The Shasta courier., 1864-01-16
SHASTA COURIER.
Something about Our County.
SHASTA, January IA, 1864.

SHASTA, January Ia, 1864.
Ed. COURIER go The town is dull-gone
in!' is the universal cry of unthinking per-
sons. 1.-THE county will be depopulatei in
the spring." says old croaker, and his whele
family join in the fearful groan. Now if
this is so, we ought to be prepared for the
sudden caving I'M Of what was looked upon
heretofore as rather a good thing. Why is
everybody going away and where is every
body going? and what is everybody going to
do when they get there? These are very Sc
rious questions. and should be well consid-
cred by everybody" before leaving COM
Portable homes for dead things" among the
SHOWS of Idaho, or among the Lizards and
horned frogs of Humboldt, or the mixed
water, mixed comforts, mixed society, and
mixed whisky of Washoe.
just let me say to all of you-and it is the
candid opinion Of one who travelled for Gold
Lake, one who has slept on the mountain
tops amidst its SHOWS, and in the valleys ad
jacent, and on the deserts where rarmigts,
not rery dangerous, but very loathsome, do
abound, and where it was only few miles
further to some g deep hole" spring, where
alkal water, we'll mixed with dead carcasses
could be had for nothing but the straining it
through your teeth-all these things l have
enjoyed without making a "red," and l
know lots of good men who have had the
same experiences.
Now when man leaves Shasta AMI Trim
ity counties in pursuit of good mining
country, he deserves Just about as much
credit for shrewdness as the man got who
shipped coal to Newcastle for market. Ex-
perience, science and all nature proclaims
abundant, with better facilities for getting at
it, than is even represented in way off,
places.
Now let us see what We have got ip the
way of quartz mining Near Middletown is
an old mill, recently recuperated for pros
pecting purposes. From Lower Springs. 2
miles from Shasta one hundred tons Of rock
were hauled distence of five or six miles,
by teams hired for the purpose the work.
as natural consequence. all being done in
a manner not the most economical, and yet
such returns were had as to make good pay
the result From Clear Greek Jollie & Co
have had fifty tons crushed, with large pay
ing results At French Guch, two mills
are running and paying and if as good rock
lay fifty miles from Reese River district, ey-
cry mill in that district would be ON its way
from that point to it in less than week.
Then, again, if you want silver, go to Pitts
burg and Little Cow Creek districts, and you
may find it :. sticking OUT on every hand.
Better average assays are had in those places
than in any other. Then why throw our
heads ip the air and snuff the far off swaets,
when we have better thing just under our
noses? Why not spend the money that is
necessary to carry us away, in making our
homes comfortable, and in developing the
wealth under our feet?
Let body of responsible business men
organize and incorporate = company with
capital stock of S25 900, in shares of SO, and
build a ten stamp mi in Shasta, to do cus-
tom work, and, my word fer it. more will
have been done for the advancement of Shas
ia town and county than forty railroads could
accomplish, and much will have been done
to stop the stampede to places afar off. ]
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