Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-07-31
Mining Itefiss.

The claim of Smith s. Co., on Gold Hill. IL
paying at the rate of IS 0O per day to th'
hand. They are working twelve hands
There are some thirty or forty claims on th'
Hill, which, we are assured, are averaging
about tire ssne.
GA Carpenters Flat, the claim of Morris
Co., which has been worked but three days
pays an average Of one ounce per day to the
hand.
The claims on Virginia Flat continue to
/ yield the ore in abundance 10 all who seek
for it. There is hardly a claim on the Flat
that will not pay four dollars Il day 10 the
man, while the Golden Gate, Union, Perse.
verence, Pine Tree State, and Lone Stal
claims are paying from six to twelve dollars
| dny to the hand. The Pine Tree State Co
! have made as high as Twelve and half dol
lars day to the share. 1t will take them
| two years at least to work out all Their
claim. There is yet plenty Of ground on
the Flat that has no. been taken up; also
many claims that have been prospected and
| LETT, because they would not pay more than
three dollars day. So there is no excus
| for man to be loafng about town, consol-
! inc himself with the idea that there Is moth.
ing to do There is plenty of work to 90
here. If man cannot get employment Of
others let him pitch in and prospect, or
take up some Of the ground already pros
pected. Most any of it will pay three dol
lars day The only way to get into bust
ness in this country Is to make business.
The miners still continue to sink shafts, and
to find good prospects, and there is no rea-
son to doubt that there is ground not pros
pected, that will way as we'll as the best q
Claims now being worked.
Persons from other portions of the State
who visit us, and see the dense population
population in this vicinity, the amount OF
business done, and the amuSements sus-
vinced Of the fact that Oroyille is in one Of
the richest mining section Of the State, and
that the published accounts of the richness
of the mines, and the daily receipts of those
who are working them, are no exageration.
RRACE AND HETHERINGToN llUNG.-ln
another column will be found the particu-
lars of the hanging of these men by the Wig
ilance Committee of San Francisco. We ex-
pressed the belief on yesterday, that the
Committee would not hang IIetherington,
owing to the peculiar features which his
case seemed to present But it appear S
they have hung him, and We shall hardly
venture another prediction concerning
them, unless it is that they can do what they
please, and they please to do what they can.
We presume both of these men deserved
hanging; but we have no desire to be of the
number who have hung them without re-.
course to law.
But we can say no more. The heart sick
ems at tho spectacle. Time was when
the people were willing to turn such
revolving scenes over to the authori-
ties, to be performed in privacy, as a thing
which a correct public opinion cared not TO
witness. Such scenes were only enacted by
the officers Of stern and irexorable law
Now, free people rise in their might, and
perform these horrible exhibitions, without
form of law, and to audiences of thousands,
who throng the streets, and crowd upon the
tops of houses until they sink beneath their
weight, to witness the revolving spectacles,
gotten up by the San Francisco public at the
rate of two per month. Pow long are these
things to continued How long is ou- consti-
stitution and laws to be trampled into the
earth, that vitiated and unnatural public
taste may be gratifed'
! AN HONEST FLAG.-An old Californian
arrived in San Francisco the other day,
fresh from the mines, and dropped in at n
Renubljcan Club Meeting. A patriotic in.