Volume 13 (1866) (424 pages)

The Mining and Scientific Press. 247 tirely without foundation. A smalt portion ot the hoisting gear over the mine broke, but itis alreatly repaired, and this caused u brief suspension of the hoisting of ore. ‘Yhe dumps, however, were full, uud none of the mills, supplied from tbis mine, were delayed in the least.” Reese River— From the Rerete of Oct. Gth: Mnny wise ones shake their heads nt cur account of the enormous eize of the ledges in the Reveille district. ‘They accept witluut a doubt all thot was said ol its extraordiuury mineral, us fabulously rich as it uppeara to be, because they have seen it and placed their hands upon it, and it speaks lor itself. Mr. F. M. Clarke, a gentleman and a disinterested witness, writes thas: Of the quality of the rock you will be your own judge, butus for the size of the ledges the least that can be enid of them is they are monsters, at least from ten to fifty foet thick, and any amount of the same kind of rock as he will show you can be had on the surface, og lean testily. Mr. Monroe, one of the discovercra, accepts this testimony, but will gu tho gentlemun twenty to filty feet better. Sume paper of 10th, says: Owing to the discovery of heavy deposits of ntiveral, lying chiefly southeust of Austin, during tho last fonr montlis, the public attention has beeo nearly diverted from the mines iu itsimmediate neighborhood. ‘Nhe manner, too, in which several lurge and cxpeosive properties in this district had been munaged, almost led to tho belict that the ledges of the district were too sionll and uncertain to provo remunerativo. Asgood mining property as the suo ever ehone on, has been slanghtered by the igoorance of pompous sgents and superintendents, until the general faith in tho character and permanence of our mines hos well nigh been lost. In the North Star mine, for instance, tbo working had been carried on without the least regard to systematic mining, and was little better than a evries of sublerranean zigzags or gopber excavatious. The search for the ‘lost vein was finally abandoned, under tho beliet that it had . terminated. Under the present mauagement, tho work has been resumed by Superintendent Frost, one of the original discoverere of the tine, whose thorough knowledge of the course o¥ the vein led him at. ouce to the poiot where its rich deposit had heen passed or lost. The vein is now exposed for a’ length of 320 feet, disclosing mineral equal to the finest yet diseovered in the district. An idea of the size of the vein will be conveyed when we state, that there are specimeos in the office of the conipany, which have been extracted from the recovered ledge, weighing 500 pounds and npwurds, and measuring three by four feet— masses of richest sulphuret ore, assays of which range from $600 te $6,000 per ton. Same of the lith: The case of the Oregoo is similar tuthat ofthe North Star. In 1863-4 a 10-stamp inill was erected by the company. Atter a while it was discovered that the ore could not be successfully treated without roast ing. and the first reverberatory furnaces were built at grent expense. In 1865 the property passed into the possession of the Manhattan Company, which had the advantage of ample _ capital. In the conrse of time the original mnill was dismantled, and a costly 20-stanip initl was erected, furnished with every acceesory befitting the operations of a wealthy company. ‘Then followed an expenditure of thousands of dollars in confused and iotricate burrowings by the scientific gophers who were placed in churge. ‘I'he course of the vein is neatly east and west. It had slipped tbrough the fingers of the workers. A scientific nian from a neighboring mill was called in to survey the ground. [He did the work as requested, and gave them as their true line of working to recover the vein,a course directly southeast. They worked on tbis line all summer, penetrating a distance of 130 feet. ‘I'he interposition af tue sheriff stopped the wild excavatian. when Superintendent Frost cume ioto position under the present management, he obtained the reluctaot consent of the General Agent of the company to alter the line of working. He drove a cut eighteen feet due north, when he exposed the original and beautiful vein of the Oregon, just twenty-fivo feet from tbe line of the niain incline. ‘The splendid vein, which had heen lost sight of by the gophers, is three feet thick, and irom the