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terest to do So If so, we anticipate a
lively time here next summer. There
is no doubt but this will be as good a
mining section as there is in the State,
when facilities are afforded for working
to an advantage.
The claims along the Greek were
opened and worked some little three
years ago; but miners were soon obliged
to cease operations for want Of fall, as
the tailings of those working above and
also in the hills, very soon filled up the
entire creek. Tailings now are lying to
the depth of fifteen or twenty feet, and
are rich which should be an inducement
for the Flume Co. to "hurry up their
cakes"
The claim of Myres & Co., situated
at the upper end of Humbug Creek, is
the only claim along the creek that could
be worked-they having made good
drain, at considerable expense, and no
companies are working above them to
fill them up. 1t has been good paying
claim, several of the partners in it hav-
ing realized enough to leave the State
with their pockets well lined with the
precious ORC. They have had water to
work for the past two weeks, and have
averaged ten dollars per day to the hand,
clear of expenses.
The French Company, on Colorado
Hill, took out last week in five DAYS
washing, S4l7 00-mostly top dirt
They anticipate much larger yield the
next cleaning up, as they will by that
time get to the bedrock. Their claim
is undoubtedly rich, and will well repay
them for the expense they have been to
in getting prepared to work-which was
heavy.
The appearance of few sheets of
foolscap stuck up in conspicuous place,
got up in newspaper style, and entitled
"The OWL" created considerable ex-
element here few mornings since. [
cannot, as is usual on the first appearance
of paper, say anything in favor of it
geographically, as it is minus the arti-
Gle of type-or much in favor of its ed
itorial ability. 1t is filled up with clev-
er hits on our business mer and citizens
generally. 1t will perhaps do no harm,
and | think little good. ZEKE.
Grizzly Hill.
This communication should have
been written for your last number, but
for the absence of the writer In my
last [ spoke Of the great tunnel over
one mile in length, and of the San Juan,
Philadelphia and Dutch Companies. l
shall now briefly allude to the few re-
naming companies that occupy the hill.
On the south end, Mr. Doolittle has
small claim on which he is now washing
with water from his own ditch, from
which he is realizing fair profits. His
last run of four days Melted him S13. 90
a day to the hand, over water money
This yield astonishes even the coolest
inhabitant," when he considers that it
was taken in less than $50 feet of sluice.
To show the great advantage of drops
or falls where the dirt is hard | will
mention here that two boxes put in at
the lower end of the sluice, where there
is fall of about twenty feet over the
bedrock, caught in that short run of
four days over one ounce of gold Mi
ners cannot add on too many boxes, with
occasional drops to break up the dirt,
for in one or two runs they pay for
themselves, and all taken out thereafter
is clear profit, except the slight expense
of wear and tear of blocks.
The Welch Company have large set
of claims. They are running a tunnel
in connection with the San Juan Com
pany. This tunnel will be over six hun
dred feet long, and from eighty to one
hundred feet deep in the bedrock where
they design raising their shaft The
Welch are enterprising and industrious
miners; less frightened at long and ex-
pensive jobs than many others, and are
getting hold of much of the most valu-
able mining ground in the State. They
oiO UOollhCo ClC lOuS W NC liIO WGdlUul-
est class of people in the mountains.
We will now look over on the north
end, fronting on Knapp's Greek. Here
is large set of claims owned by Mr..
Harmon. He is engaged in running a
tunnel, which, starting on a level with
the creek, will be, when finished, two
hundred feet below the surface. There
is sag formed near the center of his
claims in which there is small cut,
which out prospects any hill claim known
to the writer. Over two hundred "eol-
ors" can be got at every pan of dirt, and
he has known as high as fourteen cents
taken out of single pan of dirt This
for top dirt cannot be beat
Messrs. Lowrie & Co. join Mr. Har-
mon on the west. They have large
fine set of claims, with tunnel nearly