Volume 11 (1865) (424 pages)

358 The Biining wl Srievtific Dress. sAlining ‘Summary, 7 ALIFORNIA. Yrexi.—Some of the richest claims in the connty, situate on the lower: part of Indian Creek, have been. allowed to retain their wealth on account of. the impracticability of working them, there being no ‘way to'drain them. ‘This, snys the Yreka Journal; is ahnut-to be reniedied. Mr. 8.8. Richardson.ig ahout to orregarded with wuch’ favor hy, those making them. The silverteads below Ophir have particnlarly engaged attention-of Inte, and somei ike a. Mining: . neighhorhood.The .Pacifi¢ Company is said to he taking‘out some ‘splendid rock, very rich in silver. —. Ce 2 The Boulder ledge, near Ophir, owned by Daniel Choate, and which was worked about nine years-age, was -sold.this week to San Fraucisco partles, for $6,000. “This claim formerly produced.good roek, hut the imperfee. ¥ tion of mining machinery; and the great expense attending quartz mining at that time, prevented its--successiul.development. ‘The new purchasery ‘intend ‘giving it a thorough prospecting,.and are. confident it will prove a valuable mine: -: : Great numbers of expert.miners are visiting the regions’ ahont -Anbnrn; Ophir; and Lone Star districts, of Tate, 0d. so.far, says: the Herald, all. seem to-be-favorally impressed, nnd generally express surprise that:a region so prolific in’ quartz veins, and hearing so many favorahle indications, should have lain so long comparatively neglected ; and.that, too, when it is the most accessihle-of any quartz region iu the State. = : Oataveras.—The County Assessor's report for this county.sets down the numher of quartz mills “at, thirty-nine, and the ditches at filtyeight, the: latter valued at $122,000. The Keystone mine, at Copperopolis, under the efficient: superintendence of Mr. Sheldon, has heéi at least. partially redeemed from the condition in which it is said he found it, two years ago. Powerful hoisting works have recently been erected over the shaft near the Union line, and a number of miners helow are engaged in stoping down the nre. It is the intention of the company to keep a sufficient force at work.to extract five hundred tons of ore per month: during the winter season, after which it.ig helieved the mine will he sufficiently opened to yield a much larger nmount. TuoLUMNE.—Recent mining sales are reported in this county as follows: Blue Gulch mine, near Jacksonville, sold hy Mathews & Allen, in priagelphis, for $300,000 ; Rawhide mine, by Willis, Hodge & Fry, $75,000; Ripperdan mine; $11,000; one-half Shanghae, $27,000 ; Comstock mine, $125,000; Consuelo, by Gardiner, $300,000. Bonita, $280,000. The greater portion of -this money will be expended in building mills, opening the mines, etc. These sales have taken place during the past sumuier. The Courier says if a stranger desires to know what is heing done in the way of improvements he hag but to visit the North Fork, near Summerville. Two large twenty-stamp wills-are being constructed nn the most improved plan. No expénse is spared to make them the hest mills in the county, nnd eqnal to any on the Pacific coast, Amanor.—We have quite a list of items from Amador, this week, which we coudense as follows from the Dispateh and Ledger : The work of pntting in twenty additional stamps in the Oneida mill, at Jackson, is ncurly completed—making it a forty stamper. ‘Vhe ore from the middle shaft looks well, and is reported to be paying well. A very large number of hands are employed at these works, J The Keystone, at Amador, is said to be paying better than ‘ever. The Mahoney miue, at Sutter Creek, is now fully prospected to the depth of 60 feet. The rock at that depth is equal to the best, and since the recent rains their millis grinding out bullion at a rate entirely satisfactory. fhe Railroad is proving itself one of the finest mincs in the county. The preseut ruu of about 200.tons will reach $20 per ton, Tho Coney Tead mill, at Amador, is now crushing, on an average, fifteen tons of rock daily, which pays from $12 to $15 per ton. The Blue Jacket, the first extension of the Coney, is owned hy Dunning, Little and Burwell, and hids fair to soon become one of the valuahle mines of Amador. Sixty-four tons of surfage rock, crushed last weck at the Kearsing fever is raging in the, ill, yielded over five dollars per ton. “The -hoys say they can make five.hundred dollars per month at that rate’ per ton,and they can.y [They