The Placer herald., 1871-09-30

Room AND WORK FOR ALL.-Thursday' Grass
Valley Union says:
The st. Patrick Mining Company, operating
near Auburn, Placer county, is having a steam
engine put up at its mill. This engine will run
the stamps, pans. and such things of the mill.
Water Is unreliable as power at Auburn, ON
account OF scarcity and steam is being substi-
tuted. j. M. Lakenan, of the Grass Valley
Foundry, is putting up the engine in the st.
Patrick mill, and will have all the machinery in
working order on Thursday next. The famous
Green mine, near the st. Patrick, is also to have
steam engines for hoisting and pumping pur-
| poses. Mr.. Green has purchased two engines
| formerly used at the Cambridge mine Of this
place. One of these will be used for hosting,
and the other for pumping. Mr.. Green's mill
will be run, for time by water power, as here
tofore. Mr.. Lakenan is engaged to remove and
set up the steam engines at the Green mine.
1t is, we believe, the Bellevue Mining Com
pany that is putting the engine in the st. Pat
rick MILL and for this are to have the right to
| reduce their ore in the mill. There has formerly
been water power sufficient in this district to run
the mills and hoisting works, but this has been
an extraordinary dry season, and the vast in
crea in mining operations has rendered it abso-
| lutely necessary to resort to steam powor. There
| is now we are told, about 200 tons OF rich
lying on the dumps Of the st. Patrick and Bel
levue mines. and the additional power is neces
sary to get it out of the way.
PLACER COUNTY PRoDUcTIoNs.-From tho sta
tstical tables made up from the Assessors
schedules and compiled for transmission to the
Surveyor General, We digest tho following ex-
hibit of the grow ng importance Of our agricul-
t1a h
produced in this county. of wheat 10l 1902 bush
els of barley 81 400 bushels; Of oats 2, 500 bush
els Of rye ,457 bushels; of corn 200 bushels.
Of Irish potatoes 4 OIL bushels; sweet potatoes
3,345 bushels; Of hay 6,665 tons; of butter H.,
800 pounds; of cheese 938 pounds; of wool 15l,-
400 pounds; of honey 1868 pounds; Of wine
l73, 1913 gallons; of brandy 5,496 gallons. The
value of the above products foot up about
1915 900. This takes no account of our pro-
ductions from orchard, vineyard and in berry
culture, which moro generally prosecuted,
over wider extent of territory and constitute
important and profitable industries. The As
reports in this line, of grape vines Sl3 614
Of strawberry vines 1716OO; raspberry 5O,536;
blackberry vines he does not return, but they
doubtless about quintuple the raspberries both
in number OF vines and quantity Of fruit. OF
apple trees he returns 81. .97l; peach 35 s64; pear
1851; plum 1878; cherry $3.50; nectarine
3,41O; ounce 2, ITO; fig 1898; mulberry 4,S6S;
prune ST. almond S24 walnut 597. OF lumber,
the mill in this county sawed in 1870 seventeen
million feet. Five hundred thousand shingles
were made And last but not least 81 574 gal
Ions of beer Was brewed.-Stars aid Stripes.
DISCHARGED AND REARREsrED.-Th The Marys-
vile Sttndard Of Thursday says Antoine Paries,
at.S Red Anto le, under indictment for stealing
cattle in Placer, was brought up for trial last
Tuesday in the County Court at Auburn. As
two Of the principal witnesses absent the
District Attorney entered a mole proscqui in the
case. Officer Mccoy who Was present as wit
ness, immediately arrested Antoine on a bench
warrant from Yuba county, nm indictment rest
ing against him for stealing cattle from Browns
Valley The prisoner was brought from Auburn
yesterday and lodged in jail to await trial.
COUNTY CoUnr-This Court has been in ses-
sion this week, Judge d. w. Spear presiding
engaged in the trial Of criminal cases. A China
man was tried for kidnapping, aud the jury hung
and were discharged. jury WAS impanneled in
the case Of the People vs.. Nor.hcot, and the trial
commenced, when sickness in the family com
PEELED one OF the j'Irymen to leave and the case
was adjourned until to-day. People Vs. Thomas
Carroll, shooting with intent to kill, postponed
for the term People VS.. Davis, burglary, on
trial.
SAD ACCIDENT AND SUFFERING News comes
from Bailey's RANCH across the river, in Ell Do
RADIO county, that James Morgan, prominent
farmer residing at Pilot Hill, while journeyins to
Georgetown, last Monday, was thrown from his
horse and severely injured. For over fourteen
hours he lay exposed to chilling atmosphere,
and when tound was lying among the brush, near
the place where the accident occurred, i'll in
sensible condition. But little hopes are enter
tanned OF his recovery.
Fon PnospEcTERs.-RobertB Burns has located
in Auburn, and is prepared to make working
tests Of gold ores-which are far superior and
more reliable than assays-on reasonable terms.
The process used is patented and gives tho accu-
rate amount OF gold in any desired specimens or
samples of rock.
A. FoUoERoN has made a squirrel cage that
beat Solomon's temple. 1t shows a mechnic;l
ingenuity. skill and taste which defes competi- |
ton.
J. ". BLANcH ARD left in this Office this week |
splendid lot of Hamburg, Mission and Catawba |
grapes that are not bad to take.
TICKETS by railroad to and FROM the Atlantic |
States can bo had Of Hubbard & Andrews, in |
Auburn. |
Tur lncf shou II, Aubnrn 10 ua;d to bo ro boor |