The weekly ledger., 1857-09-12
VOLCANO ITEMS


MELLUs & Cos CLAIM, three weeks ago. PAID
nineteen dollars a day to the man, two weeks
ago it paid twelve dollars a day. and last
week, thirteen dollars and a half. Volcano i.
as good as any of them yet
NEw DTcH AT VoLcANo.-Welch & Co
are digging ditch to convey water from
Sutter Creek to Mohala Flat. 1t will be-
two and half miles long, feet wide and
p deep. There will be one aqueduct 800 fl
long and 40 # high. There are at present
nine or ten Cinnamon at work digging the
race, while seven or eight Americans are en-
ployed on the fluming The work will be
completed in the course of a month or six
weeks It's elevation will be some eighteen
feet above any ditch now on the Flat, and a
constant supply of water will be furnished
the year round
FIeHrs-A couple of men up on the ditch
had good time bruising each other; for
which one had to pay fine of $42.
ANorHER-Beyond Robinson's ranch a
white man and a negro got into muss about
dividing the profits Of claim, they being
partners. The negro clinched the other fel-
low and had to suffer the consequences in the
sum of $22.
THE LYcEUM.-The lovers of debate in
.
Volcano have re-organzed their Lyceum, pre-
paratory to the long evenings. w. Henry
Jones is President; A. w. Rose, Vice Presi-
dent; and j. b. Cameron, Secretary and
Treasurer The meetings are to be on Tues
day evening Of each week The question for
discussion at the next meeting is: " Resoired,
That the discovery of gold in California has
been productive of more evil than good"
LADIES' SUPPER-The ladies of Volcano
are soon to have supper or fair for the ben
eft Of the fund to pay for the Meeting House
of the Methodist Church, (South, recently
erected on Main street.
The MOUNTAINS Ben Ross has just re-
turned from Silver Lake, bringing down some
seventy-fve trout of his own angling. Mr..
Ross met Capt Hamm aud Mr. Roy just the
other side of the first summit bound for Lake
Bigler Their horses had been stolen by In
dians, but they had recovered them, (the
horses, not the Indians, and were "on their
way rejoicing"
SNAIx Our Volcano "Lokul Tums"
informs us that Mr.. G. Gossum, stage owner
and driver between jackson and Volcano
reports having killed very large rattlesnake
on the road. Mr.. g. himself tells us conf
dentially that the aforesaid snaik had one
hundred and sixty-two rattles attached to his
tail. When his snaikship shook his narrative,
the noise produced would drown the music of
steamboat whistle. 1t was poor day for
snaix.
DIR. James Askey has commenced work
upon his claim, adjoining the Georgia Com
pany's claims, and is getting prospects of one
dollar to the pan.
ALL the claims in "Shirt Collar Bend" are
paying well this season.
New RoAD-The new road up Soldiers
Gulch to Union Flat, known as "Whitmore's
road" will be finished next week. 1t has
the advantage Of the old road down Jackass
Guleh, in having regular grade and not be-
ing so rough and stony. just the thing for
the stages now, but may become too soft
next winter.
BRANCH DTcH.-We learn that the ANA
dor (late Jackson) Canal Co. are cutting a
branch ditch from their fume to Mohala
Flat. 1t is to be completed by the first OF
next month This will ensure a plentiful
supply of water to the mines IN the vicinity
OF the Flat.
BEAurIFuL.-The following is the closing
paragraph of Mr.. Latham's Address, deliver
ed at the Lafayette celebration in San Fran
cisco, on the 7th inst:
Let us, on such occasions, emulate the
pious and lifelong occupation of Old Nor
tality,' among the tombs of the Covenanters
and from time to time, as the storms of con
tending politics, the destroying lightning of
fanatical license, or the miIGewed moss, or
tangled ivy of neglect, shall render the glow
ing characters dull let such frequent ovations
and "reminiscences as the present, serve to res
cue from forgetfulness, and engrave deeper
upon the tablets of our patriotism, the hope