Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-02-20
TIE EVENING NEWS
Saturday EvonIns.-...Feoruary 20, 1869
IMpoRrANr DoNEsrrc IrENs.-A YOUNG !

lady ut San Francisco, writing to her
mother, who is AT present on u visit to
Gold Hill, gives the old lady the follow
ing startling items, transporting at the
Bay City during her absence: "0ne of
Cleopatra's kittens-the little black and
white one, you know-got into a pitcher
of cream, last Thursday, and was nearly
drowned. before Emily discovered it.
We set the milk out in the porch, so it
shouldn't be used for tea, but when
Jimmy came home from school he found
it and drank it up. He stuck to it that
he didn't, but we know he did. It's a
wonder that it didn't make him sick.
Claude Melnotte has lost his tag, but
he's too smart to get into the pound.
We have to tie him up at home, most of
the time, to keep him put of the way of
strychnine. Josephine laid three eggs,
last week. Only yesterday, Brigham
Young had a terrible fight with another
rooster, out in the street; they fought
over half an hour, and both got whipped.
a great crowd of men aud boys col
leeted, but \ policeman made them all
clear out, and stoned the roostcrs away,
too. Brigham came home with his head
so bloody that he couldn't see to eat,
hardly and by and by a rowdy-looking
fellow came and asked me if that was
my chicken told him yes; then
he said, Well, they nin't no game in
him, but he'd look poorly with gafs on,
SO wouldn't mind tippin' yer a piece.
il yer on the trade don't know what
the i%mpudent fellow meant, but | just
told him to 60 right away, and slammed
the door in his face"
ANOTHER SNAsH.-We were wrong in
stating that the steel-wire cable, which
broke day before yesterday at the Impe-
rial-Empirc shaft, vas replaced by II
new onc. A new Que of sufficient length
could not readily be procured, therefore
II good piece of second. hand cable was
spliced on. Last night, about II
o'clock, while hosting Il 600 gallon
tank of water, the other part of the
original cable broke, letting the tank
fall about 700 feet to the bottom Of the
shaft. The tank was muchly smashed
and the water split. The shaft was
damaged q little, bat will he repaired
again in q short time Had Il good cable
running in place Of the worn out one.
The water had increased in volume
somewhat, aud, owing to this cable
breakage, had raised at 400 to-day
above the top of the !, loO-foot or lower
station. This new shaft has been the
luckiest so far, in the way of accidents,
of any on record for, although cable
breaking, tank-smashiuG and such like
accidents have been and still are so
common Ne TO be regarded as belonging
to the institution, yet, fortunate aad
strange to relate, no one has been killed
or at all injured by any such accidents.
A strong new cable will doubtless obvi-
ate all further difficulty in that respect.
Prices AT WHITE PISE.-Charley Bar
stow, writing to US from Treasure City
under date Of February l4th, says {:
The price Of lumber is from $3.50 to
$500 per 1000 feet, and very scarce at
that. Shingles are $50 per thousand ;
hay, $500 per ton barley, Is cents per
pound -four, SIG per cwt.i bacon, i5
cents; salt pork, 30 cents beans, %
cents sugar, IS cents; coffee, 30 cents;
tea, 81 so butter, 81 90; cheese, 40
cents; rice, 374 cents. Fresh meats are
from % cents to 30 cents; sausage, 80
cents; lard, 374 cents. Board per week
is SIS lodging, 81 90 per night. La
borers get from So to Sc per day, n
mechanics get from So to So Char
ley speaks in high terms Of the future
prospects of that district. He says that
town lots are selling rs high as $4,000,
and you cannot get Il lot TO put even q
tent on within two miles of there in any
direction without buying it. There are
over 5000 claims located, and every
body has money in his pocket; or it
they haven't, they are rich in feet.
That's the condition people used to be
in over in Como-we among the rest.
CuoLLAR CRoPPISGs.-W. S. Hobart
for some time past has been working
the old Chollar groupings under con-
tract, and has u strong force constantly
employed there, extracting large guam
titles Of ore which yields very fair re-
turns. 1t is worked at Hobart's Nevada
mill in Six-mile Canyon. Much Of this
ore is taken out through the Confeder-
ate shaft, a new shaft sunk on the west
line of B street, just back Of the old
Wood L Goe cave, the hosting being
done by means Of q small engine. Ho-
bart is also running the old Choilar
hosting works, and taking out large
quantities of ore through the old shalt,
which is all dumped down into the va
cant lot created by the removal OF a por-
ton Of the old Potosi hosting works.
Those old Chollar~ groupings have yield
ed goodly quantities of not high grade,
but remunerative ore for several years
past and will continue to do so for sew
eral years to come.
Drying UP.-Main street, Gold Hill,
has had II pretty rough siege of it this
winter, and stands it pretty we'll. Dur
ing previous winters it has been pretty
we'll protected by thick coatings oil
snow and ice, but this winter it has had
TO stand on its own merits. II has been
very muddy for the last two or three
weeks, but not near so bad as we have
seen it., owing to the new town sewer
carrying of most of the water ard Sum-
g%ullion. There are more heavy leans
constantly passing down and up this
street than any other street Of similar
dimensions in the whole world. The
consequence is, that, now it is drying
up, the deep mud is rutted and dragged
into long, narrow ridges-,hero being
two distinct wagon tracks. Ii the pres
ent weather continues, however, the
street will be dry, smooth inc dusty be
fore the end Of next week-just about
the time the streets of Virginia se'
thawed out and become II perfect mor"ss'
DR.. KIRBy.-In another column, see
the professional card of P. T. kiroy, NJ
d., located in full and successful prac'
tice as Il physician and surgeon a
Silver City. As we stated a day or two
,;,ca Dr Kirby has been very success