. JOHN T. BENNETT.
...
BENNETT & CO.,
No. 64 Main Street, ................ Grass Valley,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
HARDWARE
Cutlery, Stoves, Iron, Steel, Nails, Powder, Fuse, METAL AND SHEET IRON PIPE,
Doors, Blinds and Windows; Paints, Oils and Varnishes ; Farming and Mining Tools ; CROCKERY. Manufacturers of Tin-Ware.
B, GAD ALWAYS KEEPS THE BEST BOOTS AND SHOES.
GUITAR AND VIOLIN STRINGS AT DIXON'S.
GRASS VALLEY TOWNSHIP DIRECTORY.
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WILLIAM HILL.
E. P. FARNHAM.
ESTABLISHED IN 1862.
METALLURGICAL WORKS,
HILLSBURG, [HALF-MILE EAST OF GRASS VALLEY,]
FARNHAM
PROPRIETORS.
SULPHURETS
PURCHASED
BY SAMPLE ASSAYS.
SULPHURETS AND REFRACTORY ORES
Worked on Contract, and Returns Promptly Made.
This Establishment has been in successful operation for five years, having worked in that time over twelve hundred tons of sulphurets, extracting therefrom an average of ninety-five per cent. of the gold, as shown by fire assays. J2
B. GAD'S IS THE PLACE TO FIT YOURSELF WITH FINE CLOTHING.
CHESS MEN, A LARGE SUPPLY, AT DIXON'S.
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UNION
LIVERY
STABLE
HENRY POLLEY,
PROPRIETOR,
No. 43 Main Street, Grass Valley.
Stylish Horses, Good Buggies and Well Trained Saddle Animals always on hand.
CENTER
MARKET
M. FITZ GERALD, ...
Proprietor,
No. 63 Main Street, Grass Valley.
The Proprietor of the CENTER MARKET continues to offer, as he has for the past year, the best quality of Meats of all kinds.
Prices as Low as any ..
GO TO THE MAZEPPA SALOON.
CORNER OF MILL AND NEAL STREETS, Grass Valley, JOHN CORBETT, Proprietor.
GRASS VALLEY AND NEVADA
Mill Street, ......... (below the Foundry,) ......... Grass Valley. All kinds of garments done up in San Francisco Style. LIBBEY & KAISER, Proprietors.
AN IMMENSE STOCK OF CLOTHING-WHERE ? AT B. GAD'S GREAT
GO TO DIXON'S VARIETY STORE, NO. 4 MILL STREET, GRASS VALLEY.
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FASHION SALOON'
No. 8 MILL STREET, GRASS VALLEY,
JOHN DOLING, Proprietor.
THE FINEST WINES, LIQUORS, ALES AND CIGARS.
The reputation of this Saloon is second to none in this County. Every thing is of THE BEST.
Mrs. L. T. Jones,
MILLINER, No. 3 Main Street, Grass Valley, Constantly on hand a very Choice Selection of MILLINERY GOODS, CONSISTING OF Bonnets, Flats, Ribbons, Flowers, Laces, &c., &c.
ALSO-'Bleaching, Pressing and Coloring, Straw Work in all its branches.
DRESS MAKING Neatly Executed.
CRYER'S SALOON,
Adjoining Wiedero's Jewelry Store,
No. 24 Mill Street, Grass Valley,
Keeps constantly on hand the very best
LIQUORS, LAGER, WINES, ALES AND CIGARS. Call on BOB if you want a "magnif" drink.
R. CRYER, Proprietor.
CLOTHING EMPORIUM, CORNER MAIN AND MILL STREETS, GRASS VALLEY.
GIFT ANNUALS AT DIXON'S.
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JOS. HALLECK. FRANK HALLECK. GEO. B. MAY.
HALLECK & CO.,
No. 61 Main Street, .... .Grass Valley,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
FURNITURE 9
UPHOLSTERY, PARLOR AND BEDROOM SETS, CURLED HAIR MATTRESSES. Picture Frames, Crockery, Glassware, c. &C.
C G. KING 9
CHEAP FOR CASH. O
FOR CASH.
CHEAP
DEALER IN
BOOTS & SHOES,
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, No. IS Mill Street, Grass Valley.
FULL SUITS OF CLOTHING, FROM $10 TO $75, AT B. GAD'S.
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RUBBER NECK-TIES AT DIXON'S.
GRASS VALLEY TOWNSHIP DIRECTORY.
DRS. TUCKER & GEORGE, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
Office and Residence next door to Wisconsin Hotel, Lower Main Street, Grass Valley.
