Nebraska advertiser., 1861-04-11

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GoLDFN CRY. March Is. 1861.
DEAR FuRNAs: Since my last, thing;
here have remained much the same,
Business still continues dull, and times
are exceedingly hard. Emigration, how.
ever, will give an impetus to trade which
will prove alike beneficial to all classes of
citizens. The opening of Spring will
also set the quartz mills in the various
districts running, and enable them to fur
nish their proportion of the circulating
medium. Last season, all the gold OBJ
tanned by them went East to liquidate
debts, contracted by the owners in the
purchase thereof, and consequently ev-
cry cent of money was drained from this
country and shipped to the States.
Some of the mills are now running and
doing well. Very many of them have
been digging artesian wells, in order TO
procure a sufficient and never-failing sup
ply of water; hut that difficulty has been
overcome, and the most of them in Ne
vada, Virginia, Graham. Russell, Mis-
souri,, and Gregory Clutches are paying
well.
In the Nevada GuIch, the Gunnell,
Burroughs, Bob Tail, Kansas and Fisk
Lodes are paying well-averaging 5000
to the cord of quartz. 1 see in a Den
yer paper an item Of one cord crushed
from the Bob Tail lode, which yielded
1929, so; and, if the editor has not been
misinformed, that is a very remarkable
lode. Two hundred dollars to the cord is
considered very rich.
l also clip from the same paper the
following items sent by a correspondent
in the mountains. They certainly speak
well for a bright future:
THE La Clede mills on North Clear
Creek has Just r%elorted S2,364 So from
seven cords of quartz. The quartz was
from the Cotton lode"
"a gentleman informs us that be just
had the pleasure of seeing u hundred
pounds of amalgum which had been OBJ
,aincd in one run of the Nebraska City
null. 1t was all washed and ready for
being ratorted. Amalgum in the mills
usually yields from 30 to SO per cent Of
retort gold, and this amount of amalgum
would amount to over Sc, 5000"
Since my last we have enjoyed in this
region a season of peace and quietule
and been enabled to take comfort with.
ourselves and neighbors. But on last
Tuesday a Mr.. Evans and an individual
called "Buckskin," got into a difficulty
from some cause unknown, and Mr..
Evans cut his opponent several times with
a knife. Bukskin then drew a pistol and
fired, the ball missing Evans and lodg-
ing in the heart of a colored man by the
name of Morris. / have been unable to
learn what disposition viii be made of the
murderer. What makes The case peculi-
arly hard, is the fact that Morris had but
fifteen minutes before drawn seventeen
dollars from his employer TO make the
last payment for his freedom.
The next day, a Mr.. Empstead and a
Mr.. johnson had some difficulty in re-
gard TO a ranch which the latter had sold
the former. and in the scufle Empsteai
shot johnson in the leg, the ball entering
just above the knee. Empstead was lined
$50 and costs.
The weather at present, as the old al
manacks say, is variable" A few days
of warm, balmy spring, then a day with
a slight drift of fine snow, and the next
morning clear, bright and pleasant.
Well. 1 have bored you long enough,
this time, and with a kind remembrance
to all old friends, / subscribe myself.
LEON.