must be ahle to take out and crush their ore very cheap to do it.] A Deep Shaft—The proprietors of the /Enreka mine, Messrs. Hayward & Chamberlain, will soon hegiu the work-of sinking the south -shaft, now abdut 960 feet deep, to a depth of 1,500 feet. This-is 1 .very important enterprise; and reflects much-credit on the energy of the proprietors. We-trust the enterprise will prove a profitable one. At Sutter Creek’ . a large number of mines have been’ tested at rdepths from 200 to nearly 1,000 feet, and in no instance has any evidence been afforded to the contrary. —. ee _ A correspondent of the Diéspateh, writing from Volcano, says the Tellurium Company [mill, we suppose. has suspended operations for a short time; the-Mountain Mill has also stopped work. ‘lhe work in the mines is still progressing. We learn from another source that the Tellurium Company have struck it richer than ever in their lower tunnel. ° _ Los AnerLrs.—We learn from. the News that some rich diggings have reeently heen taken up in the vicinity of San Fernando, and . which have heen thoroughly prospected, and found to yield well; paying placers exist in the gulehes and at the foot of almost all the canons ‘. Of the coast range of mountains; many of them having heen worked to profit in former ears. .A scarcity of water has delayed a rieh product in gold from these placers, which ohstacle may readily he overcome by a little enterprise in conducting water a short distance to the placers. “At oué of the poiuts, in the vicinity ahove.mentioned, where placer claims have been located, one nugget worth $250 was ere! with numbers of a smaller deuominaion. i ‘VIRGINIA CITY AND VICINITY. During the: month of November, Wells, Fargo & Co., according to the Gold Hill News, shipped from their Gold Hill offico alone $483,307 worth of bullion. The News thinks ‘this amount will he exceeded every month for the next twelve. The. last quarterly yield of thé mines of. that distiict, according to the Virginia Enterprise, was $2,452,482.45. he average value per ton was $30.08 ad valorem, -. numher of tons extracted, 71,49514. Sone very rich rock has recently heeu taken from the Mexican mine, which shows considerahle free gold. Seventeen tons of this class of rock has heen worked at the. company’s mill, which has averaged $800 per ton. ‘he company expects to keep its own mill working on the same class of rock all winter. The Nye County News speaks of several piles of the-finest ore, at the Pioneer mill, that can be found in the State of Nevada. The ore is from the Pleiades, Mouutain Brow, Hohart, and Stonewall claims, in the Union district, nnd the Josephine clain, Mammoth district. ‘I'he Wews hopes to ohtain the fignres for this week, when it is completed. ‘The same paper says that George W-. Veatch, Snperintenderit of the Atlantic and Pacific Compauy,. shipped a ton of .ore, a few days since; to Goss & Lamhard, at Sacramento, from wi This ore was taken: from the Silver Age, one of the claims belonging tp that company, and located near.the town.of Union. A sample, assayed by ‘Thomas Cahill, yielded at: the rate of $4,711.35, to the ton. It will he reduced in New York, and the result will no douht convioce the capitalists at the Mast that Union district, is justly. entitled to the good reputatiou it has attained, -hotb at home and abroad. The Hale & Norcross Company have recently comménced hoisting ore frem the upper level of the mine, 177 feet from the surfacc. This ore pays about #35 to the ton, and a body of it exists there lurty-five feet long by eight or tevin width. One hundred tons of’ the ore is broken up and being hoisted, and the company hope to pay all expenses of running the mine as they go along 'f'his is a continuation of the same hody of ore which was worked in the upper level of the Potosi. We are not informed why-this one has been allowed to lay so long in sight and unworked—perhaps, however, it was not known to be valuable. ' ESMERALDA. The new mining districts recently established around, and mostly to the northward and eastward of Esmeralda are rapidly attracting the attention of prospectors and capitalists. An entirely new aud interesting district has just been organized about 100 miles east of Mono Lake, andin @rcgion never heretofure explored. A more full account of this discovery will be found elsewhere in the preseut issue. The Esmeralda Union notices some very ren mountain ahont 1,500 feet ahove the valley . and some four or five miles northwest of the lake. On the surface the. ore assayed.20 per, cent.and now at the depth of fifteen feet, where the vein is four feet wide, it assays, according to the Union, from 60 to 80 per cent., a great deal of it beiug almost pure copper. HUMBOLDT, © The reportof the Assessor of Hnmboldt conaty gives a very full description of the mines of this county. The*document is very’ interesting. We copy the following, in place of our usual snmmary : . 