Z. H. DENMAN. WM. SPARKS.
DENMAN & SPARKS,
NO. 75
Mill Street, Grass Valley,
CARRIAGES AND WAGONS
Made and repaired on the Shortest Notice.
XSMITHING Of all kinds done with Neatness and Dispatch.
ALL KINDS OF CARRIAGE PAINTING DONE IN THE BEST OF STYLE. All Work Warranted to give Perfect Satisfaction.
J. W. JAMES. P. ENGLISH.
JAMES ENGLISH,
BLACKSMITHS,
No. 22 AUBURN STREET, GRASS VALLEY. All kinds of Blacksmithing done with Neatness and Dispatch.
BOYS SUITS, AND UNDER-CLOTHING, ALL SIZES, AT B. GAD'S.
CHESS BOARDS AT DIXON'S.
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DENTISTRY. DENTISTRY.
DEN MISIR
AT THE LOWEST SAN FRANCISCO PRICES,
SECOND DOOR BELOW THE WISCONSIN HOTEL, Grass Valley.
PRICES:
Extracting Teeth ....... 50 cents. | Extracting for Children .. . 25 cents. Nerve Killed in Aching Teeth, without pain $1.00
Filling with Gold, per Cavity ยท$1.50 to $2.50
Other Fillings. $1.00
Making Full Upper or Lower Set, on Vulcanite. $25.00
Making Full Upper or Lower Set, on Silver. $25.00 to $35.00
Making Full Upper or Lower Set, on Gold. $50.00 to $75.00
CHLOROFORM ADMINISTERED WHEN DESIRED. OK
Any dissatisfaction resulting from work done at this Office will be rectified by the return of the money. All Work Warranted.
Come and see me.
Dr. C. E. DAVIS.
DR. JAMES SIMPSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office-On Main Street, Grass Valley. OPPOSITE EXCHANGE HOTEL. Residence-No. 4 School Street.
WHO KEEPS THE GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM, CORNER OF
SHEET MUSIC AT DIXON'S.
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J. NEWMAN CO.,
No. 34 MILL STREET,. GRASS VALLEY,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Foreign and Domestic
STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, WALL PAPER, GENTS FURNISHING GOODS, ETC. The Largest Assortment in the Market, at the Lowest Rates.
M'SORLEY'S SALOON
No. 13 Main Street, Grass Valley. Next door to the Empire Stable.
His friends and the public will always find him prepared to administer to their wants.
J. NEWMAN CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
MEN'S, WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S,
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Gentlemen's Fine Dress Boots, Ladies Balmorals and Gaiters, . Children's Boots and Shoes in Great Variety. No. 46 Mill Street, Grass Valley.
OCCIDENTAL
SHAVING SALOON
One door west of Loutzenheiser's Drug Store,
Main Street, Grass Valley.
Hair Cutting, Shaving and Shampooing done in the Latest Style. GEORGE H. CLAY, Proprietor.
MAIN AND MILL STREETS, GRASS VALLEY ? B. GAD.
BEAUTIFULLY DRESSED DOLLS, AT DIXON'S.
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T. W. MCCUE & CO.
M'CUE'S STABLE,
49
MAIN STREET, GRASS VALLEY.
WELL MATCHED BUGGY TEAMS AND
GOOD CARRIAGE HORSES,
DRIVERS FURNISHED WHEN DESIRED.
The Best of Saddle Horses.
The best Carriages and Buggies always on hand, at either of our Stables, in GRASS ALLEY OR COLFAX.
Carriages leave Grass Valley for Colfax daily, connecting with all the trains.
Carriages, Buggies and Saddle Horses Furnished
For Passengers going to or from any of the Trains at Colfax, at prices but little above Stage fare ; and Baggage carried Free of charge.
We have an Omnibus Line running between NEVADA and GRASS VALLEY, making three trips a day; leaving Grass Valley at 9 a. m. and 1 and 5 p. m. Returning, leave Nevada at 10 a. m. and 3 and 6 p. m.
T. W. McCUE, Grass Valley, J. S. McCUE, 'Colfax.
B, GAD ALWAYS KEEPS THE BEST BOOTS AND SIIOES.
SKETCH OF MEADOW LAKE TOWNSHIP.
BY F. TILFORD.
The township of Meadow Lake, or as it is more popularly, and perhaps more appropriately termed, "Excelsior," is bounded on the north by the county of Sierra, on the south by Placer, on the east by the boundary line of the States of California and Nevada, and on the west by the townships of Eureka and Wash- ington. These limits contain an area of 384 square miles, and were organized, as the ninth township of Nevada county, by the Board of Supervisors, in the month of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.
