The Nevada journal., 1856-11-21
San Juan North.

Importance 10 nave Its name III the
papers" once in while, / concluded il
would not be amiss to mention it in the
Jomrnal at the present time. This town
certainly has one of the most beautiful
locations of any mining town in the
State. 1t is built ON high, rolling
ridge, with no creeks, ravines or broken
ground to mar the beauty of the situa-
ton, and there are yet acres on acres Of
level ground to be built upon, where
broad and uniform streets may be laid
out, and large gardens and yards cult
waited and ornamented. In this respect
it has the advantage of any mining
town l have yet seen, for most of our
mountain towns are built on rivers and
crees, where the ground is rough and
broken, where the streets have to be
crowded, and often with no room for ex-
tending the limits of the city. Not so
at San Juan North; there is no "pent
up imits"-there is room to "spread
ITSELF into large city, of sufficient mag
nitude to contain hundred thousand
inhabitants, and still have room to Gin
crease and multiply"
The mining region around this place
is the most extensive of any place in the
State, and San Juan North now bids
fair soon to be one of the largest and
wealthiest towns in the mountains. The
place has heretofore been kept back in
obscurity for the want of water to wash
down the extensive gold fields that sur
round this place; but brighter day is
now dawning; the great Middle Yuba
Ditch is completed, and is already pour
ing in its thousands of inches of water
daily, and as soon as the rainy season
sets in and raises the water in the Mid
die Yuba, there will be suhiciency of
water to supply all demands, and San
Juan will start on her career of pros
perity and greatness.
AS yet, the mines are scarcely pros
pected. There are several claims that
are partially opened, all of which pay
very richly where the miners have the
facilities for working them. There are
several tunnels being run into the hills,
through which, when completed, the
dirt is to be washed by hydraulic pipes.
Some of these tunnels have been in pro-
gress for many months, and as they
have to drill and blast through solid
granite, it be yet some time before they
are completed, but when once finished,
the mines will soon be thoroughly
opened. The Gold Cut, owned by
Messrs. Moore, Reedshaw Il Co., is
already paying handsomely, and many
other cuts will be made into the hills
during the winter and spring, and one
year from this time the miners will pro-
badly have their claims well opened,
and everything in full blast, and then,
Mr.. Editor, you may look for lively
times and plenty of money about your
rival town of San Juan North. And,
indeed, Nevada may seriously look on
her as rival brick buildings are al
ready being erected; there is one fire.
proof brick building completed and oc-
cupied; another near on to completion,
and Mr.. Thomas Freeman has com
menced the construction of the third,
which he expects to complete in a few
weeks. In addition to these, there are
many frame buildings going up through
out the town, for private residences and
business purposes. I Learned that there
were three steam saw-mills in the vicini
ty of this place, all of which were kept
constantly busy furnishing lumber for
building and mining purposes.
There are many little towns surround
ing San Juan, at all of which places the
mines are rich. There is Cherokee,
Sebastopol, Manzanita, Sweetland's and
French Corral, all on the same range of
mining region, of which San Juan is the
centre and headquarters, and is bound
to be place of Importance.
1 extended my journey across the
Middle Yuba, to Freeman's Crossing,
about mile from San Juan, and there
found the miners up and doing, prepar-
ing for busy times and rich rewards
when the rainy season sets in. They
have all been living on faith and hope
for many long and dreary months, for
the rain last season was not more than
sufficient to give the miners in that re-
gion work for two months-not time
enough to give them an opportunity to
cain money to pay their winters ex-
penSeS, and this summer thew have had