The hydraulic press. (North San Juan, Nev. Co., Cal.) 1858-18??, 1858-12-04
THE COUNTY.

NEVADA.-Ihe annexed items are
gathered from the Democrat:
The water from the South Yuba river
was brought to the vicinity of Nevada
last week, by way of the Rock Greek
and South Yuba bitches. The length
of ditch through which the water is
brought is about forty miles. The late
rain and snow has had the effect to raise
the streams high up in the mountains,
and by means of this ditch water is al
ready furnished in many localities which
have heretofore been without supply
until late in the winter.
The miners at Hunts Hill are making
extensive preparations for an active mi
ming season. The mining at this place
is carried on altogether by tunneling,
and the gold is obtained from blue ce.
ment which is so hard that it has to be
crushed in mills. Several of these mills,
which are constructed like quartz mills,
have been in operation for some months,
and others are now being constructed.
The lead of cement is supposed to be the
bed of an ancient river, and in some
places is two hundred feet below the
surface. Some of the tunnels have been
run great length and at an immense
expense. The tunnel of the Gouge-eye
company is from eight hundred to
thousand feet in length, and that Of the
Eastern company nearly as long. These
companies each employ large number
Of hands, and for the past year or two
have been taking out immense guam
ties of gold. Several new companies
have commenced operations this fall.
The labor and expense of opening claims
are very great, but all the companies
that have persevered have been reward
ed for their labor.
Messrs. Woodring, Shaefer & Co. took
out of their diggings at Oregon Hill, last
week, 1850, being the work of four
hands for thirty days.
GRASS VALLEY.-The Nevada Ma.
tional records the following:
A call is published for a meeting to
take measures into consideration for the
founding of a public library.
Grass Valley contains a classical
school for young ladies, where an educa-
ton may be obtained equal to that ac-
quired in the most favored of the At
Iantic States. A Miss Compton is the
instructress. She has classes in chem
istry, natural philosophy, anatomy, &c.
A course of public lectures is to DO
delivered during the coming winter.
For the last FIVE years the Rock Tun-
mel company, consisting of sixteen mi
ners, has been running tunnel, night
and day, through greensboro, hard
ground, mud and water, from near the
bed of Slate Creek into the ridge d.
viding the waters of Deer Creek and
Wolf Greek. Their tunnel is now 3 1000
feet long, and they have not yet made
single dollar.
Tuttle & Co., of Allison Ranch Lead,
No. 2, are quarrying rock that will
probably pay 5000 to the ton.
The ladies' festival in aid of the Epis-
copal church netted over 81 900.
OMEGA DITcH.-We learn that this
enterprise will be completed in thirty or
forty days, and will furnish an abundance
of water to the miners in and about
Omega. The ditch is four feet wide on
the bottom by four feet deep, with ten
feet grade to the mile, and is calculated
to discharge four thousand inches of wa
ter in twenty-four hours. 1t is fourteen
miles long, five miles of which is lume.
The ditch is fed by the South Yuba
with the assistance of three small lakes,
one of which has been damned, raising
its water six feet and producing an area
of one hundred acres Of water surface.
Journal.