level to the surface there are 135 leet wholly uutoucbed, which may be stoped out at fill. A letter in the Nye Couoty News of Oct. 6th, has 2 description of the eplendid reduction works just erected oear the Murphy mine by the ‘win River Mining Company, of wbich we give av abstract. ‘The buildings are of stone, Tbe furnace is of the MeGinnis pattern. ‘The amalvainating rvom is furnished with six pane of Wheeler & Randall's latest improved styte. The settlers are seveu feet in diameter, and there is one to each tier of pans. The battery of twenty stamps,is of the “ knee style,” and is regarded ae the model battery of the State. Tbe motive power is a splendid engioe of 123horse power. s Humboldt— From tbe Register of October] 6th: The Manitowoc boys are getting ulong hugely. . ending last Sunday.Mr. Sanders intends Pour hands at tbe tive are taking out on an uverage cbout two tons of first-class ore per. duy.Qn the North Stur ledge the superintendent is pushing wurk nhead vigorouaty. At present he is sinking a prospecting shalt on the ledge, which hus every appenrance of n true fissure vein. ‘The ore is simikir to'that of the Munitowac—a sample of average rock worked by mill process being 983 fine, ond yielding $119 to the ton..Wurk in the Rochester claim, on the Montana ledge, goes bravely on. At n depth of 135 feet in the mnin shult a drift was started, which is now in 120 feet—duily expecting to striko the ledge. ‘The same paper hns the following star items : Americau Basin tunnel still driving ia, Working now in a streak abounding in tron. Additionnl foree put on Inst week.. . Yankee contract being pushed rapidly to completion. Some seventy-tive feet more to finish, which will put the tunnel in 500 feet.. Reported that the Whitmore will resuine work sooo. . Chauge in the management of the Sheba mill. Mr, Beale is now running it with the reoowned Sauchez as amolgamator. ARIZONA. From the Afiner of Sept. 26th : The second Lamson mill (‘'bunderbolt) is being erected on the ‘Ticunderoga lode.Kx-Judge Flower, of Yuba county, is to have charge of the Johnson ond Groom mill, on the Sterling lode.Gold bars froin the Borger mill are now quite coinmon iu town, and convey a eubstantial and gratifying evideoce of the richness of the Biz Bug mines. .'‘Tbe scarcity ol labor is keeoly felt by our minere, ranchwen and freighters. Permaoeot employment at high wages can he given to a large number of men, and we hone they will be forthcoming. We hear that Mr. Borger has had to eend to Califoroia for haods to work at his mill and mioes. From the La Pnz Gazette: Everything is being got in readiness for an early commencement oo the Vulture mine at Wickenburg. The machinery which is soon to be erected on the Sterling mine at Prescott, comprises two Beath mills, and a four 700-pound stainp battery.The machinery to be erected for the New York Moss Association, ut Hardyville, of which Charles Strong is euperintendent, comprises one 40-horse power engine, 12x24 inch cylinder; two 5-stamp’batteries, with mortar independent of the lrainework ; three of the Wheeler & Randaolt tractory pans ; two Knox pans, two 7-loot separatora; oue large portable 10-ton derrick, framework for taoke, mill, ete. complete. From Williams’ Fork we have the following: Work is being prosecuted by the Spriugfield Company on one of their claims, with good indications of succees. Mr. ‘I'honipson is progressing finely in his smelting operations on the Great Central. have their two smelting furnaces io operation in about a inonth. The Reese River Reveille says: The omigrants to Arizona from Austin appear to have had a very bard time. ‘The party went from here southeast to Pahranagat andthe Coloradu, and of couree passed the ground where have sinco been discovered the Northumbertand, Silver Bend, Danville, Hot Creek, Empire, Reveille and other districts richer by far than their wildest bopes ever pictured fur them in Arizona. IDAHO. From the Avalanche of Oct. 6th: The N. Y. & QO. Co. have purchused the Hureka and Noonday guartz ledges this week; the former at $3 per foot aod the latter at $7.50. .The Knickerbouker Company are continuing their prospects on the ‘'rook & Jennings and the south extensiun of the Morning Star chins. The lutter bas recently given signs of improvement. ‘Ihe north tunnel which starts seventy feet down the shaft, and runs under Loog Gulch, discloses more aod ricber ore than heretofore. ‘The work