The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1853-05-10

Miners are doing well on Corrol Flat, and al
the Buckeye, In the vicinity of Mokelumne
some claims are paying one hundred dollars tc
the pan per day. The recent rains were o.
service to the miners.
A few days ago some miners, working on {
small creek that empties into the Middle Yuba
at Hess crossing, struck remarkably rich lead
The product is coarse ravine gold. Miner.
who work in the banks of the river are all do
ing well. About mile above the crossing an
other rich lead has been struck which pay
from fifty to one hundred dollars per day t.
the hand. These are said to be the most ex
tensive diggings in California. The whole
ridge for m any miles will pay well. Hundreds
of claims have been staked off, shafts are being
sunk, and much activity already prevails; b1
there is still abundant room for moro operators
Only two companies have been able to get un
der foil headway, owing to the scarcity Of wa.
ter. The difficulty will soon be obviated.
Company known as the Grizzly Ditch Compa-
ny, are extending their ditch to these digging,
and expect to have the water in by the first Of
April.
Rich diggngs have been discovered on Pit
River; also at French Gulch.
Very rich dggings. were lately discovered
upon Athlone Creek, a tributary of Rogue Riv-
er; distant about go miles to the nortVward oi
Yreka. The miners are rushing thither in
great numbers. The diggings about Jackson
vile are also very good, and havo been SO all
winter.
Extensive preparations are being made thro
out Scott's Valley, for farming upon large
the approaching summer two quartz machines
have arrived in the valley by way o: Oregon,
and will speedily be put in operation upon the
claims known as Best's and Shackelfords. The
leads are said to be very rich, and the owners
anticipate an abundant yield.
The mines about Yreka have paid well all
winter. and the miners now are making good
wages, having everywhere an abundance of wa
ter.
A little boy, while at work in the neighbor-
hood of Diamond Springs last week, accident
ally struck dirt that paid as high as 81 to the
pan.
he miners at diamond Springs have roll
gious excitement on hand, which absorbs their
leisure hours. A revival hiss been going on al
thas place for some time back, and now in the
religious ceremonies held every evening, are
well attended. A sum Of money has been sub
scrbed to build larger church than the one
now in use.
At Ophir and Gold Hill the miners were bu-
silly at work and no scarcity of water
New diggihgs have been struck in the vicin-
ity of Humbug Flat, which are paying WELL
The long vexed question of the rights of hol-
iers Of quartz and building lots to hold them
in fact from other uses by placer miners, or
other persons, was decided in favor of tho lot
holders, at Grass Valley, before Justice Davis
he Iast week. The quartz claims of the Gold
Hill Co.,, had been seized by party of sluicers
Witch was the cause Of action. The verdict
To- = Al CzIl ~ 1T n.
iamages. This establishes very important
principle.
BY persons just from Diamond Springs, we
earn that tho huge Reservoir of Bradley g..
Berdau's Canal, at that place. was tapped by
scoundrel on Saturday last, and before
I was discovered had made a serious breach
n the side, that could not be arrested and soon
wept away an entire section, throwing two
months supply of water into the ravincs, wash
ng claims out and in to the damage of $50, 900.
rhe repairs to the dam will alone take two
weeks :ime, while the water so much needed
will be deficient in quantity to last through the
ummer.
Another attempt is making in San Francis
o to raise party to explore and work the
mines Of Sonora
new Typographical map Of the mineral
nd agricultural portion of California is soon
D be published. The old Mexican aud Span
ih claims arc to be marked out on it. 1t will
o valuable affair for reference, rs it will
how what part of the State has not been ap-
by the claimants, whose petitions
ave been filed in the Land COMMISSIONER
ourt.
work is in town ut San Francisco con-
lining several speeches of Micbeltoreng, be-
're the Mexican Con gress, setting forth the
Of California. the fact that gold was
nown to exist here as early as lS43. ani sta |
ng tho amount of gold which no carried from
an Francisco, together with its assay. The |
mount was about 1000 ounces, and it was
'und to be about 10 carats fine. One of the |
,eeches sets forth the Importance of the Bay
San Francisco; states the fact that the har-
Or was attracting tho attention OF Englishmen
nd Americans. and urges the necessity of tho
1option of stringent measures on the part of
Iexico to save it from falling into the hands
some foreign power. Micheltoreng men
ons one gold placer of 80 miles square known
him.
A letter from James Carson appears in the
TIA California, addressed to "the miners of
alifornia." Mr.. Carson declares that cri-
} is approaching in the mining affairs of the
untry, and warns diggers against monopoly.
he letter concludes as follows:
The only thing we want for our welfare is, a
iiformity of mining laws throughout the
alto. All species of diggings are alike
nth and south-mning in quartz, rivers,
eeks, ravines-deep and surface diggings
o tho same throughout the mines, in the |
ain. Let us have convention of practical
ners at the earliest day practicable, let thom
fablish uniformity Of claims of every de- I
ription in mining, and laws to govern thom.
It no claim be held by gift, purchase. or do
tion-with tho exception ofsuch as might ?
present; let boards of administration be O. :
ted in the different mining istricts for the
osecution of these laws, and things will go y
ain as gay and happy as marriage bell. a
MIscELLANEoUs.-The Assembly had pass S
tho Foreign's Miners' Tax Law, after q c
nlonoed and very animated discussion = n