Volume 12 (1866) (428 pages)

The Mining and Scientific Press, = 343 was the first frait.We lesrn from Nelson Brobnnt that preparatigns are betvg insde for the vrection of another mill at Kingaton. The Booth Brothers have returned tron a visit to New York. ‘hey will proceed immediately to develop their prospecting in North "Pwin River district. ‘They ore the owners of the well-known Buckeye mias.We saw today about av ounce of cream-colored quartz from tbe Guld [elt series, crushed in a mortar nd then washed in clear water, showing from Beaty to tweuty-fivn cents of fine gold. "Tho Nye Conuty News hos these items: he Great Enstern is destined ta become ano af the most valuable pieces of property in tho Stute, and owing to the immense size of tha jedye, and facilities for working, is not surnssed by any cluim yet discovered—not even the famous Murphy, of Twin River.The Knickerbocker mill is nearly completed, ond could, in a cnse of necessity, operations ina few days. down 81) Teet. their lode in numerous places, for a distance of 800 feet along its length. At muny of the openings the feet of pay ore, und hus worked right through $79 per ton, From the prospecting shaft(about four vod a half by six teet wide, und 115 feet deep), over 70 tons af verv rich ors huve heen taken out, and now lies upou the dump. Eameralda-he Union af May 26th, has the following : Kearsarge, so littls known throughout Coalifornia. is just emerging into light. Cupt. Pual, . who lus tubored so diligeutly nguinst many adverse circumstances, bus at last commenced . crashing oro from the Kcnrsargs district. Somme of the saine rock. was crushed nt Gold Tiill, yielding over one thousond dollars per ton, by the mill process. Three other mills will soou be in operation, viz : ‘Phe Kcursarge, Dayton and Dorr’s mill.“ Tho Philnodelphia Silver Mining Compony, of Nevada” is the new mining corporation which has gone to work to develop the miues iu the Discovery tunnel. ‘The commpony was organized some tine since in Philudelphia, and is composed, we nore informed, of capitalists who huve nobundant mcans,.Correspondent of saine paper, writing from Purtzwick, Mono county, suys: As to the success of our mines there can ao longer be a doubt.From 2,900 pouads of ore, takea from the Elmirs und Crocker lodes 262 pounds of bullion were obtained, euch ound of which being worth $3.44, prove the idden wealth of our hills. Pahranagat-The Reveille has seen a letter from W. T. Nicbols, in which he speaks quite encouragingly of tbe mines, ond says that a Mr. Hoages from Los Augeles, and Mr, Dahlgren from Now York, have arrived in the district with materiuls for erecting two simelting furnaces, which they have already commenced putting up. They brought also complete stocks of mining tools, an they intend prosecuting work at their miue immediately.Governor Blasdell and a portion ol his party arrived there on the llth inst. They had traveled on fuot 150 miles, and were pretty well used up—the governor looking worn and jaded. ‘The party had divided and traveled lor Pahranagat by different rentes, tbe second of which has not yet beeu heard from. 7 7 ORECON. The Jacksonville Zimes says that a quartz Jead bas. been discovered in Lightning Gulch, Josephine Co., from which $5,400 was taken out ia two hours. ‘The coatents of one pan was $2,000. ‘I'he aume‘of the discoverer is Malichi. IDAHO. Albert D. Richardsoa, the thirtieth of whose letters the New York Tribune has just been published, givea the following account of the difficulty between the “ Poorman ” aad * Hays & Ray” cumpaaies : The Hays & Ray lode, as claimed and stuked in August last, was 1,600 feet long. A nionth later, other parties claimed aad staked for 1,400 feet a lode which they called the Poorman, crossing the Hays & Kay near the middle, at an acute angle, the two liaes of stakes exactly represeating the letter X. ‘Tbe Pourman began to work their alleged lode, not at either eud, but ut the very poiat of crossing the Huys & Ray, aad there struck a pocket or chimney of ore of unprecedented richness—indeed almost pure silver. Portions ol this ore actually yielded by tbhe-mill process 50 toG0 per cent of silver—a result aever before equaled in mining history. and giving rise to the report that Ideho miners had found the silver in ‘cbunks’ ss large as candle boxes: It is claimed that they took out $250,000 ia two weeks. ‘They certainly burvested large quaatities of ore, and carried it away by night on the back ol mules, over the mountains, to be be mude ready for, ¥! . Correspondence , his removal. of the News from Western, Miuminnth district, . aya the main shuft in the Vigilante mine is: Besido this, they huve opened , the first silver ore ever discovered which would pay to stenl or carry away 500 miles in a ernde statc. ‘The Hays & Ray claimed that the Poorman Ledge did not exist, but thut the adverse purty were taking ont and reducing their oro, ‘The * Poormna’ not only denied ihis, bat with an armed forco drove off the IIays & Ray workmea from a portion of the ledye, ond threatened bloody warfare anloss they conld have their ‘rights.’ Alter long investigation Judye Myron Kelly of the United Siates District Court granted ap injunction restraining the Poorman party from taking any more are at present, ordering both conteatants te sink shafts and trnce their lodes to the disputed point, that o jury might determine which actually owned the ground, ‘Vhis decision, vbviausly just nnd equitable, cnused intensa indignotion wmong the discomfited suitora, It wus even threatencd tu tar and feather the Judge, and a strong attempt is being mode for Vhe Red Bluff Independent of Moy 23d, says thot the omount of Ireight shipped within the -past week for Owyhev, including that now ready to stort, is 274,000 pounds. ‘The freight money alone, nt eleven cents per pound, would ore ig remarkobly rich nnd te $32,340. ‘Teams currying six to eight thoupore, working very_unilormly from $250 to. sand pounds arc constantly running. .The $280 perton. .Same, speaking of the North. wail stnges will commence running oa the firat ern Light: ‘lhe lode bos from three to five . of July. COLORADO. The Jornal ol of May 8th, has these items : Larce Yirta.—Mr. Nash, ol Russel Guich, cleaned np last Fridny Irom threo-fifths of a cord of ore from the Amberg lode, $171.50, at the rate of about $420 per cord.Alfred Papin, ot an nverage depth of 25 fect, has uncovered a two foot and a half crevice of orgentiferons oreon Nos. 3 and 5 cast, on the French lode, situate in Russell district.1n sinking a coul shaft at Atchingon, they have discovered . enormous quuntities of the finest yellow ochre. The shalt has been sunk toa depth of 260 feet, going througb two thin veins of conl. They expect to strike a six foot vein within the next 50 feet.Mr. Tyrer, of Spring Gulch, Clear Creek county, reports miniag looking up in that section, considernoble prospecting being done, and new discoverics of lodes heing made.Mr, C. S. Stowell, of South Boulder, hns just returned from Boston, where he has organized a company with a paid in capital of $50,000, for operating in Argentine district, developing lodes discovered last summer, and exploring for more. Mr. Stowell will commeace work as soon as the westher will permit.Tbe Fort Scott Press says, in the process of boring for oil in that vicinity by the Fort Scott Oil Co., they discovered not the depth of 400 feet a vein of coal eight feet in thickness, ‘The company arc still boring for oil, with every prospect of success.The Register gives the yield of ten cords Narragaaselt Company’s Gregory ore—19314 oz. of gold. According to the tests by assay, this was ouly about 60 per cent. of the bullion in the ore.The Naorragunsett Company retorted 122 ounces from five days’ run of a part of their mill, yesterday. Mr. Fitzpatrick, of the Gunnell Company, made his usual shipineut, being a handsome returt weighing 142 ounces. .-The First National Mining Compnny put, in an oppesrance yesterday evening with 7 oz. 18 peunyweights.Mr. Cameron, gulch mining ou Clear creek below Black Hawk, is taking out oa tbe average, about eight dollars per day to the hand.,.Lyon’s last shipment of hallion weighed 521g pounds Troy, 2314 parts being gold. The obove amount was taken from Gregory ore, on which one furaace was employed aearly two weeks. ARIZONA. The Miner of Mny 9th, says the feoling there is now largely in lavor of gold quartz; the working of it being so much simpler and cheaper than that of silver ore..Jack Swilling was to leave the Pima Villages on the first of June, with his prospecting party fortbe White Mouatwin region.[wo huudred dollars a ton was the yield at a late clean-up of rock, not assorted, from the Accidental vein.A portion of tbe timher for the Wunderlich & Borger mill has been taken from Prescott to Big Bug. Itis not yet kaowa when the mil! will arrive.’‘The Afiner has seen some of the (placer) gold takeu out by the Excelsior company, ou lower Lyax, Creek, ord speaks favorably of its proxpects.A part of oae of the ‘Thunderbolt company's mills had arrived at Prescott. ‘[be balance was expected within the month. It is to be drivea by a “ Little Giant” engine. Tbe Alia’s Arizona correspoadcat uuder date April 3d, hos the following items : The Moss lead,is being rapidly developed. .The Miebigan and Parsons are being worked by Mr. Hardy, with flattering prospects..Horn silver is abuadaat in the croppings of tbe Dayton.The further developineat of the Leland will commence immediately, a supply of powder, ete., baving been received. .