Year: 1867

Shaft Company, and are busily engaged IN
removing it to their claim where they have
mill in process of erection. The motive pow
er will be furnished by one OF the latest I'M
proved Tyler water-wheels, which expert
ence has demonstrated to be tie cheapest and
most effective of any now in use. This claim,
which is more generally known by the name
Of the old "Rich Gulch lead" has been
worked for number of years but owing
to defective machinery and bad management,
has not been remunerative. The gentlemen
who now have it in their hands are thorough
iy conversant with the business, and practi-
cal miners, and we have no doubt but that
when their mill is put in operation the claim
will give good account of itself. The mill
is nearly completed and will be ready to
commence crushing rock sometime in March.


From the Middle Bar District the news
continues highly favorable. Grimm & Co.
are still running the tunnel on their lead and
obtaining prospects which cannot be beat
The ledge is sixteen feet in width, streak of
Ave feet Of which is remarkably rich. The
entire lead, however, will pay an average of
SIS per ton. The Company has recently let
n new contract, upon the completion of which
should everything continue favorable. they
will put up mill. Stewart& Co are obtaining
some very good quartz. Although their
shaft is sunk but fifty feet in depth, they have
developed one of the most promising veins
the district, They have had a considera-
BILE amount of rock crushed at the Middle
Bar mill, and it yielded handsomely. Labor
is being prosecuted on number of other
lodes in that vicinity, all of which promise
we'll for the future prosperity of their own
ers. The most serious drawback to the rap
id prospecting of the district, is the want of
4 good custom mill, where miners could get
their quartz crushed fast as it is taken
out, which wouldat least enable them to pay
current expenses with the product of their
claims. No better investment could be made
than putting up mill IN that district for the
.ole purpose of doing custom work. Paying
rock enough IS extracted to keep it constant
ly employed, and it would prove largely re-
muneratiye as well as materially aid in the
development of the mining resources Of the
district.


From the Rich Gulch and Ell Dorado dis
tricts we have the most cheering reports
Bevcr & Co, and Gleason s. Co., at EicE
Gulch, are obtaining the most substantial
proofs of the extent and richness of their
clans-nonc better are to be found i'll the
county. They arc pushing forward work
with energy and determination, and the COM
ing Spring will find Rich Gulch lively,
bustling mining town. Howell & Co. have
completed their bed rock fiume, and are ac-
lively engaged in working their claim. Judg
ing from their contented appearance and
plethoric purses, they are not "laborins in
vain" The mining interests of Calaveras
were rever in a more hourishing condition
than at pre- sent. and there will be more gold
dust shipped from this county t! e coming
season, than for a number of years previous.


DAILY MAIL.-Owing to the prompt efforts
of our energetic Postmaster, William Innes,
ave are again placed in daily communication
with Sacramento and intermediate towns.
Ever since the discontinuance of the daily
mail Mr.. Innes has been indefatigable in his
efforts to have it resumed, and to him more
than any one else, the people along the
md 90 he a5
facilities which they now enjoy. He imme-
,liately made our Representative in Wash
ington. Hon. William Highly, acquainted
with the facts of the case, who laid the matter
before the Post Office Department, and sue
ceeded in obtaining a sufficient addition to
the amount paid for transporting the mail, to
induce the contractor to carry it daily. 1t
seems that the letting of the contract for car
rying the mail tri-weekly, instead of daily,
was an oversight by the Department. We
quote from Mr.. Higby's letter:


l have been to the Post Office Department
in reference to defect of service on the route
from Folsom to Mokelumne Hill, and made
u full statement of the condition, etc. The
" III give s-oOU dllilu-
ally, for daily service all the year round.
This defect was overlooked, probably
in this way: There were two routes to Jack
son-one by way of lone Valley, the other by
Drytown. The stage always brought the
mail from Jackson. Now there Is but one
route from Sacramento to Jackson. l hope
the additional sum of $500 will be satisfac-
.fory-as it is the ultimatum with the Depart
ment-and that daily service will be supplied.
| do not wonder that dissatisfaction has aris-
,en, and the oversight can be accounted for
in no other way than the one named above.
! shall most cheerfnlly do all can to correct
such oversights or ABUSES SO soon as my at
tention is called to them.


4 SOCIAL dance was given at Leger's Hall
on Wednesday evening last. The ball room
%sas not uncomfortably crowded. and those
who were in attendance enjoyed themselves
muchly. Numbers are not always an ssen-
tlal requisite to have pleasant time, even at
dance. The music was an improvement
upon the kind we have been in the habit of
listening to. the prompting was excellent,
and the whole affair passed off very agreeably.
We haven't been so happy in some time as
we were on Wednesday night.


AT LAsT.-A ten-mule team. laden with
freight from Stockton. made its appearance
in town on Wednesday last. Its advent was
hailed with as much Joy by our citizens, as
was the return of the dove, with leaf in its
mouth, by that antediluvian gentleman. No
ah. 1t was proof that the mud has 'subsid-
ed and that the roads are again passable.