Volume 12 (1866) (428 pages)

198 The Blining and Scientific Dress. BRiining Sanuuary. CALIFORNIA. Aping.—New ond important developments have heen recently made in the Morning Star claim, Great Mogul district, and in the Buckeye No. 2, at Scaudinavian Canon, of which we find the following account in tbe Silver Mountain Bulletin of March 17th : Great Mogul District, Alpine Co.—Johnny Bull inust bavs been reaping n rich harvest from the stockholders of the Morning Star company, (located in the ahove named district,) during the past summer and autumn, as a large amount of their ore was hauled to San Francisco during that time and sold to an agent of r Swansea (Wales) firm, lor,'we helieve, $105 per ton delivered at San Francisco. Latterly, the stockholders becoming satisfied that the ore was worth more, sent a few weeks ago a quantity of the “black ore” from their mine to the Yellow Jacket will, in Nevnda, and the following is tbs return per ton: Silver per GD, . + «$420 61 Gold » 803 O04 Copper“ 6, 78 38 $801 98 It wonld appear that our Swansea friends wers haying a very good thingif they could only bave kept it—the copper alone yielding a percentage donhle tbat of our best copper mincs in tbis State. There are two distinct characters of ore found in this celebrated mine ; ths ore designated the “ black ore,” which hos all the deusity and weight of iron ore, presents a solid mass of mineral, there being little or no rock intermixed ; thisis the ore that has been lately shipped to England, and the same as worked at the Yellow Jacket mill; the other yariety has all the appearance of the yellow copper ores, the value of which bas not as yet been ascertained, owing to its impracticable nature—none of the present appliances used in working silver ores baving as yet been able to separate the hase from the precious metals contained therein. We learn that it is the intention of the company to have the next working at the Yellow Jacket mill made up of a mixture of the two ores, and if a successful result is ohtained, to erect a similar mill ot the mine. Buckeye No. 2—Scandinacian Canon.— On Saturday evening last a report got afloat that this company had struck a“ hig thing” ia their claim, whicb is located at the source of Scandinavian Canon, about two and a half miles from town. ‘The first locntion on this lode was made by the Lady Franklin company. The Buckeye No. 2 being a nortbern extsnsion on the same lode. We paid a visit to the claim on Wednesday, aud after entering the tunnel for 140 Teet, found as well defined a ledge full six feet in thickness as we ever witoessed. We learned from J*. Mank, Hsq., tbe Superintendeut, that they struck the ledge some weeks since, but had kept things close, in order to test the ledge thoronghly, before making it public. Since first striking the ledge they have taken out ahouat fifty tons of as rich ore as can he produced from any mine this side of Montana, without assorting. There seems to be hut very little difference, as to quality, in the whole thickness of the vein, every piece of the ore heing thickly studded with ruby silver. No estimate of a yield of Jess than $100 per ton has bern mnde by those who have examined the ore taken out, but as it contains sulpbnr, antimouy and copper, toasting will have to precede the ernshing and amalgamating. we shall have to await a working return, until we bave more milling facilities than we have at present. ‘The ledge at the poiot cut is only about sixty feet from the surface croppings, but even at this superficial denth, presents a solidity not found in other ledges hundreds of feet deeper. Other miues hare are also doing finely, and the citizens of Alpine are very jubilaut over these rich and flattering prospects. Houmsotpr.—There is some excitement in Humboldt county over the reported recent discovery of a rich silver district at Black Rock. Tbe Sage Brush, publisbed at Susanville. speaks ag follows of tbe new diggiugs : Judge Harvey immediately dispatched specimens of rock tu C. Isenbeck, assnyer aud copper smelter, resident in Genesee District, Plumas county, and taking uther specimens, went in person to Unionville, Nevada, for tests. Results of assays from rock taken to Humboldt by the Judge range from a trace of silver to $418 per ton, and rm turns from Isenbeck sbow $89, $285, $650, $2,400.03, $2,100. 