7 Gold.—Several gold ledges have heen found in this county.-.But little work has heen done on them. ‘They nre generally in a country rock called hy some geologists quartzite, and by others metamorphic graywacke. ~ : One of these ledges, in the Monroe claim, has heen worked to a small extent. It cost $20 per ton-to take the ore out and $20 more to crush and amalgamato it; but as it was necessary to haul it 30 o1ilesto a mill, twelve tons only have heen worked. The amount of bullion shipped from this couuty during the year ending September 30th—assayed—was $50,000 ; amount of crude bullion, nuassayed, 50,000. ' Lead.—Galena, much of which is highly argentiferous, is: found here in considerable quantities—always a quartz ledge. Copper.— Curhonates, sulphurets and oxyds of copper are found inlarge quantities in different parts of the county. © Like, Galena, these, ores are always in a guage of quartz, and they generally contain n large percentage of silver. . Antimony.—Sulphurets and oxyds of antimony exist here in great abundance. Someof this ore is rich in silver, and -thero 1s seareely any of it that contains less than $15 in silver per ton, : Sulphur—Sulphur, in a nearly pure state, is found in large quautities. In the vicinity of sulphur deposits there are numerous remains of hot aprings which are now extinct. Salt——Inéxhaustible salt springs and salt deposits “are found-in different parts of the county. “ PLnne—Limestone is one of the principal rocks in this section of the State. . _ ‘Thus far the work-done on the mining claims of this county has been almost entirely by way of exploring and prospecting the mines. Owing to the want of capital; hut little has heen done toward the systematic.opening and working them, and, on account: of this, some of the most promising mines in the county are not heing worked. Recently, however, a considerahle amount of capital has heen invested in operations bere, and there is renson to helieve that some of our mlhes will soon he properly opened, nnd that several mills, ndapted to the successful working of their ores, will soon he erected. REESE RIVER. We condense the following from the Revielle : Work upon the Vineyard series is heing vigorously pushed. The. Emma Seymour, Echo, aud Cast Steel ledges are particularly spoken of. Arrangements are heing made to more thoroughly prospect the new Gold Mountnin District. The assays from the croppings in this district are highly enconragiug. The Silver Hill Mill is 2 neat 10-stamp mill lately erected under the supervision of Mr. Chandler. It has prohahly commenced running hy this time, with five stamps and two furnaces. 4 An eligible and fine location has been selected by Mr.’ Thurstou, for the erection of a will on the Colfas Silver Mining Company’s ground, in Yaukce Blade Ravine. The mill, when finished, willbe one of the best in: the district. I'he ore will be crushed dry, and then conveyed mechanically direct to the roasting furnaces. _.'The whole arrangement of hand-. ling the ores is made according to thc best’ devised plans of the Midas, Confidence, Keystone, ctc. ‘he furnace building has been designed for eight furnaces. The motive power will be supplied with a 130 horse-power engiue,. Capt. Page and party have recently returned from the Eureka district. They pronounce the district. very jponkiog and have brougbt in great masses of ore from the Great Republic and Burning Moscow ledges. ; Capt. Shears of the Murphy mine, nt Twin ‘river has brought in to Austin samples of the ore procured from the shaft which he is now sinking on the ledge, which fully equal the best yet obtainedfrom the miue.