Year: 1866




ing agitated. and the necessary steps have alrea-
dy been taken for the incorporation Of compa-
ny to DO it. 1t is just ten years ago this month
since the undertaking seriously talked of
but at that time there so many kindred prop
ositions before the public that this one was lost
sight of entirely. 1t is well known that between
the mouth of Brown : creek and the old mill dam
there were many rich-paying bars which never
were worked from the son that the main creek
was so fast filled with deposits from the upper
part of the Basin, when mining was in its prime
there, that the necessary fall for working could
not be obtained. Such bars and flats are scat
tered along the whole distance mentioned. ard
are now hidden from FIVE to twenty feet beneath
the accumulated tailings. Aside from these bars
and flats no one doubts that an immense amount
of gold has been deposited in the creek from the
numerous channels feeding it, during the last ff-
teen years. In short, nobody entertains a doubt
that iume of proper capacity in Weaver creek
would be handsome paying investment, and a
source of great and long continued benefit to the
town Of Weavervilc. But how is such Hume
to be obtained? is the question.


Mr. r. y. Davidson, proprietor Of the Touring
and saw-mill. near Browns creek, has made
proposition to the business men of the town,
with view to Incorporating company with a
capital stock of 80 900. Into such company
he proposes to put his mill and appurtenances,
buildings, bitches and water privileges, provided
$4,000 Of stock is taken by the town. With
/ these necessary auxliaries the company will be
enabled to 90 directly to work, manufacturing
not only the lumber for the lume. but any sur
/ plus which might be required by miners, renting
water. &C. In this manner the operation would
/ in a measure he 4 paying one from the very out
set Shares would be so, and the two hundred
shares to be taken would probably be assessed
for from one-half to two-thirds their actual val
nc for the purpose of paying laborers, provision
bills, etc, employed on and incurred in starting
and extending the fume. BY the second year it
is believed that the work would begin to pay
and that at least two hundred laborers and min
ers would be employed along the line of the
hume. As usual, in undertakings of this kind,
obstacles present themselves, and in order to get
them fairly before the community, with hope
that the matter will be fairly canyassed and dis
cussed we give place to a communication from
Mr.. Davidson on the subject


WEAVER CREEK, March II, 1866.
FRIEND GoRDoS Il desire to occupy small
space in your paper in reference to subject
of Importance to this community, and which, if
it results in no good, can do no harm. | have
heard great many times within the past few
years of the benefits to be derived from the flum-
ing of main Weaver creek, not only to those
gagged in the operation, to claims adjacent to the
creek, to mill and ditch men, but to the entire
business portion of the community. That such
is the case | have not the slightest doubt, even
though the hume itself did not more than pay X
penses. The flats along the creek for three
four miles below town, will pay good wages if
the main stream can be sufficiently cleaned out
to afford q fall for working the claims, and will
afford employment for two or three hundred men
for years to come. This would be adding that
number to our present population. Every year
witnesses the departure of miners, because no in
ducement is offered them to remain, and so long
as the present condition of things exists there is
no probability of filling their places with new
ones Probably three-ffths of the population of
the county to-day engaged in other business
than mining, doing nothing, all depending on
the miner for the gold which is to pay for every
thing brought into the county. Gold is our only
export and if we bring more in than we send
out, it is very plain to see what the result will
be- little more mining and prospecting, and
a little less other business would, it strikes me,
be better, and would soon put an end to the COM
plant of hard times.


But to return to the subject of the practicable
ity of huming Weaver creek, and clearing it Of
the mill and ditch dams and reservoirs. To do
do so will require mill and appurtenances, log
ging trucks and wagons, and water and ditch
privileges, to carry on the lumber business, as
much of the ground along the creek will be work
ed by men on their own account, and they will
want water and lumber well as claims. How
these can be best and cheapest obtained is a mat
ter which | wish your citizens would discuss.
and would suggest that it could do no harm to
meet and talk the matter over.


| incorporated company a short time since
for the purpose of taking this matter in hand, ,
but find great deal of opposition to it which
did not expect In the first place | did not sup
pose that the business men of Weavervle want
ed to engage in the operation account of the
profit which might accrue therefrom alone.
imagined thai they might have desire to in
crease business, but such does not appear to be
the case. | find that even with everything rea-
d. to go to work with, they still object to afford
ing any aid in carrying it on. | find also that
was mistaken in believing that capital could
maintain itself against labor under all crcum-
stances, and that there was actually danger, if
tHe Nolh went OH rs pTOuO>eu lhal !. without
any money to back me, would freeze ont the town
with its hundreds of thousands. If the men of
the town will satisfactorily convince me of the
correctness of this principle will give them the
whole concern, and with the knowledge gained
will hunt a base of operations.


| also find opposition to my having much TO
say in the management Of the operation. This
troubles me but little at present, and there can
certainly be no harm done. so far as can as
certain no two citizens of Weaveryle have vet
agreed upon plan for carrying the enter
prise. | will leave the matter with your citizens
for the present, merely suggesting that some
competent person he requested to estimate the
cost of mill. teams trucks, wagons, bitches &c
un to the the time of commencing the proposed
fume and to ascertain what water privileges
can be obtained for.


Very respectfully. r. y DAvlDsox.


AN ASTOUNDING SoMERsAULT.-W wonder
what the Presdent-supporting . ihk-slingers -
of this State think of Senator Stewart now. He
who said fortnight ago that g. Union men must
sustain the President In the Congressional
proceedings of March 18th we find the following