Volume 12 (1866) (428 pages)

Zz) raat of Useful Arts, Srience, and Alining aud Alechanical Lrogress. DEWEY & CO., PUBLISHERS And Patent Svilclturs, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1866. : POET ME XI, Number 2, TABLE OF CONTENTS. uartz Mining Near Aubarn. Ken ani€ at —More About Metal Alloys; Titanle tren; Forgine pad Wekling Cast Stecl; The Use of Steel Ralls —Paient Ubinined, A New Knitting Machine. Mining Sunsmucs. Editorial and Sulected. Minivg Shareltolders’ DireeTho Age of the Gold Bearliy Kock+—No. . eand Furmation of Metul Bourbig Rocks. Patera’s Process on Sliver, Cres in Lower Callfornks. Sages sure hliite in California) A Sevmla Minis Bill MNinersin Excelsior Movlig— Elevtlon of Delegates to Mate Munday Conventlon, tory. Moners' Convenilon-Electloujatock Sales and Reports, of Delegates Irouy Suy Fran {san Francisco Prices Current Now Mining aud Other Ad: yertiseuicuts, etc. cisco. Laiter trom Grass Valley. Patera's Process on Silver Ores in Lower Oalifornia, Enitors Mixing axp Seiestiric Press :—In the vicinity of Son Antonio, Lower Culifornin, there nre many silver mines producing ores, much of which is shipped to Murope, and a portion treated on the spot, by the barrel process. The genernl character of the ores is marked by a eonsidernhle amount of antimony. Mr. Ernst, with some others, concluded to try the Putera proeess, nnd made an experiment on nine hundred pounds of ore, containing somewhat above one hundred dollors per ton. They cloim to have obtuined ninety-one per cent of thie silver assay, nnd therefore commeneed to put op tho neeessnry tubs without delay. Mr. Beseler, who came hack npon the Inst steamer, informs me that the eompany is already in possession of four stomps, stenm power, nnd two lnrge ronsting furnaces; and thot they ealeulate to work four tons of eustom ore per day, charging thirty-five dollars per ton, ond agreeing to extrnet the silver within ten per cent. of the fire nssny. According to those charges they enn treut profitably oll ores yielding forty dollars nnd upward. The ehoiee between the precipitation processes was doubtless very rensonable ; ns the use of hypo-sulphits of soda is for preferable to the sult solution, asa solvent agent; for while there nre required sixty-eight parts of salt to dissolve one purt of chloride of eilver, only tio parts of hypo-sulphite of soda will be required to dissolve the like omount. Another ndvantage is the ¢old and dilnted condition in whieb the hypo-sulphite solvent can be used ; also, the eontinual re-production of tbe solvent during the process ; so that a full supply of the hypo-sulphite is required only for the start. The very richest ore may be treated by this proeess without diffieulty; requiring, bowever, D proper ronsting. Lead, to the amount of twelve or fifteen per eent., is not injurious. Patera's process is extensively used in Huuga~ ry, Germany, ete. An establisbment employing that process is nlso iu operatiou in Australia. Dr. Lanszweert, in on artiele lately published in the Minine anp Serentiric' Press, very properly calls the ntténtion of those eoncerned in the reduction of silver on the Pueifie eoast to that proeess ; especially where the roasting is a conditio sine gua non ; for inetnnce, at faces River, Homholdt, ete. By all menns, this proeess' deserves more attention than the nse of sodium amalgum, whicb, as I showed by experiments some time ago, and deseribed in the eolumns of the Minino anp Scienriric Press of November 18, 1865, is deeomposed by the iron of the pan in n very short time-—a faet easily ascertained by on one who wishes to diseover for himsell’ whether sodium nmalgnm is ol nny use in iron pans. Stotements as to obtniniug eighty-five per cent. by applieation of sodium, if the ore be ol a nature that only fifty-five per cent. ean be extracted without souiom, in irou pans, are simply “untrue,” unless a sufficient amount of sodium is used to render the eost of the extraction of the ‘silver much niore than its value. ; _ G. Kusren,. Y. port of the capitol stoek of the banks. Miners in Excelsior Moving---State Miners’ Oonventinn. Preamble ond resolution snhmitted hy a conlmittee oppointed nt o “ prinimry miners’ meeting,” held at Denton’s Snloon, A street, Summit City, January 5, 1866: Wuerras, it has been definitely determined thnt a State Miners’ Convention bas besn called, and is to meet at Saernmento, Cul., on the 17th inst.; ond, whereas, Excelsior Mining District is entitled to a representation, and