The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1867-01-05
Indian Valley correzponaence.
INDIAN VALLEY, December "A, 1865.

INDIAN VALLEY. December n, 1865.
EusroE Butte RECORD III Is ling time,
friend RECORD since | wrote my last from tbs
place, ba, tie many manifold duties have had
on ny han Is since that time must be ny excuse
for lot keeping you Informed Of the news as they
have come np from time 10 time- Ii present writ
ing the town of Taylozville looks "healthys and
elean,- having undergone for the lsstten twelve
days one of the best '-washingsT she has received
for many day. In other words it commenced
sforuing the 18th and has continued Up 10 the
present with hardly moments cessation. To-day
Is the first fair day we have had, and we can hard
hour or so Just to let the good people know there
little -of the same sort left The snow be-
tween here and Quincy, understand, is five six
deep. We have had but one mail from oroville in
the last ten days (via Quincy, aud that was
brought in here on snow shoes from the latter place
and taking two days at that. distance, fifteen
mies)- A person who heard the amount OF blow
ing that was done here last winter concerning
roads, would naturally have come to the conclusion
that We we're going to have daily access ITO your
little burgh,i but man proposes and God disposes.
We are waiting very patiently to see that sixty
thousand dollars, which was voted by the citizens
of Plun4s, for the building of road up the North,
or Middle Fork of the Feather, 'jadicionsly ex-
pended" and the sooner the better for US ''poor
devils = who always have ''to work passage"
when we Ego below let it be by private or
public" conveyance, it's all the same. 4 person
either from Marysyille or 0rovile, would be very
10 in 5. sfrrJ ~
hear so many remark they were going below and
mary one going ''aboye = bat | suppose this is
owing altogether to the celebrated free lee
lures delivered here by the Rev Benjamin Todd
In those lectures (SprituaD the Rev. brother went
on to state how safe, easy and sure the passage
to Heaven would be. if they (his hearers) would
only get aboard his boat" All he asked of them
was for leach one to buy a pamphlet of ''his
speeches" and one of poems at 1.-TWO bits each"
saw quite number of purchasers, who,I presume
have their tickets all right for landing safe on
the other side of Jordan" Cor Styx) as the case
may be. The Methodists had a revival meeting
just before the Spiritualists, bat could not make
much impression on the people of Indian Valley
that is to orthodox to suit the refined ideas
of the majority of the citizens of this burgh
Mining is progressing slowly in and around this
vicinity. | understand the Plumas Quartz Mill
started to dag crushing quartz, which is their first
trial since they finished their MILL This and the
Premium Ledge will no doubt employ goodly
number of hands the coming season. Both of these
lodges are in close proximity of each other and
already there is quite a number of buildings gone
up and more in anticipation. They have named the
town ''Plumas City and bids fair to go ahead OF
Crescent in course of time although the Crescent
and plenty of it in sight .'Pnmas comfy will in
time be celebrated for her numerous paying
quartz lodges, well as her copper mines. notwith
standing all that is said to the contrary. We have
set of men cor old fogies') rather, here in
" Indian Valley" that would tie "a curse to any
country at least far as "their influence goes.
The kind of men | mean are those who are always
throwing obstacles in the way of Others that would
profit the country if they could have any encourage
ment to do so. The copper mining in this vicinity
is nearly at stand still. Pettinger 4 Lee, of the
Prince ledge, after sinking a shaft between sixty
and seventy feet, ran drift over sixty feet from
the bottom of the shaft and passed through some
very good looking ore which was interspersed
through the vein stone They have great confidence
in their striking good ledge of ore before spring.
They have postponed operations for the present on
account of the heavy storm. But more anon as
matters progress. OXIDE.