-~the gangue is . pure quartz, and the only perceptible mineral . is antimonial silver, with the faintest blush of < IDAHO. . A correspondent of the Statesman, published at Boise City, Idaho Territory, writing from Ruby City, L.T., says that operations in feet have been heavier there, of late, than ever hefore. The consequence of this demand for “feet” in that vicinity will he that an immense amonnt of mining property will soon be placed in the New York and nther mining markets for disposal. The enine correspondent says that no company has yet. parehased mines in Owyhee and heen disappointed in finding them, ‘pou inspection, to warrant the erection of tills. That some one may be yet taken in, he does not doubt, but there is no such thing as failure yet. All the companies that have sent . their ageuts there for the parpose of inspecting their pnrchases have gone right to work to improve their property. Mr. B. T. Dalton had heen. at Ruhy City, for some/days, and had already seeured [we presnme, for snle in New York—Kp. Press] & large amonnt of. the best claims in this connty, }among which are six hundred feet in a north extension of the Oro Fino, fonr hundred feet in the first south extension of the Morning Star, two hnndred feet south extension in the . Hays & Ray, two thousand feet Home Ticket, eight hundred feet in the Dashawny, one thonsand in the Rising Star. The above nre not one-half of the whole amonnt, bat. nre only some of those best known to be wide and good ledges. : Mr. Ryan, also from the snmo place, has seeured for disposal nbout ten thousand feet, priucipally iu the Flint District. If no more thau one-half of these mines shall he sold, and work commenced upon them, next season will be one of unexampled netivity and prosperity. The Cosmos is the name of a new mill just commeneed a short distance ahove Silver, hy a New York company, William Mnsgrave, snperinteudent. The eompany owns the first south extension of the Silver Legion, and the seeond south extension of the Morning Star, both known to be very rich. The mill wall he im operation some time in January. According to the Avalanche, pnoblished at Ruhy City, one-stamp mills are heeoming qnite a feature in that region,'as nearly every house has one, worked hy man or hoy power, quicksilver flasks and short iron bars often comprise the entire machinery. Some, more pretentious, are fixing up “ spring poles” to facilitate the work of reduction: A large nmount of bullion is said to be taken out hy these simnle appliances, a fact indicative of the extraordinary mineral wealth of that region. Shoenhar'’s mill is in snecessfnl operation on Trask & Jennings’ rock. The mill of Morse & Vess, at Silver City, nre crushing rock for the CoTumhia ledge. Mining Inventions. The Idaho World makes the following snggestions to practical miners : In the working of placer niiues the spirit of invention lies dormant. Hydraulics, sluices, rockers, give not way to anything new or hetter; “stripping” the ground is not ns yet aided hy any machinery to lessen human toilBat the time may come when these huge hanks of dirt, which so much retard the miner hy having to he moved by the single shoveiful, will melt before the ingenuity of man like snow hefore a Chinook wind. Ways and means have ever been superinduced hy necessity. Whenever lahoring men will fully realize that within their own reach lies this great desideratum, that they must uot depend on the professions and other vocatious to invent great improvements, then we cnn hope for more general prosperity. Our intelligent politician does not know how long a time it requires to shovel a ton of gravel or a cord of dirt; our doctors don’t pretend to explnin what kind of oil is hest adapted to gun-locks ; nor our lawyers to know whether n sluice-hend of water is twenty inches square or twenty square inches. Consequently it devolves upon the miner to give fulf sway to his inventive faculties if he would benefit his own class. He need not lay down the shovel to enahle him to think; brain and muscle can work together ; reason can control thonghts and bring them into the proper channel. It is the study of what we lnve read thnt expands the intellect. When men shnil stndy cause and effect, instead of depending entirely upon the discoveries of the past, the pages of their hidden knowledge will be opened. An Inaense Frnova-The editor of the Grass Valley National has been presented with an immense fungus—a mushroom—-whieh measured twenty-one inches in circumference. The nforesaid editor nssnres his rcaders that he rich discoveries of copper receutly made uear. raby. Itis believed that this ore will assay . ate it—haviug heen advised to do so by “n Mono Lake. The ledge crops out on a bar-. as ingh as $1,000 in silver to the ton. Frenchman.” uf ‘