-At the Techatticup, in El Dorado Canon, ore waa beiag taken out wortb $60 per toa; erusbed in Portland, Oregon. Probably it is lots of tbe Green City ore were said to have Fielded over $100 per ton,,.Many of the mines 1 the same district, partially opened in 1863 and ‘64, but since neglected, are aow forfeited, the territorial! nnd district laws hoving not been complied with. Several of those, believed to bo the best, are now being relocated. ‘The writer gues on to sny that now is the time, if ever, fur certuiu purties who, two or three yeara ugo, expended from twa to eight thousand dollsrs an their clnins to net— if they would pot losn all that they hove done. -»». he Colorado milliz beiug rehuilt. The company have alrendy expended $33,000. They aro to crush Techottieup rock on contmet.. Six hundred tons of copper ore were at Miaeral Till, and 200 tons st Empire Flat, waiting sbipment to San Francisco, NIONTANA. Tho Amador Dispatch hns been shown a letter from a former resident of Fiddletown, written at Grizzly Gulch, Montana, April 26th. We quote: “Three gulches havo been discovered here of great richness, and nuw producing immense quuntities of gold, Phey are in the Blnckfoot country, und known as Elk creek, Benr creek and Koep Cool gulch. I think that there are better miues here than were ever worked in Culifornta. On MeCleliaa gulch one clain paid in a single week, seventeen thousund doltars. I know of miners leaving this country, corrying with them six hundred pounds of clean gold dust. Wages here are—for ordinory hunds $6 and for good driftera $12 per day.” The Welena correspondent of the Post, Moy 8th, gives these items: Vhe first saddle train of the seuson, from Wulla Walls, arrived here last week..'lrout creek and Missouri river quurtz, especiully thut bearing silver, is attracting much attention All of Mr. Worden’s niachinery has arrived, and is being rapidly put together on the Cliff extensiou of the big lead. Colonel Keyser pushes bis mill an the same lead, and the Parson's tunnel on the Avant Jour extension of the same lead, which is designed to strike the ledge at a depth ol one hundred ond seventy-five feet is nvarly completed.From the Post of ‘12th inst., we gather the following : ‘There hss been witbin the past icw doys a brisk stsmpede to Wigwan gulcb, on the Msdison slope, about twelve iniles from this city. ‘he reports up to dute are fuvorable.fhe Richmond Hill lode, one of the numerous quartz ledges discovered in Hot Spring district during last lall, assays at a depth of twenty-six feet, $300 per ton. We hove seen some excellent specimens of coarse gold token lrom Wisconsiu guleb—a locality which has only one fault, in a mining poiut of view, that of being too nesr this city to be appreciated ss it deserves. Mr, Fsirweather, one of the discoverers of Alder guich, is running a set of bydrsulic works, nud taking out good pay.,All those in Alder gulch, who were ready lor a start nredoing well, from Summit to Junction, ond those repairing damoges or starting into their claims are busy aad hope!ul. Garnet Lode——This really wonderful deposit of garnets is in the lurm of a regular lode—a nmiass ol garnets. As yet the pieces takeu out free from fissures are compuratively small, though some will weigh aa ounce, whea cut. Large qunnotities have been sent East, and ornaments of the most beautilul kind can be manulactured from them. This is a fine place for minerul curiosities ; yesterday we ssw in tbe hands of Mr. Lea. F. Marston, a fine Moss Avate.Correspondent of same paper ut Diamond City, says: “New York gulch is attracting # good deal of atteation at present, located about tweaty-five miles down the river froia here. Itss about five miles in length. Tbroughout nearly one mile of the lower ead of the gnich, the bed rock is dry, so that the honest miner caa at once begin to take out some of tbe auriferous deposits, Laboring uader nunierous difficulties, backward spring, nolumher, deep diggings-—forty to filty feet—little money, and shut in by hills and eafoas, tbey are doing well. Quite a onmher of claims are washing twenty to thirty dollars aday to the hand,; others are almost ready, here is quartz, here and hereabouts, tbat will yield from three to four thousand dollars to the ton. A better quartz section’ I have aot seen than on the hanks of 'lrout creek aad its tributaries. ‘Ihe pay streak in New York gulch is from lorty to one bundred leet wide aad upwards, and very even. There is also nbundance of good timher at haad, and a fine range for stock. ‘Ihe bed rock is shelly slate, standing on edge, und inclined slightly up the gulch. Gold is oa the conrse order, well washed, and of a deep yellow color.”