Until a very recent period, the district was almost wholly unknown to the public of California. Travelers over the Henness Pass and Donner Lake routes returned to their homes in the lowlands and described in glowing language the wild and picturesque scenery which skirts these highways as they approach the summits of the Sierra. Now and then, an adventurous tourist, who had wandered from the great thoroughfares of travel, among the solitudes of the mountains, published a sketch from his note book descriptive of a somber forest, through whose shadowy glades reigned an awful silence, a crystal stream whose banks were fringed with the loveliest of flowers, or some magnificent sheet of water, in whose clear waves he had seen reflected the fleeting clouds of a summer sky, or the starry firmament of night. Yet a large majority even of the reading community had no very definite idea of the climate, scenery,or resources of the mountainous region included in the bounda- ries of the present township of Meadow Lake. In their minds it was associated in the vision of a dreary winter, extending over nine months of the year, and a rocky, inaccessible wilderness, closed to the approaches of society by impenetrable barriers of snow and ice. The remembrance of the ill-fated Donner party cast a shade of deeper gloom over the picture which imagination had drawn.
Still Excelsior did not remain entirely unexplored. The demand for water wherewith to work the auriferous claims scattered through the valleys and foot- hills of Nevada and Sierra counties, had at an early period attracted the attention of capitalists to these snow-crowned and exalted regions. Here, it was evident, might be obtained at the proper elevations, an inexhaustible supply of the coveted element, which could be collected in reservoirs, and conducted by aqueducts to less famed localities. Action speedily followed the conception, and in the Summer of eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, the first permanent structure was erected in the district by the South Yuba Canal Company. It consisted of a stone wall projected across a ravine, the banks of which were some three hundred yards apart. This wall forms the dam of a reservoir, or artificial lake, from which Nevada City and a large section of country in the southwestern part of Nevada county, obtain in the summer and fall months, their principal supply of water. It measures in some
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places fifty feet in hight ; is at the apex fifteen feet wide, and is built of solid granite, without a particle of wood or cement entering into its composition.
The sheet of water, thus collected and discharged by a small gate at the dam, is called Meadow Lake, and lies within the corporate limits of the town designated by the same name. The reservoir or lake is about two miles long from north to south, and between three hundred yards and three-fourths of a mile wide, with a depth in places, ranging with the season, of from ten to thirty fathoms. Other enter- prises of a similar character followed in the line indicated by the South Yuba Company. About two miles west of Meadow Lake, another reservoir has been formed, called French Lake, of about the same depth and dimensions as the one described. To the east of the former, and some three miles distant, is still another sheet of water styled "English Lake." French Lake is tapped by the great Magenta flume, and supplies the country lying around Eureka South. Forest City, in Sierra county, and the mining region in its vicinity, obtain their supplies of water from the " English " reservoir.
Whether these attempts to subject to man's dominions, the snows of the Sierra, have been a pecuniary success to their projectors, the writer is unable to state, but they have undoubtedly proved of incalculable benefit to several cities, and a multi- tude of miners and agriculturalists in Sierra and Nevada counties.
No discovery, and not even a suspicion of the existence of mineral treasures fol- lowed the labors of the first explorers of the district. They passed over ledges, since proven to be exceedingly rich, without a dream of the wealth beneath their feet. A fact, at first view so remarkable, can only be accounted for in the peculiar appearance of the country, differing in almost any respect from what is presented in any other portion of California. Elsewhere, the gold-bearing ledges rise above, or can be unmistakably traced upon the earth's surface. Whatever may be the character of the country rock, whether porphyry, slate or granite predominates, the quartz ledges may be easily discovered by the practiced eye of an experienced miner. The geological formation of Excelsior presents great difficulties to the prospector. In some places immense forests cast their shadows over the ground, which is carpeted with luxuriant grasses ; in other localities huge bowlders, or vast masses of granite-among which it was once a favorite theory that true fissure veins of gold and silver were never found-are the prominent features of the land- scape. The ledges, lying even with the masses of granite around them, and capped with a species of mineral which is neither pure quartz nor country rock, are trace- able only by broad stains of a dark, reddish hue. It is not then, on reflection, sur- prising that parties whose attention and energies were directed to other purposes than the search for gold, should have failed to discover the existence of treasures so strangely concealed by nature. The time for the discovery of the wondrous riches of the Sierra summits was not far distant. It was, however, made like that of Marshall in 1848, under circumstances, and by a person apparently the most unlikely to accomplish such an event.