358 The Biining wl Srievtific Dress. sAlining ‘Summary, 7 ALIFORNIA. Yrexi.—Some of the richest claims in the connty, situate on the lower: part of Indian Creek, have been. allowed to retain their wealth on account of. the impracticability of working them, there being no ‘way to'drain them. ‘This, snys the Yreka Journal; is ahnut-to be reniedied. Mr. 8.8. Richardson.ig ahout to orregarded with wuch’ favor hy, those making them. The silverteads below Ophir have particnlarly engaged attention-of Inte, and somei ike a. Mining: . neighhorhood..The .Pacifi¢ Company is said to he taking‘out some ‘splendid rock, very rich in silver. —. Ce 2 The Boulder ledge, near Ophir, owned by Daniel Choate, and which was worked about nine years-age, was -sold.this week to San Fraucisco partles, for $6,000. “This claim formerly produced.good roek, hut the imperfee. ¥ tion of mining machinery; and the great expense attending quartz mining at that time, prevented its--successiul.development. ‘The new purchasery ‘intend ‘giving it a thorough prospecting,.and are. confident it will prove a valuable mine: -: : Great numbers of expert.miners are visiting the regions’ ahont -Anbnrn; Ophir; and Lone Star districts, of Tate, 0d. so.far, says: the Herald, all. seem to-be-favorally impressed, nnd generally express surprise that:a region so prolific in’ quartz veins, and hearing so many favorahle indications, should have lain so long comparatively neglected ; and.that, too, when it is the most accessihle-of any quartz region iu the State. = : Oataveras.—The County Assessor's report for this county.sets down the numher of quartz mills “at, thirty-nine, and the ditches at filtyeight, the: latter valued at $122,000. The Keystone mine, at Copperopolis, under the efficient: superintendence of Mr. Sheldon, has heéi at least. partially redeemed from the condition in which it is said he found it, two years ago. Powerful hoisting works have recently been erected over the shaft near the Union line, and a number of miners helow are engaged in stoping down the nre. It is the intention of the company to keep a sufficient force at work.to extract five hundred tons of ore per month: during the winter season, after which it.ig helieved the mine will he sufficiently opened to yield a much larger nmount. TuoLUMNE.—Recent mining sales are reported in this county as follows: Blue Gulch mine, near Jacksonville, sold hy Mathews & Allen, in priagelphis, for $300,000 ; Rawhide mine, by Willis, Hodge & Fry, $75,000; Ripperdan mine; $11,000; one-half Shanghae, $27,000 ; Comstock mine, $125,000; Consuelo, by Gardiner, $300,000. Bonita, $280,000. The greater portion of -this money will be expended in building mills, opening the mines, etc. These sales have taken place during the past sumuier. The Courier says if a stranger desires to know what is heing done in the way of improvements he hag but to visit the North Fork, near Summerville. Two large twenty-stamp wills-are being constructed nn the most improved plan. No expénse is spared to make them the hest mills in the county, nnd eqnal to any on the Pacific coast, Amanor.—We have quite a list of items from Amador, this week, which we coudense as follows from the Dispateh and Ledger : The work of pntting in twenty additional stamps in the Oneida mill, at Jackson, is ncurly completed—making it a forty stamper. ‘Vhe ore from the middle shaft looks well, and is reported to be paying well. A very large number of hands are employed at these works, J The Keystone, at Amador, is said to be paying better than ‘ever. The Mahoney miue, at Sutter Creek, is now fully prospected to the depth of 60 feet. The rock at that depth is equal to the best, and since the recent rains their millis grinding out bullion at a rate entirely satisfactory. fhe Railroad is proving itself one of the finest mincs in the county. The preseut ruu of about 200.tons will reach $20 per ton, Tho Coney Tead mill, at Amador, is now crushing, on an average, fifteen tons of rock daily, which pays from $12 to $15 per ton. The Blue Jacket, the first extension of the Coney, is owned hy Dunning, Little and Burwell, and hids fair to soon become one of the valuahle mines of Amador. Sixty-four tons of surfage rock, crushed last weck at the Kearsing fever is raging in the, ill, yielded over five dollars per ton. “The -hoys say they can make five.hundred dollars per month at that rate’ per ton,and they can.y [They must be ahle