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The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], The weather. (search)
California--the Pacific railroad bill passed. San Francisco, December 21.
--The Pacific railroad land-grant bill passed the Senate to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: December 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Alleged robbery by a drayman. (search)
Wonderful story of the Yield of the Idaho mines.
[from a private letter to San Francisco.] Oro Fino, October 3, 1865. Dear Sir,
--A party that were prospecting on the War Eagle Mountain, about one mile south of the Oro Fino, found one of the richest gold and silver ledges ever found anywhere; or, as they say, it is richer than anything we read of in the history of mines.
The new discovery is from one to three feet wide.
The company have taken from one to five tons of the ore to the Sinker mill.
The five tons yielded over one ton of bullion.
A man that stops in the house with me got four pounds of the rock and crushed it. He got eighteen ounces of dust after retorting.
They get blocks of native silver as large as candle boxes, and hammer it out like a wagon tire, and leave it all shining with free gold.
There is another discovery on the same mountain of a gold bearing ledge four feet wide; they have taken out two pans of decomposed quartz twelve feet down, and wa