Daily national Democrat., 1860-08-15

HENNEss Pass RAILROAD SURvEY.-S. G..
Elliott, county surveyor of Placer, has been
making a wagon road survey from Dutch
Flat, Placer county, through the Truckee
Pass, as far rs Sardine Valley, II miles to the
east Of the Summit. He has also examined
the route, incidentally, with reference to its
advantages for railroad, and finds it much
more favorable than he had expected
lie ascertained the altitude of the Pass to
be $500 feet, considerable less than If has
heretofore been set down on the maps, and
952 feet less than the Western, and 1885 less
than the Eastern Summit by the Placeryille
| route
Many of the citizens of the county have ex.
! pressed desire that Mr. Elliott should make
preliminary railroad survey, for an extern
sion OF the contemplated road from Auburn
to Nevada over tn mountains, by way ofthe
| Henness Pass.
Another survey is also proposed from Ma
rysvile, via San Juan-both of which, as well
as the one which he has just passed over
from Auburn, via Dutch Flat, and the old
Iruckee emigrant route, will occupy the same
line from near the Summit, eastward.
MIR. &. will make the preliminary survey
for all three of these routes for the sum OF
$500; and will also issue in pamphlet forin
his reports of the same, with maps and esti-
mates. The surveys could not be made for
this sum, but for the fact that the residents
along the proposed lines of survey, most in
terested in the same, have agreed to furnish
assistance in men, dc, as a free contribution.
Several of the citizens of Dutch Flat have al
ready supplied instruments.
The contemplated surveys excite consdera
ble interest in the several localities through
which they pass. Mr.. Elliott has proved his
capacity for the work by his recent survey
from Auburn to Nevada.
lhese surveys are very important from the
fact that they could not fail to establish in q
definite manner, not only the practicability
of the Henness Pass for a railway, but also
its decided superiority in natural advantages
over any route yet explored If a praetica
BILE route were surveyed across the Sierra
Nevada, and carefully prepared plot of the
same, laid before Congres, either that body,
or some organized body of capitalists would
prompt measures for the construction of a
work, which it is admitted on all sides is so
greatly needed.-NeVdda National, Sdtur{au
BONES FoUND DEEP IN THE EARTH-The
Plumas Standard of the 1lth inst, has the
following:
We have been presented with piece of
bone taken from the "Center Shot claim of
Messrs. Turner d Kelly on Poorman's Creek,
in this county. They have freqently found
fragments of bones in running their tunnel,
but they were too much decayed to be of
much use as indicators of the species to
which they might have belonged, but this
one is perfectly sound, and is thought sug-
gestive of the days "when Adam delved and
Eve Span" The bone measures two feet two
inches in length +; diameter, in largest place,
s inches-in smallest place, inehes and is
shaped very much like the lower leg bone of
an OK, being larger at the ends than in the
middle. 1t was taken out at a depth of los
feet from the surface and 900 feet from the
mouth of the tunnel, and if the modern doc .
trine of geology be correct, it is evidently a
relic of the pre-Adamte world.