76c, $2,100 84, $3,300.65, 43800.37. Many other assays have been had from Isenbeck, and nearly every return justifies the belief of the discovery of a mining district unrivaled or unequaled in tbe bistory of mines. Since the establisbment of the Hardin District, Judge Harvey's camp hag heen unbroken, ond all visttants are outspoken of bis hospitality ond kindness. Ahout two weeks since Mr. Isenheck made his appearance iu our town. He is now in the employ of the Harvey company, and has gone to Black Rock. Recent iuformation from Judge Harvey and persons having returned from Black Rock, report Mr. Isenbeck highly pleased, pronouncing it the richest discovery of the age. Throughout the country tbe rumor has gone, and almost every portion of our country is represented in tbe mines. : Wecan no longer dotht. Too many evldences have beeu furnished us of the value of this district, and drifting along with tbe current of events, we bave our visions of wealth, prosperity and happiness. We find in another paper the following somewhat extraordinary statemeut regarding tbe ores from this district : The ore is said to he of a peculiar character. Specimens sent to San Frnucisco and Marysville tor assay are sometimes returned to contain not a trace of gold and silver, hat which yield largely by working process. If ths last statement is true, we agree in the opinion that either the ore or the assayer is probably of a “ peculiar cbaracter.” Cataveras County.—The following we find in the Copperopolis Courier of March 24: The strike recently made in the new shaft of the Keystone cloim bids fair to be an iinportant one. In the hottoin of the sbatt, which is about fourteen feet in depth, is a handsome lead about two feet wide. The lead is widening materially toward the northwest, and may lead to a large and valuable doposit of ore. Meader & Co. sbipped from Stockton, March 19tb, 43,420 pounds Union copper ore; March 20th, 20,130 pouods Piacex County.—The recent discovery of a gold-bearing quartz ledge, near Colfas, is causing something of a mining excitement in that vicinity. We have seen some of the rock, and would he content to own the lead, if it turns out much more of the same sort. Its richness was manifest without the aid of a glass.— Placer Herald. Nevapa Counry.—A gentleman lately down from Meadow Lake informs us, says the Nevadn Gazette, that times are quite dull there at present, but everyhody is expecting a grand rush and flush times as the season advances, If the weather bolds moderate, it is expected that the main roads will be open about the middle of April. The owners of huilding lots io the town nold them at about the same price as last fall, though little is doing iu tbe real estate line now. ‘I'he Winton mill is running regularly on rock-from the Pacific ledge. The first lot crushed yielded $56 a ton; the second lot, $65 Marysville Appeal, March 23.4 Grass Vattry.—Since the starting of the new mill on the Ione mine, Mr. Hunt, the suPerintendent of the company, has had tbe shaft Sunk some twenty feet deeper, passing entirely through the vein, which proves to be nearly three feet thick, revealing an almost inexhnustible supply of rock which will go from eighty to a hundred dolllars to the ton—Grass Vat ley Union. A Rich Strike.—Mr. Rosenherg, a miner on Wood’s Ravive, bas struck a smasbing rich streak uf nearly pure gold, mixed with decon:pused quartz and ochre. ‘fhe only machinery used is a haud mortar, and with 1t some $6,000 have been taken out since the Hirst of the year. So says the Grass Valley Union. Tue Grass Valley National of the 26th Says : Long Tom Mines —Mr. L. A. Clarke returned from the above mines on Saturday. Mr. Clarke has been in the employ of G. D. Roberts & Co., working on a quartz ledge. The company put o shnft down one bundred feet, froni which a level forty-five feet was rua due south on tle ledge. ‘The ledge is from six to eight feet thick—never less than six feet. A ten-stamp mill has been erected, and was started about the 22d of February. ‘I'he rock is easy to work, and will pay $60 per ton. Ip eight days run, 104 pounds of amalgam were cleaned up. Mr. Clarke is much pleased with the mineral prospects of that portion of California, and will return in a short time. In his opinion, G. D. Roberts & Co. have the biggest thing on this coast. Phil. 1. Colby, receatly of this place, is living at Havilah, near the Long Tom mines, where he has heen elected District Recorder by the miners. Ex-Governor Wm. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, and J. C. Birdseye, of Nevada City, are uow putting up a twenty-stamp o1ill at the latter place, W. W. Boston, of this place, having the contract for the work. Manrposa Counry.