Grass Valley telegraph., 1857-02-28

| cry quarter, tnat the goloen prouuC6s vi ouI
hills and ravines are fast being gathered
into store. The rains have been unusually
abundant, and immense quantities of snow
5oare s. 0Cr aglme4 supply q water
Inc iao'emeney of The season n toe higher
82tisudss 6as tbus far operated IS g barriag
.gainst aay gerg steady progress oE lpinjag
OPERATORS faeFa hat t5 h~iYft alse q
"toe. good tiue cqmipgf keeps ap sue min
er's hopes, and cheers his lonely hours as he
SITS il his snug little cabin quietly awaiting
the approach Of the genial spring, which is
to unlock The fountains Of water, so tha5 he
may once more ply his pick and shovel
Low down, and among the foot hills, where
the snow king fails to fix his icy grasp, all is
even now, hustle and animation. Rich
strikes and immense yields are as common as
ever, and there are but few, who, with well
directed energy, fail to realize handsome
return for their labor. We have collected
few of the more prominent items Of "good
luck" which have been reported during the
past month.
In Sierra county, at Smito's Flat, nearly
all are doing extraordinary well, 700, 500,
400 and 300 ounces are common results for a
weeks work of one company. The New
York company three weeks since had $4,000
ready for the mint. At Chips Flat, Forest
City, Minnesota and Monte Christie, the min
ers are all doing remarkably well.
In our own county we hear of highly fa-
vorable reports, especially from San Juan,
and the vicinity of Nevada immense
amounts of gold are now being taken out in
the neighborhood of Selby Flat and Brush
Greek. The mines of that neighborhOod areI
very extensive and of almost fabulous rich
ness. The Yankee Mining Co. at Chips Flaj
took out on the 7th of February five hun
dred pound lump, and several other smaller
nuggets" The Pacific Co. at Allegany
Town lately realized S4899 from two days
washing.
The San Andreas (Calaveras Co.. Inde-
pendent of Jan. 81, says:
Messrs. Hill & Co., on Wallace Gulch, are
now making $21 per day to the hand This
average pay has been taken out of their claim
for the past ten days. Another company of
five miners, working in small gulch near
by, are making one hundred dollars per
week-clear of water money
The claims in the vicinity of Central Hill,
are still paying as rich as ever. In the claim
of Messrs Bright & Co., they are taking out
dirt in which the gold can be easily seen
throu ghout every shovel full.
John Veazie & Co., mining in Five Point
Gulch, this week (six men being at work.
have averaged one ounce and half per day
to the man. This yield is from the surface
dirt, never before disturbed the bed rock.i
not over three feet from the surface; about
eighteen inches from the bed rock is sticky
brick red earth, evidently decayed quartz
the big chunks are all found in this earth ::
although the lighter loan on the top also
pays well. A thirty-six dollar chispa was
found near the surface, Wednesday last, while
shoveling dirt into the sluiees.
Mr.. David Robinson q Co., (three persons)
took from their claim, near Dog Point ff-
teen ounces one day last week-only fair
average of their claim.
George Shawl & Co. 's'claim is also paving
its pounds per day twenty ounces per dav
is light weeks working for three men. The
dirt was all carted out during the past sum
mer
ONE THOUSAND DoLLA8s PER DAY!-The
San AndreaS Fluming Company, on Satur
day Feb. 7th, took up few of their rifles.
and succeeded in taking out one thousand
dollars in gold dust. This makes in all thir-
teen hundred dollars they have lifted out of
the long sluicing 1ume. They have short
sluices, with which they wash the bed rock
dirt, which yield, on an average, from six to
eight dollars per day to the man, while the
long sluice picks up Crumbs" at the rate of
$500 to $1,000 per month.
BEAUTIFUL AND RICH.-The San Jose Re-
publican of Feb. 7th, says: We were shown
yesterday, at the banking house of Wells.
Fargo Co., beautiful quartz specimen
taken from the claim of Kinney Pool. at
Armstrong Gulch, half mile above Quartz
burg, few days since. The specimen weighs
thirty-three pounds, and contains at least
ten pounds of pure gold. A number of small
ler Jumps of quartz, very rich, have been
taken from the same spot. The claim has
been worked by Mr.. P. about one year, who
has not as yet reached the ledge. The pieces
above alluded to were found detached
A FINE LUMP.-The same paper says a
miner, on Sunday morning last, picked a
lump of pure gold from the creek in the rear
of Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Office in Sonora,
which weighed forty-eight ounces. 1t was
washed ont h11 Tho Hood nhinh raicnd tho