Volume 12 (1866) (428 pages)

32 She Mining and Scientific Press, Quartz Miving nEaR AuBuRN.—We have been shown, hy Mr. George A. Treadwell, a rough diagram of a mineral district situated at Ophirville, three miles helow Avhurn, Placer county, which presents eome very interestiog features, and is indicative of a valuable tract of mineral country. The diagram exhihits a eeries of fourteen east and west lodes, crossed at right angles hy six north and south lodes. Theee lodes vary from two to four feet in thickness, and are from one hundred to five hundred feet apart. Two of the east: and west veios carry considerahle silver, and two others a notahle quantity of copper. All the balance containing of the precious metals, gold only. These veins are found to he much the richest at the points of crossing. The sulphurets are said to assay from $1,000 to $3,000 to the ton, when properly concentrated. A company has been formed which proposes to cut all of these veins hy a tunnel, running diagooally through hoth series; all that have heen discovered, twenty in numher, will he cut hy rnnning this tunnel 4,500 feet, draining the lodes from seventy to seven huodred feet in depth. Thie project can scarcely fail to he a most profitable one for hoth the projectors and the vein bolders. There are three quartz mills already at work upon rock which ie heing takeu from these veins, as follows : A steam mill running ten stamps, owned hy Mr. Welty, and employs for amalgamatiug four of Varney’s pane—recently started with flatterjog proepecte. < A 5-stamp mill owned by Mr. Snohle, uses blankets, but no pans. This mill nets about $500 per week, saving the free gold only, and runniog away a large amount of valuahle sulphurets. A 7-stamp mill, driven by a 30-foot overshot water-wheel, is run hy Mr. Pugh. He uses an arastra, for grinding his sulphurets; but the yield is emal!, as he does not roast them. He has no paus. No value whatever has been placed upon the sulphurets ohtained from these ledges. Receut experiments, however, baving sbown that they are very rich in -gold, arrangements will soon he made for roasting them. Our informant, Mr. Treadwell, bas just organized a company, which consists of Messrs. Daniel and Moses Choate, of Ophirville, and eeveral parties in this city, who will proceed at once to erect a fourth mill on two of the ahove veine, known as the North Star and Lady Lincoln. The company will put up a 10-stamp mill at the start, to he increaeed in capacity as circumstances may warrant. They will also put up a roasting furnace for desulphurizing the sulphurets. The mill will he run hy water-power, which can be obtained from the Bear River Ditch, at a cost of $30 per week, running night and day. THE FIRST BRICK ever made from bullion taken out of the Gould & Curry mine, is still preserved in the office of the company in Virginia City. It was taken out in 1860, is princigally of silver, and worth ahout $100. It is about five inches long, three inches wide aud three-fourths of an inch thick, aud its value, as heing the first hrick from that noted mine, is far more than its intrinsic worth as mere hullion. J.B. Cox, Bostxerss AGENCY.—Makes private sales of Property aud Business Plaeos of every deseriptlou, in the elty and throughout the State ; procures partuers with largo and small nmouuts of money; negotiates sales o muaning property, and does a General Agcncy Busiaess. Patronage solicited by mail, express, or by personal applieation at tbe offiee, 402 Montgomery Street, San Franciseo, California, 23v11 tf Prater’s Patent Concentrator (Known as HUNOERFORD & PRATER'S Coneentrator,) MANUFACTURED AT TOE San Francisco Foundry and Steam Engine Works. Corner Fremont and Minslon Strcets, All orders promptly attended to. 2yl2 DEVOE, DINSMORE & Co, Subseribe Now! 1866 JANUARY ist, 1866 Commencement of Tiweilfth Volame OF THE— Mining aul Scientitin Press The title of our journal is a truthful expression of its character. , It affords a class of progressive information to the Miners, Mecbanics and Professional Men of the . Pacific Coast, which cannot he derived from books, or other publications. Each Volume comprises, in reality, a book of new intelligence and facts relating to Mining, Mechanism, Metallurgy, Science and Art, developed by our rich and peculiar resources, and identical with our own industry and history. By the encouragement of intelligent economy in LABOR and GoLD-savine, we shall make the Press a source of INDIVIDUAL PROFIT to its patrons, as well as a public hencfit to every local community in which it circulates. The prospects of our journal are now hrighter than at any former period. Our facilities for furnishing a valuable journal are constantly increasing. e. Following are some of the many opinions generonsly expressed by our neighbors : Editorial Expressions, The publishers inteud to make it the “ Seientifie Amerjean’? of the Puclfie Coast. Every miner should haye a eopy of it In his eabia, for it wlli be Billed with useful information .o the piek and shovel fratoruity.