Daily national Democrat., 1861-06-01
nallp slatlOnal Democrat.
letter from Jamison City.
JAMIsoN CITY, May 29tl

JAMlSON CIIf, MAY Zoth.
,,on DEMOCRAT; "A few weeks after the
,r,.h;roton Co. had taken up their claims,
.o4ber company. consisting of forty-three
aorsons, located some ground and began to
p Mills working under the name and
>,.Io If Rough and Ready Co. Beginning a
f,n weeks later in the season, they had the
,.ontaoe of that much experience of the
"a bovs. They also put up a chute of about
.;,hteen hundred feet in length, constructing
:. of sawed lumber, for they were prudent
.uo,ob to build good saw mill at first,
while the older company sawed all the lum-
,.r reouisite with whip saws. erecting their
.,r min after their demand for lumber was
over The Rough and Ready Co. also erect
a sunerb reduction mill containing twelve
stamps, and subsequently, put up five arastras,
1n;ren bva second water wheel, and substi-
.rtoda double track railroad for the chute
put like the Washington lode, their rock
obounded in sulphurets, making it difficult to
work successfully. AS they went further
into the ledge, however. the sulphurets gave
out and unfortunately for the company, the
gold disappeared with the sulphurets, and
like 76, everything has fallen to decay.
Soon after the Rough and Ready, the Nam
moth Co., consisting of about seventy mem
hers commenced operations. They located
upon what in Washoe would be called the
northern extension, and erecting a mill, took
ont for while some excellent rock but on
the following year, the stockholders, by some
species of financial legerdeman, ceased to be
interested in it. and it passed into ether
hands, who worked it for a season, and eff
fected sale of it to the ,prcsent proprietors,
who have worked it ever since.
The Mammoth mill, as it stands at present,
consists of a battery of twelve seven hum
dred pound rotary stamps, crushing wet, and
smaller battery of dry stamps, crushing for
four pair of granite Chill wheels, and one
arastra. The stamps crush about eighteen
tons per day. and the wheels about five more.
The Mammoth lode is situated on the
mountain at much lower elevation than either
vi LuC ulueIoJ anu tHS iOSh 10 CJHNt ti lipii
the mine to the mill in kind of nondescript
vehicle, which is the invention of one of the
propretors and superintendent, Mr. Fraugh
1t consists of two small sized wheels, sur
that Of common tunnel ear, but having its
back end shod with steel and running sled
fashion upon the ground. The road is steep
and dragging in that manner supercedeJ the
use of the break and lock chain. After dis
charging the contents the body is shifted for
ward and secured to the tongue, so that it
clears the ground and is easily drawn up the
hill again. In that manner one pair of mules
will deliver ton and half at load, and
make four trips per day.
The Mammoth Company have run several
tunnels so as to intersect their lode at
greater depth than any other upon the noun.
tain, and are now taking out excellent rock.
No company in this neighborhood is more
deserving of success, for they have exhibited
steady perseverance in the face Of every
difficulty.
These letters, poor enough at best, have
become more desultory and tedious of late
They would have possessed more interest it
had made the trip to the Humboldt coun
Try, as expected one time to have. Having
described all the quartz operations in this
section, will in my next give you a discrip-
ton of the placer diggings upon the creek,
including brief sketch of Jamison City, and
then laying down then, "Aloth7 will exer
else his muscles for the remainder of the
summer with those delicate Instruments of
art" the sledge hammer, drill and Gro " bar
Although whenever anything extra turns up
lie will consider himself in duty bound to
make a note of it, and report accordingly
At present there is nothing new to relate, un-
less in the matter of accidents. One Of our
citizens goa caved on by q nest of boulders,
while working in narrow cut, bat was lib-
Grated after couple of hours confinement,
considerably bruised, but with no bones
broken. Another Of oar citizens land | be-
lieve the only jeff Davis man in town. while
fishing caught his hook in tree, and went
up to cast it loose, cut off the limb while sit
ting on the outside of the kerf and as con-
sequence "seceshed" frcm the tree, getting
tall of about thirty-six feet, and bruising him,
eef up almost as bad as the jeff Davis army
will get bruised if they do not keep at a safe
distance from the Border.
Yours ALLIoTK.