Weekly Trinity journal., 1865-05-13
NUMBER Is.
A Good Thing ON Feet.

gentleman residing at GAINESVILLE, Ell Dorado
county, addressed communication, about the
9th of March, to Frank Wheeler, Assistant Post
master at Austin New J, in which he stated that
he bad in his possession some mining stock
which he wished to dispose of without crossing
the mountains. Not knowing whether it was
saleable not. he concluded he would address
Wheeler for information. He said he had twen-
ty-fve feet in the Narragansett ledge, Reese River
district and twenty-five feet in the Lander Chief
lode and he made the proposition that if Wheeler
could make sale of the stock he should have
one-half of the proceeds. In due time he re-
ceved the following reply
AUSTIN, Lander County, New,
April %, 1865. !
To -, GAINESVILLE, Calfornia-Dear Sir -
Your esteemed and appreciative favor OF Marche
I 9th to hand. and contents noted strict reg I'd
to the sociabilities amenities and courtesies of
every dav life would have prompted me TO have
attended sooner to your request. but ofncial BIZ
has so trenched upon my leisure that it has been
next to an impossbity to snatch a qudnfum SUI.
! of the " fleeing moment TO devote that care
and attention whirh the magnitude OF the inter-
ests involved would warrant.
From my long residence in and around Austin
and the Tovabee Range, my intimate relations
and associations with London and New York
tca pitaSts, an active and respected member of
the = Austin Stock and Exchange Board, am
emnentlv qualified and fitted for the responsible
business which you are pleased to have commit
ted to my care and beg to assure you that
/ your confidence is not misplaced, and whatever
=, sum, or sums of coin, or plethoric packages OF
greenbacks is cOlated from the sales shall he d.
vided equally between us to swell our depleted
Golfers. know the q Narragansett, and know
\ Sl ,..sl,
management could Il would advise appointing
Secretary in San Francisco) be made to sink an
indefinite sum of money, and take first rank
among the biggest bilks this side of Silver City.
She is what is termed in mining parlance
- Spyglass Location and is supposed to hold
forth somewhere on Lander Hill, and in direct
/ line with the Gould Curry. in Virginia, which
! is considerably over average mine, and will
eventually be dividend paying institution,
contamination devoutly prayed for by poor but
worthy shareholders.
| have yet made signal failures in my explo-
ratons in search of reliable gentleman who
had had the good fortune to place his foot upon
the Narragansett, and in eXultant tones eXclaim,
- am here - though tradition has il that Dave
Buell. and DR.. Neatch, both eminent gentlemen,
Dave Is eminent tor getting his prophetic bung
extracted while running for Governor the
Copperhead ticket, and Veatch for getting 81
200 assay out Of grindstone), had not only seen
(
running il by transit Greenwich time) through
the fiourisbing towns of Jacobsville and Mount
Airy. But as Dave and the Doctor are both in
New York developing our immense mineral re-
sources, and are visible to US - Toyabeeans.'
| should not advise your putting too much cred
in the report.
offered the - Narragansett' at the hrst meet
ing of the Board Monday for $50 per foot.
and was bid an undivided interest in thirteen
wood ranches in Amador-papers at my expense.
had it called again on Tuesday, and sold ten
feet on thirty days for mill site on Big Smoky,
with the reservation and privilege of damming
the site or the claim at the option of either party.
The remaining fifteen feet is disposed of TO Geo.
B. Ellery. al private sale, for and in considera-
ton of corner lot in the fourishing and grow
ing town of Clifton-Elery assuring on his
honor as poker PLAYER that the value Of the lot
would go up like balloon in less than thirty
consecutive days.
have seen map OF that aspiring town and
made minute examination of its contents. IL
is work of rare ability. and possesses merits Of
the very highest order. If not done by one Of
the old masters then have we Raphael or a
Rembrandt in our midst and we should give
thanks TO Allah. The lot four lot) as for map,
is pleasantly and eligibly situated in block FIVE,
lot five. at the intersection of Broadway and
Beverly Pl 'ce, in close proximity to the First
National Bank and the Anatomical Museum.
The steamboat landing and railroad depot are
contiguous to the property, and will of neces-
sity greatly en- ance its value. 1t is generally
credited among the knowing ones that General
Lee is on his way here with hundred-stamp
mill, which he intends setting up on an adjoining
lot. and he is also bringing large batch of the
" Johnnes" with him to run the machine You
will Mt once perceive that this addition to the
population will not in the least detract from the
tariff attached to lot five in block ditto.
As wood is somewhat scarce and bearsa somc-
what healthy figure, il is the intention of the
General to engage the invaluable services Of
those eminent gentlemen-Howell Cobb and Wig
fall--to =. fire the Southern heart" of his opera
tives, which fire is to be used as motive power
to generate steam in sufficient quantities to dis
pense entirely with either wood. coal or petrole-
um-all of which must eventually rebound TO
our joint interests
But fear am getting prolix and wearIsome,
and having holy horror Of boring my iriends,
will soon write fms to this communication.
Sincerely trusting that the God OF good-payIng
mines will smile propitiously upon you and (
YOURS me and mine, US and ours, beg TO sub
scribe myself, yours, etc.,
Frank WHEELER, Assistant postmaster,
Austin Reese River.
P.S.-Strong symptoms of petroleum on Lot
Five. = W.
r.. Rrersass NAV who nuts his sign in the