The Nevada Democrat. [volume] (Nevada, Calif.) 1854-1863, 1857-06-03
WHOLE NO. 1911.
NEWS ITEMS.


made survey between the terminus of their
ditch and Cherokee Flat, and estimates Of the
cost of extending their ditch to that place. which
we understand they contemplate doing this
summer. The distance is only three miles, $500
feet of which is through a canon TAO feet in
depth. 1t is proposed to convey the water
through the gorge in tube twenty inches in
diameter, made Of boiler iron, one-fourth Of an
inch in thickness. The pressure on the pipe
will be forty pounds to the square inch, and it
is estimated that by giving the water sixty feet
head, which can be obtained, the pipe will dis
charge FIVE hundred inches per day. The cost
of the pipe will be about 100000 The dggings
around Cherokee and Oregon will warrant this
expenditure. There are whole mountains OF
white quartz gravel, which contain gold in
every ineh to depth of one hundred feet or
more. The ravine, surface and bank dggings
of this section are perhaps the richest In Butte
county.-[North Californian.
THE MYSTERIOUS WREcK AT GoLD BLuRF.-Tho
hull Of the wreck that recently went ashore at
Gold Bluff is imbedded in the sand on the beach.
AT low tide she is oHt of the water entirely, and
persons can approach her with dry feet; but she
is still bottom up, and the deck so much buried
in the soft sand that il is impossible to make out
what vessel she was She is judged to have been
craft of three hundred tons or over. She has
lumber port in the stern, and Is slowed full,
and from what they are able to sec, the cargo Is
square timber and plank. They have not been
able to reach the cabin or forecastle and can
not know whether there are any bodies in her.
From the position of the lumber, the cabin must
have been built on the main deck, and it has
been carried away. Her sheathing, or greater
portion of it, is what is known as yellow metal
1t seems that this craft is destined to remain .
mystcry.-[ Humboldt Times.
THE SOUTHERN MINEs-A gentleman who has
just returned TO Stockton, from visit to the
principal mining towns in Calaveras county in
forms the Argus that the absence of water is
severely felt among the miners every where
many of the most valuable claims in the
vicinity of Murphy's having, in consequence,
been abandoned until seme plan is adopted by
which that portion of the county may be sup
piled with water. Many places once held valu-
able by American miners have fallen into the
possession of Cinnamon, through whose constant
labor and contentment in the receipt of small
wages, they are yielding fair profits. At San
Andres, the principal operations in mining are
confined to extensive tunnelng and carting dirt
preparatory to the rains of the next winter
season.
OAKLAND.-The population of this thriving
town is increasing rapidly. Its proximity to
the San Antonio woods enables property owners
to obtain any amount of fencing and building
material at low rates, sand some of the prettest
private residences in the country are going up.
This place has been aptly termed the Hoboken
of San Francisco, and during the spring and
summer months is the resort of hundreds of
pleasure seekers There are numerous villages
sprngug up in it's vicinity, which in the sum-
mer season are surrounded with meadows OF
flowers, and cultivated fields
ARTEsIAN WELL.--The digging Of the artesan
well at Santa Barbara has been suspended. We
are informed says the Gazette, that the present
! Il e hnt, ,lraA 90 all ac oh bas haan
drilled. A compact clay pan occupies the first
ten feet, and the remainder consists of sand
stone, traversed by thin veins of hard trap rock.
A stratum of coarse gravel has now been reach
ed, and it is probable that this can be easily
penetrated whenever the work shall be resumed.
TRAGIC AFFAIR.--On Saturday, May 10th, q
difficulty arose at WatsOnville, in Santa Cruz
county, between Canadian French boy and
man named Dean, in which the boy was shot by
Dean, with double barreled gun. The next
morning Dean was found hanging by sign
post, dead. The Sentinel, which gives no fur
ther explanation, says the boy was still living
though not expected to recover.
DEATH IN BALL RooM.-A young man named
Chas. Gross, a merchant Of Yreka, died very
suddenly while attending a ball in San Fran
cisco, on Tuesday evening, May 26th. He had
just handed his partner to seat, and fell back
on the floor a corpse He appeared to be in
perfect health when he entered the room and
had danced constantly up to the time of his
death.
SALE OF THE CLEAR LAKE DITcH.--This valu.
able work. the Shasta Republican says, has been
sold to an English company. Its price is near
a quarter of million dollars. 1t is stated that
the company which has purchased the Clear
Creek Ditch contemplate conveying the water
of Pitt river to the Churntown and Buckeye
diggings.
DEATH FROM A RArrLEsNAkE BTE.-Mr. Sam
uel Mckinney died at the ranch of Mr.. Jelley,
on the east side of the Sacramento river, near
the mouth of Cottonwood creek, on Sunday the
18th inst, from the effects of rattlesnake bite
Mr. Mckinney was formerly Of Pike county,
Illinois.
VAMosED-C. F. Lynn, Treasurer of Trinity
county, left for the Atlantic States on the mall
steamer John L. Stephens without giving bis
friends due notice. 1t is thought the county
will lose at least six thousand dollars by his
exit.
For SON0R6-The Siskiyou Chronicle says
that a meeting was to have been held at Yreka
on Saturday last, for the purpose of raising
volunteers to go to Sonora. Gen. Cosby was
to address the meeting
STAGE FOR HONEY LAKE.-The President of
the California Stage Co. has rendered the free
use of stage coach to any party of men who
may wish to make an exploration from Oroville
to Honey Lake.
SALE OF Hook FARM.-The Marysvle Express
says that Hook Farm, the home of General
Suffer, was sold on the 23d ult. Messrs. Packard
g. Woodruff were the purchasers. The price
paid was $4,000.
SI.ANDER.-A suit has been commenced in the
District Court for Shasta county, by Martin
Bernstein against NJ. Goldstone, for defamation
of character, The plaintiff lays his damages
at $4,000
THE BIG TREEs.-Quite number of visitors
are now at the Big Trees, from various parts
of the State A line of stages will shortly be
placed on the road from that place to Murphy's