Sometime in eighteen hundred and sixty, Henry Hartley, an Englishman, wan- dered to these mountain solitudes. He came partly, as the writer has been informed, with a view to the improvement of his health, threatened somewhat with consumptive tendencies, and partly to trap the wild game of the mountains, when the deep snows of winter should have fallen. No idea of gold hunting seems to have occurred to the hardy trapper as he plunged into solitudes more dreary and
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desolate than the lonely island of Selkirk. The long winters of the mountains were his choice seasons. Thus it was, when not imprisoned in his cabin by the fury of the storm, the adventurer glided with his snow shoes over the frozen expanse which surrounded him. In the spring the trapper resorted with the rewards of the chase to the lowlands, lingered there during the Summers, and returned with his sup- plies when the snows first announced the approach of winter. Thus passed three years of his sojourn in the wilderness, when in June of 1863 Hartley first observed, with some surprise, a number of ledges about half a mile distant, in a southeasterly direction, from the site of the present town of Meadow Lake. In August of the same year, Hartley, accompanied by John Simons and Henry Feutel, to whom he had communicated the news of his discovery, visited the newly found ledges, and in September made the first locations in Excelsior-then forming a part of Wash- ington township. They located under the title of " Excelsior Company," two thou- sand feet on each of the parallel ledges, named " Union No. 1 and 2." These lodes were about seventy-five feet apart, and could be distinctly traced northwesterly and southeasterly for the distance of a mile. The quartz on the surface is stained a dark, reddish brown by the action of oxyde of iron, derived from the gold-bearing pyrites which it contains in great abundance. In many places the decomposed sul- phurets of the ledge were resplendent with fine gold. Every experiment which these prospectors made with their pans and horns-an invariable portion of a miner's equipment-strengthened their first impressions of the richness of their discovery. The writer is happy to have it in his power to state that assays since made, as well as results of milling on a large scale, have confirmed the judgment of the original locators, and demonstrated that these claims are among the foremost of the district.
The Excelsior was for a long time the only mining association in the newly dis- covered region. It was not until the summer of 1864, that the California Company discovered and located their ledges, claiming seventeen hundred feet in each of four very prominent lodes-the California, Knickerbocker, Indian Queen and Indian Boy. The first named resembles in every respect the Union ledges of the Excelsior Company, having the same direction, northwesterly and southeasterly, and is in fact considered by many as the same ledge formation. The "California" was incorporated in February 1865, under the law of the State of Nevada, and after- ward, in the month of June 1866, owing to some irregularities attending its first organization, incorporated again under the statutes of California. It is now a thriving association, with a valuable mill, a shaft that strikes one of their ledges (the Knickerbocker) at a depth of seventy-five feet, and bids fair at no distant day to become as prosperous as any mining company in the county of Nevada. Not however, until the summer of 1865, was public attention attracted to the auriferous region, where the adventurous Hartley had dwelt so long amidst the solitude of nature.
The first movement was from Virginia City in the State of Nevada. Faint rumors had been carried to that place of "rich prospects struck " on the summits of the Sierra, and of vast ledges showing anywhere on their surface free gold. Specimens of a superior quality were exhibited as indications of the mineral wealth of the Eldorado which nature had located more than eight thousand feet above the level of old ocean. Times were exceedingly dull around Virginia, and indeed throughout Washoe. The great Comstock, at the depth then explored, wore threatening appearances of failure. Humboldt, Reese River and Esmeralda had,
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in the expressive language of the mining regions, been " played out !" Idaho, al- though rich, was too far distant ; Montana was then almost unknown ; in fine, the new field of Excelsior had no competitor in popular favor, and was hailed by a large crowd of restless and discontented miners, dwelling in or near Virginia City, as another chance which propitious fortune had thrown in their way. With such characters to resolve and act, when action consists merely in a transition from one locality to another, means substantially the same thing.
