The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-03-24
VIRGINIA CITY ITEMS.


AN exceedingly rich ledge of auriferous
iu"rA mas been discovered, near what is
known as German Bar, Alder Gnlcb -
otner named the " Erebus " has been fonnd
al hot Springs in which gold can be dis
covered scattered through the quartz.
FORK, on foot, sells, in this part of the
world, at very good price, and as tho ;tar,
is not quoted in our market report we oiva
IL Tor the>benefit of our friends in the States
specimen of the porcne tribe, with but
slA weeks practice in gruntipg, sells at sac:
one Wh'ch has endured the entire absence of
nunan sympathy for two and one half months.
irCenes Soo; and one that has suffered the
lils that flesh is heir to till full grown. if of
the feminine gender, is worth $i0O.
Two men, j. R. Hawley, of Gold Hill. Ne
o" o"aa' ana NJ W. Ferry, from Missouri, went
out on hunting expedition in the YeIIow.
stone country, in November last. Portions
OF their saddles, and rife with the brass
mounting taken ont, were found, under cir
substances unr.istakably pointing to the
noole red men as the perpetrators of the
murger. The bodies have not vet been
iouhu. IL is supposed that they were killed
aoout sh the ist of berthe day on which
they were last seen. "A-'"
W. w. II. cope, who runs l5-stamp steam
custom mill, in Hot Spring District, belong.
hns lug 70 .ne hrm of Raglan, Cope & Napton.
drought into our Office mass of reto, ted
gon, weighing $2,767, being the product of
I1 Tue "een t, crushing of quartz from the Pony
,Uae ms is the largest lump of mill gold |
mill is distant from this civ abont thi,.,'
miles, by the trail, and lies nearly due nor,b
OF us. Besides the Pony lode, there has
oeeh quartz crushed out of the veins mon,
I'ohed below the figures indicating the weld
/, per ton, by ordinary mil process Cotopaxi.
SaO SaO GOD H'll, $50 Esop, $40 Orc Fino'
S3o Sebastopol. $25 Buena Vista Sas,
toco TEMPO, $35; Cleopatra, S3Oc Mail
anthony, $35; Muy Rica, $25; Meeatberinm
93o; Brooklyn, $40 This is yerv enconran
lngi considering that none of these lodes are
sunh upon to any great depth many of the
6 urnS are from>mere surface quartz.
HELENA ITEMS.
iot, twenty five feet front, on Main street
eeiow s' waterbury wa & Perkins sold, this week
on the trail from Uncle Johnnv,s cnIoh
10 Diamond City, an unfortunate man whose
i".ne Is unknown, was found frozen to death
A few days since. ''-'" " uea'n
Ihere are in the Helena HospitaI ton no
lehts, every one Of them frozen in soma nar,
u tne oody or limbs. A few operations have
'eeh performed but the poor fellows will
&c ,o''unate II they are not crippled for life.
Two men, Michael Mcdonnell and Thomas
HeIienan, engaged in drifting in Confederate
'uich, at depth of forty feet, and at a d;so
ahee a OF seventy feet from the entrance. lost
re'r r. ilves oy the caving of their work. Onlv R
l'el 'Wenty-four hours of ceaseless and en-.
tSetic laDor, were their lifeless hod;as no
overed. '' oou'es re-
. un sunday, February ls b, the body of a
ian u, was wa brought into town. and recoSnized
Phlllip Farley, of Silver Creek. The nnSo 4
ne cheek and an ear were eaten off bv b;rSs
az mice, which greatly disfguered the boav
hu IL was difficult for his friends to recog'
!ze = MN. Large holes were also made n "
Is oody' it is supposed, by mice.