is carried on uight and day. The Trook& Jeonings shows no additional encouragement.J. H. Johnson, of Flint district, has sold the “‘T'om Sturgis" quartz vein to J. P. Hopkins of New York. From the Idabo Zimes of Sept. 28th: Mr. Kirkpatrick, an old mountaineer, has lately returned froma prospectiog tour to the headwaters of tbe Payette and Salmon rivers. Le reports having found prospects of from one to two centsto the pan, and would have investigated further had the snow not driven him out of the mountains. .Soime ininers have organized aoother tunoel company on East Hill, to be commenced above Butler & Co.'s mill, on Moore’s creek. Messrs. Channel & Co. are extending the old original Elk and Deer creek ditch along the summit of the divide between Grimes’ and Kitk creeks, to 2 point about three miles below Centreville. Same of 2d Oct.: fhe East Hill tannel is into the hill for over 231 feet. OQneand a halt pounds of the bard substance they are now pickiog through—a kind of granite clay—was found, after a careful assay, to cootain forty. two cents in gold.Clute & Cu. on Moore’s creek, cleaned up over $8,000 for the week Knowles & Lightner will . keeping the Eikhort imachimery in motion all whiter. ‘The mine is louking more fluttering now than at any time leretelore. Redimoud & Co.'s chim, ubove Pine Grove, are running two sloices and employing sixty-fivo men. Clifton & Bottuny, who are mining the ground on which Pine Grove is located, ure etn ployiug about thirty-five men. The French Compnony are employing Irom forty to sixty ment. MeNortheot & Co. ure also employing a large lot of men. MONTANA. Bannack correspondent of the Post of 29th . Sept. snys: A truin of thirty-one wngons, containing u 20 stamp mill, three sets of furnaces, ond other machinery, for the Montaoa Mineral ‘Land Mining Company, and also cupelling furmices for the Rocky Mountain Gold and Silver Mining Compnuy— passed through town to Marysville. Charles D. Everett is superintendent of the latter company, and is pushing operations ahewtd on the Wide West, and prepariug to erect his furnaces at once. ‘The Wide West is a silver lead in the Blue Wing district, of o very peculiar and rich ore, which is easily redueed by the smelting process, Messrs. Kirby and Clark have neurly everything ready to put up their machinery ; and tons upon tons of rich quartz, which has heen takon frum the Mademoisele is ready for their 20-stamp mill. Telcua letter: “It is estimated that over five hundred persons will start frum Fort Benton about the first part of oext week, and the amount of treasure going down will fall little sbort of ooe aud a half million dollare.” COLORADO. From the Journal of Sept. 25th: The Bohtail mine of the Sterling Company has a 30inch pay vein the entire length of it and ahout 100 cords of ore. ‘Yhe pumps will be put in this week.Tbe Kip & Buell Company are doing very well ou the Leavitt lode, getting about $120 a cord with their old stamp mill from the ore right along.{n Russell Gulch, there is no revival as yet. The wills put up there last year, some of them yet unfinisbed, are etandiog still with a very lew exceptions, aod some of the most noble gold veing tn the country, large, rich, and easily worked, have been so long deserted that the prospect boles and gouging are lioed with graseand bushes to the bottom.Dr. Carpenter, at the Mclotyre mill, has fixed the reverberatory desulphurizer in that mill so as to testhis process. Ie took 800 pounds of tailings from the Mercer County, lying outside of the mill, which assayed $9.03 aton, desulphurized it and sent it to ‘Clear Creek to ElHcott & Snider's arastra. Ie also sent the same amount of the same tailings, undesulphurized. From the latter the arastra ght ten grains of gold, from tbe former seventyfour grains. From the Denver News of Oct. 3d: Our . latest advices from the Snake River mioes are that Whitney & Whiling will ran a tunnel on ‘Yen-Mile creek this winter. ‘Whe agent of . this company is developing their property iu Peru and Snake River miniog districts. J. Blackman, of Mill City, is packing over the range one thousand pounds of ore from tbe Esmeralda lode, Snake River, to be sent to Philadelphia for test.Joe. Il. Boyd, prospector for the Nonpareil Company, is now sitking a shaft on a lode with a 25-foot crevice, in Colfax Park, Snake River district. The ore isa very fine appearing argentilerous galena mixed with chloride of silver, and those who have seen it feel confident of its great value. It is called the J. &. Wharton lode. AorrcutturaL CovLtecr.