—[Trinity Journal, Sbould be taken by every man owning ‘ feet”? [and bruios) iv this State,—[Beaeon. In ao other ten journals ean the reader find the same amouat ol reliable inining news us in the Press.—(Coutra Costa Gazette. Every stockholder In different miaes will find it will pay to take and read this mining journal.—[Contra Costa Gazette, The Press is to tbe Pacifie Coast what tho ‘ Scicntifie American” ison the Atlantie. It deserves its suecess.—(Aurora Daily Times, It is fully up to the tlmes, and furnishes the latest mln ing improvements and intelligeuce.—[Calaveras Chronicle. Every miner sbould snbseribe for the Press, —([Calayoras Chronieie, Ii presents a cbannel through which all mining notices may be cbeaply eo: solidated into one sheet for tbe eonvenicnee of all stockholders.—[Mountaiu Messenger. We eaa give our testimony that It is always replete witb useful and valuable lulormation to minersaud mechaules, [Placer Herald. It eontains correspondence from different seetions, glving acecouata of new diseoveries in gold, silver and eopper, and should bo taken by every person that wishes to keep well posted on the doy elopments ol onr State und the Torritories.—[Mountain Messeager. With the last number is au index to the whole volume, Most useful and valuable to those who keep files of that paper (Shasta Courier. Prof. J. D. Whitney’s address on Mining, is given entire, * * * We preservo the Press, aud would like to bavea full file—[Napa Reporter. The publie should support tbe enterprise of tbe Mmixc Pesss, one of the best papers in the State, by a liberal patronage, as It is only by a system of legitimato reports that our miues ean be favorably brought before men a eapital below,—[Caiaveras Cbronlele. Under tbe management of Messrs. Dewey & Co., the Press has beea mueh improved jn overy respect. * * It dosorves a liberal support.—[Virglnia Union. A good paper for this country.[Humboldt Register, Na. Those who would have n good paper of this charaetor, should subseribo now.—[Marysville Appeal. It embraces one of tho finest fields iu the world, aad seems to improve it, * = *& It will be sseoud to ao scieutifie reeord now published on this eontinent.—[Los Angeles News, . Aneatand useful journal. One of the most presentable and useful in tbe State.—fSunday Moreury. Sucb ¢ journal has bcea needed on the Pacific Coast. The Press fills the bill—[Reese River Revcille. Asplendid paper, aud sbould have a good list of subSeribers iu prosperous Grass Valley,—[G. V. National, We receive, regularly as elock work, tbis exeeediugly valuable and iuteresting jourual.—[Napa Reporter. Interestiag and important to miuers and Monntain men, [Butte Record. Friends pleased with our efforts In the publication of the Press ean reuder us essentlal aid by furnishlng eorrespondence and nll important information whieh may come under their observation, and by calling the attention of their neighbors to the eommendable features of the paper; the appreciation of whieh favors will be duly manifested by the constant improvement of onr jonrnal.Specimen eopies will be sent free to those desiring to examine the paper before subseriblug. Postmasters, Express Agents and News-dealers, neting ns our agents, will reeeive liberal commissions, SUBSCRIPTION IN ADVANCE, «+ $5.00 8.00 One Year, (two volumes). 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32 She Mining and Scientific Press, Quartz Miving nEaR AuBuRN.—We have been shown, hy Mr. George A. Treadwell, a rough diagram of a mineral district situated at Ophirville, three miles helow Avhurn, Placer county, which presents eome very interestiog features, and is indicative of a valuable tract of mineral country. The diagram exhihits a eeries of fourteen east and west lodes, crossed at right angles hy six north and south lodes. Theee lodes vary from two to four feet in thickness, and are from one hundred to five hundred feet apart. Two of the east: and west veios carry considerahle silver, and two others a notahle quantity of copper. All the balance containing of the precious metals, gold only. These veins are found to he much the richest at the points of crossing. The sulphurets are said to assay from $1,000 to $3,000 to the ton, when properly concentrated. A company has