.German guleb currespoudent of sanie, April 21st, says: Mining affairs are not very lively yet. The weather is very unfavorable, and there is a good deal of snow yet inthe gulch. Some snow falls nearly every day, yet the reign of summer is becoming more visible daily.A «Tuolumne boy" bas received a letter from a friend iu Moutana, which coataias these words : some had yielded $90 to the toa.Several’ “I aad my partaer have got four clains, and in leas than a yenr expect to make fifty thousand dollors apiece, I know wo havea fortuno in sight, Lwant you, Bill, to seud mo up obout fifty dollors,if you can spare thet wuch, and Il poy you mighty good interest on it, sure.”.,The Dullce Mountaineer snys there is “scarcely n day that parties are not leaving here for Montana by the way of White Bluffa and Pen d’ Oreille Loke; and the testimony af every one of them is that it is a good road, with plenty af wood, water and grass for cumping purposes.”.Tho Virginia papers announce the passage throngh thet city of seven men from Montana, bonnd Califérniaward. Thcy say that msay otbers, disgusted by disnppointments in that distant region, are on their wuy back. NEW MEXICO. A Santa Fe pnper says; The gold excitement is on the jucrease, Parties of prospectors sre lesving town dnily to prospect the maantoning both near and far, Thus fursome vuluoblo discoveries have been made, and the fortonnte finders propose to commence work upon them as soon as the necessary arrangements can be mode. We bear that some rich discoveries have been mode in the vicinity of Fort Cumminga.An expedition will start from Santa Fe,on or about the 20th of July of the present ycar, for the placer guid regions near the head waters of the northern tributaries ol the Gilo, in the southwestern part of the Territory. The Denver News eays: Gold and silver mines of extrnordinory ricbness have been lately discovered near Albuquerque and Lembuda, Trials have beon made of ores recently tukea out, which yielded from eleven onncea of quartz two bundred and forty groins of pure gold. The mining laws of ths ‘Territory allow the discoverer eighteea hundred feet front as his claim. : BRITISH COLUMBIA. A St. Panl despatch says—* Gov. MeFavish has just passed through St. Panl, ea route to Englsud. He reports the discovery of lurge nuggets of gold near Fort Geury in British America, on the lands of the Hudson Bay Co. It has been kept a secret for’some time, but the discovery has finally leaked aut, aad there is much excitement.” Beaurirut Exrract.—W hen the sammer of yonth is slowly wasting away on the nightfall of sge, and the shadow of the psst hecomes deeper and deeper, and tife wears to its close, it is plessant to look back through the vista af time upoa the sorrows and felicities of aur earliest years. If-we have a home to shelter, and hearts to rejoice with us,and friends have been gathered together around our firesides, the rough place of wayfaring will have been worn and smovthed away in the twilight, while the many spots we have passed through will grow brighter and more beautilul. Hsppy indeed, are they whose iuteicourse with the world has not changed the tone of their holier feelings, or brokeu thosé'inusical chords of the heart, whose vibrations are so melodious, 80ee and tonching in the eveuing of tieir ife, Tuermat Sprincs In THR Rerse River Reoion.~-The Reveille of the 17th tastaat has tbe following : Asmall gronp of thermal springs, lying ia the nortberu portioa of Reese River valley, has just been particalsrly examined hy Dr, Blatchly aad and party, who have returned from an exploration near the Humboldt river. ‘They are situated on the eastern side of tbe valley, about a mile from the river, and sixty miles north from Austin. The principol springs comprise a gronp of four, lying withia a circle of about seventy-five yards in a diameter. The openings or mouths of the springs are generally circular ia shape, the greatest of which is about thirty yards in diameter, aad the smallest eight feet in diameter. A large volume of warm water gushes from the two lorger spriags, aad it varies in temperature from 110 to 180 degrees. From tbe two lesser springs only a slight amouat of water now feebly issues. Enouise Patents.—la 1864, 2,024 patents passed the senl. The patents are graated for fourtcen years, but nearly seventy per cent. lapse and hecoaie void at thé ead of the third yeur by the non-payment of the stamp duty of £50 then payable, and neurly ainety per cent. become void at the end of the seventh yesr, whea a further stamp duty of £100 is payable. Asour Vinzoar.—It was aa abservatioa made by Scheele, but tbe fact bas recently been published ns a new discovery, thst ordiaary brown viuegsr will keep bright ‘and clear for any length ol time if heated to the boiling: poiat for a few minutes. Mrraiie Apsorprion.—By taking ap a portion of the metal, snuff becomes «poisonous if kept in leaden vessels or wrapped iu tinfoil containiag lead. tt

