, 1869-02-12

wARRES's, January IS, 1853.
Fn,roR STATESMAN We have been favored
w,,h excellent weather this winter thus far, no
weather sufficiently cold to prevent miners from
working, and the SHOWS have been SO light thai
HINT. the expressman, still continues TO ride
through on horseback 10 fact the snow has not
vet been deep enough TO prevent prospecting for
quartz; two new leads, the Pike y and q Res
cue. - having been discovered lately. How rich
they are have not been able to learn, but their
value is such that an expensive lawsuit wiz
probably result to settle conflicting titles.
WINTER sPoRrs-GooD DINNERS.
notice that you have had pigeon shooting at
wAlIA wAlla the town people here have had
chicken shooting. They put chickens into box
which was SO contrived that only their heads
could be seen. There were some twenty COM
petitors. Mr.. Ripson won the first prize for rife
shooting, and Mr.. Whitman, for pistol shooting.
The citizens have also been trying to excel each
other in getting up big dinners" to which they
invited their friends, suppose, to act as judges
to decide whose dinner was the best; the decision
was generally made in accordance with the quail
ity of the wine drank. We also have two schools
| 10 operation which furnish food for the mind,
one public school for the children, and in the
evening commercial school for adults.
QUARTZ LEDGEs.
Many of the quartz leads are increasing in
width and richness as the shafts are being sunk
deeper. Mr.. Hurley, our assayer, assayed some
of the Martinez ore to day, which yielded at the
rate of $I ,23O per tou in silver. Healso Assayed
some ore from the Knott lead, which yielded at
the rate of 81 400 in gold, bat that was choice
rock. 80
NEW QUArz MILL.
Mr.. Hurley has also run into bars to-day one
hundred and thirty.one ounces of retOrted gold
which netted ST. $50. This gold came from a
vein 10 Florence which is known as the Davis"
lead. The proprietors, Messrs. E. K Patterson
L Co., have erected an excellent fve-stamp steam
mill near their ledge, and which has been so To-
Gated that the miners run the ore out Of the tunS
mel 10 ears aud dump the contents into shoot,
which is arranged on such grade that the ore
slides through it directly into the mill
SALOONS oLosED-DULL TIMES.
The saloons are ell closed except one, and that
is only kept open on Saturday nights aud Sun.
days. Money is very scarce here in the winter,
as the placer miners cannot wash out the gold
on account of the frost. but they continue strip
ping of the top dirt and making other necessary
rephrations for taking out the precious metal as
soon as the season will admit of so doing
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Quite an excitement has been created here
lately on the China question-wbether Cbinamen
shall be allowed to work in the mines here or
not. The claim owners are nearly all iu favor Of
admitting them into the camp, while the laboring
men or those who work for wages are opposed to
the admission Of Chinese, ou the grouud that the
price of labor would be reduced; while The claim.
owners think that they would Rave an opportu'
nitv of selling some of their poor Erouud 10 the
; celes;ials. think that the claim owners will
be successful, as most ol those who work fol
wages have gone below to winter. The health
of the camp is excellent, and everything promises
a prosperous season next summer OLD CAL.