Volume 08 (1864) (474 pages)

184 The Mining and Scientific Press. atlining and Scientific Press, Wot WER apscccrecenes Gauacsstenwise se ciremeenens Senion Epitor. Cc. W. HM. SMITH. W. B. EWER. AT. DEWEY. DEWEY & CO. Publishers. Orriex In the Government Mouse building, Northwest eorner of Washington and Sansome streets, rooms No. 56 and 57, up stairs. Terms of Subscription; One copy, per annum, in adyance,. One copy, six months, in adyanee, . Bay For sale by Carriers and Newsdealers. 5 Terms in Advanee.—laving udopted the edsh system, ALL pay ments for subscriptions must be made in advance. If old subserlbers find their paper discontinued at any tinic, don't stop to grumblo about it, but send inthe cash for another year. ‘*Equality is Justiee,” aud we shalt administer this doctrine.to all our patrons, as well as “the rest of mankind.” For Sending East, no imore valuable or appropriate publication can he selected than the Minina anp Scientiric Press. For salo by the prinelpal newsagents. AMERICAN AND Foreign Patents.—Letters Patent for Inventors ean be secured in the United States and forelgn countries throngh the Minine any Scizatirie Press Patenr Aceney, We offer applicants reasonable terms, and they can rest assnred of a strietcompllance with onr obligations, and a faithful performanee of all contracts. For reference, we will furnish the names of numerous parties for whom we havo obtained patents dnring the past year. Favonaste to Inventors.—Persons holding new Inventions of machinery and important Improvements, can have the same Illustrated and explained in the Minixc ANp Sciuntirie Press, freo of charge, If ln our judginent the discovery is one of real merit, and of sntliclent futerest to our readers to warrant publication, WA be Discontinued.—After this date snbseriptions not pald for in advance will be diseontInued. As soon as possible bills wlil be presented for al arrearages. Parties who reecive a paper from the office of delivery cannot evade the Law requiring payment for the same. We shall In future keep no continued accounts with subacribers, and the subserlptions of aun fricnds aud patrons will bo treated allke. San Francisco: Saturday Morning, March 19, 1864. Tae Kauuine or Ruy. Mr. Sugatuman.—The daily papers have already giveu the particulars of the killiug of Rev. H. O. G. Smeathman, by the Indiaus, some sixty miles north of Surprise Valley, in Nevada Territory. Mr. S. was one of the pioueers of Reese River, and was much respected wherever known. The people of Reese River appear to be ninch exasperated at this unprovoked and wanton aet of the Indians, and the indieations are that dire vengeance will be meeted out to the red-skinned vilJains. We have enjoyed the pleasnro of Mr. Smeathman’s aeqnaintance for some four or five years, and knew him to be one of the kindest and gentlest’ of men, and one who would have suffered almost anything rather than have wronged any human being. The testimony of his two eompanions who escaped, fully attest this fact, and they moreover speak most highly of bis brave, noble and christian bearing in the honr of danger and of denth. Mr. S. leaves a widow and two step-daughters who reside in this eity —one now temporarily absent in Washoe. Ile visited his family some six months sinee, at which time we had the pleasnre of several interviews with hiu and received his promise as an “ oecasional coutributor” to the Afining and Scientiyic Press. He has sinee lulfilled that promise, his latest contribution beiug published over his proper initials in the number of Pebrnary 27, giving an interesting aecount of “Surprise Valley,” near where he met his untimely end. He hus done more, perhaps, than auy. other one iman, through his eontributious to the Press, to bring into notiee and to convey to the publica eorreet idea of the topograpby and resonrees of the interesting region whieb he had adopted for his home. He was a mau of close observation and a good writer. We were in daily expectation of hearing from him again, when the announcement eame that le had been thus ruthlessly struck down. Frieuds had gone out to obtaiu his body and give it a christinn burial. Creeu wave tbe grass o’ev his desert grave. Buiiiox Fron WasHor-—The amount of bullion shipped by Wells, Fargo & Co., from Virginia City for the week ending Mareh 12th was $194,802. . MINING SHARE MARKET, The Mining Share Market has manifested very little animatiou during the past week, and we have no feature of special interest to notice. The