From June until late in the fall of eighteen hundred and sixty-six, hundreds came in-an eager and excited crowd-over the roads from Washoe into Nevada county. In the meantime a similar excitement, although in a less degree, had sprung up in Placer, Sierra. the lower portions of Nevada, and indeed through all northern Cali- fornia. Miners with their prospecting and working implements strapped to their shoulders, traders with their wares, and adventurers of every character ; many with no definite idea of how a subsistence was to be made, much less how a fortune was to be acquired, spread over the hills and valleys of the promised land. In the month of July, a public meeting, the first one held in Excelsior, was called at the site of the present town of Meadow Lake. Even then a few cabins had been con- structed on the western banks of the reservoir, and the place was known as Sum- mit City. The assemblage was convened as a miner's meeting, and proceeded to adopt boundaries for the new district, which then formally received its title of " Meadow Lake." The mining laws of Nevada county were adopted by acclama- tion, and the County Recorder's office was designated as the proper place for the filing of notices of locations, claims and transfers. No time was lost in the work of prospecting. Stakes, with notices, clothed the whole region, and every mass of rocks which bore the slightest resemblance to a ledge, was claimed and located. It is estimated that during the summer of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, twelve hundred locations were made in the district, containing in the aggregate more than one million two hundred thousand feet of so-called auriferous ledge rock. In the feverish excitement which prevailed, locations were made over the whole country. Bowlders, masses of granite, rocks of every description assumed to the distempered fancy of the prospector, the shape and outlines of a quartz ledge, and were duly entered, under glittering titles, upon the Recorder's books. To one who had ever resided in Washoe in the flush times of the silver land, it was the old scene repeated on a new stage, and with a slight difference in the cast of the characters. In the month of July, Meadow Lake was surveyed and laid out as a town. It was included within the limits of a survey of one hundred and sixty acres, made and filed by Erick Prahm, under the Possessory Act of eighteen hundred and fifty-two. Prahm had been a locator of the California claims the previous year, and his pre- emption entry was in trust, and for the benefit of the California Company. The new town was laid out into spacious streets, eighty feet wide, and the blocks divi- ded into lots with a frontage of sixty and a depth of eighty feet. Through the center of the blocks ran alley ways sixteen feet wide. A spacious plaza was reserved and dedicated for public use in the northern part of the future city. Lots were sold by the California Company, to actual settlers, for the small consideration of twenty-five dollars in cash, and upon the condition that they should be inclosed and improved.
The village was originally styled " Summit City," which name it retained until its incorporation, by Act of the Legislature, in the spring of eighteen hundred and
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sixty-six. When the fall of eighteen hundred and sixty-five closed, the village had made considerable advances in population and improvement. Not less than one hundred and fifty houses had been erected, and others were in the course of con- struction. Stores were established, driving a brisk traffic with the settlers and vis- itors to the town ; hotels, three in number, were crowded to excess, and drinking saloons, with their bars and gambling tables, reaped a rich harvest. From June until October it is probable that more than three thousand people visited the dis- trict, and each bringing with him some money for investment, created a season of flattering but transient prosperity for the place.
While undoubtedly the large majority of locations made during the exciting summer of eighteen hundred and sixty-five were wholly without merit, entered without the slightest judgment, and in many instances with no expectation of ever developing a mine, there were several claims located which have since been worked successfully, and are unquestionably of more than ordinary richness. Among theni were the " Confidence," " Mohawk & Montreal," " Comet," "Enterprise " and "U. S. Grant." The first named is situated in the southwestern part of the town, on the Pacific ledge. It contains one thousand feet, has a shaft or incline sunk to a depth of some seventy feet, with well defined walls nine feet apart, and has yielded be- tween eight hundred and a thousand tons of ore, worth on an average in free gold not less than twenty dollars to the ton. The company has erected a substantial frame building over its shaft, and is pushing its incline downward with commend- able energy.
The Pacific ledge runs southeast and northwest, and within the limits of the Confidence claim, shows on the surface a well developed ledge, varying in width from five to seven feet. The upper rock is composed of decomposed sulphurets, and is studded with free gold, plainly visible to the unaided eye. Within a few feet from the surface the great mass of the vein rock changes in character and appear- ance. The gold in the quartz is combined with sulphurets of iron, copper, arsenic and zinc. The proportion of sulphurets in the rock ranges from twenty-five to for- ty-five per cent., and when concentrated, yields by the chlorine treatment, about one hundred dollars per ton.
The Mohawk & Montreal Company, claiming eleven hundred feet, is located on a ledge of the same name. It is one of a series of lodes or great veins which have their center in a prominent elevation some two miles to the south of Meadow Lake, called the " Old Man Mountain." The course of the ledge is almost due east and west, and can be traced by unmistakable croppings the entire length of the com- pany's claims. The rock from these claims, carefully selected from the mass and carried by pack mules a distance of some six miles, has been worked at the " Win- ton mill," yielding on the average by the ordinary mill process thirty dollars per ton in free gold. The mine has been penetrated by a tunnel, and its character tested at a depth of more than two hundred feet below the apex. Here it presents every appearance of a well defined ledge, containing sulphurets similar to those of the Pacific, except perhaps in the absence of zinc among the base metals. The ore at the depth mentioned gives, under the chlorine process, twenty-seven dollars per ton.
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