Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-04-26


We shall probably suggest a plan next
week, by which this enterprise may be sue
cessfully accomplished; and in the mean time
we would solicit schemes and estimates from
such Of our citizens as may feel interest
enough in the matter to study it over.
The WAGON RoAD.-The Chroniele SAYS
the. committee entrusted with the charge Of
forwarding to Congress the memorial and
petition for the construction of wagon
road across the plains met on Monday in the
parlor Of the st. Nicholas Hotel and hand
ed over the document to Mcssrs. G. j. Hitch
cock, Esq, and VIM. Hal, Esq, the gentle
men commissioned to present it to the repre-
sentatlves of this State in Congress The
memorial and signatures occupy two volumes
folio, each containing one ream of paper or
two thousand pages, fourteen by twenty
inches in size. Each page averages thirty
names The signatures are preserved in the
original autobiography, the sheets upon which
the names were obtained being pasted on the
4 leaves of the books The books are beauti-
fully and substantially bound, with a view to
their preservation.
Wednesday afternoon, while look
ing around on Mahaa Flat, we accidental
came across Dan Boon and several other
gentlemen, who were engaged in laying down
what they termed "blind fume,p for the
purpose Of carrying off the water from the
fiat, near Roses saw MILL The fume is
placed under ground about ten feet, and is
near half mile in length, and when com
pleted the "boys' think that they will have
pretty good thing
CLApBoARD GuLoH-The miners in this
gulch are doing very good business whenev
er they are able to procure water from the
canal company. There are claims in this ra-
vine that will pay extravagant wages all the
year round if water could only be had in
abundance AT the present time they only
have water two or three days out of the
week.
RoBBED.-"Yauk;1 every body knows
''Yank;" was robbed last Saturday afternoon
of so i'll dust, while lying asleep iD his cabin,
on Union Flat He was about to visit town,
and while waiting for companion to accom-
pany him, fell asleep, and some rascal saved
him the trouble of depositing his dust.
HARMON & Co, on the upper end of Ma
haa Flat are working their claims to good
advantage They have powerful hydraulic;
the way they make the dirt fly is q caution to
Paddles They are making from fifteen TO
sixteen dollars per day to the hand, with
good ground enough to keep them employed
for year to come.
QuARTz.-A company organized three or
four days ago have two men employed i'll
prospecting quartz vein recently discovered
in the bed OF Sutter Creek, a little way below
the mouth of the basin There is 10 doubt
but there is any quantity of gold-bearing
quartz in the immediate vicinity of Volcano,
and we hope that the enterprise mentioned
in tins paragraph may prove abundantly sue
cessfnl
Roses SAW MIlL-This mill is now in
complete order and turns out lumber at the
rate Of from twelve to eighteen thousand feet
in twenty-four hours The lumber is of the
best quality, and is furnished at fair prices.
There is no use in building shake" houses
any longer
w ATER.-For the first time, water from
the Volcano Ditch was brought into Soldiers
Gulch the fore part of this week There are
some of the richest diggngs in this part of
the country in this Gulch, and if the water
only continues we will hear Of some heavy
haus' by those owning claims in this ravine
DEFEATED.-Th miners exemption bill, Of
which we spoke at some length two or three
weeks since, was defeated in Assembly, after
having passed the Senate
SERIOUS ACCIDENT Robert Myers, in the
employ Of the st Louis Quartz Co, (about
four miles from this place. had an ankle hol-
rbly crushed on Wednesday last, 10y the f1ll-
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