been formed which proposes to cut all of these veins hy a tunnel, running diagooally through hoth series; all that have heen discovered, twenty in numher, will he cut hy rnnning this tunnel 4,500 feet, draining the lodes from seventy to seven huodred feet in depth. Thie project can scarcely fail to he a most profitable one for hoth the projectors and the vein bolders. There are three quartz mills already at work upon rock which ie heing takeu from these veins, as follows : A steam mill running ten stamps, owned hy Mr. Welty, and employs for amalgamatiug four of Varney’s pane—recently started with flatterjog proepecte. < A 5-stamp mill owned by Mr. Snohle, uses blankets, but no pans. This mill nets about $500 per week, saving the free gold only, and runniog away a large amount of valuahle sulphurets. A 7-stamp mill, driven by a 30-foot overshot water-wheel, is run hy Mr. Pugh. He uses an arastra, for grinding his sulphurets; but the yield is emal!, as he does not roast them. He has no paus. No value whatever has been placed upon the sulphurets ohtained from these ledges. Receut experiments, however, baving sbown that they are very rich in -gold, arrangements will soon he made for roasting them. Our informant, Mr. Treadwell, bas just organized a company, which consists of Messrs. Daniel and Moses Choate, of Ophirville, and eeveral parties in this city, who will proceed at once to erect a fourth mill on two of the ahove veine, known as the North Star and Lady Lincoln. The company will put up a 10-stamp mill at the start, to he increaeed in capacity as circumstances may warrant. They will also put up a roasting furnace for desulphurizing the sulphurets. The mill will he run hy water-power, which can be obtained from the Bear River Ditch, at a cost of $30 per week, running night and day. THE FIRST BRICK ever made from bullion taken out of the Gould & Curry mine, is still preserved in the office of the company in Virginia City. It was taken out in 1860, is princigally of silver, and worth ahout $100. It is about five inches long, three inches wide aud three-fourths of an inch thick, aud its value, as heing the first hrick from that noted mine, is far more than its intrinsic worth as mere hullion. J.B. Cox, Bostxerss AGENCY.—Makes private sales of Property aud Business Plaeos of every deseriptlou, in the elty and throughout the State ; procures partuers with largo and small nmouuts of money; negotiates sales o muaning property, and does a General Agcncy Busiaess. Patronage solicited by mail, express, or by personal applieation at tbe offiee, 402 Montgomery Street, San Franciseo, California, 23v11 tf Prater’s Patent Concentrator (Known as HUNOERFORD & PRATER'S Coneentrator,) MANUFACTURED AT TOE San Francisco Foundry and Steam Engine Works. Corner Fremont and Minslon Strcets, All orders promptly attended to. 2yl2 DEVOE, DINSMORE & Co, Subseribe Now! 1866 JANUARY ist, 1866 Commencement of Tiweilfth Volame OF THE— Mining aul Scientitin Press The title of our journal is a truthful expression of its character. , It affords a class of progressive information to the Miners, Mecbanics and Professional Men of the . Pacific Coast, which cannot he derived from books, or other publications. Each Volume comprises, in reality, a book of new intelligence and facts relating to Mining, Mechanism, Metallurgy, Science and Art, developed by our rich and peculiar resources, and identical with our own industry and history. By the encouragement of intelligent economy in LABOR and GoLD-savine, we shall make the Press a source of INDIVIDUAL PROFIT to its patrons, as well as a public hencfit to every local community in which it circulates. The prospects of our journal are now hrighter than at any former period. Our facilities for furnishing a valuable journal are constantly increasing. e. Following are some of the many opinions generonsly expressed by our neighbors : Editorial Expressions, The publishers inteud to make it the “ Seientifie Amerjean’? of the Puclfie Coast. Every miner should haye a eopy of it In his eabia, for it wlli be Billed with useful information .o the piek and shovel fratoruity.—[Trinity Journal, Sbould be taken by every man owning ‘ feet”? [and bruios) iv this State,—[Beaeon. In ao other ten journals ean the reader find the same amouat ol reliable inining news us in the Press.—(Coutra Costa Gazette. Every stockholder In different miaes will find it will pay to take and read this mining journal.—[Contra Costa Gazette, The Press is to tbe Pacifie Coast what tho ‘ Scicntifie American” ison the Atlantie. It deserves its suecess.—(Aurora Daily Times, It is fully up to the tlmes, and furnishes the latest mln ing improvements and intelligeuce.