should be represented in said State Miners’ Convention ; und, whereas, two irregnlar miners’ meetings, without general notice, have been held in said Exeelsior Mining District to nppoint delegates to snid State Miners’ Convention, and two sets of delegntes have already been nppointed. ; Now, therelore, to prevent confusion and wrong ; and that the miners genernily of said Excelsior District may exereise a choice in the seleetion of said delegntes, this comuinittee recommend that the miners of the following precinets, viz—lIst. Wiglhtman’s Camp; 2d. Enterprise Camp ; 3d. Summit City ; 4th. Old Man Mountvin; 5th. Bloody Run; ond, 6th. Kixcelsior Cainp—be requested to meet together on Sunday evening next, at two o’eloek, ot Denton’s Snloon, in Summit City, on A street, to select nnd elect delegntes to represent Hxcelsior Distriet in snid Stute Miners’ Convention ; nnd it is hereby further reeommended and resolved by the committee, that the Chairman of this meeting enuse notiee of sueh proposed mecting to be given in the various mining precinets as soon ns prueticable, so tbnt a general nttendance’ may be secured, Yom Cox, Chairman. Preamhle and resolutions were adopted, nnd the Chairman of the primory meeting; J. E. Brokaw, eaused notiee to issus to the miners of the several Camps. Parsuant to previous call and notice, the miners of Excelsior Mining District, on the 7th day of January, 1866, at the saloon of A. Denton, on A street, in Summit City, Nevada eonnty, Cal., at two o’cloek P. M., met in Mass Convention and eleeted the following named delegntes to represent Exeelsior Mining District in the State Miners’ Convention nforesaid, viz: J. A. Brumsey, Tom Cox, Fitzgerald, A. K. Stewart and J. TH. Sennant. Tbe election hnving been made unanimous, it was deelnored as the sense of the meeting that the miners of Exeelsior Mining Distriet were opposed to governmental interferenee with the mines, and believed that their eontrol should be left, ae heretofore, to the eustome, usages and regulatione of the mining district in whieh they ure. situated. After a vote that the proceedings herein be forwarded to the Sacramento Union and MinING AND. Serentiric. Press, with a request that the same be published, the miners present came forward and signed their names, endorsing all action taken, and tho meetiug adjourned sine die. J. E. Broxaw, Chairmnn. G. Zaemantan, Seeretary. . Bank Prorits.—It is said ‘that there nre unelaimed deposits, to the amount of $40,000, 000, in the Savings Banks of New York. These millions’ have been aeeumulating for upwards of a century, and are now regarded ns A pretty handsome profit over and ahove the ordiunry profits of businese. Sournern Trapr.— Tweuty-three ocean steamships recently cleared at New York in one day, of whieh only one was for Europe, nineteen were for various Southern ports, and Miners’ Onnventinn --Election of Delegates from San Francisco, 2 Pursuant to notice, a meeting of miners was called to order at No. 240 Montgomery. street, on the 12tb of January, 1866, nt 74 o’cloek P. M., by J. W. Pierson, Esq., nnd upon motion, Hon. W. B. May wns ehosen Chairman, ond J. B. Whitcomb, Esq., ond M. G. Elmore were chosen Seeretarics. Upon motion of D. 8. Cutter, the following order of business was adopted : : 1st. Permanent Organization ; 2d. Election of Delegates to the State Convention; 3d. Resolutions and general remnorks; 4th. Appointing Committees, etc., ete. Upon motion of C. F. Wood, the Chairman was nuthorized to nppoint a comuinittee of three to nominate delegates to the Convention, whereupon the Chairman appointed Messrs. C. F. Wood, D. 8S. Cutter and J. W. Pierson. The Committee, upon consultation, reported the following names, whieh were adopted nod duly elected : LIST OF DELEGATES. A. J. Snyder, Jos. W. Low, J. M. Pierson, John Heinsley, Geo. Hearst, D. 8S, Cutter, J. W. Gushwaller, Col. H. 8. Fitch, Wn. T. Foye, Wm. Hollis, Harvey S. Brown, W. B. Ewer, Dnniel H. Mitchell, William B. May, C. F, Wood, A.'l. Dewey, G. Kustel, John S. Henning, G. Owens, E.T. Stein, E. D. Waters, Leigh Hurnet, Win. M. Lent, A. Hemme, iW. P. Pool, B. F. Sherwood, Loyd Tevis, J. B. Owens, Wr. Thompson, Jr, A. Hayward, J. A. Mars. . Col. H. S. Fiteh offered the following resolution, which was adopted ; Resolved, ‘Phat the committee nlready sppointed for the seleetion of names for delegates to tbe Miners’ Convention be authorized severally to report ndditional names, such ae may be fit and proper, at any time between this date and