— ‘the Board of Directors of the California State Agricultural College held a meeting io this city ou Monday last, when they decided to immediately comnience tbe examination of the various sites proposed. ‘They visited San Jose on Tuesday, Oakland on Thursday, Naps on Friday, and will be at Sacrainento on the 22d, These are the only counties thus far whieh bave made proposals for the location of the College. Counties or communities having locations to offer, should make their propositions to the Board immediately, and they will be promptly acted upon. ‘fhe Board consists of Gov. Low, Chairmao; Charles I?. Reed, President af the State Azricultural Society, Sacramento ; H. J. Booth, Presideot of the Mechanics’ Institute, San Francisco ; Felix ‘Tracy of Shasta ; Willian Holden of Mendocino; C.T. Ryland of San Jose; Henry Phillips of Nevada, aud J. R. Meader of Copperopolis. A Liquomerer.—At one of the late sittings of the French Association for the Advancement of Scienco, a new instrumeot, called a liquonietre was exhibited. It is intended for estimating the ainount of aleohol in wines, and is based on the principle of capillary action. It consists essentially of a very fine graduated tube. ‘I'he instrument is said also to give separate indicatione of the amount of tartar and extractive matter. Remarkastr Purnomenox.—A private letter written by a St. Louisiwn, sojourning in New Ksngtand, gives the subjoined descriptioo of a wonderlul phenomeuon witnessed by himself and others from the summit of Mt. Washington on the afternoon of the 28th of August : «We were stunding about on hour before sunset on the southeastern portion of tbe cone with our {nces turned to the east, looking down upon the Glen House miles below. Immediately in front of us rose the lofty Carter rnnges, which were occasionally hidden trom our view by hcuvy mosses of tist, which, rolling up the mountain side, enveloped us at times, ond then canght by o cbangiog wind, would float afar off down the valley. It was while onc of these floating clouds was sweepiog between us and the Carter mountuins, that we perceived at first the faint tracery of a rainbow, which gradually developing itself, expanded into full perfection, with this exception only, that instead of being arched it formed a perfect circle, apparently about fifty yards in diameter. Suddenly, to our inexpressible amazement, we beheld our own figures photographed as it were on the misty back ground which formed tbe center of the raiubow. So distinct and perfect were the representations that each ooe of the porty readily recognized their individual figures. Arme, hats and shawls were freely waved by the porty; fingers.expanded, and instantly each motion was responded to by figures in the clouds. ‘I'bis phantom-like picture lasted about a niinute, aod then was gone.” The figures of the party were, as will be noticed, directly io the lioe between the “ misty back ground” and the setting suo, whose rays were tlius iotercepted. The mouotaios beyond served as tbe coating of the mirror. The same appearances have, we believe, beeo witnessed in the Catskill mountains. The famed “ Spectre of the Brocken, the higbest summit io the Hartz mountains, was a source of superstitious fear with the German peasantry, to whom it furoished the subject of a legend. A gigantic humao figure, believed to be a direfnl porteot, was at times visible. Science has explaioed it as the image of tbe, observer’e owo figure, produced by refractioo aod reflection ; aod occurriog whbeoevor certain atmospherical cooditions and a certain elevation of the sun coiucide. Insect Wax.—We clip the following paragraph from the Farmer (Scottish) ; * The trade in this article in Chioa is large. Io 1864, from the single port of Hankow alone 5,100 ewts. were exported. It is takeo by the Chinese as medicine, but is principally used as stearine in the manufacture of candles. It is one of the most valuable of the many products of SzeChuen, being wortb sixty and seventy taele per picul (133 ths.}. The wax is deposited, for the protection of its eggs, by ao insect whicb iohabits the trees on which the wax is secreted. The formation of tbe wax was a subject which occupied the especial attention of M. Simon,a French savant, who, a year or two ago, passed a considerable time in the interior, during which he is said to bave traverscd the greater portioo of Sze-Chuen, aod to have reached tbe eastern confines of Thihet. It is to be hoped the result of his researches into the products of the former fertile provioce will ere long be nade public. Revotvino Firsarus.