Georgetown weekly news., 1855-05-03
For the Georgetown News.
BOTTLE HILL, May 1st, 1855.


Mr.. EDIToR:-There seems to be no ces-
sation to building and Improvements in this
place. A week has never past since the
first house was built here without an addi-
ton being made to the number of our build
ings; and although springing up like mush-
rooms, it is supposed they will stand like
petrifcation and be profitable to their own
ers for many years. Among the various
improvements under way at present. is an
addition to SMITH, JACKSON & Co.'S large
building on Forrest Street, for the purpose
of converting it into theatre, which will
be when completed, 25 Sc feet, with high
sealings, affording ample room to accommo-
date an audience Of 800 persons.
In mining there has been no extraordi-
nary strikes made lately. The miners are
generally doing well. At Jones Hill, the
Columbia Tunnel Company for the past
two weeks has done but few days wash
ing, taking out 240 ounces. The Orleans
Company get good prospects. The Sum-
nit Tunnel Company takes out pay dirt
that frequently pays from $40 to $25 to the
pan. The Union Sluicing Claims present
bold front Of twenty feet of gravel The
shareholders are doing remarkably well, con-
sidering they are only in the outer edge of
the bar, which is evident from every indica-
ton, and particularly from the inclined posi-
tlon of flakes of sand cement and sediment
which lays in stratas from six inches to two
feet thick in the gravel, pitching downwards
on slight angle into the hill This bar
must necessarily be worked out or gone
through before they can reach the channel
in which the Columbia Tunnel Company
has done so well. From the present appear
ance of the bar it is supposed to be seven
ty-five or hundred feet into the channel.
A notorious william whose name is --,
well known to the Constables of George
town and the people in this vicinity, has
been perpetrating more malicious mischief
He lives at present, in Placer County, near
Sarahsville, and hearing of his house and
ranch on Cement Hill, being attached and
about to be sold for debt, came over here
He was heard to say while crossing the
Middle Fork of the American River, at
Fords Bar, that he intended to set fire to
the house if he could get some matches, and
was seen on the same night by some miners,
demolishing the house, tearing off the lining
and batting on the sides. His whole study
and ambition is to deceive, cheat, lie, steal,
destroy, and do malicious mischief--and
were his talents equal to his propensitieS,
he would be monster without an equal
He should be dealt with according to law
The golden showers Of April have made
our green hills to blush, and the face of Ma
ture to smile. The ambrosial breath of the
May-fower is in the fragrant breezes, while
the wild bird mingles its sweeter strains
with the sighing of the lympid waters in
the ditch. A portion of our hills cannot be
beat in California for pleasant view of
wild romantic mountain scenery-hom one
in particular, bald Mountain,) can be seen
about two-thirds of California, and a small
strip Of Oregon and Utah, and tall man
on tip-toe, might look down into Mexico.
The blue hills in the West, North and
South, may be seen beautifully blending
with the deep blue horizon, while the white
caps of the lofty Sierra Nevada are loom
ing upin the East, like the ghost of white
cloud, or the breath of the iron horse COM
ing across the plains some cold frosty morn
ing, in 1870. The Sacramento river can
be seen in the valley below, on its winding
way to the Pacific 0cean-and some, whose
oculars are superior to mine, go so far as
to try to make believe that they can distin-
guish steamboats, upon it.
Yours. &c, SCAGGS.