Tuesday next. The following resolution was offered by D. 8S. Cutter, whieh wns ndopted : Resolved, 'That this meeting indorse the California Mining Burean Assoeiation, now orgonized in San Fraueiseo, and recommend it to tbe favorable eonsideration of tbe State Convention to be held nt Sacramento on the 17th inst. Upon motion of Harvey S. Brown, the delegates eleet were requested to hold a meeting at room 7, No. 240 Montgomery street, on Saturday, the 13th, at 3 o’elock P. M., and at 7 P.M., on Monday, the 15th. The Chairman then notified the delegation that upon calling on J. B. Whiteomb, Esq., tbey would be supplied with eredentials. There heing no further business, the meeting adjourued sine die. ; J. B, Warreoms, Secretary. Derr Anrestan Wett.—Wnm. M. Lent is sinking, nt Santa Clarn, on artesian well, whieh j is now down more than seven hundred feet, and has not struek wuter yet. At San Jose, only three miles distnnt, water is nbundant three bundred feet from the surfaee. Ir has been caleulated thot iron wire eondueted eleetricity 400,000,000 times hetter than fresh water, and 4,000,000 timee better the remaiuing three for various Kastern ports. than sen water. A NEVADA MINING BILL. Ths following Bill was introduced into the Nevnda Legislnture on the 8th instant, by Hon, Mr. Glover, of Storey connty : An Act relnting to Incorporated Mining Companies nnd for tho Protcetion of Stockholders in the same. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as Iollows : Srerion 1. It shnllbe tho duty of the Superintendent, Seeretary, or managirg ngent having charge and contro) of the books and business of ayy eompuny, incorporated for the purpose of working a mine loeated within this State, to publish quarterly or eause to be puh-, lished in one dnily newspaper of the eounty in which such minsis located, and if there be none in tbat eounty, then in one published in the county nearest to the locntion of the mine, a statement ofthe affairs of the company, including its liabilities nnd assets, the proceeds and disbursements of the preceding qnarter, for whnt such disbursements were mnde and linbilities contrneted, and the present eondition of the miue. Suehstatement to ba subseribed and sworn to before some offieer empowered hy law to administer onths in the said county, Sree. 2. Any Superintendent, Seeretory or managing agent whose duty it shall be to make, subseribe, swenr to and publish the stntement as provided in the foregoing section, who shall willfully and designedly make onth to and publish a false statement of the nffairs of tbe eompany for which sueh statsment is made, shall be deemed guilty of perjury and Hable to ths pains and penalties prescribed by: law forthe same. s Seo. 3. Any stoekholder upon presentntion to tbe Superintendent or other person having ehargs and eontrol of tbe mine of sny incorporated mining company, of a eertificate of the stock of said compnny issuedin his own name, may demand ndmittance to the mine and works of the compnny, and the Superintendent or other person having charge and control thereof shal] ndmit sueh stockholder tn any and all parts of the same. Pxvmzaoo, whieh has heretofore ruled quite high in the markets of the world, for the reason that a good quality of that mineral hae heretofore been found in only a few localities on the globe, ie now being found in lorge quantities in various porte of the earth. Large discoveries of yhis valunhle mineral are stated to have been mnde in the inland distriets of the Cape of Good Hope. A snmple of eight bags has already heen shipped to England, in order to test its value in the home market. It ie found in various parts of the Eastern Stntes; and a new and extensive deposit is said to have been recently diseovered in the town of Riehmond, Maine. Reports pronounce the mine one of the best in the United States, It is found in quitea number of loealities in California. Large quonotities, and of a very good quality, are found within eight miles of a good shipping pointin Loe Angeles county. It oecurs in great abundance in Mariposa county where a new process hns recently been adopted for its purifieation, which it is believed will prove a valunhle discovery, and still farther reduee ite commeretal value. AN OIL WELL was recently opened on the Yerry Farm, in West Virginia, whieh threw out large quantities of water and gas, mixed with n small quantity of oil, to a hight of seventy feet! ‘The dischnrge was neeompanied with n roaring like the exhaust pipe of a eteamhoat.