to take out and crush their ore very cheap to do it.] A Deep Shaft—The proprietors of the /Enreka mine, Messrs. Hayward & Chamberlain, will soon hegiu the work-of sinking the south -shaft, now abdut 960 feet deep, to a depth of 1,500 feet. This-is 1 .very important enterprise; and reflects much-credit on the energy of the proprietors. We-trust the enterprise will prove a profitable one. At Sutter Creek’ . a large number of mines have been’ tested at rdepths from 200 to nearly 1,000 feet, and in no instance has any evidence been afforded to the contrary. —. ee _ A correspondent of the Diéspateh, writing from Volcano, says the Tellurium Company [mill, we suppose. has suspended operations for a short time; the-Mountain Mill has also stopped work. ‘lhe work in the mines is still progressing. We learn from another source that the Tellurium Company have struck it richer than ever in their lower tunnel. ° _ Los AnerLrs.—We learn from. the News that some rich diggings have reeently heen taken up in the vicinity of San Fernando, and . which have heen thoroughly prospected, and found to yield well; paying placers exist in the gulehes and at the foot of almost all the canons ‘. Of the coast range of mountains; many of them having heen worked to profit in former ears. .A scarcity of water has delayed a rieh product in gold from these placers, which ohstacle may readily he overcome by a little enterprise in conducting water a short distance to the placers. “At oué of the poiuts, in the vicinity ahove.mentioned, where placer claims have been located, one nugget worth $250 was ere! with numbers of a smaller deuominaion. i ‘VIRGINIA CITY AND VICINITY. During the: month of November, Wells, Fargo & Co., according to the Gold Hill News, shipped from their Gold Hill offico alone $483,307 worth of bullion. The News thinks ‘this amount will he exceeded every month for the next twelve. The. last quarterly yield of thé mines of. that distiict, according to the Virginia Enterprise, was $2,452,482.45. he average value per ton was $30.08 ad valorem, -. numher of tons extracted, 71,49514. Sone very rich rock has recently heeu taken from the Mexican mine, which shows considerahle free gold. Seventeen tons of this class of rock has heen worked at the. company’s mill, which has averaged $800 per ton. ‘he company expects to keep its own mill working on the same class of rock all winter. The Nye County News speaks of several piles of the-finest ore, at the Pioneer mill, that can be found in the State of Nevada. The ore is from the Pleiades, Mouutain Brow, Hohart, and Stonewall claims, in the Union district, nnd the Josephine clain, Mammoth district. ‘I'he Wews hopes to ohtain the fignres for this week, when it is completed. ‘The same paper says that George W-. Veatch, Snperintenderit of the Atlantic and Pacific Compauy,. shipped a ton of .ore, a few days since; to Goss & Lamhard, at Sacramento, from wi This ore was taken: from the Silver Age, one of the claims belonging tp that company, and located near.the town.of Union. A sample, assayed by ‘Thomas Cahill, yielded at: the rate of $4,711.35, to the ton. It will he reduced in New York, and the result will no douht convioce the capitalists at the Mast that Union district, is justly. entitled to the good reputatiou it has attained, -hotb at home and abroad. The Hale & Norcross Company have recently comménced hoisting ore frem the upper level of the mine, 177 feet from the surfacc. This ore pays about #35 to the ton, and a body of it exists there lurty-five feet long by eight or tevin width. One hundred tons of’ the ore is broken up and being hoisted, and the company hope to pay all expenses of running the mine as they go along 'f'his is a continuation of the same hody of ore which was worked in the upper level of the Potosi. We are not informed why-this one has been allowed to lay so long in sight and unworked—perhaps, however, it was not known to be valuable. ' ESMERALDA. The new mining districts recently established around, and mostly to the northward and eastward of Esmeralda are rapidly attracting the attention of prospectors and capitalists. An entirely new aud interesting district has just been organized about 100 miles east of Mono Lake, andin @rcgion never heretofure explored. A more full account of this discovery will be found elsewhere in the preseut issue. The Esmeralda Union notices some very ren mountain ahont 1,500 feet ahove the valley . and some four or five miles northwest of the lake. On the surface the. ore assayed.20 per, cent.and now at the depth of fifteen feet,