The Mining and Scientific Press, = 343 was the first frait..We lesrn from Nelson Brobnnt that preparatigns are betvg insde for the vrection of another mill at Kingaton.. The Booth Brothers have returned tron a visit to New York. ‘hey will proceed immediately to develop their prospecting in North "Pwin River district. ‘They ore the owners of the well-known Buckeye mias..We saw today about av ounce of cream-colored quartz from tbe Guld [elt series, crushed in a mortar nd then washed in clear water, showing from Beaty to tweuty-fivn cents of fine gold. "Tho Nye Conuty News hos these items: he Great Enstern is destined ta become ano af the most valuable pieces of property in tho Stute, and owing to the immense size of tha jedye, and facilities for working, is not surnssed by any cluim yet discovered—not even the famous Murphy, of Twin River..The Knickerbocker mill is nearly completed, ond could, in a cnse of necessity, operations ina few days.. down 81) Teet. their lode in numerous places, for a distance of 800 feet along its length. At muny of the openings the feet of pay ore, und hus worked right through $79 per ton, From the prospecting shaft(about four vod a half by six teet wide, und 115 feet deep), over 70 tons af verv rich ors huve heen taken out, and now lies upou the dump. Eameralda-he Union af May 26th, has the following : Kearsarge, so littls known throughout Coalifornia. is just emerging into light. Cupt. Pual, . who lus tubored so diligeutly nguinst many adverse circumstances, bus at last commenced . crashing oro from the Kcnrsargs district. Somme of the saine rock. was crushed nt Gold Tiill, yielding over one thousond dollars per ton, by the mill process. Three other mills will soou be in operation, viz : ‘Phe Kcursarge, Dayton and Dorr’s mill..“ Tho Philnodelphia Silver Mining Compony, of Nevada” is the new mining corporation which has gone to work to develop the miues iu the Discovery tunnel. ‘The commpony was organized some tine since in Philudelphia, and is composed, we nore informed, of capitalists who huve nobundant mcans,..Correspondent of saine paper, writing from Purtzwick, Mono county, suys: As to the success of our mines there can ao longer be a doubt..From 2,900 pouads of ore, takea from the Elmirs und Crocker lodes 262 pounds of bullion were obtained, euch ound of which being worth $3.44, prove the idden wealth of our hills. Pahranagat-The Reveille has seen a letter from W. T. Nicbols, in which he speaks quite encouragingly of tbe mines, ond says that a Mr. Hoages from Los Augeles, and Mr, Dahlgren from Now York, have arrived in the district with materiuls for erecting two simelting furnaces, which they have already commenced putting up. They brought also complete stocks of mining tools, an they intend prosecuting work at their miue immediately..Governor Blasdell and a portion ol his party arrived there on the llth inst. They had traveled on fuot 150 miles, and were pretty well used up—the governor looking worn and jaded. ‘The party had divided and traveled lor Pahranagat by different rentes, tbe second of which has not yet beeu heard from. 7 7 ORECON. The Jacksonville Zimes says that a quartz Jead bas. been discovered in Lightning Gulch, Josephine Co., from which $5,400 was taken out ia two hours. ‘The coatents of one pan was $2,000. ‘I'he aume‘of the discoverer is Malichi. IDAHO. Albert D. Richardsoa, the thirtieth of whose letters the New York Tribune has just been published, givea the following account of the difficulty between the “ Poorman ” aad * Hays & Ray” cumpaaies : The Hays & Ray lode, as claimed and stuked in August last, was 1,600 feet long. A nionth later, other parties claimed aad staked for 1,400 feet a lode which they called the Poorman, crossing the Hays & Kay near the middle, at an acute angle, the two liaes of stakes exactly represeating the letter X. ‘Tbe Pourman began to work their alleged lode, not at either eud, but ut the very poiat of crossing the Huys & Ray, aad there struck a pocket or chimney of ore of unprecedented richness—indeed almost pure silver. Portions ol this ore actually yielded by tbhe-mill process 50 toG0 per cent of silver—a result aever before equaled in mining history. and giving rise to the report that Ideho miners had found the silver in ‘cbunks’ ss large as candle boxes: It is claimed that they took out $250,000 ia two weeks. ‘They certainly burvested large quaatities of ore, and carried it away by night on the back ol mules, over the mountains, to be be mude ready for, ¥! . Correspondence , his removal. of the News from Western, Miuminnth district, . aya the main shuft in the Vigilante mine is: Besido this, they huve opened , the first silver ore ever discovered which would pay to stenl or carry away 500 miles in a ernde statc. ‘The Hays & Ray claimed that the Poorman Ledge did not exist, but thut the adverse purty were taking ont and reducing their oro, ‘The * Poormna’ not only denied ihis, bat with an armed forco drove off the IIays & Ray workmea from a portion of the ledye, ond threatened bloody warfare anloss they conld have their ‘rights.’ Alter long investigation Judye Myron Kelly of the United Siates District Court granted ap injunction restraining the Poorman party from taking any more are at present, ordering both conteatants te sink shafts and trnce their lodes to the disputed point, that o jury might determine which actually owned the ground, ‘Vhis decision, vbviausly just nnd equitable, cnused intensa indignotion wmong the discomfited suitora, It wus even threatencd tu tar and feather the Judge, and a strong attempt is being mode for Vhe Red Bluff Independent of Moy 23d, says thot the omount of Ireight shipped within the -past week for Owyhev, including that now ready to stort, is 274,000 pounds. ‘The freight money alone, nt eleven cents per pound, would ore ig remarkobly rich nnd te $32,340. ‘Teams currying six to eight thoupore, working very_unilormly from $250 to. sand pounds arc constantly running.. .The $280 perton.. .Same, speaking of the North. wail stnges will commence running oa the firat ern Light: ‘lhe lode bos from three to five . of July. COLORADO. The Jornal ol of May 8th, has these items : Larce Yirta.—Mr. Nash, ol Russel Guich, cleaned np last Fridny Irom threo-fifths of a cord of ore from the Amberg lode, $171.50, at the rate of about $420 per cord..Alfred Papin, ot an nverage depth of 25 fect, has uncovered a two foot and a half crevice of orgentiferons oreon Nos. 3 and 5 cast, on the French lode, situate in Russell district..1n sinking a coul shaft at Atchingon, they have discovered . enormous quuntities of the finest yellow ochre. The shalt has been sunk toa depth of 260 feet, going througb two thin veins of conl. They expect to strike a six foot vein within the next 50 feet..Mr. Tyrer, of Spring Gulch, Clear Creek county, reports miniag looking up in that section, considernoble prospecting being done, and new discoverics of lodes heing made..Mr, C. S. Stowell, of South Boulder, hns just returned from Boston, where he has organized a company with a paid in capital of $50,000, for operating in Argentine district, developing lodes discovered last summer, and exploring for more. Mr. Stowell will commeace work as soon as the westher will permit..Tbe Fort Scott Press says, in the process of boring for oil in that vicinity by the Fort Scott Oil Co., they discovered not the depth of 400 feet a vein of coal eight feet in thickness, ‘The company arc still boring for oil, with every prospect of success..The Register gives the yield of ten cords Narragaaselt Company’s Gregory ore—19314 oz. of gold. According to the tests by assay, this was ouly about 60 per cent. of the bullion in the ore..The Naorragunsett Company retorted 122 ounces from five days’ run of a part of their mill, yesterday.. Mr. Fitzpatrick, of the Gunnell Company, made his usual shipineut, being a handsome returt weighing 142 ounces. ..-The First National Mining Compnny put, in an oppesrance yesterday evening with 7 oz. 18 peunyweights..Mr. Cameron, gulch mining ou Clear creek below Black Hawk, is taking out oa tbe average, about eight dollars per day to the hand.,.Lyon’s last shipment of hallion weighed 521g pounds Troy, 2314 parts being gold. The obove amount was taken from Gregory ore, on which one furaace was employed aearly two weeks. ARIZONA. The Miner of Mny 9th, says the feoling there is now largely in lavor of gold quartz; the working of it being so much simpler and cheaper than that of silver ore...Jack Swilling was to leave the Pima Villages on the first of June, with his prospecting party fortbe White Mouatwin region..[wo huudred dollars a ton was the yield at a late clean-up of rock, not assorted, from the Accidental vein..A portion of tbe timher for the Wunderlich & Borger mill has been taken from Prescott to Big Bug. Itis not yet kaowa when the mil! will arrive..’‘The Afiner has seen some of the (placer) gold takeu out by the Excelsior company, ou lower Lyax, Creek, ord speaks favorably of its proxpects..A part of oae of the ‘Thunderbolt company's mills had arrived at Prescott. ‘[be balance was expected within the month. It is to be drivea by a “ Little Giant” engine. Tbe Alia’s Arizona correspoadcat uuder date April 3d, hos the following items : The Moss lead,is being rapidly developed. ..The Miebigan and Parsons are being worked by Mr. Hardy, with flattering prospects...Horn silver is abuadaat in the croppings of tbe Dayton..The further developineat of the Leland will commence immediately, a supply of powder, ete., baving been received. ..-At the Techatticup, in El Dorado Canon, ore waa beiag taken out wortb $60 per toa; erusbed in Portland, Oregon. Probably it is