Zz) raat of Useful Arts, Srience, and Alining aud Alechanical Lrogress. DEWEY & CO., PUBLISHERS And Patent Svilclturs, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1866. : POET ME XI, Number 2, TABLE OF CONTENTS. uartz Mining Near Aubarn. Ken ani€ at —More About Metal Alloys; Titanle tren; Forgine pad Wekling Cast Stecl; The Use of Steel Ralls —Paient Ubinined, A New Knitting Machine. Mining Sunsmucs. Editorial and Sulected. Minivg Shareltolders’ DireeTho Age of the Gold Bearliy Kock+—No. . eand Furmation of Metul Bourbig Rocks. Patera’s Process on Sliver, Cres in Lower Callfornks. Sages sure hliite in California) A Sevmla Minis Bill MNinersin Excelsior Movlig— Elevtlon of Delegates to Mate Munday Conventlon, tory. Moners' Convenilon-Electloujatock Sales and Reports, of Delegates Irouy Suy Fran {san Francisco Prices Current Now Mining aud Other Ad: yertiseuicuts, etc. cisco. Laiter trom Grass Valley. Patera's Process on Silver Ores in Lower Oalifornia, Enitors Mixing axp Seiestiric Press :—In the vicinity of Son Antonio, Lower Culifornin, there nre many silver mines producing ores, much of which is shipped to Murope, and a portion treated on the spot, by the barrel process. The genernl character of the ores is marked by a eonsidernhle amount of antimony. Mr. Ernst, with some others, concluded to try the Putera proeess, nnd made an experiment on nine hundred pounds of ore, containing somewhat above one hundred dollors per ton. They cloim to have obtuined ninety-one per cent of thie silver assay, nnd therefore commeneed to put op tho neeessnry tubs without delay. Mr. Beseler, who came hack npon the Inst steamer, informs me that the eompany is already in possession of four stomps, stenm power, nnd two lnrge ronsting furnaces; and thot they ealeulate to work four tons of eustom ore per day, charging thirty-five dollars per ton, ond agreeing to extrnet the silver within ten per cent. of the fire nssny. According to those charges they enn treut profitably oll ores yielding forty dollars nnd upward. The ehoiee between the precipitation processes was doubtless very rensonable ; ns the use of hypo-sulphits of soda is for preferable to the sult solution, asa solvent agent; for while there nre required sixty-eight parts of salt to dissolve one purt of chloride of eilver, only tio parts of hypo-sulphite of soda will be required to dissolve the like omount. Another ndvantage is the ¢old and dilnted condition in whieb the hypo-sulphite solvent can be used ; also, the eontinual re-production of tbe solvent during the process ; so that a full supply of the hypo-sulphite is required only for the start. The very richest ore may be treated by this proeess without diffieulty; requiring, bowever, D proper ronsting. Lead, to the amount of twelve or fifteen per eent., is not injurious. Patera's process is extensively used in Huuga~ ry, Germany, ete. An establisbment employing that process is nlso iu operatiou in Australia. Dr. Lanszweert, in on artiele lately published in the Minine anp Serentiric' Press, very properly calls the ntténtion of those eoncerned in the reduction of silver on the Pueifie eoast to that proeess ; especially where the roasting is a conditio sine gua non ; for inetnnce, at faces River, Homholdt, ete. By all menns, this proeess' deserves more attention than the nse of sodium amalgum, whicb, as I showed by experiments some time ago, and deseribed in the eolumns of the Minino anp Scienriric Press of November 18, 1865, is deeomposed by the iron of the pan in n very short time-—a faet easily ascertained by on one who wishes to diseover for himsell’ whether sodium nmalgnm is ol nny use in iron pans. Stotements as to obtniniug eighty-five per cent. by applieation of sodium, if the ore be ol a nature that only fifty-five per cent. ean be extracted without souiom, in irou pans, are simply “untrue,” unless a sufficient amount of sodium is used to render the eost of the extraction of the ‘silver much niore than its value. ; _ G. Kusren,. Y. port of the capitol stoek of the banks. Miners in Excelsior Moving---State Miners’ Oonventinn. Preamble ond resolution snhmitted hy a conlmittee oppointed nt o “ prinimry miners’ meeting,” held at Denton’s Snloon, A street, Summit City, January 5, 1866: Wuerras, it has been definitely determined thnt a State Miners’ Convention bas besn called, and is to meet at Saernmento, Cul., on the 17th inst.; ond, whereas, Excelsior Mining District is entitled to a representation, and should be represented