—Two hundred and ninety hars, or pigs, of smelted copper, brought from Phillips & Haskell's smelting furnace, on the Buchanan lead, at the head of Chowchilla J. Pache & Co., commission merchants, Levee creek, Mariposa county, is now nt the store of . ” street. The lot weighs seventeen thousand six hundred aud twelve pounds, and the metal assays about ninety per cent. of pure copper. A letter from tbs mive, received by a gentleman in this city, says that tbe discoveries recently made on tbe Buchnnan lead prove it to hs one of the ricbest mines found in the State. At a deptb of sixty feet, the vein of ore is five feet wide, and the minerals of an extraordinarily rich quality. Astonishing developments will undoubtedly hs made in that section of country next summer, says tbe Stockton Independent, Srerra County.-—A correspoudent of the Downieville essenger, writing from Alleghany, March 11th, gives ths following miving intelligence: Mining is rather dull at present. ‘The Masonic Company has been taking out from 150 to 160 ounces per week for some time, until last week. They had something of a cave, which was not much of a drawback, I helieve. I have not heard that they cleaned up siuce. Gov. Newell bus returocd aud commenced operations with two men. We were expecting him to work fitty or sixty, as his machinery for a new mill was on the ground, and lumber and such things needed. It is reported tbat the Sierra Nsvada Company has placed some impedimeut in lis way, and that he intends to movs his machincry. Vhs Union Company keep their mill constantly running, and are well repaid. The Oak Flat Company are diligently at work ruuning their tunnel, aud will put a new mill up in ths spring. The Twenty-one Compnny are waiting for good roads to open, so they can put up a new mill. The Fae-Simile tunnels are filled with water, so they cannot work to advantage for some little time to come. VIRGINIA CITY AND VICINITY. Tbe accounts from the Comstock continue favorable. We give tbe following : Good Ore—he Enlerprise of March 21st, says some exceedingly rich rock is now heing taken from the deposit lately struck in the lower level of tbe Ophir mine. We were yesterday sbown the certificate of an ussay made of ore taken out across the whole face of a gallery twelve feet in width which shows it to be worth $261 60 per ton. Such ore as this is hard to beat and shows that the Opbir is all tight helow. The Gould & Curry company are putting in a third pump at the Bonner shaft. ‘I'he two pluuger pumps now in use, each twelve inches in hore, raise the water 400 feet; the new pump is a lift pump of twelve inches bore and goes down helow tbe plunger pumps. When the new pump’is in, the compnny will he able to drain their mine to the depth of 800 feet, The uew pump will be in cperation ina few dnys. One engine will work the three pumps. We find the following in the Heterprise of the 23d and 24th inst: We understand that the Glohe company had yesterday drifted into the lead lately struck by them to the distance of thirteen feet, and were not yet tbrough it. Itis said that the assays run from $40 to $60. This, we think, is too much of a good tbing. If the ore found will mill $30, the owners ol the Globe have made their fortunes. We are very sure that the stockholders do not wish anythiug said about their mine hut wht is true. As yet tbere isno use iu making a hig blow over the strike, as itis not knowo what the ore will pay in the mills. Tbe Gould & Curry company are taking ont daily about 200 tous of ore through their upper or D street tunnel. ‘The ore comes trom near the surluce, and is very profitable to the company, as it costs a mere trifle for mining. Tbis has notbing to do with the lower levels, from which the usual daily amount of ore is, being token. Tbe McClellan company, on Cedar Hill near the works of the Sierra Nevada company, are taking ore for crushing. Itis thought that the rock coming out will pay bandsomely. Stull Giving Out.—Our mines are still giving outsilver bricks. Yesterday morning. bars to the value of $64,361 68 were shipped from this city. This is pretty good for one day. All our leading mines are at present yielding large amounts of excellent ore. Washoe is bound to come ontall right yet. It is now satislactorily proven that we have just as rich ores in the lower levels of our mines as has ever been fouud above. Our millsareall bnsy, and the chances are that we will see times lively bereabouts soon. Bourion.