—Tbe New York Artisan, in copying the story of the ancient revolving pistol, which Col. Colt once saw with feelings of great surprise in the historical collection at Dresden, (wbicb account has also appeared tn this paper), adds the following : “Tn the World's Fair’ at the New York Crystal Palace, in the year 1853, there was exhibited a collection of ancient ‘weapooe from the Tower of London; and among them waea revolver like that above described and of about the samo age. Col. Colt’s patent was oot for the revolving cylinder, but for making it sel/revolving by the act of cocking the hammer.” Warer, in passing from the eolid to the liquid state, couverts 140 degreee of seusible into latent beat; in passing from. tbe liquid to the aeriform condition, it absorbs 1,000 degrees of heat, rendering it latent. Alcohol, in evaporating, ahsorbs 374 degrees of heat; ether, 163 degrees; aod spirit of turpentine, 138 degrees. : -_ Vator or Kyow:epor.—Koowledge is the trne alchemy that turns everything it touchee into gold. It gives us dominion over nature, unlocke the storehouse of creation, aod opens to us the treasures of the univeree. ?

The Mining and Scientific Press. 247 tirely without foundation. A smalt portion ot the hoisting gear over the mine broke, but itis alreatly repaired, and this caused u brief suspension of the hoisting of ore. ‘Yhe dumps, however, were full, uud none of the mills, supplied from tbis mine, were delayed in the least.” Reese River— From the Rerete of Oct. Gth: Mnny wise ones shake their heads nt cur account of the enormous eize of the ledges in the Reveille district. ‘They accept witluut a doubt all thot was said ol its extraordiuury mineral, us fabulously rich as it uppeara to be, because they have seen it and placed their hands upon it, and it speaks lor itself. Mr. F. M. Clarke, a gentleman and a disinterested witness, writes thas: Of the quality of the rock you will be your own judge, butus for the size of the ledges the least that can be enid of them is they are monsters, at least from ten to fifty foet thick, and any amount of the same kind of rock as he will show you can be had on the surface, og lean testily. Mr. Monroe, one of the discovercra, accepts this testimony, but will gu tho gentlemun twenty to filty feet better. Sume paper of 10th, says: Owing to the discovery of heavy deposits of ntiveral, lying chiefly southeust of Austin, during tho last fonr montlis, the public attention has beeo nearly diverted from the mines iu itsimmediate neighborhood. ‘Nhe manner, too, in which several lurge and cxpeosive properties in this district had been munaged, almost led to tho belict that the ledges of the district were too sionll and uncertain to provo remunerativo. Asgood mining property as the suo ever ehone on, has been slanghtered by the igoorance of pompous sgents and superintendents, until the general faith in tho character and permanence of our mines hos well nigh been lost. In the North Star mine, for instance, tbo working had been carried on without the least regard to systematic mining, and was little better than a evries of sublerranean zigzags or gopber excavatious. The search for the ‘lost vein was finally abandoned, under tho beliet that it had . terminated. Under the present mauagement, tho work has been resumed by Superintendent Frost, one of the original discoverere of the tine, whose thorough knowledge of the course o¥ the vein led him at. ouce to the poiot where its rich deposit had heen passed or lost. The vein is now exposed for a’ length of 320 feet, disclosing mineral equal to the finest yet diseovered in the district. An idea of the size of the vein will be conveyed when we state, that there are specimeos in the office of the conipany, which have been extracted from the recovered ledge, weighing 500 pounds and npwurds, and measuring three by four feet— masses of richest sulphuret ore, assays of which range from $600 te $6,000 per ton. Same of the lith: The case of the Oregoo is similar tuthat ofthe North Star. In 1863-4 a 10-stamp inill was erected by the company. Atter a while it was discovered that the ore could not be successfully treated without