in said State Miners’ Convention ; und, whereas, two irregnlar miners’ meetings, without general notice, have been held in said Exeelsior Mining District to nppoint delegates to snid State Miners’ Convention, and two sets of delegntes have already been nppointed. ; Now, therelore, to prevent confusion and wrong ; and that the miners genernily of said Excelsior District may exereise a choice in the seleetion of said delegntes, this comuinittee recommend that the miners of the following precinets, viz—lIst. Wiglhtman’s Camp; 2d. Enterprise Camp ; 3d. Summit City ; 4th. Old Man Mountvin; 5th. Bloody Run; ond, 6th. Kixcelsior Cainp—be requested to meet together on Sunday evening next, at two o’eloek, ot Denton’s Snloon, in Summit City, on A street, to select nnd elect delegntes to represent Hxcelsior Distriet in snid Stute Miners’ Convention ; nnd it is hereby further reeommended and resolved by the committee, that the Chairman of this meeting enuse notiee of sueh proposed mecting to be given in the various mining precinets as soon ns prueticable, so tbnt a general nttendance’ may be secured, Yom Cox, Chairman. Preamhle and resolutions were adopted, nnd the Chairman of the primory meeting; J. E. Brokaw, eaused notiee to issus to the miners of the several Camps. Parsuant to previous call and notice, the miners of Excelsior Mining District, on the 7th day of January, 1866, at the saloon of A. Denton, on A street, in Summit City, Nevada eonnty, Cal., at two o’cloek P. M., met in Mass Convention and eleeted the following named delegntes to represent Exeelsior Mining District in the State Miners’ Convention nforesaid, viz: J. A. Brumsey, Tom Cox, Fitzgerald, A. K. Stewart and J. TH. Sennant. Tbe election hnving been made unanimous, it was deelnored as the sense of the meeting that the miners of Exeelsior Mining Distriet were opposed to governmental interferenee with the mines, and believed that their eontrol should be left, ae heretofore, to the eustome, usages and regulatione of the mining district in whieh they ure. situated. After a vote that the proceedings herein be forwarded to the Sacramento Union and MinING AND. Serentiric. Press, with a request that the same be published, the miners present came forward and signed their names, endorsing all action taken, and tho meetiug adjourned sine die. J. E. Broxaw, Chairmnn. G. Zaemantan, Seeretary. . Bank Prorits.—It is said ‘that there nre

unelaimed deposits, to the amount of $40,000, 000, in the Savings Banks of New York. These millions’ have been aeeumulating for upwards of a century, and are now regarded ns A pretty handsome profit over and ahove the ordiunry profits of businese. Sournern Trapr.— Tweuty-three ocean steamships recently cleared at New York in one day, of whieh only one was for Europe, nineteen were for various Southern ports, and Miners’ Onnventinn --Election of Delegates from San Francisco, 2 Pursuant to notice, a meeting of miners was called to order at No. 240 Montgomery. street, on the 12tb of January, 1866, nt 74 o’cloek P. M., by J. W. Pierson, Esq., nnd upon motion, Hon. W. B. May wns ehosen Chairman, ond J. B. Whitcomb, Esq., ond M. G. Elmore were chosen Seeretarics. Upon motion of D. 8. Cutter, the following order of business was adopted : : 1st. Permanent Organization ; 2d. Election of Delegates to the State Convention; 3d. Resolutions and general remnorks; 4th. Appointing Committees, etc., ete. Upon motion of C. F. Wood, the Chairman was nuthorized to nppoint a comuinittee of three to nominate delegates to the Convention, whereupon the Chairman appointed Messrs. C. F. Wood, D. 8S. Cutter and J. W. Pierson. The Committee, upon consultation, reported the following names, whieh were adopted nod duly elected : LIST OF DELEGATES. A. J. Snyder, Jos. W. Low, J. M. Pierson, John Heinsley, Geo. Hearst, D. 8S, Cutter, J. W. Gushwaller, Col. H. 8. Fitch, Wn. T. Foye, Wm. Hollis, Harvey S. Brown, W. B. Ewer, Dnniel H. Mitchell, William B. May, C. F, Wood, A.'l. Dewey, G. Kustel, John S. Henning, G. Owens, E.T. Stein, E. D. Waters, Leigh Hurnet, Win. M. Lent, A. Hemme, iW. P. Pool, B. F. Sherwood, Loyd Tevis, J. B. Owens, Wr. Thompson, Jr, A. Hayward, J. A. Mars. . Col. H. S. Fiteh offered the following resolution, which was adopted ; Resolved, ‘Phat the committee nlready sppointed for the seleetion of names for delegates to tbe Miners’ Convention be authorized severally to report ndditional names, such ae may be fit and proper, at any time between this date and Tuesday