The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1867-03-30
'Rov1LLE, SATURDAY, MARCH so:h


VIRGINIA CITY, March Is.
Ed. RECogD-Having been on a tour from San
Francisco up and through the Humboldt mines,
and knowing many Butte Countyans who are more
or less interested in Humboldt affairs, probably
a few items in relation to that section will be in
teresting to your readers The Central p. R. r.
first in order. The road has settled very un-
equally. the cars rock like an old mud wagon. and
they necessarily make slow time, though they run
rs fast as it is safe. Leaving Sacramento at 6.3O
NJ. they arrive at Cisco at u NJ. very slow rail-
road time. Then comes the W. F. 4 Co. monopoly
Of staging or sleighing, which is also very slow
making 23A hours from Sacramento to Virginia
City. While there opposition, l have staged
from Marysvle to Virginia. (not an ncn of rail-
road) in 23 hours. The Feather River route is
better adapted for the trans-contnenta road than
the one selected by the P. R. r. Co. These Com
panies, however, entitled to great praise for
the energy shown by them during the late heavy
storm.
Next comes Hill Beachys line from Hunters
Station, on the Truckee River to Idaho via Hum
boldt-(and, by the by, Mr.. Editor. if you ever get
within five miles of Hunters don't stay there all
night. but ride walk all night, if necessary TO
reach his house, and the eggs, trort, hom. cured
ham. etc. that he will give you will fully compen-
safe for the extra five miles)-lTe is Hunter of
Kentucky. Hill Beachy now the whole line,
and is in California to buy horses for his line or
rather what has been company line, is poorly
stocked and too much time is lost at the stations
on the road but this learn from Mr.. Beachy will
soon be remedied. These items give you not as
pufis or reproofs of these companies but infor-
ma flau To rbo
boldt, as many undoubtedly will this spring.
There are fewer people now in Humboldt than
l have known before in five years yet times are
good all who are there employed at good wa
ges, or engaged at mercantile or other pursuits.
The Essex and Monro Series in Sierra District: the
Union and Pride of the West, in Winnamucca Dis
tric; Golconda and America. in the new district
named Gold Run; the Almira and Yankee, in Star
District-tby old typo. Charley Perkins, also run
ming the Humboldt Register)-ihe Agamemnon
and Others in Buena Vista, and the Montgomery
and others in Arabia. are all successfully working
besides many others do not at present recolecf,
hut will give you an account of in another letter, if
this is acceptable.
Pat. Harris is following his profession in Union
vile; George Faulkner. arrived the day before
left He of the first TO cross the noun
tans after the storm. He says he broke the ro ad
in front Of the sleiehs. and then went back and
pushed the seighs over. looked at his feet and
believed him. till thought of the amount of in
erta in his composition, got puzzled over the pro
blem and am now in doubt. John C. Fall is the
big merchant OF this section. He was laughed at
in Frisco for buying one and half dozen poughs
for Humboldt, but when they arrived he sold them
at an enormous profit inside of three days. BY the
by (again) he was arrested and fined for blocking
the side walks on the corner of Maine and Second
streets.
have just returned to Virginia on my way to
California. In Virginia the principal topic is the
suit of Thornbury VS.. the Savage mine. A corpse
of engineers have been surveying and exploring
the mine and for the Thornbury. James Hardy,
attorney, and Westcoat, civil engineer, from Yuba
with Mason and Butler civil engineers of this city,
have been admitted in the shafts adits etc, of the
mine for the purpose of making surveys. Nearly
all the mills here are again at work after the tem-
porary suspension caused by the late storm.
This forenoon went to Gold Hill and found the
mills there all at work, and hunting around for
"specimsnts' and fosss-iound our old friend, W.
W. Tinker, formerly of the st. Nicholas in Orc
vile, and Garden Ranch, near there. keeping or
managing the Nesey Hotel, the bon ton hotel of
Gold Hill. He has nine.y finely furnished rooms;
at his table you find the finest trout from the
Truckee and head waters of the Carson As on the
Mississippi, you find fish from the Northern lakes
aud from the Gulf Mexico on the same table.
He has one hundred boarders, principally mi
ming superintendents, book keepers, and other en-
this immediate neghborhood. l will write ycu
again before long H.