sales of the week amouit to $1,567,009,00. Ophir has improved somewhat during the past week, closing at $1,675, buyer 30 days. Reeent accounts from ths mine are of a very enconraging chnracter. Could & Curry still remains inactive. at $4,665. Savage is but little songht nfter. found buyers at $2,525. Yellow Jacket may be quoted at $1,100; Uuele Sam $780; Imperial $15714 buyer 30 days; Crown Point, segregated, $750. Chollar has still farther declined with smoll sales, Opening at $325 on Saturday, it commenced the present week at $3221 from whieb figure it gradnally declined to $300. Lady Bryan has eonstitnted the chief feature of the week. The mine has again changed hands— 5.690 shares baving been sold the past week, (total number of shares 5,000.) Opening at about the closing figures of the previous week—$52, it fonnd sellers at yesterday inorning’s Board at $39, but rallied in the evening, nnd closed at $45 eash, $49 bnyer 30. Efforts are being made to reduce the nomber of shares in this stock. An adjourned meeting for that purpose will be held ou the fourth of April. Daney shares opened at $155 @ 170, bnt gradually deelined with large sales, to $105 @106 at yesterday's Board. his important decline is mainIt closed It hns \ . ly attributable to the fact that the mine has been flooded with water, which it will require some weeks to remove. North Potosi shares, owing to an unfounded rumor that an adverse deeision had been rendered in its suit with the Savage, suddenly tumbled from $110 on Monday to $35 on Tuesday ; it subsequently recovered somewhat and closed yesterday, nt $46. It is understood that the decision in this ease will be rendered on the 26th instant. North Ameriean has been very aetive, but at generally deelining rates; the decline has been eaused by the reported levying of another assessmeut of $25 per share. Harmon has become comparatively qniet at from $35 @ 37; Moss is qnoted at $35; Lafayette from $13 @15; Uncle Sam (F. D.,) $5; Ceutral America $5. Nevada (J. G.) has declined somewhat from its late advance, und may now be quoted at $215, Sierra Nevada has been heard froin at $75; Best & Belcher a $750. Real del Monte has been less active, opening the week at $54(@58, it gradually deelined to $45, at last evening's board. No speeial movements iu the affairs of this company have been notieed during the past week. Antelope still maintains its regnlar standing nt $225 ; Wide West found a buyer yesterday at $2214; an important improvement is reported at tbis mine , Silver Hill may be quoted at $10. De Soto, Humboldt, is enquired after ot from $45 (@52. Sinee this eonipany has struek the Sheba lode, mueh eonfidence appears to be felt that it will soon be developed into a valuable mine. Cieero, Reese River, las found buyers the past week nt from 50(@55. : Of eopper stocks we may quote the Napoleon firm at $65, holders at $70@80. ‘Table Mountain, copper, $13; Diamond $9. Danny G. & §. M. Co.—This stock hns fallen cousiderably in the market, owing to the fact that their shaft is full of water, and likely to continue so for some weeks to come. Sitver Buttiox.—During the week ending Mareb 6tb, Wells, Fargo & Co. shipped from Virginia ve) silver bullion valued at $245,788. What Sornoe Saves in Mixinc.—It is well estahlished that but a fraction of gold can be snved by the fixtures and arrangements in the crushing mills hitherto used at the mines, a large portion being swept off and lost in the tailings (ehaff or refuse) ; this portion is fonnd by assay nt the works of the Colorado Gold Mining Company to have been on an average sixty-five per eent., and it is now a well established fact, verified by suceessfnl experiments, that when these“ tailings ” are worked over in the Desnlphnvizing and Amalgamating apparatus (machines and fixtures recently invented and which have just been put in operation ky the company above mentioned) nearly all the gold contained in the ore cau be saved. Of course the mills equipped with this apparatus will save double the amount they have previously done.