The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-05-23
Things in Upper California.

FALL OF THE MAMMOTH AQUEDucr.-
The Mammoth Aqueduct of the Bear
River, and Auburn Water Mining Com
pany, q mile and a half from Illinois
town, fell to the ground on Wednesday
last. The structure was nearly one
hundred and fifty feet in hight and one
thousand feet long, and wa constr ueted
in 1882, at = cost of $4,000.
IL The Aourishing town of Jackson
in Amador County, was severely visited
by ERE lately. The best houses were
destroyed, involving = loss of s36, goo.
GoLD WEALTH.-Dr. TRAsK, who
made . geological survey of California.
and . report of it to the Legislature,
-refutes the idea which many have enter
tanned ever since the gold discovery,
that the ore would soon be exhausted.-
He writes
From what has been said of the
areas comprised within the lines of the
different ranges, as given in the proceed
ding pages, it Will be seen that we have
still enough and to spare for all who are
present, and for all that may hereafter
arrive. for at least the next half centu-
ry. There need be but little fear of
their failing to yield their annual crop
of gold as long, perhaps, AZ ur valleys
viii yield their crops of grain.
The aggregate areas amount to
about eleven thousand square miles
known to contain gold, aud when this il
compared with the area actually occupi-
ed, the latter will be found to comprise
but a mere mite of our available re-
sources"
FEMALE HELp.-The San Francisco
Daily Transcript, in an article about
the sufferings Of females in our Eastern
cities who are compelled to exc out a
miserable life by sewing, presents the
following contrast:
at has often occurred tous how much
better off enc of these poor women would
be in our favored country, even the
worst of times. How many families
would gladly pay four times the amount
for their services, give them a eomforta-
BILE subsistence in addition, and not al
low them to feel that they are servants
There are plenty of house-keepers in
this city and State who are now compell-
ed to pay from $50 to $50 per month
for the services of one person, who
would gladly,employ three at double the
Boston and New York"
MINIKG.-The Jamison Claim, at To-
wa Hill, washed out, on Monday last,
AZ unces on Tuesday, SIS ounces; and
on Wednesday, 60 ounces-total amount
washed out in three days, l56 ounces.
There are other claims paying almost as
richly as this Transcript.
MURpER.-A man named ALLEN, who
left Mercer County, KY, last spring,
and crossed the plains, murdered .
young German named SILEERHAN. while
gambling at Shasta City. He tried to
escape, but was caught, and with much
trouble was kept from the grab of Judge
Lynch.
Rich DIGGtNs.-The papers, as is
usual, abound with notices of rich dig
gins being daily discovered. Such items
as the following are we'll calculated to
stimulate emigration.
Mr.. Graham, near Sonora, aeeiden-
tally discovered q piece of gold Of the
velae of 81 so lying on the surface Of.
the ground. He procured = pick and
pan, and in about one hours time pam
ned out between our and stz pounds Of
pure goAy The gold lies embedded
in clay, with No sign of rocks, and CON-
tinues paying from $50 to 500 to the
Six hundred and eigbty-seven dol
lars of gold was washed from a single
pan of dirt last Monday, taken from
the Wisconsin Tunnel, at Iowa Hill"
In Yuba County, at a place properly
called Sand Hill, the dirt is so rich
that in almost every ~shovelfull the gold
can be plainly seen with the naked eye.
Thirty dollars to the pan in B~urgoyne's
claim is frequently washed out. One of
these claims took out 2 ,i50 last week;
another seyenty-three nee None of