The Nevada journal., 1855-09-07
Our County,.

ed, we have traversed large portion Of
Nevada County, and everywhere have met
the most gratifying and indubitable signs
of prosperity. Enterprises of immense
magnitude have been projected and are
now being carried out, with the will and
untIring energy characteristic of our pop
ulation. Water is the great desideratum,
and water the miners of this county are
determined to have at any cost "Where
there is will, there is a way" The men
who are laying our mountains low, in
search of gold, have will which is indom-
table, aud the way they have found, and
are ursuing it to successful end.
Go down upon the bars of our rivers,
and you viii find fumes and canals cross
ing them in every direction. Look up
the st eo mountain sides, ard bitches one
above another, the lowest thousand feet
above you. wind around promontory, dis
appear in dark canyon, again to emerge
in sight on some projecting cliff beyond and
thus running on for miles over almost in
accessible places, find at last an embouch-
ure in a rich auriferous hill deposite, where
the miner after immense labor and expense
is at last reaping an ample harvest for his
enterprise and perseverance.
For several years the miners on the
ridge between the South and Middle Yu-
bas' have been hattered with the idea that
in few months at least, water would be
brought in great abundance to supply their
wants, in canal Of great magnitude com
mencing high up on the Middle Yuba.-
But finding that they had lived in hope
until about to die in despair, the miners
at Orleans Flat (by the way one of the
prettiest localities, as we'll as one of the
richest in the mountains anywhere, and
vicinity, reused themselves to action, and
resolved to supply themselves with the
aqueous element. A ditch II miles in
length was surveyed and is now in process
Of completion which is of a very large size,
and is expected to supply Snow Point,
Orleans, Moore's and Woolsey's Flats with
water. The ditch will be completed be-
fore the commencement of the rainy seas
on, when field for labor will be opened
in the northeastern portion of Nevada
County unequalled in any part of the State.
Give the Flats that overlook the Middle
Yuba an abundance of water, and the lit
tie towns which skirt the northern boun-
Diary of our county, and like sentinels
watch their rivals in Sierra, will grow to
beautiful villages, which for salubrity of
climate as well as the wealth of their citi-
zens will find few equals.
Another ditch projected, and being COM
pleted by Kidd, Whartenby s. Co, inten-
ded to supply the country intermediate,
from Omega to Nevada, has now employ
ed upon it large number of hands, and
will probably be finished in about six
months. For several miles at the COM
mencement on the South Yuba, it is built
on precipice, where none but those Of
unlimited means, and most obstinate de-
termination would ever attempt to con-
struct work on so magnificent scale,
and at such an immense expense. This
ditch when completed will not be less than
80 miles in length.
At Walloupa we saw one of the longest
and most expensive fumes in the county
now in process of erection by Churchman
& Co. Little is doing in the way of col
lecting gold except along our rivers and
creeks, but everywhere preparations are
being made on a large scale to supply the
county with water when prosperous flu
ture may be anticipated.