— Boston Com. Bulletin. The above item which is just row going the rounds of botb the California nnd Atlantie press, may be, nud doubtless is, true of the Colorado, mines ; but not of the mines of California. The prineipal portion of the gold in the Colorado mines is found in a sulphuret of iron, or iron pyrites, which sulphnret constitutes, in many mines, nearly the entire body of the vein, and in most of them, if we are rightly informed, a very large’ proportion. In our California mines the sulphuret of iron constitutes but an exceedingly sinall proportion, geverally not more than twoor three per cent., rarely exceeding, or even reaehing, six or eight percent. The chief part of tho gold in the Cali'ornia mines is fonnd imbeded in the quartz from which it is very readily freed by tho mere mechanieal operation of stamping and amalganating. The sulphurets in the quartz veins of this State are sometimes, cotleeted from the sands and subjeeted to a ehemical treatment, or “ desulphurizing process,’ similar in its resnlts to the process above alluded to, and uow being introduced into Colorado. Revse Itiver. The Meveille stil continnes to give favorublo accounts from that section of the nines. That paper states that several rich diseoveries have recently been made on Skull Creek, near Grnss Valley. A fine sample of which was exhibited from a ranch in Grass Valley. The Perseverance Compauy, Warner and Wells ledge, had six tons of their surfaee ore worked at the California mill, whieh produced bullion of the valne of $1645, or abont $275 per ton. The cost of crushiing, nfter being delivered at the mill was $75 per ton. The editor thinks this yield a pretty good evidenee of the riehucss of the Reese River mines. We shonld think that any rock that would pay for erushing, at such rates, might be called rieh. Important Discovery.—A large and exeeedingly rieh salt mine has been diseovered in Smoky Valley, a few miles sonth of the sink of Big Smoky Creek. This diseovery is au important one to the ‘miners of Bunker Hillnoud other distriets lying upon the border of the valley as well as to those of this place, as the quantity is limited and its loeation convenient. Messrs. Miller & Lundbom, assayers, had melted during the week since the 3d instant, $3,000. An assay made by this firm of roek from the Smith & Martin ledge, yielded at the rate of $7,071.88 per ton. Opuir Improvenents.—We learn from the Virginia Union that the work upon the new Ophir shaft which is now being sunk, and ijutended to be nsed as the main shaft of tbe mine, is progressing finely. It is said to be far the most substantinl work of the kind on the continent. The size of the shalt before timbering is twelve by fourteen feet, after timbering it is nine by twelve feet in the clear. The timbering is the most permanent and snbstantial that has ever been undertaken in the country. It is so firmly braeed and bolted, that no swelling or pressure of the surrounding roek can everinjure it. It is now dowu 75 feet and will be eontinued, in the same manuer to a depth of 700 feet, as rapidly as the work can be pnshed ahead. A 500-horse power engine will be placed at its mouth to “perform the duty of lifting and pumping. Tbe works of this miue are now uuder wost able and energetic management.

184 The Mining and Scientific Press. atlining and Scientific Press, Wot WER apscccrecenes Gauacsstenwise se ciremeenens Senion Epitor. Cc. W. HM. SMITH. W. B. EWER. AT. DEWEY. DEWEY & CO. Publishers. Orriex In the Government Mouse building, Northwest eorner of Washington and Sansome streets, rooms No. 56 and 57, up stairs. Terms of Subscription; One copy, per annum, in adyance,. One copy, six months, in adyanee, . Bay For sale by Carriers and Newsdealers. 5 Terms in Advanee.—laving udopted the edsh system, ALL pay ments for subscriptions must be made in advance. If old subserlbers find their paper discontinued at any tinic, don't stop to grumblo about it, but send inthe cash for another year. ‘*Equality is Justiee,” aud we shalt administer this doctrine.to all our patrons, as well as “the rest of mankind.” For Sending East, no imore valuable or appropriate publication can he selected than the Minina anp Scientiric Press. For salo by the prinelpal newsagents. AMERICAN AND Foreign Patents.—Letters Patent for Inventors ean be secured in the United States and forelgn countries throngh the Minine any Scizatirie Press Patenr Aceney, We offer applicants reasonable terms, and they can rest assnred of a strietcompllance with onr obligations, and a faithful performanee of all contracts. For reference, we will furnish the names of numerous parties for whom we havo obtained patents dnring the past year. Favonaste to Inventors.—Persons holding new Inventions of machinery and important Improvements, can have the same Illustrated and explained in the Minixc ANp Sciuntirie Press, freo of charge, If ln our judginent the discovery is one of real merit, and of sntliclent futerest to our readers to warrant publication, WA be Discontinued.