Year: 1867

claim at Douglass Flat, struck the "blue
lead on Thursday last, the l1th instant
pay dirt abundant and prospects two bits to
the pan. The owners deserve their good
fortune as they have contended for years
with almost insurmountable difficulties, and
after repeated failures, when nearly every
one thought the name both ominous and
characteristic, with nil deSperandum for their
motto, persevered almost against hope, until
their efforts were crowned with a success
equal to their most sanguine expectations.
Its influence upon the life and business of
the camp is felt already; it has given back
bone to old claims and induced the location
of new ones. Everybody is jubilant and
predicts speedy return to the activity and
prosperity of olden times. Something was
needed and we are all thankful for this much,
though still praying for more and better.


Late discoveries have given fresh impetus
to quartz mining and infused new life into
prospecting. This whole section abounds in
lodges that only need the impulse of capital
and labor to place Calaveras in the front
rank among tine quartz mining counties of
this State. The Rocky Base claim, between
Murphys and French Gulch, shares and
l,60O feet, located November 2Gth, 1866, is
hardly second TO any hereabouts. Twenty
tons of the rock, hauled to the Rathseb mill,
at Calaveritas, last Spring, averaged $25
per ton; while two lots shipped to the mill
connected with the Miners Foundry, at San
Francisco, returned $50 and 800, per ton.
respectively. The rock paying $50 per ton,
was selected from what was considered the
poorest ore, fifty-ive to seventy feet below
the surface, and that paying 800 from rock
showing gold free from sulphurets at the
same depth. The company has sunk the
shaft seventy-fve feet upon the vein, which
shows consistent width of over two feet for
that whole distance. The ledge grows wider
and richer the deeper they sink, and has been
traced several hundred feet westerly from the
shaft. The ground is very favorable for
running an audit level for drainage, and
there is plenty of water power few hun
dred yards from the shaft, in the Union
Water Company's ditch, for running a mill
to crush the rock.


A new era-norus ordo secLorum-is about
to dawn. We are advancing onward, and
of course upward. True, men will be found
cultivating short-sighted selfshness, and
indulging in other bad passions, but these
will soon pass away, as dew before the morn
ing sun. at the advance of progress. Every
where science and industry gaining tro-
phies worth more than the blood stained
laurels of the conqueror. Circumstances are
ever changing though we. in our blindness,
often overlook their Importance at the time.
Those "who can feel the very pulse o the
time" tell US that even San Francisco begins
to comprehend her true interests, and that
her capitalists are seeking new fields for the
investment of their surplus funds much near
cr home than heretofore. The "ruSt and
care for gain" that has infected their minds,
and driven them forward in mad career of
speculation and stock gambling. is now seek
ing safer and more legitimate channel for
its exercise. They are sending agents to
this and adjoining counties to examine quartz
ledges, and send 100 to $50 pounds of rock
from each claim to San Francisco, and there
be thoroughly tested before purchasing.
Every facility for tair and full examination
should be extended to those parties. Hun
dreds of claims in Mariposa. Tuolumne and
Calaveras will be visited and reported upon
this summer, and the result cannot fail to be
satisfactory to a | concerned. when such care
is exercised i'll the preliminaries. Merchants.
mechanics and laborers will find ample and
remunerative employments: the busy hum
of industry will fill our ear, and the sight Of
thrifty and prosperous multitudes gladden.
our hearts once more. Everything exists to
spur us ON to action. Truth must produce
Its effect. The future, we doubt not. will be
far more prosperous than the past, if we are
only true to ourselves cast aside the outer
crust of selfishness that has so long enveloped
us, and consult the interests of the whole
community, for only thus do we prove true
to our own. Let act then. and act
promptly. Yours. BEDROCK.


How TO SELECT SEWING MACHlNE.-Not
long ago the prominent question among in
telligcnt housekeepers was: Shall I buy a
Sewing Machine: That question has latterly
become obsolete, and in its place this has
been substituted "What kind of a Sewing
Machine shall buy" 1t is absolutely set
tied that a sewing machine of some sort must
be domlciled in every we'll ordered family
In the first place, consider we'll to what uses
you will desire to pnt your sewing machine
when purchased. Do you want a sewing
machine of general utility, which will oper-
ate on fine fabrics and coarse fabrics equally
well The best and safest guide in the pur-
chase of sewing machine. or anything else,
Is tn buy that which has an established ID
utatiOn. No machine can be too perfect,
aud it will always be found to be true econ
omy to purchase the best.


We would recommend every person hav-
ing desire to purchase sewing machine.
to make application to the Singer Manufac-
turing Company, whose Office and salesroom
are st l39 Montgomery street, for copy of
beautiful illustrated Pamphlet, entirely
devoted to the subject. and lately published
by them for gratuitous circulation, and
mailed free to any address. We venture the
assertion that any lady intending to purchase
good sewing-machine. will find this little
book to contain much valuable information
that will assist her in discriminating which
is best.


Every dealer in Sewing Machines claims
that ''theirs are the best, and will do more
than Others 1t is the duty of every pur-
chaser to test such assertions this little
pamphlet will instruct you how to DO this.
Therefore get copy and you will at least be
encouraged to investigate the subject of
Sewing Machines quite fully and knowingly.


CISTERNs.-The lumber to be used in re-
pairing the cistcrns has been hauled and the
work should be done as soon as possible.
Some team will break through one of these
dnvs aud mn1n flamane he cnne than the