Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-14

~-NN'NNf ''Aih thI I'lptb luNG DtGu run lnlO
many Of the business houses, and we have
every reason to suppose that, ere our next
issue, an opportunity will be afforded to see
"Placerville by gas light"
CALAvERAs CoUNTY.-We take the follow
ing from the San Andreas Independent:
Our Future Prospects.-Our prospects are
Frightening in Calaveras county. Unlike
most of the counties north of us, our mines
are yet comparatively unworked. The rea-
son for this tardiness, has been that we have
not the same facilities for making the waters
of our rivers available for mining purposes.
After oft-repeated efforts, and a long and toll
some contest with nature, the network of
bitches and fumes SO much needed, is at last
completed, with the necessary reservoirs.
high up among the SHOWS of the mountains
to catch and husband the waste water of
winter for use in the summer and fall The
late extensions of old bitches and completion
of new ones will enlarge the field of profit
able labor in this comfy, to an extent suiii-
cient for the accommodation of nearly a thou
sand ne miners; and the water which will
be caught up and saved this winter by the
new mountain reservoirs which have been
constructed by the Union Ditch Company at
Murphy's, and the San Antonio Company,
will furnish supply of that element for
three months longer in the summer and fall,
than hel etofore. From these causes, it may
be safely estimated that the next year will
show larger harvest of gold for the county
than any preceding one.
The agricultural and horticultural depart
ments Of industry exhibit an equal enlarge
ment with our mining facilities; and people
no longer regard the success of these pur
suits in our mountain districts as problenati-
cal. Every available spot of ground from
thesnowy region of the Big Meadws to the
alluyial lands on the Calaveras and Moke-
lumne rivers, is being fenced in and subjected
to high state of culture. We are not with
out reasonable hopes that in another year the
mountains will supply their own demand to
a large extent, for grain, and exclusively for
fruits and vegetables, thus stopping one of
the largest drains through which the miners
dust is escaping.
The mechanic arts though yet in Their in
fancy, are beginning to attract attention and
to receive patronage in almost every village.
We, to great extent, do our own wagon
making, and cabinetwork; and to a consid-
cradle extent, our own tailoring and shoe
making, and the excellent policy of eneour-
aging thorough home system of mechanical
productions, is gradually forcing itself upon
the public mind.
Union Tunnel CompdnN-In the drift of
the Union Tunnel Co., on Monday evening
last the miners struck into dirt that pros
pected at the rate of S25 to the pan.
Relies of Ro6berH-Mr. Fine, of VAGUE
Camp, whilst hunting game in the wood
lear that place on Wednesday last, stumbled
On trunk, which was cut from the boot of
he Sonora and Mok. Hill stage last Septem-
Der, by some one or more robbers. The
.runk belonged to a woman in Mok. Hill,
and was supposed to contain $500 in rings,
bracelets, pins and other jewelry. All these
were gone, but the wardrobe ana
appearance of having been disturbed.
Vallecito-The Calaveras County Water
Company established an office here few
lays ago. A supply of water, owing to the
leavy frosts, is not yet to be had in fact, if
hey had even more than enough it would
seem to be next to an impossibility to use it
n sluices to any advantage in such cold
weather But there seems to be no fretful
pirit of impatience among the industrious
'esidents, thereby eyincing clearly their own
confidence in "a good time coming"
The Mammoth Tunnel, the property of the
Valecito NJ. ID. and Mining Company, organ
zed November Cd, 1855, is 476 into the hill
There has been little work done in it for
more than year. The rock is so extremely
lard as to require several drills being used
Until they become so dull as to be unfit for
urther immediate use, to drill hole one
1,ch in depth. The whole distance, believe,
lltogether, is somewhat over three thousand
eet Nothing further is now being done in
'egard to it than merely sufficient labor ex
pended in order to keep g good title secure
This is heavy undertaking, and whoever
carries the work through, will, in all reason
able probability, be amply repaid. This tun-
mel would effectually drain the whole flat
ground, from which the camp takes its name.
The Ditch belonging to Dr. Carpenter Il
Co., which is about l6 miles long, takes the
water from Coyote Creek at Yallecito Flat.
1t supplies water to a good many miners
along its route, which runs in south -wester-
y direction to Carscn's-running round both
sides of Carson's Hill, and terminating at
Robinson's Ferry. Water runs in this ditch
about nine months in the year.
SHASTA CoUNTY.-The Shasta Courier, of
contains the annexed intelligence:
Game.-The recent snow has brought
arge number of all kinds of game down from
he mountains. Persons fond ofhuntng deer,
pears and quail, can now enjoy lots of sport,
4 Big Bcar-On Sunday last j. r. Spen-
,er and s. f. Frank tracked grizzly from
he hog pen at w. w. Smiths ranch, to a
canon in the vicinity, where, after firing
seven shots and having two dogs killed, they
Dagged the huge game lie weighed 932 lbs.
md was remarkably poor Had he been in
good condition, he would doubtless have
" weighed from 1900 to 1000 pounds. He
was certainly monster, if we may Judge by
.he huge proportions of one of his feet, which
was shown us.
Sleighing-It is a novel, and at the same
line a most delightful sight to see the chill
1ren with sleighs and boards, scudding over
.hc snow down the hill sides. If it were rot
or our recollections of the Inconvenience of
going to school, and of the protrac;ed solici-
ude through which We passed in endeayor
ng to hide from our parents the fact that we
'chawed tobacker," we might excaim with
he poet, ooh, would were a boy again"
CrazH-Alphonse Diann, an insane French
nan-caused by being butted in the head by
! BULLS now in the county jail We be-
ieve he owns a valuable mining claim at
French Gulch He should not therefore be
Kept at the expense of the county It's the
luty of the proper officers to have him con-
eyed at once to the State Insane Asylum.
Fire at Buckeye-The property known as
Saloon and Ten Pin Alley, at
3uckeye, was totally destroyed by fire on
he night of the Sd inst. With difficulty the
Idioining building of Messrs. Logan Il Fol
ansbee was saved. 1t was doubtless the
work of an incendary.
Discovery of Rich Diggiags.-We learn
hat Samuel Mckee, who has been running
unnel in hill near Horsetown, for the past
nnr months has strnck very rich dirt. In