, 1866-10-12
RoI,e CIV correspoondence.

eight or ten inches of snow, for two months,
too large a supply of that article, but it is
beneficial aud preferable to no snow at all;
in this altitude where we must have some
frost. The leading crops here now are barr
ley, oats, corn, vegetables of all kinds, in-
cIuding eggplant and tomato, and of fruits;
melons are most abundant and raise Them
selves. They produce so largely that every
where bushels have been left to rot or thrown
to the hogs. The thermometer is about as
follows: 4th of July, l100, aud during the
month, was at P. NJ, generally 1902 Fab;
September, averaged at 2 p. NJ, $40, highest,
on 18th, 90; lowest on 22d, 640; 21st, first
frost, 25th killed tomato vines; cloudy days
2 windy and 2 shOwery. August averaged,
at 2 p. NJ, go Fab; warmest was August
lst 1O7; lowest, Aug. 3lst, 6S; 2 days cloudy,
showery, rain and l windy. Since Sept
3D. with one exception, this is the coolest
day we have had at P NJ. Thermometer
stood at TAO.
Grape vines bore little this season, and
do WE'LL Small fruits, such as currants &C.,
produce so abundanlIy that there are more
fruit than leaves. Apples thrive well, in fact
Mr.. ,Walling says that the difficulty is to
start fruit and after that they do better than
below
The different PRICES for produce are as
follows: Barley and oats, 5 cents; wheat a!
cts corn, 5 cents; hay, S25 delivered in town;
potatoes, ? cents; onions, 5 cents, and other
things in proportion. Sorghum is being raised
in small quantities and appears to do WE'LL
News from Alturas county furnishes the
following: Mr.. Green, Supt. of the Wadding.
ham G. & S. NJ. Co., has returned from
Salt Lake with supplies of money for repairs
and to set the mill going. Mr. Benson; of
the Wide West mill, has gone to Rocky Bar
with the money to pay of the indebte lness
of that company. The Idaho Co. have soar.
ranged their internal affairs as to get under
way again. The Pittsburg Co. have new
representative, and their mill is to be started
shortly. The New York & Idaho Co.'S mill
is to be soM under sheriff sale on the 18th.
The lein amounts to $1,000, and the other
Indebtedness to about $4,000 more The
mill cannot be laid down at Rocky Bar for
that sum, and as it is splendid building
and everything new and in FIRST class re, ,,air,
with every apurtenanc1 necessary, and good
quartz lead at hand, it is the best chance
or an investment that mill men will get for
some time. Bad management at home has
done the job for that company. There is no
news of Mr. Travis of the Victor Company,
and probably their fine mill will also have to
be sold to satisfy demands against it.
At Yuba, the Deferes mill and the Libby
mill are fast approaching. completion, and
will shortly test the Yuba rock.
At Owyhee the failure of Moore & FOCUS
has made great slagnation, but the antics
OF Mr. lao in that neighbarhooI keep them
quite lively at times. There is but one plan
to get rid of the Iudilns, and that can't be
done by laying still. The Indians move about
two and half feet to soldiers one foot, in
fact 1t is like musquito buzsing around an
OK, great nuisance, but ught only by good
luck.
At Idaho City and throughout the Boise
Basin the miners have penetrated the appar-
ent bed rock and 6nd vast body of gravel
under it, with enough gold to payfor works
'ng and the bed rock itself on being tested is
found to contain gold; but John Chinaman has
got Idaho, so if We have got to keep the zee,
lestials," go in for making them work They
will be eventually used here, on farms, (provi>
ded they won't steal chickens) as cooks, (if
they learn that mouths we're not made for
jugs or pitchers) &c, &c, but all their bad
habits contracted in the celestial empireJ
must be Obliterated before they can be made
useful except to lay the Union Pacific Rail-
road.
SATURDAY.-Siuce writing yesterday, the
Rocky Bar express has arrived, and learn
that Mr.. Benson of the Wide West Com.
pany, has repudiated aud refused to pay all
debts contracted for said company by Mr. j.
Harris, the late acting and actual Superin>
tendent of the said company. l do not know
on what ground, but there is no doubt that
ME Harris was the superintendent in fact
aud Benson knew it and recognized the fact
and the company received the benefits Of his
contracts. Harris built the works, opened
the mines,, drew drafts which were paid on
account Of the company, aud ran the machine
generally. He left with Benson last sum,
mer aud now Benson comes back aud repu.
dates. Truly workmen laboring for Quartz