The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-09


Gam net earnings for first quarter Of 1883 ss7 o7 81
Tie property proposed 10 be worked By the Volcano
Quartz Mining Company situated in Placer county Cal,
and consists OF oe vein Of gold bearing quartz, one
fourth Of nile In length most advanageously located
the brow Of very abrupt Hill Of nearly fifteen fee
perpendicular height, The inclination being not Ear from
As degrees rendering the vein accessible by short
zontal tunnel. drifts driven into the face Of the hill
The present works the property tap lode at deph
Of about sixty feet from the top cropping deveopes
exceedingly rich ore yielding steadily with the moot
dnary machinery $50 per Of gold coming sI7 30
ounce.
Tie Flushing Railroad has been soid Under foreclosure
Of the mortgage Leld BY the Farmer Loan and Trust
Company The track, right o. way passenger dspots
Flushing, West Flushing, Nertown Winfield and Hunt.
ers point &c, sold 10 Peter Cooper OF New YORK.
Consln Brush Presdent Of Mecbanics' Bank, wnlams.
bure), and Waiter Browne, Of Flushing for $4,000.
The rolling stock Of the company consisting Of two TO-
cootves with their tenters, four large and tEo small
FIRST class passenger cars sesond class and baggage
care six freight two baud cars and snow plough
were bough, by Abraham s. Hewitt Che Business part
Of Peter "copper" for ooo The entire orsna cost
Of the road aud lie equipments $500 900 The sales
yesterday were for cash. which 70 be paid on the 2st
inst, when the tito deeds are 10 be delivered and thet
property transferred TO the owners During the few
months the road has been the hania u the Receiver
upwards OF t5 600 have been realized over all M running
expenses.
The editor Of the Wisconsin Mirror made an excursion
as, week the line Of the IA Crosse Railroad 20 the
dividing ridge, between the Ia Crosse and Iemonweir
valleys and his PAPER Of The Both nit he eves the re-
cult Of his observations The road IL nov opou and run
ming 10 New lisbon. The next station " Tomah twenty
niles further located a. The junction Of The Ia Crosse and
St. Crox branches a the road The track beyond Lisbon
and romah Is all laid, and wl be open for travel we
presume, IN few days. The Mirror pays a deserved
tribute 70 the contractors Ncssrs Chamberlain 4 Wells
for the energy With which they have pushed the work
ahead during the past winter tue thorough manner in
which hey have Zone the job -Four miles west OF To
nah IS the dividing ridge between The valleys Of tho
Lenon~eir and Ia Crosse rivers and a tunnel Is
made through this ridge 10 connect the two val
leys The tunnel will be quarter Of a mile long afseen
feet vide and eighteen feet high. The rock which will
pierce Is sandstone. The contract for masuz the tun
mel has been let to Mr. Cameron, Of Geneva wa~or.h
county, and The work upon il commenced last week
From the tunnel 10 the city Of ~ Cro3se On TIE Msss.
sippi only forty miles. The line follows the valley Of
he IA crosserver, and The grading s., generally light,
me work this last section Of the road hss already been
Commented and The contractors intend 70 reach Ia Crosse
.ts iron ra by October " they 90 this they
vii accomplish feat In railroad building worthy Of oecal
Doce The roaI, when completed 10 Ia Crosse will be
the busiest thorcugnae and most productive enterprise
n IL 8 Northwest
TLe ns,hae'y AID means o. ,be prs.en, opners are