The Placer herald., 1866-01-13
Great Gold Discovery.
The Richest Deposit Known in the His.
tory of the WOrld-.-TrcmendOus Excite.
ment in Consequence.

ment In consequence.
The Virginia Union of the 2Slh Decem.
ber says: Colonel lnslee of st. Joseph, now
in Montana Territory. in letter to his fam
ilv. incloses the following extract from the
Virginia City (Montana) Post Of November
4th relative to some newly discovered mines,
which hid fair to surpass in richness any
thing heretofore known in the world. Col.
lnslee writes that he has seen some speci,
mems of ,he quartz from these mines which
seemed to be "nearly solid gold" Here is
the extract from the Post:
Upon the arrival of the Helena stage,
last Friday morning. the people Of Virginia
City were thrown into gold excitement,
before which all former excitement must
pale. The facts as we get them from ap,
parently authenticated sources, are briefly AS
follows:
"Mr. Brown, German or Norwegian, and
one Of the original discoverers Of the cele-
brated Gould Il Curry lode, of Nevada, and
afterwards of Brown lode, in Nelson Gnlch
this. Territory, was engaged sinking a shaft
on the Uncle Sam lode, about the head Of
! Dry Gulch, some four miles from Helena.
He had sunk some twenty feet, wi en- the in
dications not suiting him, he concluded to
change his course by drifting up hill from
the bottom Of his shaft. lie had advanced
in this direction about ten feet when he
reached a gold deposit, which in richness
and extent has perhaps no parallel in Il e
history Of gold mining Gold in almost
solid masses, glittered before his bewiIdered
vision. For two weeks longer, unknown to
Others, he tunnellel into the golden wall
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several gnnny sacks. literally filled with
precious metal, when longer secrecy became
impractcahle. from the very extent Of his
unexpected wealth. and Mr.. Brown proceed
e'l to record and secure his prol erty, when
the public were informed of the great dis
coverv. 1t is sad that he keeps strong
guard, night and day, over his seemingly in.
comparable wealth. while he himself, unas-
sisted, delves into the golden walls around
him and continues multiplying his sacks OF
precious ure
''One person who was admitted into Mr.
Browns drift. stated that it presented
srsne of veal b more akin to picture of
the imagination that actually Gold! goldI
gold! met the view on every side-above, be
low and around and reflected back its rich
hues in the glare of the candle, as If this
suherranean vault had been hewn out Of a
solid ledge of the yellow metal
"This gold is found in we'll defined ledge.
fully five feet in width. The gold vein is
three feet wide-three- -four,hs Of the entire
substance therein being pure gold; the re-
mainder mainly bsmuth. On each side of
this vein, there is a easing of one f'ot Of
quartz, which will assay from S4OO to 50 900
to the ton. The very wall rock is rich
Specimens can be seen at the City Book
Store.
"WhethAr this is, to use familiar mining
terms, blow out or a pocket we are
neither prepared to admit or deny. But be
it either, millions are lying around loose
We can scarcely realize that this is disiinc,
continuous ledge, as in that ease, so vast an
amount of gold would eff CT The standard Of
gold value throughout the commercial world
But our informant, whom we know to be u
man of reliability, assures us that distinct
ledge has been traced fully seventy five feet"
CoTTON-The Los Angeles NeaUs, saws:
We made visit TO the cotton field of NJ
Keller, Esq in this city few days ago, and
were astonished to see the fine crop of cotton
there produced Mr.. Keller had one hun,
dred and eighteen acres of cotton under cu.
tivalion. and although it was planted under
adverse circumstances; the first plan ting fail
ing to come up at all, owing 10 the seed be.
ing bad Thus causing the crop to be much
later than it would have been. had the seed
been Of good quality in the first instance:
to say nothing Of other difficulties that pre-
sented themselves which are now, we are
happy to say. entirely overcome. We saw
large quantity Of cotton already picked,
which is equal if not superior to any upland
cotton we ever saw in the South. Mr.. Kel
Ter has established two things 10y his expert.
mens in cotton, namely: that a good quail
i,y of cotton can be raised in this country.
and that the requisite amount of labor can
he had for prices that will allow the planter
large profit, Mr. Keller has also made
some experiments as to the classes Of cotton
most suited to the climate.
VALUABLE If TRUE.-A citizen Of this place
tells MS that be has remedy for the Piles
which seems to us worthy Of being put in
print. lie saws he has cured many cases of
that troublesome disease-and AS the remedy
is simple we insert il for the afflicted: Take
Of Sulphur, ground Cinnamon, and Rhubarh.
equal parts Mix them we'll. Take one tea
spoonful mixed AS paste, three times dav,
half an hour before meals. As the remedy
commences action there will be a pain in he
bowels. Then one ea>po"nfu once a dav
for few days, will complete the cure. Try
it, ye afflicted. Merced Herald.
New ROAD There is considerable talk Of
new railroad being built from the new town
Of Newport, on the Sacramento river, to Fol.
som. In anticipation of the road being
shortly commenced, lots, we are informed in
the new town are in active demand, and
numerous sales are reported to have been
lately made. Newport may, possible, be
good sized city much quicker than great
many people anticipate.