The weekly Butte record., 1861-10-12
Mining Operation.

The well known and valuable mining claims
Of Messrs. Faulkner & Dyer, situated on the
bar opposite town, are now being successfully
worked, and, on account of the magnitude and
symmetry of the operations, merit passing
notice from US.
These claims have been successfully worked
during the low water of the late Summer and
Fall months for the last seven years. The
suggestions of experience have been put into
practice until the whole operation has become
a model of neatness, symmetry and efficiency.
The water for washing the dirt and pumping
the seepage water from the claims, is raised
from the river by two large wheels with lifting
buckets attached, placed in and driven by the
current of the river. Small fumes, several
hundred feet iu length, conduct the water from
these wheels to the sluices and over-shot pump
ing wheels III the claims. The loose and non
paying dirt, of which there is about ten or
twelve feet on top which has to be stripped
off and thrown aside, and also the pay dirt
tom of the claims to the sluces on the river
bank, is all moved by horsepower railroad
cars. The works, conducted day and night,
employ about sixty men and eight head of
horses and mules. The shortness Of the season
during which these claims can be worked, the
immense cost for labor and material, and the
thousands of dollars necessarily expended each
year, in re-opening them, requires the mining
experience, sound judgment and proverbial en-
ergy Of the proprietors to successfully over
come. We trust that, while the bank of dirt
lasts, which will be many years, it will never
suspend payment, or discount the expense of
withdrawing the deposites therefrom.
TROUBLES OF UNION MEN IN KENTUCKY AND
TExNEssEE-T Louisville (Ky.) Journal
says:
We stated q short time ago that two young
men, named Busby and Harp arrived in this
city from Hickman county, Kentucky, having
been driven from their homes by the Secession
lists of Southern Kentucky and Tennessee
Three large families, numbering fully twenty
five souls arrived from the same vicinity and
stopped at the Oyler House, on Market street.
The heads of the families were John Boswell,
John Busby and William Harp. Their condi-
ton is really deporable. They were forced to
leave their farms at few hours notice leaving
their crops and household goods at the mercy
of the heartless rebels They travelled with
the aged, and nfrnl, and youthful, and tender
members of their families from Hickman county
in wagons, and encountered many hardshps.
They inform US that fully fifty families in
Hickman and Ballard Counties have been
forced to leave their homes and to abandon
their crops and nearly all they possessed in the
world, their oflense being that they entertained
Union Sentiments.
a citizen of Danville Kentucky, makes the
following statement
On Monday, August 19th two hundred and
forty fugitives from East Tennessee, men driven
from their homes, were fed in the Seminary
yard in that town. Some of them were elderly
men and some young, and all had been com
PEELED to abandon their families, and were ILL.,
clad, almost barefoot, weary and hungry
Their situation was indeed deplorable. Seve
raj hundred more were expected to arrive The
whole of the two hundred and forty fugitives
enlisted in the United States service at Camp
Robinson.