— Wells, Fargo & Co. yesterday morning shipped trom their office, iu this city, 2,210 pounds of silver bullion, valued at $64,361 68; and from their Gold Hill offies they shipped 195 pounds of bullion, valued at $5.950 43. The amount of ernde bullion received for assay yesterday was as follows: Theall & Co., of this city, 2,509 ounces; Van Wyck & Co., of this city, 3,550 ounces ; Leopold Kuh, of this city, 2.750 ouuces; Edwards & Wie gand, Gold Hill, 3.688 ounces. : Rich Ore.—The Enterprise says: “We . marble, rock crystals, gypsum, paints, salts, have seeu a number of speciniens of quattz rock of a white color, that wers comple studded with free gold. Tbe exact loca from which tbese specimens came is ke Secret, thongh tbe lead is said to he withi tbirty miles of Excelsior. If the lead contai much such rock as that exhibited to us, owners can make all the money they want tk a few months’ work with hand mortars. We) only want a ton of tbe nasty, lousy stuff. “Specimens of two or three varieties of 0 from the Blackrock country, about whicb Honey Lake people have been so much exci arrived in this city yesterday. Most of th specimens looked to us more like clay ore. As they are to be assayed, we shall 3 learn about their value. “Some Mexicans are said to have strne lead of exceedingly rich gold hearing qui in what is known as Lone Monntain, so where in the southern part of the Reese R country. ‘they are going to work upon t claims with arastras.” [From the California Youth's Companion.} JUVENILE SMOKERS, ‘We never lock npon a group of juven smokers, or even see a single hoy from tem twelve years of age, with a lighted cigar in. moutb, without a feeling of uneasiness witl tegard to the future condition of that hi manhood. Smoking is universally consid injnrious to health, especially when practice by very young people, and before ths cons tion bas become sufficiently established % withstand such an unnatural attack upon is produced hy the habit of smoking. helieve that medical men nlmost, or quite un versally agree that tobacco, in any form, is slow poison to the humian system. It is there ars those who have escnped any seriou iuconvenience from its effects; but thot nun ber is small. Tobacco may perhaps he adval tngeously used, under certain rare circumstul ag a medicine; hut we think it would he ficult, if not impossible, to fiud n single instane where no evil effects have followed its cxcél sive use. The taste for tohacco is not o natnral on it is something artificial and acquired. The stinct of brutes, ever prompts them to rejéth it. ‘Taking reason for his guide, man woul never indulge iu its habitual use. Reader, ifi j you are a smoker, do you recollect with whaball difficulty you formed the habit—how sick . made you at first ; how pals you became; wii nausea it produced! Do you think that sin : you have hecome accustomed to it, your syste is any more naturally inclined to subinit to ite effects? If youdo think so, you are very much] nistaken. The natural system abhors it a8) j much now us ever. You have vitiated yo system, and by so doing rendered it insen' to its immedinte effects. You have done pres cisely what the arsenic eaters do, who graduall accustom their hodies to the stimulating effects! of that deadly poison, until they every day take a} into their system, without any perceptihlg. harm, os much of the poison as wonld at ft have destroyed life ; hutit never fails to shorte that life, and gradunlly hreak down the systen It is the same, tbough in less degree, with tohneco. But there is another view of this habit— bas a moral as well as physical character. Tht habit of smoking, when indulged at n very earth age, seldom, if ever, fails to act unfavorably upol A, both tbe intellectual state and moral charncter 9 of the devotee. Ithas a direct tendency fi repress intellectual energy, rendering its vote ties indisposed to mental exertiou. Thise stuoker admits. It produces » sort of dren ness that is generally fnscinating to the smoke Does he ever think that tbis is merely anotht form of tbe terrihle nausea which he first fe Yet such is the fact, and itis precisely the fin stages into which a person is driven wheu it} sonity is gradually taking possession of it brain ! ' { . . . ] . i . } Trnnesske is showing up grent mineral wealth. Near Clevelnnd is one of tbe large copper miues in the world. Iron ore, tin, eval nitrous earths abound in the eastern section of . the State. Gold bas heen fonnd near the } Georgia line. The whole section of country § along tbe Nashville and Chattnnoogn railror exhibits unmistakable evidences of petroleam, A flowing oil well has heen struck near Tullahoma.

