The Nevada journal., 1854-10-27
For the Nevada Journal.
FOrcS! City Correspondence,
FOREST CRY, Oct. p, Is

tlilC, auu hHONliS tndL you nave no re8u-
lar correspondent in this place, l thought
you would like to receive a communication
occasionally.
Although we have not had water for
mining purposes, since about the 1st of
September, still times are very brisk
There Is at present some fifteen new houses
going up on the main street, besides quite
a number of smaller houses for private
residences on the flats on either side of
the town. We have eight pnb!ic boarding
houses or taverns, eleven provision stores,
three saloons, Zone Ia Grush) two cigar
! depotS, three butcher shops, two bakeries,
one book and drug store, two livery sta
bles, three blacksmith shops, one tin shop,
one ten pin alley, four clothing stores,
two jewellers, three Express offices, two
saw mills, one bath house, two barber
shops, Masonic and Odd Fellows Hall,
and great number of private residences,
SO that it is emphatically, in the language
Of that eminent biIliologist McAulley, a
"last place" We are also a pleasure
loving people, to~wit Sunday evening the
Rev, Mr.. Douglass, and Yankee Sullivan.
one on ''where will you go when you de-
the other On the noble art of self Defence ,
The Fairy Minstrels" have been holding
forth to crowded houses.
Friday grand ball came off at Chips,
where all the elite of Forest city and vicin~
ity assembled, to trip the eight fantastic
toe" Speaking of balls puts me in mind
Of the ladies good bless 'em) of which we
have our share, and better looking and
a more respectable coterie it would be hard
TO find anywhere around in Sierra county.
think there are some forty, if not more,
bat alas, they are very nearly all married,
so what chance for forlorn bachelor.
Lots in the business part of our town
are held and sold at six hundred dollars,
forty feet front and sixty to eighty feet
deep. All these improvements and in
creased value in property is warranted by
the diggings, some Of which are very rich,
and all of which are good and pay weIl.-
A half interest in the Live Yankee Tun-
mel, sold some two weeks ago for $4,000
and claims have been lately sold in the
Buckeye Tunnel for from $4,000 to $900O
and ;hose in the Dutch company are worth
still more. The tunnels on the north
fork are also paying very well. One of
the American company told me to- day,
that for the last nine months, they have
cleared $50 per week, to the share. The
Girard company, who were sinking shafts
when the water failed, are clearing twelve
dollars a day to the hand. The Empire
Co.'S tunnel is paying about SIS per day
to the hand, although they have not been
washing regularly for some time. The
Live Yankee pays from Is to 40 ounces
per day. The Buckeye pays not quite
so well, and the Dutch as much as the
Live Yankee, if not more.
The Rev. Mr.. Tansey preached in this
place on Sunday last, and during the week
has been engaged in raising money to build
Church; $2,100 has been subscribed,
some of the citizens giving $4,000 each.
Last Sunday the Grand Deputy of the
Sons of Temperance commenced harangue-
ing the people from an old dry goods box,
IN the middle Of the street. He was at
first greeted with Kisses, groans, and cries
of dry up" He however eventually
succeeded in gaining attention, and his
remarks were received with attention and
appreciation, and he finally succeeded in
getting signers enough to petition for a
charter for division. Among the first
to sign was young man who had been
tight all day. The coming of the Grand
Deputy has done some good at all events.
Yours, &C., CHIClTo.
Elopenaeat and Murder.-The Colum-
bia Clipper says that Capt Chapman of
fllibustering notoriety has been living at
Campo Seco Calveras county, for some
months. His wife took it into her head
that she would leave and according to
previous arrangements eloped with another
man, they were overtaken in lone Valley
by the aforesaid Capt. Chapman and with
Qllt turthor coro,,,ou,x. Il