The weekly Butte record., 1866-06-09
Butte Greek Creek respondencc-Spicy
letter frcm .Saginayv,'

POWELL 5 RANCH, (AD0Fe D0gtOT1,)
June 3, 1856.
BUTTE REcoRD.-If you consider me your valued
and very highly esteemed correspondent who writes
free gratis for nothing and without pay, you will
please to show all the indulgence you can when
make skps not placed in the bills. Ny last was
dated from Dogtown, and made up from notes taken
on the road as high up as the Chapparal House,
above Inksip. l make this explanation that my
/ good friends of the town of Dogs otherwise Ma
/ galia'-may not wax wrothy, and come down on
me for locating so much snow and hail upon their
/ "beautiful and handsomely laid out village-tho
I dout take back nary word of the rain and mush
account. That's all true as preaching. Since that
writing, the weather has cast off her dark mantle,
and donned one of varegated colors, far more con
sonant with ones 'pheelink I have been ena-
bled to get out and stir around, and by lodging
occasional showers, to keep dry-outwardly- y-inter-
naily am dry most of the time. l dare not drink
the article sold over the country, and known as
,chisky tried it once, Mr.. RECORD. Ii won't do.
1t is better for me to chew gum-whieh is plenty
and further-it is fire.. Thus I'll save my bits and
stomach too.
In the course of my prospecting, fell in with an
Orovillian. He said he purchased hides, taow,
peltry, etc. To my inquiry for news from below
he replied-nothine. All of my senses fell at the
word. I.expected to bear of fioods-anticipated
shorts generally, and all sorts of i'll things,
queut upon so much rain and at such season.
walked on beside this gentleman about four miles,
when bade him adeu and pleasant journey
As soon as he was out of sight, put up my notice
a big yellow pine gum tree, claiming oil the
gum pine from this point to a certain other like
pine tree, that had marked just before he came up
with me. included all the gum pine timber tor
half mile on each side of the road betwixt these
two notices You see it runs in my mind that
ny folks may be glad to get gum to chew and if
the moon changes the weather into another season
of such nastiness as she did on the 2lst of May
last, am tolerably certain. that III have gum
enough, if run short of regular grub.
Pretty soon l shall tell you about the quartz
leiges in this region. far as am able to judge,
this is an interest that will surprise many people
ere long, as the indications and specimen rocks
have NE. If further developments shall equal
present ones, there will be some good things in
Butte, as well as other counties We wot OF. l IN
lerstanu the owners of the West Branch of Butte,
(above the precinct known as the Forks of Butte)
are erecting a water wheel and power to drive two
arastras and will proceed to test the quality cf their
rock as soon as possible. 1t from this ledge
that fifty pounds OF rock yielded 500. The ledge is
said to be four feet wide-clearly deiined-solid in
the centre, and decomposed more or less on the
sides. There is one great element in this district,
viz: U-ater po,cer. Through the various bitches
interacing the ridges between Big Butte and West
Branch of Feather river, power may be had sufi-
cent tor any number of mills and at cost to each
of no greater sum than the interest on the cost,
construction aud monthly care, wear and tear, &C.,
of steam power In other words, company with
a capital of IS 600, can accomplish with .cater
po,cer what it would require 900 to do with
steam These considerations alone viii sooner or
later induce men and capital to embark in the
quartz business
Mr. Editor, If this is not random letter it ought
to be- for it has been rcrt in sundry places. In my
next viii tell what have seen. and came TO see
as jog on up to the summit of the Sierras.
Yours. &c, SAGINAW.