198 The Blining and Scientific Dress. BRiining Sanuuary. CALIFORNIA. Aping.—New ond important developments have heen recently made in the Morning Star claim, Great Mogul district, and in the Buckeye No. 2, at Scaudinavian Canon, of which we find the following account in tbe Silver Mountain Bulletin of March 17th : Great Mogul District, Alpine Co.—Johnny Bull inust bavs been reaping n rich harvest from the stockholders of the Morning Star company, (located in the ahove named district,) during the past summer and autumn, as a large amount of their ore was hauled to San Francisco during that time and sold to an agent of r Swansea (Wales) firm, lor,'we helieve, $105 per ton delivered at San Francisco. Latterly, the stockholders becoming satisfied that the ore was worth more, sent a few weeks ago a quantity of the “black ore” from their mine to the Yellow Jacket will, in Nevnda, and the following is tbs return per ton: Silver per GD, . + «$420 61 Gold » 803 O04 Copper“ 6, 78 38 $801 98 It wonld appear that our Swansea friends wers haying a very good thingif they could only bave kept it—the copper alone yielding a percentage donhle tbat of our best copper mincs in tbis State. There are two distinct characters of ore found in this celebrated mine ; ths ore designated the “ black ore,” which hos all the deusity and weight of iron ore, presents a solid mass of mineral, there being little or no rock intermixed ; thisis the ore that has been lately shipped to England, and the same as worked at the Yellow Jacket mill; the other yariety has all the appearance of the yellow copper ores, the value of which bas not as yet been ascertained, owing to its impracticable nature—none of the present appliances used in working silver ores baving as yet been able to separate the hase from the precious metals contained therein. We learn that it is the intention of the company to have the next working at the Yellow Jacket mill made up of a mixture of the two ores, and if a successful result is ohtained, to erect a similar mill ot the mine. Buckeye No. 2—Scandinacian Canon.— On Saturday evening last a report got afloat that this company had struck a“ hig thing” ia their claim, whicb is located at the source of Scandinavian Canon, about two and a half miles from town. ‘The first locntion on this lode was made by the Lady Franklin company. The Buckeye No. 2 being a nortbern extsnsion on the same lode. We paid a visit to the claim on Wednesday, aud after entering the tunnel for 140 Teet, found as well defined a ledge full six feet in thickness as we ever witoessed. We learned from J*. Mank, Hsq., tbe Superintendeut, that they struck the ledge some weeks since, but had kept things close, in order to test the ledge thoronghly, before making it public. Since first striking the ledge they have taken out ahouat fifty tons of as rich ore as can he produced from any mine this side of Montana, without assorting. There seems to be hut very little difference, as to quality, in the whole thickness of the vein, every piece of the ore heing thickly studded with ruby silver. No estimate of a yield of Jess than $100 per ton has bern mnde by those who have examined the ore taken out, but as it contains sulpbnr, antimouy and copper, toasting will have to precede the ernshing and amalgamating. we shall have to await a working return, until we bave more milling facilities than we have at present. ‘The ledge at the poiot cut is only about sixty feet from the surface croppings, but even at this superficial denth, presents a solidity not found in other ledges hundreds of feet deeper. Other miues hare are also doing finely, and the citizens of Alpine are very jubilaut over these rich and flattering prospects. Houmsotpr.—There is some excitement in Humboldt county over the reported recent discovery of a rich silver district at Black Rock. Tbe Sage Brush, publisbed at Susanville. speaks ag follows of tbe new diggiugs : Judge Harvey immediately dispatched specimens of rock tu C. Isenbeck, assnyer aud copper smelter, resident in Genesee District, Plumas county, and taking uther specimens, went in person to Unionville, Nevada, for tests. Results of assays from rock taken to Humboldt by the Judge range from a trace of silver to $418 per ton, and rm turns from Isenbeck sbow $89, $285, $650, $2,400.03, $2,100. 