The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-12-30

some
q sosd enbsdded in dscomposed slate and clay about
nve miles from here In Bear Valley near Biddles place
q the base q the hills to the lsfs win try and got
LOOK ~ IT, outs an excitement prevails on the subject
Mourr 0rls, Nov "a 1851
found many hundred people the spot and eli claims
tell % n n.,aa:
Tun mel &C., entirely In the shade myself would
they working when We went there got hold Of
splendid specimen soft clay and slate ssturstsd With
gold, small particles and large Jumps The stuff has
actually about fourth gold in bulk and should say
over enc half gold In weight.
The Stocton Journal of 2lst ult. says-We learn
the following particulars concerning o discovery
made last week at Bear Valley, Eve or ak miles
south Of Quartzburg, Maripsss county. Some
Mexicans found deposit of very rich deoompossd
quarts, at depth Of from 10 to 80 feet, and worked
some time at II before they were Noticed by the
driven of by party Of Americans; and on Sstur-
day last there were between 900 and 500 persons
on the ground, which was staked of into claims of
whether placer sSoad ): ss
but the people finally agreed to be governed by
the latter We are informed by Mr. Dickinson
that one pound of the rock yielded $l2.
In conversation with miner recently from the
Middle Fork Of the American river, We CLEANED .
few items which are not without interest. On the
Indiana Bar, which diggings were commenced last
winter. there are about seventy or eighty people at
work, whose average returns are about six dollars
per day. The claims on this bar are now being
abandoned, on account of water coming into the
holes On Murderers' Bar but little work has been
done this season, owing to too much water in the
river contract for Tuning here has been given
to partes-the work to be completed next summer,
when this bar will yield it is supposed, very richly
At Junction Bar all parties are doing well some
claims paying as high as five dollars to the pan.
About one hundred claims are staked out on this
bar, and the immediate vicinity is presumed to be
equally productive Of the precious metal, and room
is yet there for O large additional number. As q
general thing, the gold about these localities ia
deep, and considerable stripping must be done in
order to got at it, but whore the river is shallow,
and the water does not come too freely upon the
miner, the most eager could hardly desire better
field for his servicss.-IarysviRe Herald
A rich quartz lead, some five miles in extent, has
been discovered in Soott's Valley, near Martins
Ranch, and hundreds of persons from Shasta Butte
city and other points taking up claims upon il.
Times aud Transcript.
New CAYoTE DIoGINos.-We learn, through
Hunter Co.'S express, that new cayote diggiags
have recently been discovered between the Center
vile ard Oak Valley houses, on the road leading
frem Salmon Falls to Greenwood Valley. A shaft
about twenty feet deep has been sunk, and it has
been drifted three or four feet. The dirt yields
from eight to twelve dollars to the bucket. Hun
dreds OF claims were staked out Immediately after
the discovery.
A correspondent writing from Big Oak Flat, Tue
lumne county, under date of Nov. H. says =
The Oak Fiat Company, which some time ago
drained the lower end of the Flat, and have been
working during the summer and fall with cradles,
have just finished putting in sluice, and have sus
pended operations until there is water to work.
With cradles they averaged about $5 per day. The
company consists of twenty. three men They have
20 to Is feet of top dirt to throw Of and there
some doubts about its paying remarkably yell.
They struck quartz ledge in digging ditch, and
found some beautiful specimens. Out of pound
or two ofquartz, they obtained Sl7. Shares in the
company, which two months ago were selling for
500, are now Gncluding the lsdge) valued at $500
Men are arriving from the rivers, and Big Oak
Flat, Big Creek, the Gerotas, the Humbugs, and
Cobbs' Creek are becoming thickiy populated. A
chunck the other dsy-seven-eghths of it gold
Those who work are making from 81 to $40 per day.
About 81 suppose to be an average days work
here. The quartz miners are doing but little. We
up here. II We could learn how to fux quartz, l
think that 1t would be better to melt it, as they
do iron ore; for you may crush 1t as hne rs flour,
and get the gold out with quicksilver, and then
authority, fer be, / am informed, smelted some Of
the quartz that had been ground and quicksilvered
from Streets ledge, Sonora, and obtained gold.
Some time ago | estimated that 10 hands would
get out 5000 lbs of rock and crush II In day.
Quart" in the Aha, thought that that am punt
was too little 'Amyx," who Is working vein here,
says that they cannot more than get Il out. He
says 200 lbs is enough for one man to get out Ia
day, and he has had as high as twenty hands en-
gagged at it, Amyx il down 30 feet in his ledge.
They have crushed 275 lbs, and obtained IL o..
r.
Horenhoussn, Of this place, q practical miner Of
experience, thinks tina. il will not pay at present.
to work quartz yielding cents to the pound.
On Sunday last, young man was badly bitten
by grizzly bear, at Humbug Creek.
The rain has done but little good. There has
not been enough to prospect the gulches.
Accompany of thirty men have been In Los Ange-
los since Sunday, on their way to the Mohave and
vicinity. We understand they intend making .
thorough exploration Of the mount aims in the
neighborhood Of the Mohsvs, and that they viii
take sufficient provisions TO cnahis them TO make Q
winter campaign. We hope their lAbors will be
amply rewarded. That there are rich mines In
this region. many people insist With On underlying
faith.-Sfar, Nos. ).
ANOTHER Yesterday, We saw, at the
store of Mr. Poursllie of this city, paving stone,
one half gold, from the Mariposa, Weighing sixty
eight ounees.-&ockto~ Journal.
Murders, Executions, Lynching, Rob-
bling, &c.
THE NUMBER OF MURDERED MEN REDUCED FROM
NINE TO THREE.
Tn the receipt Of our last California news we pub
lshed the reported deaths of nine men, who, IL was
said, has met with vislent death at the hands Of
banditti, near Natchez. The same papers which
formerly rep orted the murders now say
IL turns out that six Of the nine men reported TO
have been found murdered near hatcher, are men
Of buckram."
Mr.. Buchanan, Sheriff Of Yubs, who was shot,
few days since, Is pronounced By bis physician Dr.
Miles, TO be cut OF danger.
The Vigilance Committee have been in session
for some days past, and IL is said have ELECTED
some important testimony with regard to the late
murders in that region.
A Mr. Gallagher, who was recognized as a man
recently murdered, requests his friends TO under
stand that he lie not murdered.
EXECUTION AT STOCKTON.
An extra from the offce Of the stockton yOiuHai,
forwarded through Reynolds, Todd & Co.'S ex-
press, furnishes the following account Of the at
tempted escape and final execution Of James VIII
son and Frederick Salkmyer, for horse stealing,
few days prior to the sailing Of the steamer
On Saturday night, between ii and IL o'clock,
James Wilson made desperate attempt to escape |
from prison. The two prisoners condemned 10 die,
were kept in the second story Of a frame building.
On Saturday night, the keeper went into the adj |
Joining room, where the other prisoners were kept,
for the purpose of replacing candle which had |
burnt out, and in an instant Wilson sprang to the
door, turned the key, and ran down the steps, on