lots of tbe Green City ore were said to have Fielded over $100 per ton,,.Many of the mines 1 the same district, partially opened in 1863 and ‘64, but since neglected, are aow forfeited, the territorial! nnd district laws hoving not been complied with. Several of those, believed to bo the best, are now being relocated. ‘The writer gues on to sny that now is the time, if ever, fur certuiu purties who, two or three yeara ugo, expended from twa to eight thousand dollsrs an their clnins to net— if they would pot losn all that they hove done. -»». he Colorado milliz beiug rehuilt. The company have alrendy expended $33,000. They aro to crush Techottieup rock on contmet... Six hundred tons of copper ore were at Miaeral Till, and 200 tons st Empire Flat, waiting sbipment to San Francisco, NIONTANA. Tho Amador Dispatch hns been shown a letter from a former resident of Fiddletown, written at Grizzly Gulch, Montana, April 26th. We quote: “Three gulches havo been discovered here of great richness, and nuw producing immense quuntities of gold, Phey are in the Blnckfoot country, und known as Elk creek, Benr creek and Koep Cool gulch. I think that there are better miues here than were ever worked in Culifornta. On MeCleliaa gulch one clain paid in a single week, seventeen thousund doltars. I know of miners leaving this country, corrying with them six hundred pounds of clean gold dust. Wages here are—for ordinory hunds $6 and for good driftera $12 per day.” The Welena correspondent of the Post, Moy 8th, gives these items: Vhe first saddle train of the seuson, from Wulla Walls, arrived here last week...'lrout creek and Missouri river quurtz, especiully thut bearing silver, is attracting much attention All of Mr. Worden’s niachinery has arrived, and is being rapidly put together on the Cliff extensiou of the big lead. Colonel Keyser pushes bis mill an the same lead, and the Parson's tunnel on the Avant Jour extension of the same lead, which is designed to strike the ledge at a depth ol one hundred ond seventy-five feet is nvarly completed..From the Post of ‘12th inst., we gather the following : ‘There hss been witbin the past icw doys a brisk stsmpede to Wigwan gulcb, on the Msdison slope, about twelve iniles from this city. ‘he reports up to dute are fuvorable..fhe Richmond Hill lode, one of the numerous quartz ledges discovered in Hot Spring district during last lall, assays at a depth of twenty-six feet, $300 per ton.. We hove seen some excellent specimens of coarse gold token lrom Wisconsiu guleb—a locality which has only one fault, in a mining poiut of view, that of being too nesr this city to be appreciated ss it deserves. Mr, Fsirweather, one of the discoverers of Alder guich, is running a set of bydrsulic works, nud taking out good pay..,All those in Alder gulch, who were ready lor a start nredoing well, from Summit to Junction, ond those repairing damoges or starting into their claims are busy aad hope!ul. Garnet Lode——This really wonderful deposit of garnets is in the lurm of a regular lode—a nmiass ol garnets. As yet the pieces takeu out free from fissures are compuratively small, though some will weigh aa ounce, whea cut. Large qunnotities have been sent East, and ornaments of the most beautilul kind can be manulactured from them. This is a fine place for minerul curiosities ; yesterday we ssw in tbe hands of Mr. Lea. F. Marston, a fine Moss Avate..Correspondent of same paper ut Diamond City, says: “New York gulch is attracting # good deal of atteation at present, located about tweaty-five miles down the river froia here. Itss about five miles in length. Tbroughout nearly one mile of the lower ead of the gnich, the bed rock is dry, so that the honest miner caa at once begin to take out some of tbe auriferous deposits, Laboring uader nunierous difficulties, backward spring, nolumher, deep diggings-—forty to filty feet—little money, and shut in by hills and eafoas, tbey are doing well. Quite a onmher of claims are washing twenty to thirty dollars aday to the hand,; others are almost ready, here is quartz, here and hereabouts, tbat will yield from three to four thousand dollars to the ton. A better quartz section’ I have aot seen than on the hanks of 'lrout creek aad its tributaries. ‘Ihe pay streak in New York gulch is from lorty to one bundred leet wide aad upwards, and very even. There is also nbundance of good timher at haad, and a fine range for stock. ‘Ihe bed rock is shelly slate, standing on edge, und inclined slightly up the gulch. Gold is oa the conrse order, well washed, and of a deep yellow color.”