roast ing. and the first reverberatory furnaces were built at grent expense. In 1865 the property passed into the possession of the Manhattan Company, which had the advantage of ample _ capital. In the conrse of time the original mnill was dismantled, and a costly 20-stanip initl was erected, furnished with every acceesory befitting the operations of a wealthy company. ‘Then followed an expenditure of thousands of dollars in confused and iotricate burrowings by the scientific gophers who were placed in churge. ‘I'he course of the vein is neatly east and west. It had slipped tbrough the fingers of the workers. A scientific nian from a neighboring mill was called in to survey the ground. [He did the work as requested, and gave them as their true line of working to recover the vein,a course directly southeast. They worked on tbis line all summer, penetrating a distance of 130 feet. ‘I'he interposition af tue sheriff stopped the wild excavatian. when Superintendent Frost cume ioto position under the present management, he obtained the reluctaot consent of the General Agent of the company to alter the line of working. He drove a cut eighteen feet due north, when he exposed the original and beautiful vein of the Oregon, just twenty-fivo feet from tbe line of the niain incline. ‘The splendid vein, which had heen lost sight of by the gophers, is three feet thick, and irom the level to the surface there are 135 leet wholly uutoucbed, which may be stoped out at fill. A letter in the Nye Couoty News of Oct. 6th, has 2 description of the eplendid reduction works just erected oear the Murphy mine by the ‘win River Mining Company, of wbich we give av abstract. ‘The buildings are of stone, Tbe furnace is of the MeGinnis pattern. ‘The amalvainating rvom is furnished with six pane of Wheeler & Randall's latest improved styte. The settlers are seveu feet in diameter, and there is one to each tier of pans. The battery of twenty stamps,is of the “ knee style,” and is regarded ae the model battery of the State. Tbe motive power is a splendid engioe of 123horse power. s Humboldt— From tbe Register of October] 6th: The Manitowoc boys are getting ulong hugely. . ending last Sunday..Mr. Sanders intends Pour hands at tbe tive are taking out on an uverage cbout two tons of first-class ore per. duy..Qn the North Stur ledge the superintendent is pushing wurk nhead vigorouaty. At present he is sinking a prospecting shalt on the ledge, which hus every appenrance of n true fissure vein. ‘The ore is simikir to'that of the Munitowac—a sample of average rock worked by mill process being 983 fine, ond yielding $119 to the ton...Wurk in the Rochester claim, on the Montana ledge, goes bravely on. At n depth of 135 feet in the mnin shult a drift was started, which is now in 120 feet—duily expecting to striko the ledge. ‘The same paper hns the following star items : Americau Basin tunnel still driving ia, Working now in a streak abounding in tron. Additionnl foree put on Inst week... . Yankee contract being pushed rapidly to completion. Some seventy-tive feet more to finish, which will put the tunnel in 500 feet... Reported that the Whitmore will resuine work sooo.. . Chauge in the management of the Sheba mill. Mr, Beale is now running it with the reoowned Sauchez as amolgamator. ARIZONA. From the Afiner of Sept. 26th : The second Lamson mill (‘'bunderbolt) is being erected on the ‘Ticunderoga lode..Kx-Judge Flower, of Yuba county, is to have charge of the Johnson ond Groom mill, on the Sterling lode..Gold bars froin the Borger mill are now quite coinmon iu town, and convey a eubstantial and gratifying evideoce of the richness of the Biz Bug mines. ..'‘Tbe scarcity ol labor is keeoly felt by our minere, ranchwen and freighters. Permaoeot employment at high wages can he given to a large number of men, and we hone they will be forthcoming. We hear that Mr. Borger has had to eend to Califoroia for haods to work at his mill and mioes. From the La Pnz Gazette: Everything is being got in readiness for an early commencement oo the Vulture mine at Wickenburg.. The machinery which is soon to be erected on the Sterling mine at Prescott, comprises two Beath mills, and a four 700-pound stainp battery..The machinery to be erected for the New York Moss Association, ut Hardyville, of which Charles Strong is euperintendent, comprises one 40-horse power engine, 12x24 inch cylinder; two 5-stamp’batteries, with mortar