The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-06-14

whom are taking ont l i-2 to 2 ounces
per day. At Eureka Flat there are
about 500 men at work. A party of three
men took out 81, 900 in one week. AT
Goodyear's Bar business is becoming
brisk. One company has averaged SIS
per day to the hand since November.
MINING In THE NoRrH.-A COPY of the
Grass Valley Telegraph lately, gives a
most fattering account of mining in that
vicinity. Water is abundant, and in
many instances, as high as $40 per day
are reported as the wages of a single
hand.
DImoHD SPRNGs.--We saw one claim
on Gold Hill, where the owners had cut
through the vein, rugged a pair of cars,
one to go down as the other went up, and
so contrived that the dirt, as dug upon
the claim slid right into the cars. They
were washing from the surface down; four
of them could wash 5000 buckets in a
day, of dirt which averaged from one to
one and q half cents to the bucket, Civ
ing them about 500 per day. They
had wor ked for two years in their claims.
Messrs. Judah, Edwards & Co.
took out of their claim, in the vicinity
of Mud Springs, n day last week, some
rich specimens of quartz; the largest one
weighing 81 pounds and 10 ounces, and
being estimated to be worth $1,000.
IL Two men who had but just ar
rived in the country, recently bought
two E'worn out" claims at Woodpecker
Flat, went to work with energy, and be-
fore night took out $1,000. The claim
cost $40.
SACRAMENTO MINEs.-Messrs Meserve
and Elmer brought into Sacramento on
Wednesday last, from Prairie City, 600
ounces of gold dust, which is about half
the amount purchased in that town every
Saturday and Sunday.
i Rich QUARrz.-The C~alaveras Chron-
icle states that a ledge of quartz of ex-
traordinary richness, was discovered a
few days since, near the American House
on the PlacerviIle road. One piece
about six inches square, was estimated
to contain four hundred dollars value of
gold.
ANOTHER NUGGEr.-The editor of
the Sonora Herald has been shown a
lump of gold of the value of $501 ,43,
which was picked up on Friday last by
MI. George w. Farrar, a worthy and
industrious man from among a heap of
stones, as he was walking along leisure
ly.
ANorHER--On the l4th inst, a mug
get of gold was found at Mud Springs,
Ell Dorado county, which weighed % lbs.
The San Joaquin is still ahead of the
Sacramento district. The Columbia
nugget weighed 81 lbs.
A Coop BUsNEss.-We learn from
the Placerville Democrat hat on Sunday
last the enormous amount of 1868 ounces
of gold dust were purchased in that town
by the different bank1ng-houses and mer-.
chants.
THE HARVEST PRosPEcr.-An over
the State the crops look promising and
abundant. All the papers in the State
are making speculations in reference to
the wheat crop of California to be har-
vested the present year. It is agreed on
all hands that the supply will more than
satisfy the demand for the home market,
and that in the course of a few months
grain will be actually exported from
California. This indeed, would be a
revolution in commercial affairs. That
the revolution will have a beneficial in
huence in some respects, says the San
Joaquin Republican, there can be no
doubt, but we ear that the farmers will
in some instances, suffer for the general
good. Breadstufs will, henceforward,
be cheap, and the money now sent to
Chill and the East to buy -four will be
retained in the country; thus, while the
price of provisions will be low, money
will be plentiful.
TALL BARLEY.-A number of stalks
of barley, measuring six feet in hight,
and in full head, were brought to our
Office, says the San Joaquin Republican,
from Wiley & Woods rancho, some six
miles distant from Stockton. There are
some three hundred acres of the same
kind.
EA Fresh butter is now selling in
SOuOTt Vd1lcy db lTOHl SOC. W Of 1-SC.
per. lb.-cheaper than at any period
since the discovery of gold in California.
A Stage fare at the present time,
from Sacramento City to Mud Springs,
43 miles, is So; to Diamond Springs, As
miles, $40; and to Placerville, so miles,
$40.
THE LATE MURDER OF CoRBErE-
The Mariposa Chronicle gives the follow
ing as the only correct version of this
affair: "Mr. Dorbett was murdered at
his residence, at the foot of the Big Hill
on the Stockton road, by a man named
Cooper, commonly known as "Kentuck."
The latter had stopped over night at the
house of Mr.. Corbett, and was seen in
the morning toexamine his revolver very
carefully. After breakfast, and the com
pany had left, he ordered his horse, and
told Mr.. Corbett to charge his bill as
there was a balance due him Cooper
for hay. Mr.. Corbett replied that he
had never seen him before. Cooper said
he was a partner of Mr.. Farms. Corbett
explained that he did not owe any bal
ance to MI. Farms, and that, if Cooper
would walk into the house, he would show
him receipts from Farns-speaking in a
mild, gentlemanly manner. At this
time Mrs. Corbett requested her hus-
band to leave the man and not have any
- IL L. TNl.- A. N0rhofk