next. The following resolution was offered by D. 8S. Cutter, whieh wns ndopted : Resolved, 'That this meeting indorse the California Mining Burean Assoeiation, now orgonized in San Fraueiseo, and recommend it to tbe favorable eonsideration of tbe State Convention to be held nt Sacramento on the 17th inst. Upon motion of Harvey S. Brown, the delegates eleet were requested to hold a meeting at room 7, No. 240 Montgomery street, on Saturday, the 13th, at 3 o’elock P. M., and at 7 P.M., on Monday, the 15th. The Chairman then notified the delegation that upon calling on J. B. Whiteomb, Esq., tbey would be supplied with eredentials. There heing no further business, the meeting adjourued sine die. ; J. B, Warreoms, Secretary. Derr Anrestan Wett.—Wnm. M. Lent is sinking, nt Santa Clarn, on artesian well, whieh j is now down more than seven hundred feet, and has not struek wuter yet. At San Jose, only three miles distnnt, water is nbundant three bundred feet from the surfaee. Ir has been caleulated thot iron wire eondueted eleetricity 400,000,000 times hetter than fresh water, and 4,000,000 timee better the remaiuing three for various Kastern ports. than sen water. A NEVADA MINING BILL. Ths following Bill was introduced into the Nevnda Legislnture on the 8th instant, by Hon, Mr. Glover, of Storey connty : An Act relnting to Incorporated Mining Companies nnd for tho Protcetion of Stockholders in the same. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as Iollows : Srerion 1. It shnllbe tho duty of the Superintendent, Seeretary, or managirg ngent having charge and contro) of the books and business of ayy eompuny, incorporated for the purpose of working a mine loeated within this State, to publish quarterly or eause to be puh-, lished in one dnily newspaper of the eounty in which such minsis located, and if there be none in tbat eounty, then in one published in the county nearest to the locntion of the mine, a statement ofthe affairs of the company, including its liabilities nnd assets, the proceeds and disbursements of the preceding qnarter, for whnt such disbursements were mnde and linbilities contrneted, and the present eondition of the miue. Suehstatement to ba subseribed and sworn to before some offieer empowered hy law to administer onths in the said county, Sree. 2. Any Superintendent, Seeretory or managing agent whose duty it shall be to make, subseribe, swenr to and publish the stntement as provided in the foregoing section, who shall willfully and designedly make onth to and publish a false statement of the nffairs of tbe eompany for which sueh statsment is made, shall be deemed guilty of perjury and Hable to ths pains and penalties prescribed by: law forthe same. s Seo. 3. Any stoekholder upon presentntion to tbe Superintendent or other person having ehargs and eontrol of tbe mine of sny incorporated mining company, of a eertificate of the stock of said compnny issuedin his own name, may demand ndmittance to the mine and works of the compnny, and the Superintendent or other person having charge and control thereof shal] ndmit sueh stockholder tn any and all parts of the same. Pxvmzaoo, whieh has heretofore ruled quite high in the markets of the world, for the reason that a good quality of that mineral hae heretofore been found in only a few localities on the globe, ie now being found in lorge quantities in various porte of the earth. Large discoveries of yhis valunhle mineral are stated to have been mnde in the inland distriets of the Cape of Good Hope. A snmple of eight bags has already heen shipped to England, in order to test its value in the home market. It ie found in various parts of the Eastern Stntes; and a new and extensive deposit is said to have been recently diseovered in the town of Riehmond, Maine. Reports pronounce the mine one of the best in the United States, It is found in quitea number of loealities in California. Large quonotities, and of a very good quality, are found within eight miles of a good shipping pointin Loe Angeles county. It oecurs in great abundance in Mariposa county where a new process hns recently been adopted for its purifieation, which it is believed will prove a valunhle discovery, and still farther reduee ite commeretal value. AN OIL WELL was recently opened on the Yerry Farm, in West Virginia, whieh threw out large quantities of water and gas, mixed with n small quantity of oil, to a hight of seventy feet! ‘The dischnrge was neeompanied with n roaring like the exhaust pipe of a eteamhoat.