The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-05-13

smith shop, with picks to have pointed, con.
vinced us that while he drove very active
and paying business, the miners had no time
they cared to idle away; and Manuel Eissler
will doubtless soon be equally as busily and
proftably employed in running the dust into
bars for shipment below.
AS usual, we stopped at Davison's Hotel in
Placerville, and as usual, likewise, we there
found everything, in the way of hotel keeping,
excellent and attractive. Mrs. Dawson per-
sonaly sees to it that the rooms are clearly,
and that the tables are abundantly and we'll
provided. We certainly think it one of the
best maintained hotels, in the way of cleanli-
ness and neatness, and in the endeavors of the
host and hostess to assure the comfort of guests,
which we have ever stopped at in the country,
and we are glad to know the house has hand
some patronage.
GRANITE CREEK.
The short ride (Of only about mile) from
Placerville to Granite creek we made in the
morning, and there saw, as in Placerville,
mining vigorously prosecuted. The bitches of
Devine, Ellis, Crowley & Co., on one side of
the creek, supply good heads of water to the
various hydraulics along that bank, and on the
other side the extensive bank claims are sup
Piled with abundant tree water to ground
sluice, and in all the work is continued day
and night. The great bedrock fumes, which
belong to four separate companies, and extend
for nearly mile down the creek, are also bust
ly worked day and night, and not an idle man
did we see in the camp. So far, as in nearly
all the big claims about Placerville, the miners
on Granite had not made any clean up this
season, and most of them will not for two or
three weeks yet and then money will be plenty
and business brisker than it is now Con
Haley maintains his established merchandise
store at the upper end of the camp, and Mrs
Marx has large public house near by, while
j. &. Mills & Co. have the old Danskin store
at the lower end and George Miller has lately
added to his place large and finely fitted
brewery. kucheman's shoe shop has good
run of custom, and all in business of every
kind in the camp are doing we'll.
TIE GOLD HILL QUARTZ NINE.
The rich quartz ledge, known as the Gold
Hill mine, about two miles above Granite on
the creek, is not being worked at present, as
several of the Company who own it have pla-
Ger claims in the Granite or Placerville dis
trcts, and they prefer to work these claims
while the season of abundant water continues
But in a few weeks work will be resumed on
the ledge. The mine is known to be rich, and
the best proof Of this fact is that the owners
refuse to dispose Of their respective shares
and prefer to buy rather than to SELL They dc
not owe dime, have their nine nicely tun
nelcd, n large amount Of ore ready for the
mill, everything in readiness to resume work
at once, and have ample means OF their own tC
work on The ores have not simply dssayed
richly, but have actually yielded richly, and
the Company has not tested only the culled
aud fancy ore, but tried its worth by fair aver
age rock. taken from every part of the ledge
1t is owned by VIM. Lynch, Thos. j. Mootry
Jr, Avery Johnson, and some others, and
there are neither absentee proprietors, nor
freeze out spectators who hold shares of it. An
extension of the same ledge, owned by John
and Manuel Eissler, also prospects very richly
and a tunnel has been run into the ledge to g
goodly depth, by which the continuity and rich
ness of the mine have been satisfactorily tested