—After this date snbseriptions not pald for in advance will be diseontInued. As soon as possible bills wlil be presented for al arrearages. Parties who reecive a paper from the office of delivery cannot evade the Law requiring payment for the same. We shall In future keep no continued accounts with subacribers, and the subserlptions of aun fricnds aud patrons will bo treated allke. San Francisco: Saturday Morning, March 19, 1864. Tae Kauuine or Ruy. Mr. Sugatuman.—The daily papers have already giveu the particulars of the killiug of Rev. H. O. G. Smeathman, by the Indiaus, some sixty miles north of Surprise Valley, in Nevada Territory. Mr. S. was one of the pioueers of Reese River, and was much respected wherever known. The people of Reese River appear to be ninch exasperated at this unprovoked and wanton aet of the Indians, and the indieations are that dire vengeance will be meeted out to the red-skinned vilJains. We have enjoyed the pleasnro of Mr. Smeathman’s aeqnaintance for some four or five years, and knew him to be one of the kindest and gentlest’ of men, and one who would have suffered almost anything rather than have wronged any human being. The testimony of his two eompanions who escaped, fully attest this fact, and they moreover speak most highly of bis brave, noble and christian bearing in the honr of danger and of denth. Mr. S. leaves a widow and two step-daughters who reside in this eity —one now temporarily absent in Washoe. Ile visited his family some six months sinee, at which time we had the pleasnre of several interviews with hiu and received his promise as an “ oecasional coutributor” to the Afining and Scientiyic Press. He has sinee lulfilled that promise, his latest contribution beiug published over his proper initials in the number of Pebrnary 27, giving an interesting aecount of “Surprise Valley,” near where he met his untimely end. He hus done more, perhaps, than auy. other one iman, through his eontributious to the Press, to bring into notiee and to convey to the publica eorreet idea of the topograpby and resonrees of the interesting region whieb he had adopted for his home. He was a mau of close observation and a good writer. We were in daily expectation of hearing from him again, when the announcement eame that le had been thus ruthlessly struck down. Frieuds had gone out to obtaiu his body and give it a christinn burial. Creeu wave tbe grass o’ev his desert grave. Buiiiox Fron WasHor-—The amount of bullion shipped by Wells, Fargo & Co., from Virginia City for the week ending Mareh 12th was $194,802. . MINING SHARE MARKET, The Mining Share Market has manifested very little animatiou during the past week, and we have no feature of special interest to notice. The sales of the week amouit to $1,567,009,00. Ophir has improved somewhat during the past week, closing at $1,675, buyer 30 days. Reeent accounts from ths mine are of a very enconraging chnracter. Could & Curry still remains inactive. at $4,665. Savage is but little songht nfter. found buyers at $2,525. Yellow Jacket may be quoted at $1,100; Uuele Sam $780; Imperial $15714 buyer 30 days; Crown Point, segregated, $750. Chollar has still farther declined with smoll sales, Opening at $325 on Saturday, it commenced the present week at $3221 from whieb figure it gradnally declined to $300. Lady Bryan has eonstitnted the chief feature of the week. The mine has again changed hands— 5.690 shares baving been sold the past week, (total number of shares 5,000.) Opening at about the closing figures of the previous week—$52, it fonnd sellers at yesterday inorning’s Board at $39, but rallied in the evening, nnd closed at $45 eash, $49 bnyer 30. Efforts are being made to reduce the nomber of shares in this stock. An adjourned meeting for that purpose will be held ou the fourth of April. Daney shares opened at $155 @ 170, bnt gradually deelined with large sales, to $105 @106 at yesterday's Board. his important decline is mainIt closed It hns \ . ly attributable to the fact that the mine has been flooded with water, which it will require some weeks to remove. North Potosi shares, owing to an unfounded rumor that an adverse deeision had been rendered in its suit with the Savage, suddenly tumbled from $110 on Monday to $35 on Tuesday ; it subsequently recovered somewhat and closed yesterday, nt $46. It is understood that the decision in this ease will be rendered on the 26th instant.