76c, $2,100 84, $3,300.65, 43800.37. Many other assays have been had from Isenbeck, and nearly every return justifies the belief of the discovery of a mining district unrivaled or unequaled in tbe bistory of mines. Since the establisbment of the Hardin District, Judge Harvey's camp hag heen unbroken, ond all visttants are outspoken of bis hospitality ond kindness. Ahout two weeks since Mr. Isenheck made his appearance iu our town. He is now in the employ of the Harvey company, and has gone to Black Rock. Recent iuformation from Judge Harvey and persons having returned from Black Rock, report Mr. Isenbeck highly pleased, pronouncing it the richest discovery of the age. Throughout the country tbe rumor has gone, and almost every portion of our country is represented in tbe mines. : Wecan no longer dotht. Too many evldences have beeu furnished us of the value of this district, and drifting along with tbe current of events, we bave our visions of wealth, prosperity and happiness. We find in another paper the following somewhat extraordinary statemeut regarding tbe ores from this district : The ore is said to he of a peculiar character. Specimens sent to San Frnucisco and Marysville tor assay are sometimes returned to contain not a trace of gold and silver, hat which yield largely by working process. If ths last statement is true, we agree in the opinion that either the ore or the assayer is probably of a “ peculiar cbaracter.” Cataveras County.—The following we find in the Copperopolis Courier of March 24: The strike recently made in the new shaft of the Keystone cloim bids fair to be an iinportant one. In the hottoin of the sbatt, which is about fourteen feet in depth, is a handsome lead about two feet wide. The lead is widening materially toward the northwest, and may lead to a large and valuable doposit of ore. Meader & Co. sbipped from Stockton, March 19tb, 43,420 pounds Union copper ore; March 20th, 20,130 pouods Piacex County.—The recent discovery of a gold-bearing quartz ledge, near Colfas, is causing something of a mining excitement in that vicinity. We have seen some of the rock, and would he content to own the lead, if it turns out much more of the same sort. Its richness was manifest without the aid of a glass.— Placer Herald. Nevapa Counry.—A gentleman lately down from Meadow Lake informs us, says the Nevadn Gazette, that times are quite dull there at present, but everyhody is expecting a grand rush and flush times as the season advances, If the weather bolds moderate, it is expected that the main roads will be open about the middle of April. The owners of huilding lots io the town nold them at about the same price as last fall, though little is doing iu tbe real estate line now. ‘I'he Winton mill is running regularly on rock-from the Pacific ledge. The first lot crushed yielded $56 a ton; the second lot, $65 Marysville Appeal, March 23.4 Grass Vattry.—Since the starting of the new mill on the Ione mine, Mr. Hunt, the suPerintendent of the company, has had tbe shaft Sunk some twenty feet deeper, passing entirely through the vein, which proves to be nearly three feet thick, revealing an almost inexhnustible supply of rock which will go from eighty to a hundred dolllars to the ton—Grass Vat ley Union. A Rich Strike.—Mr. Rosenherg, a miner on Wood’s Ravive, bas struck a smasbing rich streak uf nearly pure gold, mixed with decon:pused quartz and ochre. ‘fhe only machinery used is a haud mortar, and with 1t some $6,000 have been taken out since the Hirst of the year. So says the Grass Valley Union. Tue Grass Valley National of the 26th Says : Long Tom Mines —Mr. L. A. Clarke returned from the above mines on Saturday. Mr. Clarke has been in the employ of G. D. Roberts & Co., working on a quartz ledge. The company put o shnft down one bundred feet, froni which a level forty-five feet was rua due south on tle ledge. ‘The ledge is from six to eight feet thick—never less than six feet. A ten-stamp mill has been erected, and was started about the 22d of February. ‘I'he rock is easy to work, and will pay $60 per ton. Ip eight days run, 104 pounds of amalgam were cleaned up. Mr. Clarke is much pleased with the mineral prospects of that portion of California, and will return in a short time. In his opinion, G. D. Roberts & Co. have the biggest thing on this coast. Phil. 1. Colby, receatly of this place, is living at Havilah, near the Long Tom mines, where he has heen elected District Recorder by the miners. Ex-Governor Wm. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, and J. C. Birdseye, of Nevada City, are uow putting up a twenty-stamp o1ill at the latter place, W. W. Boston, of this place, having the contract for the work. Manrposa Counry.—Two hundred and ninety hars, or pigs, of smelted copper, brought from Phillips & Haskell's smelting furnace, on the Buchanan lead, at the head of Chowchilla J. Pache & Co., commission merchants, Levee creek, Mariposa county, is now nt the store of . ” street. The lot weighs seventeen thousand six hundred aud twelve pounds, and the metal assays about ninety per cent. of pure copper. A letter from tbs mive, received by a gentleman in this city, says that tbe discoveries recently made on tbe Buchnnan lead prove it to hs one of the ricbest mines found in the State. At a deptb of sixty feet, the vein of ore is five feet wide, and the minerals of an extraordinarily rich quality. Astonishing developments will

