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

} Iinued through the night and during Sunday
AT Sunday noon, the Yuba began to rise. II
ewelled slowly at first, but presently increased
TO an alarming extent. On Sunday night the
waters took start and rose IA feet in IL hours
according to actual measurement. BY this
time the banks were brimfIll; and the Marys-
Williams, impelled as it were by kind of instinct
vacated Easements, piled all sorts Of goods in
heterogeneous mass on stacks of boxes and up
per shelves, put oars into dug-outs, posted their
books, folded their arms, and watched the in
evitable ooze OF the muddy V.ha tn the
Plsxa. BY this time it was noon Of Monday,
AID at sundown the lower portion of the city
say from street to the Feather River. presen-
ed the appearance of lake, while tho water
hsd encroached half way up the Plaza. The
wrm rain still descended in torrents.
During Monday night the water rose rapidly
aid at three in the morning hotel keepers be-
gn to be reused up by forlorn drowned out
citizens who desired shelter. At daylight Ma
risvllle was Venice.
| At o'clock p NJ on Tuesday, the flood
reached its height, being six or eight inches
higher than ever before. The lower part of
the town plot, from E street down to the Fea-
hher, was entirely submerged. there being eight
or ten feet towards J, X, and L streets. First
and Second streets were submerged up to G,
+, High and ID streets quite TO Third. Duiing
no flood before had street been made min.
iature river. In John G. Falls block, on the
lower part Of the Plaza, the water was nearly
| up to the second story windows. The Hotel
ae France was almost entirely under. and the
first floors of John v. Plume g. Co.'S, Adams
L. Co. s. and the other stores on the corner of
High street and the Plaza, were out of sight,
with foot or SO of water on them.
Altough the water flowed on TO d street. the
stores and hotels lining on both sides from Sec
ond To the loveo were dry. The Oriental Ho-
tel, on Second street, although surrounded by
water, was dry and habitable, with the excep-
tton ftho basement.
Tuesday evening tho sky cleared. and short
y afterwards the ircshet began to diminish
During the night it fell nearly two feet, and the
worst was over. Floods do not last long here
and in few days the town will be dry again.
From Marysville to the foot hills. on both
Of the Yuba and Feather, tho land is under cul-
tivation. II must be that great loss will occur
among the stock, and doubtless the potatoe and
onion crops will suffer materially.
Some eight or nine small houses in the low
or part of Marysvillo were overturned by the !
food.
The large saw mill at tho junction of tho
Feather and Yuba sustained much damage;
the booms broke ond very large number of
logs were lost. This mill was owned by Mr..
Moore, who was blown up on the Page, and
vas very perfect establishment. The loss
cannot be less than SS, 900 or $4,000.
THE MINEs.-The intelligence from the mine |
is highly interesting and encouraging. The |
quartz seems to be yielding largely, and prom
lscs very rich returns. Extraordinary Yields |
are reporting at Maraposa. A letter from that |
place. dated March Z. says:
Within the last two months there has been |
taken out within two miles of Maraposa City
than has ever been taken out within the same
time and place. l quote few of the MANY
strikes made during the last week Messrs.
Ashworth & More took DOT n splendid speci-
men of gold in quartz, weighing upwards OF
nine pounds, valued at $1,000 Messrs. Nc
Carthy, Moffat, Bowman Il Higgings, took out
four large specimens of solid gold, weighing
ten pounds. Messrs. Broadhead, Rockwell.
Whitman and Parker took out eight pounds of
solid gold. This was taken out from placer
claims, and is fortunate instance of well di-
rected industry aud perseverance,, where nearly
all are doing we'll
A magnificent quartz ledge, distant from this
place about six miles, was discov cred by Messrs
Messano, Moffat g. Bowman, which from all
appearances, promises to rival in extent and
richness any quartz vein in this country-
Twenty four pounds Of ledge yielded, when
pounded in a mortar, S3 20, and every test
shows the same result.
There is not a day on which some such luc- 1
KY stroke is not made, and it is gratifying fact
hat throughout this fine region, the miners are
ioing better than the same number in any 9TH !
Dr. equal space in California.
The miners at Aqua Frio are all doing well. /,
Quartz veins arc on tho rise. The different 1
at work on LyonGulch average from
20 to S25 per day to a hand. Three persons {
nave been known to take out as high as 81 900
| day-two Of them have made their "pile" and q
nld their interest and left for tho Atlantic.-l q
The miners are now digging into the hills and
ind them richer than the ravenes and gulch- {
letter from Sonora, in the Alta, dated {
March 10Th has the following:
The largest operation, however, which have /.
lcard of in relation to tunnelng, is that of a
lumber OF persons, mostly residents of Sonora S
Who propose to tunnel through tho mountain c
hort distance below the mouth of Casson's ]
;reek. and taking the entire Stanisaus river
through IL. Carsons Creek is known to be one u
# the richest, if not the richest, ever discover
d in California. and it empties into tho Stans- n
aus at the middle toe of horse shoe which C
he river forms at that place. At this place a
no river forms bend, and after running dis n
ance OF two and quarter miles, comes back n
0 within I, 800 feet of the same place 1t is o
ow proposed to dig tunnel through the 8,
at this point and to run the river thro
!, leaving tho whole space, two and quarter N
lilies of the bed Of tho stream free from wafer b
D that il can be worked at pleasure. This ell le
ow or horse shoe is the richest portion of the p
tanislaus River. The banks on both sides al
70 proved to be rich, and So are the bars rs
as they have been able to get into the stream @,
nd the river here runs at the base of the rich d
It mining country in tho Southern mines. A Il
ose calculation has already been made as TO in
10 cost of the tunnel, and company of suf- M
,ientmeans is already started for putting the di
ork through m
A large number Of farming claims have been ca
ken up in the mountains, rich and productive m
pom which the settles and their families are
aking permanent locations. w
The Echo, speaking of the new Siggings in m
o mountains, saws: III