Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-12-05
FROM HUMBOLDT.
UsIosvlllr, Nov. 80, 1867.

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U~SIoNvILLR. Nov. 80, 1867.
EDITOR NEWS: / have been trying for
two weeks to pick up items enough to
make q decent letter, but have. given it
up. The people out here arc all busily
employed developing their mines and
have no time to get into muses., out
and shoot, or even make love to some
body's wife. The country is too quiet
to make the path of the I" special" at
all smooth.
District Court sets next week, and if
there is not some fun worth reporting
I'm going to stop these letters. We
have one good murder case for trial,
with a fair chance for hanging. at the
other end. Won't that be jollyY l
haven't asked Sheriff Woodwork how
he proposes to do the job, or where he
proposes to get timber big enough 70
build a swing. The fellow is not COZ
yicted vet, but l can't help thinking
what a time it will be If he should hap
peu to be hung. If Judge Berry sends
him to Slingerland's Hotel, I'll never
forgive him for cheating me out OF the
chance to distinguish myself as q re-
porter. If I could only get o permit to
write out the conyict's last speech, my
pile would be made. I'll have to see
Woodwork about that too.
ARIZONA.
Thursday I visited this mine and was
astonished and highly pleased with the
improvements in the lode since my last
visit. The vein is now nearly five feet
wide, with as pretty walls as you eyer
saw, and we'll filled with mineral. The
rock continues to improve in quantity
as we'll as quality, and shall be sur.
prised if the next clean up at the mill
does not work one hundred dollars per
ton, pretty close. Gov. Fall has been
fixing up the old milla little, to run un-
til another can BIO erected.
PERU.
This is one of the Oldest locations in
this district. But very little has been
done on it for the past two years. There
is o six foot vein, showing good milling
ore all the way down q shaft sixty feel
deep. Col. Evans is now running O
tunnel for the lode, and everything look:
as though the Peru would be added tc
our list of bullion producing mines.
I'll run.
From Gold Run come cheering re-
ports of very new development adding
to the riches Of the Gold Runners. The
lodes are getting better and better q:
they 60 down, and new ones are being
discovered. very much doubt abou'
the ores being =" milling rock" There
is a large per cent. of lead, and thu
amount increases as depth is attained
and the silver increases with it. Thes'
two metals cannot be separated by thu
ordinary mill process, and the soone'
the owners of mines of this characte,
come to this conclusion, the better i
will be for themselves and the country
This will not detract from the value o
the mines ut Gold Run and Battl'
Mountain, for they are near the line o
the Pacific Railroad. This brings MI
to the subject OF
RAILROAD POLICY.
The question of what will be the pol
icy of the G. P. R. R., is already tn
subject of anxious inquiry among Gu
people. Are the mines along the lin
of the road to be benefited by its con
struction, as other mines have in tn
West, or are simply to be made tributa
ries to the stream Of wealth that pour
into its Golfers? If the Managers Of tn
road pursue q liberal policy, and pu
freight at only such prices as will pay
fair profit, Humboldt county alone, can
in five years, furnish business enough
for a single track. Millions Of tons o
ore that cannot he worked in thi
county for want of fuel, worth from
sixty to one hundred and sixty dollar
per ton, can and will be produced If
fair profit can be made on the cost o
production, aud this will depend on tn
price of transportation over the O. P
r. R. If the policy pursued in Cali
fornia of putting prices just low enougI
to run off teams, is rc-enacted in thi
OIhlCy luC Aouu hey vs.
where it is. Let tho people see to it
that u members of the National Leg
islature, in the future, are in no wa.
the property of the railroad company
You know that l have been an earnes
friend for the road, at times when the.
were pressed to the wall, but | do no
intend to support them in the cruel pol
icy they are now pursuing.
Thanksgiving day was celebrated b.
a dinner at the Exchange Hotel, t
which the male portion of the town wer
invited. Guess they didn't come; oil
mol Roastpig and wild duck cooked t,
o turn, and presided over by the prett.
wife of o. K, u landlord. Go wher
you choose, you can't choose a fine
landlord and landlady, than Mr.. ant
Mrs. o. X. Stanley or find q happie
company than those they entertained oil
Thanksgiving Day. Yours,
SouEED.