North Ameriean has been very aetive, but at generally deelining rates; the decline has been eaused by the reported levying of another assessmeut of $25 per share. Harmon has become comparatively qniet at from $35 @ 37; Moss is qnoted at $35; Lafayette from $13 @15; Uncle Sam (F. D.,) $5; Ceutral America $5. Nevada (J. G.) has declined somewhat from its late advance, und may now be quoted at $215, Sierra Nevada has been heard froin at $75; Best & Belcher a $750. Real del Monte has been less active, opening the week at $54(@58, it gradually deelined to $45, at last evening's board. No speeial movements iu the affairs of this company have been notieed during the past week. Antelope still maintains its regnlar standing nt $225 ; Wide West found a buyer yesterday at $2214; an important improvement is reported at tbis mine , Silver Hill may be quoted at $10. De Soto, Humboldt, is enquired after ot from $45 (@52. Sinee this eonipany has struek the Sheba lode, mueh eonfidence appears to be felt that it will soon be developed into a valuable mine. Cieero, Reese River, las found buyers the past week nt from 50(@55. : Of eopper stocks we may quote the Napoleon firm at $65, holders at $70@80. ‘Table Mountain, copper, $13; Diamond $9. Danny G. & §. M. Co.—This stock hns fallen cousiderably in the market, owing to the fact that their shaft is full of water, and likely to continue so for some weeks to come. Sitver Buttiox.—During the week ending Mareb 6tb, Wells, Fargo & Co. shipped from Virginia ve) silver bullion valued at $245,788. What Sornoe Saves in Mixinc.—It is well estahlished that but a fraction of gold can be snved by the fixtures and arrangements in the crushing mills hitherto used at the mines, a large portion being swept off and lost in the tailings (ehaff or refuse) ; this portion is fonnd by assay nt the works of the Colorado Gold Mining Company to have been on an average sixty-five per eent., and it is now a well established fact, verified by suceessfnl experiments, that when these“ tailings ” are worked over in the Desnlphnvizing and Amalgamating apparatus (machines and fixtures recently invented and which have just been put in operation ky the company above mentioned) nearly all the gold contained in the ore cau be saved. Of course the mills equipped with this apparatus will save double the amount they have previously done.— Boston Com. Bulletin. The above item which is just row going the rounds of botb the California nnd Atlantie press, may be, nud doubtless is, true of the Colorado, mines ; but not of the mines of California. The prineipal portion of the gold in the Colorado mines is found in a sulphuret of iron, or iron pyrites, which sulphnret constitutes, in many mines, nearly the entire body of the vein, and in most of them, if we are rightly informed, a very large’ proportion. In our California mines the sulphuret of iron constitutes but an exceedingly sinall proportion, geverally not more than twoor three per cent., rarely exceeding, or even reaehing, six or eight percent. The chief part of tho gold in the Cali'ornia mines is fonnd imbeded in the quartz from which it is very readily freed by tho mere mechanieal operation of stamping and amalganating. The sulphurets in the quartz veins of this State are sometimes, cotleeted from the sands and subjeeted to a ehemical treatment, or “ desulphurizing process,’ similar in its resnlts to the process above alluded to, and uow being introduced into Colorado. Revse Itiver. The Meveille stil continnes to give favorublo accounts from that section of the nines. That paper states that several rich diseoveries have recently been made on Skull Creek, near Grnss Valley. A fine sample of which was exhibited from a ranch in Grass Valley. The Perseverance Compauy, Warner and Wells ledge, had six tons of their surfaee ore worked at the California mill, whieh produced bullion of the valne of $1645, or abont $275 per ton. The cost of crushiing, nfter being delivered at the mill was $75 per ton. The editor thinks this yield a pretty good evidenee of the riehucss of the Reese River mines. We shonld think that any rock that would pay for erushing, at such rates, might be called rieh. Important Discovery.—A large and exeeedingly rieh salt mine has been diseovered in Smoky Valley, a few miles sonth of the sink of Big Smoky Creek. This diseovery is au important one to the ‘miners of Bunker Hillnoud other distriets lying upon the border of the valley as well as to those of this place, as the quantity is limited and its loeation convenient. Messrs. Miller & Lundbom, assayers, had melted during the week since the 3d instant, $3,000. An assay made by this firm of roek from the Smith & Martin ledge, yielded at the rate of $7,071.88 per ton. Opuir Improvenents.—We learn from the Virginia Union that the work upon the new Ophir shaft which is now being sunk, and ijutended to be nsed as the main shaft of tbe mine, is progressing finely. It is said to be far the most substantinl work of the kind on the continent. The size of the shalt before timbering is twelve by fourteen feet, after timbering it is nine by twelve feet in the clear. The timbering is the most permanent and snbstantial that has ever been undertaken in the country. It is so firmly braeed and bolted, that no swelling or pressure of the surrounding roek can everinjure it. It is now dowu 75 feet and will be eontinued, in the same manuer to a depth of 700 feet, as rapidly as the work can be pnshed ahead. A 500-horse power engine will be placed at its mouth to “perform the duty of lifting and pumping. Tbe works of this miue are now uuder wost able and energetic management.