where the vein is four feet wide, it assays, according to the Union, from 60 to 80 per cent., a great deal of it beiug almost pure copper. HUMBOLDT, © The reportof the Assessor of Hnmboldt conaty gives a very full description of the mines of this county. The*document is very’ interesting. We copy the following, in place of our usual snmmary : . 7 Gold.—Several gold ledges have heen found in this county.-.But little work has heen done on them. ‘They nre generally in a country rock called hy some geologists quartzite, and by others metamorphic graywacke. ~ : One of these ledges, in the Monroe claim, has heen worked to a small extent. It cost $20 per ton-to take the ore out and $20 more to crush and amalgamato it; but as it was necessary to haul it 30 o1ilesto a mill, twelve tons only have heen worked. The amount of bullion shipped from this couuty during the year ending September 30th—assayed—was $50,000 ; amount of crude bullion, nuassayed, 50,000. ' Lead.—Galena, much of which is highly argentiferous, is: found here in considerable quantities—always a quartz ledge. Copper.— Curhonates, sulphurets and oxyds of copper are found inlarge quantities in different parts of the county. © Like, Galena, these, ores are always in a guage of quartz, and they generally contain n large percentage of silver. . Antimony.—Sulphurets and oxyds of antimony exist here in great abundance. Someof this ore is rich in silver, and -thero 1s seareely any of it that contains less than $15 in silver per ton, : Sulphur—Sulphur, in a nearly pure state, is found in large quautities. In the vicinity of sulphur deposits there are numerous remains of hot aprings which are now extinct. Salt——Inéxhaustible salt springs and salt deposits “are found-in different parts of the county. “ PLnne—Limestone is one of the principal rocks in this section of the State. . _ ‘Thus far the work-done on the mining claims of this county has been almost entirely by way of exploring and prospecting the mines. Owing to the want of capital; hut little has heen done toward the systematic.opening and working them, and, on account: of this, some of the most promising mines in the county are not heing worked. Recently, however, a considerahle amount of capital has heen invested in operations bere, and there is renson to helieve that some of our mlhes will soon he properly opened, nnd that several mills, ndapted to the successful working of their ores, will soon he erected. REESE RIVER. We condense the following from the Revielle : Work upon the Vineyard series is heing vigorously pushed. The. Emma Seymour, Echo, aud Cast Steel ledges are particularly spoken of. Arrangements are heing made to more thoroughly prospect the new Gold Mountnin District. The assays from the croppings in this district are highly enconragiug. The Silver Hill Mill is 2 neat 10-stamp mill lately erected under the supervision of Mr. Chandler. It has prohahly commenced running hy this time, with five stamps and two furnaces. 4 An eligible and fine location has been selected by Mr.’ Thurstou, for the erection of a will on the Colfas Silver Mining Company’s ground, in Yaukce Blade Ravine. The mill, when finished, willbe one of the best in: the district. I'he ore will be crushed dry, and then conveyed mechanically direct to the roasting furnaces. _.'The whole arrangement of hand-. ling the ores is made according to thc best’ devised plans of the Midas, Confidence, Keystone, ctc. ‘he furnace building has been designed for eight furnaces. The motive power will be supplied with a 130 horse-power engiue,. Capt. Page and party have recently returned from the Eureka district. They pronounce the district. very jponkiog and have brougbt in great masses of ore from the Great Republic and Burning Moscow ledges. ; Capt. Shears of the Murphy mine, nt Twin ‘river has brought in to Austin samples of the ore procured from the shaft which he is now sinking on the ledge, which fully equal the best yet obtainedfrom the miue.