Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1868-04-04
Whisky Side Correspondence.
WHISKY SLIDE, April lst, 1865.

MR. EDITOR AS there is no one in this
place who contributes to your valuable pa
per, and as believe this to be one of the
best mining camps in this part of the coun-
try, take the liberty of sending to you, and
to the readers of the CHRONICLE, a few items,
hoping they may be received in the same
spirit which prompts them, desire to afford
either information or pleasure to some broth
Now to business: We have had lively times
here for the past two weeks, having had two
miners meetings in that time. These sons
of toll met for the purpose of revising the
then existing mining laws of this district;
whether these laws were considered oppress-
ive or were to contracted in their wording
to give man all the ground he wanted, I
will not at this time say, but a large major
ity of us thought alike, that the laws must
be changed, and we changed them there
was some little excitement, from some cause
or other, but no one was seriously hurt. At
the second meeting some seven or eight with
drew, seeded, and "shook the dust" of the
place from their feet. Whether they intend
setting up little "Confederacy" of their own
or not, do not know. The balance, some
sixty in number, proceeded with the bust
ness in decorous, thorough and satisfactory
manner. After the business of the day and
occasion was over, all, with one accord, and
without once remembering that they should
not "look upon the wine when it is red in
the cup" proceeded to drink wine, when
they kew it was "mocker," until some
became entirely exhausted, while others
were much pleased with what they had done,
with themselves, loved everybody, and the
"rest of mankind In this very happy
mood they wound their way homeward,
each to seek that rest made so necessary by
the arduous duties of the day, and perchance
to dream of pleasures yet in store, to rise in
the morning with the lark, or a little before,
refreshed, ready and willing to do as good a
days work as 'any other man," and with as
good chance of getting paid for it. There
are manly SOOo al LILO lliStAiSt, oilu
they have been worked with decided success
during the past winter. Antoine, Rogers &
Co., on Hynes' Gulch, are making from five
to eight dollars per day. Pasqual, Noee s
Co., on the same gulch, have made, on an
average, five dollars day to the man, all
Winter. McIntire s Co.'S claim looks well,
l.lox IL IL An 4
to the hand. Mr.. Laden showed me q mug
get that weighed ffty-thrce dollars, that
was taken from his claim, on Donley's
Flat This claim has proved to be one of the
richest in the district. On Wet Gulch the
miners are all doing well. Two men, Au-
Gustine and his partner, on Horse Power
Gulch, cleaned up five hundred dollars in
less than one week. On Music Gulch,
French Peter s Co. are doing we'll; they
picked up two nuggets, the other day, worth
one hundred and two dollars. There aye
other companies making fair wages. This
will serve to give your readers some idea of
the mines of Whisky Slide district, and I
will change the subject from miners and
mining, to hail and hailing. We have been
blessed with supeilative abundance of
storms this Winter but that of the last day
of March was, in comparison, like a whirl
wind to light zephyr. 1t passed over here
leaving in its wake a deposit of hailstones,
about the size of pigeons eggs, to the depth
of four inches; it extended from Jesas Maria
to the French RANCH and as they came with
considerable force, fear that the peach and
apple trees that are now in blossom. may
have sustained considerable damage. Owing
to the vast amount of rain that has fallen,
and the warm weather Of the past few weeks,
the ranches and gardens in this vicinity look
well, and we may expect good crops in the
mountains, and plenty of fruit.
Now, Mr.. Editor, wish to say to you,
individually, that we have some nice young
ladies here. and some good wine, and if you
will give US call we will introduce yot to
our young ladies, and make you so drunk
on our wine, that upon your return to your
sanctasn, if that event, should transpire with
in less time than two days, your own devil
would not know you. Uours, etc.,
OLD SLIPUP.