undoubtedly hs made in that section of country next summer, says tbe Stockton Independent, Srerra County.-—A correspoudent of the Downieville essenger, writing from Alleghany, March 11th, gives ths following miving intelligence: Mining is rather dull at present. ‘The Masonic Company has been taking out from 150 to 160 ounces per week for some time, until last week. They had something of a cave, which was not much of a drawback, I helieve. I have not heard that they cleaned up siuce. Gov. Newell bus returocd aud commenced operations with two men. We were expecting him to work fitty or sixty, as his machinery for a new mill was on the ground, and lumber and such things needed. It is reported tbat the Sierra Nsvada Company has placed some impedimeut in lis way, and that he intends to movs his machincry. Vhs Union Company keep their mill constantly running, and are well repaid. The Oak Flat Company are diligently at work ruuning their tunnel, aud will put a new mill up in ths spring. The Twenty-one Compnny are waiting for good roads to open, so they can put up a new mill. The Fae-Simile tunnels are filled with water, so they cannot work to advantage for some little time to come. VIRGINIA CITY AND VICINITY. Tbe accounts from the Comstock continue favorable. We give tbe following : Good Ore—he Enlerprise of March 21st, says some exceedingly rich rock is now heing taken from the deposit lately struck in the lower level of tbe Ophir mine. We were yesterday sbown the certificate of an ussay made of ore taken out across the whole face of a gallery twelve feet in width which shows it to be worth $261 60 per ton. Such ore as this is hard to beat and shows that the Opbir is all tight helow. The Gould & Curry company are putting in a third pump at the Bonner shaft. ‘I'he two pluuger pumps now in use, each twelve inches in hore, raise the water 400 feet; the new pump is a lift pump of twelve inches bore and goes down helow tbe plunger pumps. When the new pump’is in, the compnny will he able to drain their mine to the depth of 800 feet, The uew pump will be in cperation ina few dnys. One engine will work the three pumps. We find the following in the Heterprise of the 23d and 24th inst: We understand that the Glohe company had yesterday drifted into the lead lately struck by them to the distance of thirteen feet, and were not yet tbrough it. Itis said that the assays run from $40 to $60. This, we think, is too much of a good tbing. If the ore found will mill $30, the owners ol the Globe have made their fortunes. We are very sure that the stockholders do not wish anythiug said about their mine hut wht is true. As yet tbere isno use iu making a hig blow over the strike, as itis not knowo what the ore will pay in the mills. Tbe Gould & Curry company are taking ont daily about 200 tous of ore through their upper or D street tunnel. ‘The ore comes trom near the surluce, and is very profitable to the company, as it costs a mere trifle for mining. Tbis has notbing to do with the lower levels, from which the usual daily amount of ore is, being token. Tbe McClellan company, on Cedar Hill near the works of the Sierra Nevada company, are taking ore for crushing. Itis thought that the rock coming out will pay bandsomely. Stull Giving Out.—Our mines are still giving outsilver bricks. Yesterday morning. bars to the value of $64,361 68 were shipped from this city. This is pretty good for one day. All our leading mines are at present yielding large amounts of excellent ore. Washoe is bound to come ontall right yet. It is now satislactorily proven that we have just as rich ores in the lower levels of our mines as has ever been fouud above. Our millsareall bnsy, and the chances are that we will see times lively bereabouts soon. Bourion.