—[Calaveras Chronicle. Every miner sbould snbseribe for the Press, —([Calayoras Chronieie, Ii presents a cbannel through which all mining notices may be cbeaply eo: solidated into one sheet for tbe eonvenicnee of all stockholders.—[Mountaiu Messenger. We eaa give our testimony that It is always replete witb useful and valuable lulormation to minersaud mechaules, [Placer Herald. It eontains correspondence from different seetions, glving acecouata of new diseoveries in gold, silver and eopper, and should bo taken by every person that wishes to keep well posted on the doy elopments ol onr State und the Torritories.—[Mountain Messeager. With the last number is au index to the whole volume, Most useful and valuable to those who keep files of that paper (Shasta Courier. Prof. J. D. Whitney’s address on Mining, is given entire, * * * We preservo the Press, aud would like to bavea full file—[Napa Reporter. The publie should support tbe enterprise of tbe Mmixc Pesss, one of the best papers in the State, by a liberal patronage, as It is only by a system of legitimato reports that our miues ean be favorably brought before men a eapital below,—[Caiaveras Cbronlele. Under tbe management of Messrs. Dewey & Co., the Press has beea mueh improved jn overy respect. * * It dosorves a liberal support.—[Virglnia Union. A good paper for this country.[Humboldt Register, Na. Those who would have n good paper of this charaetor, should subseribo now.—[Marysville Appeal. It embraces one of tho finest fields iu the world, aad seems to improve it, * = *& It will be sseoud to ao scieutifie reeord now published on this eontinent.—[Los Angeles News, . Aneatand useful journal. One of the most presentable and useful in tbe State.—fSunday Moreury. Sucb ¢ journal has bcea needed on the Pacific Coast. The Press fills the bill—[Reese River Revcille. Asplendid paper, aud sbould have a good list of subSeribers iu prosperous Grass Valley,—[G. V. National, We receive, regularly as elock work, tbis exeeediugly valuable and iuteresting jourual.—[Napa Reporter. Interestiag and important to miuers and Monntain men, [Butte Record. Friends pleased with our efforts In the publication of the Press ean reuder us essentlal aid by furnishlng eorrespondence and nll important information whieh may come under their observation, and by calling the attention of their neighbors to the eommendable features of the paper; the appreciation of whieh favors will be duly manifested by the constant improvement of onr jonrnal.Specimen eopies will be sent free to those desiring to examine the paper before subseriblug. Postmasters, Express Agents and News-dealers, neting ns our agents, will reeeive liberal commissions, SUBSCRIPTION IN ADVANCE, «+ $5.00 8.00 One Year, (two volumes).. Six Months, (ono volume), . kg Bourn Votuners For Saiz. ft FOR ADVERTISING Ourterms are very reasonable. Minixe Companies are espeelally favored by our rates, and eareful attention Is given to the legal publication of Mining Noticss. Orrick—No, 505 Clay street, corner of Snngome. DEWEY & CO., Publishers, 0. W.M. SMITH . We 0. EWER: vee eoed. T, DEWEY, 1852. 1866 A NEW VOLUME. Fourteenth Year of Publication, THE GOLDEN ERA. Tbe oldest Weekly Paper in the State, permanently es. tablisbed,aad more widely cireulated at homo and abroad than any other on the Pacifie Coast. In Californin, the Atlantie States, and throughout the entire field of its great and ranidly Inereasing eirculatlon, Taz Gotpen Era is uulversally regarded asa Literary and Family Journal of unequall¢d exeellenee. Among its eontributors are all the

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Ah extra copy will be forwarded, free, for oue year, to the persou sendlag a elnb of five or ten subserlbers, YHE GoLDEN ERa is now enlarged by the addition of eigbt eolumus to Its pages—and preseats fifiy-six columns, eoutaining tbo greatest possible variety of Valuable and Entertaiuing, Original and Selected Matter, all combiuiug to render Taz GotpEN Era a Litorary and Family Journal of surpassiug interest and attraetion; a Weleome Guest iu Cottage and Cabia; the fayorite ut the fircside in City and Couutry, the most useful, agreeable altogether desirable publieatioa for California readers aud their kiudred and friends lu the Atlantie States, Europe, and olsewhere, Every Household in tbe Monutains and Valleys, tbe Cities, Towns, and Mining Camps of California aud throughout the Pueifie States and Yorritorics, skould reeeive and weleome THE GotDEN Eka as a regular weekly visitor. Serial Romances in The Golden Era. 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