..German guleb currespoudent of sanie, April 21st, says: Mining affairs are not very lively yet. The weather is very unfavorable, and there is a good deal of snow yet inthe gulch. Some snow falls nearly every day, yet the reign of summer is becoming more visible daily..A «Tuolumne boy" bas received a letter from a friend iu Moutana, which coataias these words : some had yielded $90 to the toa..Several’ “I aad my partaer have got four clains, and in leas than a yenr expect to make fifty thousand dollors apiece, I know wo havea fortuno in sight, Lwant you, Bill, to seud mo up obout fifty dollors,if you can spare thet wuch, and Il poy you mighty good interest on it, sure.”..,The Dullce Mountaineer snys there is “scarcely n day that parties are not leaving here for Montana by the way of White Bluffa and Pen d’ Oreille Loke; and the testimony af every one of them is that it is a good road, with plenty af wood, water and grass for cumping purposes.”..Tho Virginia papers announce the passage throngh thet city of seven men from Montana, bonnd Califérniaward. Thcy say that msay otbers, disgusted by disnppointments in that distant region, are on their wuy back. NEW MEXICO. A Santa Fe pnper says; The gold excitement is on the jucrease, Parties of prospectors sre lesving town dnily to prospect the maantoning both near and far, Thus fursome vuluoblo discoveries have been made, and the fortonnte finders propose to commence work upon them as soon as the necessary arrangements can be mode. We bear that some rich discoveries have been mode in the vicinity of Fort Cumminga..An expedition will start from Santa Fe,on or about the 20th of July of the present ycar, for the placer guid regions near the head waters of the northern tributaries ol the Gilo, in the southwestern part of the Territory. The Denver News eays: Gold and silver mines of extrnordinory ricbness have been lately discovered near Albuquerque and Lembuda, Trials have beon made of ores recently tukea out, which yielded from eleven onncea of quartz two bundred and forty groins of pure gold. The mining laws of ths ‘Territory allow the discoverer eighteea hundred feet front as his claim. : BRITISH COLUMBIA. A St. Panl despatch says—* Gov. MeFavish has just passed through St. Panl, ea route to Englsud. He reports the discovery of lurge nuggets of gold near Fort Geury in British America, on the lands of the Hudson Bay Co. It has been kept a secret for’some time, but the discovery has finally leaked aut, aad there is much excitement.” Beaurirut Exrract.—W hen the sammer of yonth is slowly wasting away on the nightfall of sge, and the shadow of the psst hecomes deeper and deeper, and tife wears to its close, it is plessant to look back through the vista af time upoa the sorrows and felicities of aur earliest years. If-we have a home to shelter, and hearts to rejoice with us,and friends have been gathered together around our firesides, the rough place of wayfaring will have been worn and smovthed away in the twilight, while the many spots we have passed through will grow brighter and more beautilul. Hsppy indeed, are they whose iuteicourse with the world has not changed the tone of their holier feelings, or brokeu thosé'inusical chords of the heart, whose vibrations are so melodious, 80ee and tonching in the eveuing of tieir ife, Tuermat Sprincs In THR Rerse River Reoion.~-The Reveille of the 17th tastaat has tbe following : Asmall gronp of thermal springs, lying ia the nortberu portioa of Reese River valley, has just been particalsrly examined hy Dr, Blatchly aad and party, who have returned from an exploration near the Humboldt river. ‘They are situated on the eastern side of tbe valley, about a mile from the river, and sixty miles north from Austin. The principol springs comprise a gronp of four, lying withia a circle of about seventy-five yards in a diameter. The openings or mouths of the springs are generally circular ia shape, the greatest of which is about thirty yards in diameter, aad the smallest eight feet in diameter. A large volume of warm water gushes from the two lorger spriags, aad it varies in temperature from 110 to 180 degrees. From tbe two lesser springs only a slight amouat of water now feebly issues. Enouise Patents.—la 1864, 2,024 patents passed the senl. The patents are graated for fourtcen years, but nearly seventy per cent. lapse and hecoaie void at thé ead of the third yeur by the non-payment of the stamp duty of £50 then payable, and neurly ainety per cent. become void at the end of the seventh yesr, whea a further stamp duty of £100 is payable. Asour Vinzoar.—It was aa abservatioa made by Scheele, but tbe fact bas recently been published ns a new discovery, thst ordiaary brown viuegsr will keep bright ‘and clear for any length ol time if heated to the boiling: poiat for a few minutes. Mrraiie Apsorprion.—By taking ap a portion of the metal, snuff becomes «poisonous if kept in leaden vessels or wrapped iu tinfoil containiag lead. tt