-~the gangue is . pure quartz, and the only perceptible mineral . is antimonial silver, with the faintest blush of < IDAHO. . A correspondent of the Statesman, published at Boise City, Idaho Territory, writing from Ruby City, L.T., says that operations in feet have been heavier there, of late, than ever hefore. The consequence of this demand for “feet” in that vicinity will he that an immense amonnt of mining property will soon be placed in the New York and nther mining markets for disposal. The enine correspondent says that no company has yet. parehased mines in Owyhee and heen disappointed in finding them, ‘pou inspection, to warrant the erection of tills. That some one may be yet taken in, he does not doubt, but there is no such thing as failure yet. All the companies that have sent . their ageuts there for the parpose of inspecting their pnrchases have gone right to work to improve their property. Mr. B. T. Dalton had heen. at Ruhy City, for some/days, and had already seeured [we presnme, for snle in New York—Kp. Press] & large amonnt of. the best claims in this connty, }among which are six hundred feet in a north extension of the Oro Fino, fonr hundred feet in the first south extension of the Morning Star, two hnndred feet south extension in the . Hays & Ray, two thousand feet Home Ticket, eight hundred feet in the Dashawny, one thonsand in the Rising Star. The above nre not one-half of the whole amonnt, bat. nre only some of those best known to be wide and good ledges. : Mr. Ryan, also from the snmo place, has seeured for disposal nbout ten thousand feet, priucipally iu the Flint District. If no more thau one-half of these mines shall he sold, and work commenced upon them, next season will be one of unexampled netivity and prosperity. The Cosmos is the name of a new mill just commeneed a short distance ahove Silver, hy a New York company, William Mnsgrave, snperinteudent. The eompany owns the first south extension of the Silver Legion, and the seeond south extension of the Morning Star, both known to be very rich. The mill wall he im operation some time in January. According to the Avalanche, pnoblished at Ruhy City, one-stamp mills are heeoming qnite a feature in that region,'as nearly every house has one, worked hy man or hoy power, quicksilver flasks and short iron bars often comprise the entire machinery. Some, more pretentious, are fixing up “ spring poles” to facilitate the work of reduction: A large nmount of bullion is said to be taken out hy these simnle appliances, a fact indicative of the extraordinary mineral wealth of that region. Shoenhar'’s mill is in snecessfnl operation on Trask & Jennings’ rock. The mill of Morse & Vess, at Silver City, nre crushing rock for the CoTumhia ledge. Mining Inventions. The Idaho World makes the following snggestions to practical miners : In the working of placer niiues the spirit of invention lies dormant. Hydraulics, sluices, rockers, give not way to anything new or hetter; “stripping” the ground is not ns yet aided hy any machinery to lessen human toilBat the time may come when these huge hanks of dirt, which so much retard the miner hy having to he moved by the single shoveiful, will melt before the ingenuity of man like snow hefore a Chinook wind. Ways and means have ever been superinduced hy necessity. Whenever lahoring men will fully realize that within their own reach lies this great desideratum, that they must uot depend on the professions and other vocatious to invent great improvements, then we cnn hope for more general prosperity. Our intelligent politician does not know how long a time it requires to shovel a ton of gravel or a cord of dirt; our doctors don’t pretend to explnin what kind of oil is hest adapted to gun-locks ; nor our lawyers to know whether n sluice-hend of water is twenty inches square or twenty square inches. Consequently it devolves upon the miner to give fulf sway to his inventive faculties if he would benefit his own class. He need not lay down the shovel to enahle him to think; brain and muscle can work together ; reason can control thonghts and bring them into the proper channel. It is the study of what we lnve read thnt expands the intellect. When men shnil stndy cause and effect, instead of depending entirely upon the discoveries of the past, the pages of their hidden knowledge will be opened. An Inaense Frnova-The editor of the Grass Valley National has been presented with an immense fungus—a mushroom—-whieh measured twenty-one inches in circumference. The nforesaid editor nssnres his rcaders that he rich discoveries of copper receutly made uear. raby. Itis believed that this ore will assay . ate it—haviug heen advised to do so by “n Mono Lake. The ledge crops out on a bar-. as ingh as $1,000 in silver to the ton. Frenchman.” uf ‘