The weekly Placer herald., 1853-09-17

ces presented to the visitor on all sides,
we should say she never was IN more
hourishing or prosperous condition than
at the present time.
Such, sir, is REF epitome of the inn
provenents recently made in Nevada;
and it wi I-bc by no me ms an idle or use
less question to ask the cause of them
is undoubtedly the skliul and scientific
manner in which the mines of that dis
trct are universally worked. Nevada
county has not only always stood at the
head of the mining interests of Califor-
MIA, bur nearly in every case given us
the improvements we at present ENJOY
in the mode Of working. No persen un-
acquainted with tn district can form any
idea or estimate of the labor and capital
expended in it for mining, or of the enor-
NOUS proceeds they have conformity yield
ed-nor is it anything but an EXTENDED ap
plication Of these agents that Is making
the greatest proportion of the claims pay
so handsomely this season. In this dis
trict. where we have vastly greater
quantity of Placer diggings, though not
generally so rich it may he as those OF
Nevada, our miners seem to think, IT they
use a coup of small boxes with Il Ion-
or half II dozen Sluce boxes, set up per-
pendicularly from the heavens to the
earth, hire six or seven inches of water,
and make from three to five dollars day
to the hand, they are doing smashing
business-but, what pray would the same
men say if they went to Nevada tomor-
row and saw the enormous operations
now going on in Deer reek! why, sir,
think, >uices from twelve to twenty
feet hgh-fron 400 to GOO feet long-run-
ming 80 inches Of water, and averaging IN
many cases from sixteen to forty dollars a
day to the hand would somewhat excite
their astonishment. Yet such is the case
and the ground paying so handsomely
in the summer of 1853, has been worked
over ana over by every previous method
since '49 and 40. 1t is obvious then, that
the prosperity Of Nevady is owing solely
to the superiority of the method adopted
in working her mines. If so, would not
the Introduction of the same system IN
Auburn-though to meet emergencles-
upon a somewhat smaller scale, impart
a propnrtionate amount of prosperity
throughout the whole district? Why
should it not? We know full well the
only difficulty les in obtaining sufficIen-
tcy Of water-w we know full well the awtn
tax the present cost of water Is upon
the enterprise, the energy, and the purses
of those who venture beyond the sy stem
adopted in this county-but, while the
Bear River Ditch Company are doing the
good to the District they now do by the
Introduction of their water to Its most re-
mote points; and while they have an un-
redeemed capital of some $3.50 600 lying
out, it would be unpardonAhle as wei az
Impertincnt to make any public remarks
upon the subject. We live in hopes that
by and bvp the interests of the company
will admit Of n reduction in the first cost
of their water; and then by multiplying
our operations, and by employinga a more
perfect and enlarged system of working,
Placer county will not only he what II
unquestionah' is, the most beautiful and
fertile, but wi also become, we are as
sured, the most wealthy and prosperous
district Of the State.
w hen | commenced, sir, ! no more IN
tended than | expected my c"nmnnlca-
ton to reach this length; bur the cacoethes
scrib andt was always largely deve oped
in NE. and though it has Tain dormant
and unexercised since my arrlva ~ al
fornia, in 40 until the present ccaslon'
| find thar il has only TO he indulged to he
rs erratir aS ever Pardon me, sir, then,
if I mike this nv only apology, and per-
nit me TO continue a lit longer, for AS
tomorrow wiI terminate the political dis
sertations with which the Journals have
h~rr generally stuffed Of late, my effeerr
will do 40 fill ny your back sheet, shou'h
il he useless or worthless in other respects
/ We'll. sir. here we are at Grass valley
# last. and wei worthy our notice we
Sha find her. This town was always
- Glvnritp with me In my opinion, It l.
the most desirable place in the mountains
to ~ ke y fixed residence, either as re
oards It's exrellent society, ITS heaithy po-
i ion. its fertile neighhnrhood, or the per-
Imanencv of the mineral wea TN when
rave il existence. True, it may be, mat
the progress to its present importance
was much more tardy than that OF many
Iother of our cities, but this was SIMPLY
I,pcause it required longer tine anC
larger capital ~ open up its unhounde'
wealth. Now that this wealth is to some
extent developed, see what the last fiiteer
months has dome In everv direction
she has merged from the hamlet into the
CITY like the chrvSa is, issuing from it,
first gnoble condition expands It's new
born wings TO the sun, to prepare II tor
The great battle Of iite, and the assump
tinn of its rightful position in creation; II
is no longer now "A crawling catterpIIlar-
but glorious insect, proud bright and