Year: 1865

We have latteriug accounts from the various
mining districts Of the county, sufficiently SO TO-
warrant the belief that, population considered,
this will be the most prosperous mining year
since 1855. A plentiful supply of water in most
localities is guaranteed until late in the season,
and our miners have gone to work with zeal
and earnestness unnoticed for several years past
Each one seems to feel that this year will bring
him out, and g the song of the fume" is pop
ular music in every creek, gulch and canon
The mining season thus far has been as favorable
IS could have been wished. and the veriest grum-
bier can scarcely find cause for complaint


II. Y. Fitch, of Trinity Center, was in town
the other day. He says the indications in that
vicinity are that miners will be bountifully re-
warded for this years labor. Many old claims
are being worked with greater success than for
merly, while here and there now ones are being
opened which afford satisfactory prospects to the
laborers. Aside from the placer diggings much
attention is being devoted to the newly discover
cd quartz lodges in that neighborhood. The
Copper Creek Company and Whiskytown Com
pany VIII resume work soon as the snow dis
appears, and several other ledges will be pros
pected this season.


Ed Collins, of Minersville, informs us that the
signs are propitiou5 thereabouts. What people
are there busy, and making money too
Along the river from there to-. Lewiston more
miners are employed than for four years past
The Bates vanMatre claim in Easimans Gulch
has had an abundant supply of water during the
Winter, and is likely to sustain its old reputation
for richness. Some good claims are being work.
at Bolts Hill. probably the richest mining dis
trict in the county if water was plentiful.


Ask n man from Lewiston, Douglas City, In
dian Greek, Junction City, Canon City, any
Of the small camps, north south, east or west
how times are, and the invariable rcplyis, " dull,
everybody at work. -


The new mining district opposite Co1s Bar
| begins to attract considerable attention. Uncle
Billy Kirkham tells US that Saturday week he
struck the bedrock in his newly opened claim,
and struck big pay at the same time. We saw
sample of what came out, and don't wonder
that the owner places a thousand dollars greater
value on the claim than he did one week previous.
All the claims in the side-lIiil bordering Smith g
ranch are Welding good incomes and we are
told that il would take very inqusitvc Yankee
to ascertain how much Sid. Curres claim does
yield weekly. Miners are scattering along down
the river, and the lower portion of Trinity will
be thoroughly prospectod this year


A correspondent at North Fork writes that the
miners will do better this season than during any
F, since 1861. Perine L Dyer and Giveen 4 Co,
on East Fork, driving lively business, and
q Brandy Jack Rich Gulch is taking it
out by the


We understand that quite an excitement has
been caused in the Hay Fork country by recent
quartz discoveries. Some first-rate prospects
have just been obtained from rock lately found.
Whether our people will value the indications AS
highly as if they came from few hundred miles
away remains to be seen.


Altogether. we can lool, forward with much
more hope than for years past. 'Times are dulll
but % everybody is busy" The county is just
recovering from the serious set-backs by food
and drouth Of several years There is room for
as many more miners the county con-
tains, and with them fash times would again
return.