The hydraulic press., 1859-08-20
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Middle and South fuba, from French Corral
! to Eureka South, distance of more than 30
miles, including about twenty populous To-
calities, are yielding richly. The most of
the work being done however, is merely
preparatory. There are more men employed
in running tunnels, opening cuts, building
fumes, digging bitches, laying sluices &C.,
than in washing for gold. The banks of au-
riferous earth are of such great depth and
extent that they can be successfully worked
only after long and costly preparation, and
cannot then be exhausted for great many
years. This fact, while it sometimes discour-
ages individual labor, is the best guarantee
for the permanence the various settlements
on the Ridge, and is the secret Of the healthy
growth of our own pleasant town. We give
few items
SAN JUAN HILL.-Ward, Winham & Co,
who are just opening ground adjoining the
Golden Gate claims, lately took out 1852 so.
The Knickerbocker Company realized from
their last run of top dirt the handsome
amount of 81 Gal. The Star Company were
robbed last week, yet their yields for two
runs amount to upwards of 81 200. The
Eureka claims are paying about 500 week,
washing mostly top dirt. Low & Co. cleaned
up some days since 81 $40, the Sailor Boys
81 $40, and the Ohio Company $685. The
Bloomer Company are shovelng tailngs from
a ravine below their claims into sluces,
while waiting for the completion of their
tunnel, and making from S. to SlOper diem
to the hand This is another proof of the
richness of the tailings which flow from this
hill into the Middle Yuba. Dunning & Co.
are washing tailings on the river and making
wages.
SwEETLAND.-The Blue Gravel Company
have cleaned up Sl,393, and the Buck l.
Breck claims are said to be yielding as well
as ever. At Buckeye Hill, near Swectland,
the weekly washingS amount to thousands of
dollars.
JUNCTION BLUFF.-McKeeby & Co lately
realized 81 200 or S 400 from a weeks run
of very hard dirt-not actually washing
more than they could in two days had the
ground been ordinarily soft These claims
deserve their great reputation The Compa-
ny have fifty feet of bottom dirt that pros
| poets bit to the pan, and through this they
are now raising a shaft, in order to wash
through the deep tunnel. Mckeeby & Co
are vigorously prosecuting their flume en-
terprise in the river, below Junction Bluff
1t will be a magnificent work and shall here
after have adequate description.
FRENCH CoRRAL-The mines in this yicin-
ity are said to be giving out more generously
| for the number of hands employed than any
others on the Ridge. Large quantities of
dust arc purchased weekly, and claim own
ers are getting rich.
| MoNTEZUMA-Rich drift dirt washincs re-
ported from this place The keystone Com
pany cleaned up 81 $50 week before last, and
81, 434 last week
CHERoKEE.-No definite reports. Perma
nent water will soon be had, and then there
will be regular yields of much richness
ARNOLD RANCH This place has become
a village recently. Mr. Arnold is building
fine hotel, and several stores and shops are
going up around it. The diggings at Manza-
nita, Colorado, Dutch and Villa Rica Hills,
on Humbug Canon, are attracting mining
population, and will make Arnolds a place
of consequence. For natural scenery it is
one of the lovelest spots in the country.
MooRE's FLAT.-Some of the claims at
this point are yielding richly, as of old. The
Paradise Lost claims are famous for their
excellence. The Buckeye Company are rails
ing dirt through shaft l40 feet Deep by an
ingenious contrivance known as the counter
balance, which consists of a chain working
on an iron sheave, one end letting down an
empty car sitting on box of water while
the other brings up car loaded with dirt
equal in weight to the descending box,
drain tunnel below carrying off all the water.
The dirt is dumped on to a platform from
which string of sluices lead off, and when
a large pile accumuates is p;ped away,
yielding gold at the rate of $40 per day to
the hand. Another company is running
long tunnel which will soon be through. 1t
is wide enough to admit three sluices, taps a
very large body of ground, and its compile
tion will give employment to about seventy
men.
ORLEANS FLAT.-The hill on which this
place stands has been washed close up to the
town. paying well. Miners are now drifting
back under the houses. Mr.. Conley, propri-
etor of the Orleans Hotel, has been drifting
for several Years and is now nrls inoc crronnd