The Nevada journal. [volume] (Nevada City, Calif.) 1851-18??, 1857-07-24
QuartZ and pints.

In company with quite crowd of
gentlemen of Nevada we went to Amer
lean Hill, on yesterday, to see the fine
new quartz mill of Messrs. Van Pelt,
Soggs, Craig and Edwards put in ope-
ration for the first time. The mill has
at present battery of eight stamps,
which are to be increased to twelve ;
the motive power steam. Every thing
about the construction is of the most du-
rable and solid nature, and several i'm
provements in the machinery over that
in common use, gives to the whole an
appearance of finish and effectiveness
unsurpassed by any we have seen in the
State. The works have been erected
under the supervision of O. Crandal,
we'll know as an accomplished and ex
pert machinist The whole machinery
moved off like clock-work, on the start
ing of the engine, giving the highest
evidence of the skill used in its con-
struction. The company have two ex-
cellent quartz leads contiguous to the
mill. The stamps were run short
time, and few pieces ofordinary look
ing quartz thrown in, to.test the works,
and on taking ont one of the blankets,
minute particles of gold glittcyed on it,
and on washing it, some six dollars were
taken out-evincibg that the gold for
which these fine works were construct
ed, will not be wanting.
The works when finished will have
cost about ten thousand dollars. We
are gratifed to see these evidences Of
revived enterprise in q-artz in this vi
cinity, and argue well for our city in
consequence.
After the works had been fully OK
hibited to the visitors, and tested to the
satisfaction of the owners, fine COLA
ton was spread out, and the inner man
duly attended TO, Sparkling wines
flowed freely. and good things edible
and drinkable disappeared rapidly.
Your reporter desires to complain of
an outrage committed on him. As he
was declining a drink on his well-known
extreme temperance principles, bot
tie was discovered in his coat pocket,
put there, he firmly asserts, by the devil
or Tom Holmes. \ specialized friend,
who wasn't tight, (oh noD declared
loudly in favor of the brunch" which
was fuss rate" and couldn't see the
use for t'co supcrintendants, both Of the
name of Soggs. Another one, who
wished champagne bottles were river
Niles, and declared he could drink one
if it was without getting over seas,
seemed to find the trail home too
straight, and marked out new one on
the perfect line Ct beauty.
The whole affair was charact cried
by good feeling. We trust the bright
prospect open before the proprietors
may be realized.
GREEN IoRN.-Thcre is large
amount of mining ground lying on the
north side Of Green Horn Greek, high
up. now being prospected. 1t bears
every indication of rich mining region,
there being a continuous bed of beauti-
full rounded quartz gravel, extending
from near the head of the stream seven
or eight miles down The bed rock is
trough shaped, there being rim of
hard rock some fifteen feet high or
more to be cut down or tunneled thro'
before reaching the bottom. No com
pany in that locality has yet reached
the bed rock in the deepest part of the
channel, though many have been work
ing for by hydraulics when they
had water, and now that their bitches
are dry, they are tunneling. The
gravel above the lead pays something,
ranging from 81 day to the hand to
SIG day. The ravines running down
the slope have paid from So to $50 a
day to the hand, though but few of
them appear to have been low enough
to cut the lead; Pryor's ravine and the
Sailors ravine being the only apparent
exceptions. Both these paid big wages.
Indications go to show that this lead is
a continuation of the one being worked
at Red Dog, Dutch Flat, and Hunts
Hill.
RACEs.-By reference to our advertis-
ing columns it will be seen that several
important match races come off at the