Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-07
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A correspondent of the RECORD UNION,
writing from Forbestown, Butte county,
under date of July 3lst, says:
We have two stores, one hotel, a saloon,
| blacksmith, tinsmith, shoemaker, a market,
| good school, and new church, which is
| to be dedicated one week from tomorrow.
The ten-stamp quartz mill has not been
running for some time, but company
have hosting works on one of the many
quartz veins which our hills contain, and
they have good supply of rock in readl-
ness for crushing We have mu-
steal associations and dramatic
club, which treat the public occa-
sionally to excellent entertainments.
Like many, and one may say all mining
towns throughout the coast, it is a reading
community. County, State and Eastern
| newspapers, and some from across the
Atlantic, may be found here, together
| with standard literary works, magazines,
etc., and it is not claiming too much to
place ourselves up with the times. At the
Odd Fellows school, near Forbestown,
their library contains the American En-
cyclopedia, complete, which is great con-
| venience to the teachers and scholars, and
| also to the whole community.
Having recently received from large
| business house in Sacramento communi-
cation desiring to learn what newspaper
has the largest circulation in Forbestown,
| our Postmaster, N. d. Plum, informed me
that the RECORD UNION has the largest
circulation of any newspaper that comes to
| his office.
In the early and palmy days of placer
mining this was very lively place, for the
| ravines, fats, ETC., were very rich and
| easily worked, as was also the south bend
of Feather river, the trade OF which sec
ton came here. AT present the heaviest
mining operations are on New York Flat,
by such as the Nevada Company, McChes-
ney Company and Messrs. Roberts &
Kendall. The latter are not running their
mine this season. Mr.. Conover has also a
good mine on Garden Ranch, continual
tion of New York Flat. To give you an
idea of the richness of ground here, it
may be stated that the Nevada Company
pays the Forbestown Water Ditch Com
pany 81, GOO month for 500 inches OF
water. Their diggings are not more than
20 feet deep, about Is feet of which is al
luvial soil, and readily washed away under
hydraulic pressure: The uncrystallized
granite g bedrock yielding freely to the
shovel for cleaning, enables the miners to
work their ground fast at a cost of less
than so percent. of the yield, which approx
mates $4,000 an acre in the company
taken as an example. That combination
has fume four feet wide, with grade of
only one inch to the rod therefore they
have to s'fork out their coarse gravel
and wash away Only the loan and sand.
They employ quite large force of men in
"cleaning up" and are all workers them
selves.
Between two and three thousand feet
higher up the fat-where it takes the
name of the Ohio Flat-McChesney & Co.
are working their mine with Cranston
elevator, using about 800 inches of water
for the monitor and for raising the dirt,
under pressure of 365 feet, so per cent.
of which 1.-THE water) it requires to run the
| elevator. The elevated trunk or box is set
at an angle of 45 degrees, and the debris is
raised more than 81 feet vertically. The
machine is complete success, but Mr..
McChesney says that it is really necessary
to have two for working the same ground,
for there is good deal of trouble by
reason of frequent stoppage for repairs,
when the pump, which is worked
by the game power, has to he started to
keep the sipage water raised and the mine
stops, whereas if two elevators were en-
ployed this interruption would be obviated
when repairs were being made. The five
sections of castings composing the elevator
are clamped securely together with bolts
and burrs, and then wooden wedges have
to be driven into the joints, and in the
constant strain and jar of the machine,
especially when heavy feed is on and de-
bris coming in fast, these are apt to work
loose and :" blow out" When the castings
wear ont, or when the accumulated sedi-
ment about the machine has to be removed,
and new castings put In, ETC., this
company, like the Nevada company,
has to pay the same high rate for
water, but they are also enabled to work
Their ground very fast. Their mine is very
promising All concerned in the mines
here are thorough miners and hard working
men,
| The Odd Fellows celebration at Browns
vile last Monday, the Goth, was great
success In fact, it was the grandest
affair that has taken place north of Marys-
vile for many years, and, it is presumed
that the like has never been equaled be-
fore. Ladies and gentlemen came from all
parts of the State to participate in it, all
being delighted with their cordial reception
and the friendly spirit shown during their
stay.
INCREASE IN PoPULATIoN.-T the
population of the United States may null
tiply at higher percentage than the
English is frankly conceded by the leading
London journal. 1t contends, however,
that not single stride forward of the Uni
ted States can be specified which has not
redounded to the advantage of Great
Britain. The American population may
multiply in the future as in the past by the
transfer of Englishmen and Irishmen from
Surrey and Galway, where they produce
| little, to Minnesota and Colorado, where
| they produce much. In the future, as in
the past, the fertility their labor exposes
cannot but help to maintain English and
| Irish labor at home as well as abroad. To
suppose that the United Kingdom will
have fallen behindhand because some few
years onward it may have but its forty
millions against fifty in the United States
is, in the judgment Of the London Times,
about as reasonable as it would be to sup
pose, conversely, that a solvent merchant
benefits by the bankruptcy of half his CORE
spondents.
One of our Southern hotel-keepers is
anxious to secure the patronage Of COM
mercial travellers, and he therefore serves
drumfish on his table every day.
In 1870 the Chinese in Jackson county,
Or, numbered 634, while the recent cen.
sus enumeration discovered only 800.
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