The hydraulic press., 1860-08-11
THE STATE.

| TRINITY.-The Journal says that the census
eof the whole northern and southwestern portion
of the county has been completed, and presumes
sthat the entire population of the county will not
go much over 5000. MURDER.-The Jour-
nal is informed of the probable murder of an un-
known man at the Scott Mountain House on
Tuesday night. The man was shot through the
bowels, and man named Jack Hall is said to be
the perpetrator of the deed. ...RIcH CLIM-
Mr.. G. B. Salisbury sold his interest Zone half
in the Victory claia, On the hill above the North
Fork, for $3, 900. Nearly $l2, ,000-the result of
last winter. :. SHASTA AND YREKA- -ReAD.-
The road over Scott's Mountain will be compile
I>ted and stages running by the 18th Sept. Mr..
Haworth has gone north for the purpose Of
stocking the road between Jacksonville and
i Portland, Oregon. That done, and daily stages
the Columbia river. The line will be ansimport-
ant one to the people of Oregon, furnishing them
with daily instead of semi-monthly mail, as at
present.. THE total value of property assessed
this year in Trinity county, will reach 81 300 900,
if not more-showing an increase over last years
assessment of over 100000.
HuMBoLDT-The Times says that at Eureka,
at the late eclipse, the SUMS disc was entirely oh
scured for two days.. Crops in Hoopa Valley
are represented to be better than for several
years past. Farmers are harvesting their grain.
| Squire James has field Of wheat which the
Times thinks will average serenty-fve bushels
to the acre. David Masten has one wheat field
of sixty L. b. Burson announces him
self as candidate for reelection to the Assem-
bly,.
BUTTE.-The Record of the 4th inst, says that
the health of the residents of Oroyille has been
as good as that of the residents of any other
section of California, this season. There have
been but two or three cases of chills and fever
The Record asks its exchanges, who, for the past
ever person in Oroville had chill, to notice
now that thetown is healthy, and that doctors are
only kept there to be serviceable in of acci-
dents, by giving them Office. e.....-CAPE CLAIM
The head dam of this river claimiis being rap
idly constructed. The claim will be in readiness
for working by the latter part of the present
month, when some 200 hands will be EMPLOYED
in it.. STRUCK IT.-On Thursday Wells & Co.
who have sunk Shaft on the Bluffsto the depth
of forty feet, struck dirt which pays from ST to
81 80 to the pan.... FATAL FALL.-A young
man by the name of Richard Harrison, while re-
turning from fishing excursion on Willow
Creek, on Sunday last, fell from bluff one hun
dred and fifty feet high and was dashed to pieces
on the rocks below. The deceased was from the
scity of New York.-Democrat.
.SHAsTA.-The entire population of Shasta
county, by the recent census, will fall short of
fivesthousa1rd, and that of the town will be but
little over eight hundred. - Major p. B. Read
ing, of Shasta, was recently thrown from his
buggy, and had two of his ribs fractured.
>SIsKIYou.-This weeks Yreka Union has the
following items:-The population of this county,
Judging from the list at present of the agents,
cannot fall far short of ten thousand. a man
named j. Otterstream, Swede, was drowned on
the 10Th ult, while crossing klamath river near
Fort Golf. lon the night of the 2lst ult., at
Summerville, on Salmon river, Aaron w. Short
was killed by falling into mining claim.
AMADoR.-The Amador, (Jackson) Ledger of
the 4th, has the following items of news.--A few
evenings since Miss Phelps, when riding near
Jackson, fell from her horse and broke her collar
bone. ..On Saturday and Sunday last, ten
teams of six oxen each, attached to large wagons
LOADED with merchandise, passed through jack
son for Washoe.--..O On Monday last, teamster
employed at Hayward's quartz mills, near Sut-
ter, died fromthe effects of heat. =. One of the
editors of the Ledger has been attending Meth
odist quarterly meeting near jackson. He says
that good many hard cases were converted
That's Wright. .QUARTz DIscoyERY.-Untl
recently no valuable discoveries of gold bearing
quartz have been made in Fiddletown An ex-
citement prevails there now in consequence of
the discovery of valuable vein by Phelps &
Palmer. The vein varies from mine to twelve
inches in width and nine and one half ounces of
rock, which was obtainedten feet below the surf
Welded oil