— Wells, Fargo & Co. yesterday morning shipped trom their office, iu this city, 2,210 pounds of silver bullion, valued at $64,361 68; and from their Gold Hill offies they shipped 195 pounds of bullion, valued at $5.950 43. The amount of ernde bullion received for assay yesterday was as follows: Theall & Co., of this city, 2,509 ounces; Van Wyck & Co., of this city, 3,550 ounces ; Leopold Kuh, of this city, 2.750 ouuces; Edwards & Wie gand, Gold Hill, 3.688 ounces. : Rich Ore.—The Enterprise says: “We . marble, rock crystals, gypsum, paints, salts, have seeu a number of speciniens of quattz rock of a white color, that wers comple studded with free gold. Tbe exact loca from which tbese specimens came is ke Secret, thongh tbe lead is said to he withi tbirty miles of Excelsior. If the lead contai much such rock as that exhibited to us, owners can make all the money they want tk a few months’ work with hand mortars. We) only want a ton of tbe nasty, lousy stuff. “Specimens of two or three varieties of 0 from the Blackrock country, about whicb Honey Lake people have been so much exci arrived in this city yesterday. Most of th specimens looked to us more like clay ore. As they are to be assayed, we shall 3 learn about their value. “Some Mexicans are said to have strne lead of exceedingly rich gold hearing qui in what is known as Lone Monntain, so where in the southern part of the Reese R country. ‘they are going to work upon t claims with arastras.” [From the California Youth's Companion.} JUVENILE SMOKERS, ‘We never lock npon a group of juven smokers, or even see a single hoy from tem twelve years of age, with a lighted cigar in. moutb, without a feeling of uneasiness witl tegard to the future condition of that hi manhood. Smoking is universally consid injnrious to health, especially when practice by very young people, and before ths cons tion bas become sufficiently established % withstand such an unnatural attack upon is produced hy the habit of smoking. helieve that medical men nlmost, or quite un versally agree that tobacco, in any form, is slow poison to the humian system. It is there ars those who have escnped any seriou iuconvenience from its effects; but thot nun ber is small. Tobacco may perhaps he adval tngeously used, under certain rare circumstul ag a medicine; hut we think it would he ficult, if not impossible, to fiud n single instane where no evil effects have followed its cxcél sive use. The taste for tohacco is not o natnral on it is something artificial and acquired. The stinct of brutes, ever prompts them to rejéth it. ‘Taking reason for his guide, man woul never indulge iu its habitual use. Reader, ifi j you are a smoker, do you recollect with whaball difficulty you formed the habit—how sick . made you at first ; how pals you became; wii nausea it produced! Do you think that sin : you have hecome accustomed to it, your syste is any more naturally inclined to subinit to ite effects? If youdo think so, you are very much] nistaken. The natural system abhors it a8) j much now us ever. You have vitiated yo system, and by so doing rendered it insen' to its immedinte effects. You have done pres cisely what the arsenic eaters do, who graduall accustom their hodies to the stimulating effects! of that deadly poison, until they every day take a} into their system, without any perceptihlg. harm, os much of the poison as wonld at ft have destroyed life ; hutit never fails to shorte that life, and gradunlly hreak down the systen It is the same, tbough in less degree, with tohneco. But there is another view of this habit— bas a moral as well as physical character. Tht habit of smoking, when indulged at n very earth age, seldom, if ever, fails to act unfavorably upol A, both tbe intellectual state and moral charncter 9 of the devotee. Ithas a direct tendency fi repress intellectual energy, rendering its vote ties indisposed to mental exertiou. Thise stuoker admits. It produces » sort of dren ness that is generally fnscinating to the smoke Does he ever think that tbis is merely anotht form of tbe terrihle nausea which he first fe Yet such is the fact, and itis precisely the fin stages into which a person is driven wheu it} sonity is gradually taking possession of it brain ! ' { . . . ] . i . } Trnnesske is showing up grent mineral wealth. Near Clevelnnd is one of tbe large copper miues in the world. Iron ore, tin, eval nitrous earths abound in the eastern section of . the State. Gold bas heen fonnd near the } Georgia line. The whole section of country § along tbe Nashville and Chattnnoogn railror exhibits unmistakable evidences of petroleam, A flowing oil well has heen struck near Tullahoma.