independent of the lrainework ; three of the Wheeler & Randaolt tractory pans ; two Knox pans, two 7-loot separatora; oue large portable 10-ton derrick, framework for taoke, mill, ete. complete. From Williams’ Fork we have the following: Work is being prosecuted by the Spriugfield Company on one of their claims, with good indications of succees. Mr. ‘I'honipson is progressing finely in his smelting operations on the Great Central. have their two smelting furnaces io operation in about a inonth. The Reese River Reveille says: The omigrants to Arizona from Austin appear to have had a very bard time. ‘The party went from here southeast to Pahranagat andthe Coloradu, and of couree passed the ground where have sinco been discovered the Northumbertand, Silver Bend, Danville, Hot Creek, Empire, Reveille and other districts richer by far than their wildest bopes ever pictured fur them in Arizona. IDAHO. From the Avalanche of Oct. 6th: The N. Y. & QO. Co. have purchused the Hureka and Noonday guartz ledges this week; the former at $3 per foot aod the latter at $7.50. ..The Knickerbouker Company are continuing their prospects on the ‘'rook & Jennings and the south extensiun of the Morning Star chins. The lutter bas recently given signs of improvement. ‘Ihe north tunnel which starts seventy feet down the shaft, and runs under Loog Gulch, discloses more aod ricber ore than heretofore. ‘The work is carried on uight and day. The Trook& Jeonings shows no additional encouragement..J. H. Johnson, of Flint district, has sold the “‘T'om Sturgis" quartz vein to J. P. Hopkins of New York. From the Idabo Zimes of Sept. 28th: Mr. Kirkpatrick, an old mountaineer, has lately returned froma prospectiog tour to the headwaters of tbe Payette and Salmon rivers. Le reports having found prospects of from one to two centsto the pan, and would have investigated further had the snow not driven him out of the mountains. ..Soime ininers have organized aoother tunoel company on East Hill, to be commenced above Butler & Co.'s mill, on Moore’s creek.. Messrs. Channel & Co. are extending the old original Elk and Deer creek ditch along the summit of the divide between Grimes’ and Kitk creeks, to 2 point about three

miles below Centreville. Same of 2d Oct.: fhe East Hill tannel is into the hill for over 231 feet. OQneand a halt pounds of the bard substance they are now pickiog through—a kind of granite clay—was found, after a careful assay, to cootain forty. two cents in gold..Clute & Cu. on Moore’s creek, cleaned up over $8,000 for the week Knowles & Lightner will . keeping the Eikhort imachimery in motion all whiter. ‘The mine is louking more fluttering now than at any time leretelore.. Redimoud & Co.'s chim, ubove Pine Grove, are running two sloices and employing sixty-fivo men. Clifton & Bottuny, who are mining the ground on which Pine Grove is located, ure etn ployiug about thirty-five men. The French Compnony are employing Irom forty to sixty ment. MeNortheot & Co. ure also employing a large lot of men. MONTANA. Bannack correspondent of the Post of 29th . Sept. snys: A truin of thirty-one wngons, containing u 20 stamp mill, three sets of furnaces, ond other machinery, for the Montaoa Mineral ‘Land Mining Company, and also cupelling furmices for the Rocky Mountain Gold and Silver Mining Compnuy— passed through town to Marysville. Charles D. Everett is superintendent of the latter company, and is pushing operations ahewtd on the Wide West, and prepariug to erect his furnaces at once. ‘The Wide West is a silver lead in the Blue Wing district, of o very peculiar and rich ore, which is easily redueed by the smelting process, Messrs. Kirby and Clark have neurly everything ready to put up their machinery ; and tons upon tons of rich quartz, which has heen takon frum the Mademoisele is ready for their 20-stamp mill. Telcua letter: “It is estimated that over five hundred persons will start frum Fort Benton about the first part of oext week, and the amount of treasure going down will fall little sbort of ooe aud a half million dollare.” COLORADO. From the Journal of Sept. 25th: The Bohtail mine of the Sterling Company has a 30inch pay vein the entire length of it and ahout 100 cords of ore. ‘Yhe pumps will be put in this week..Tbe Kip & Buell Company are doing very well ou the Leavitt lode, getting about $120 a cord with their old stamp mill from the ore right along..{n Russell Gulch, there is no revival as yet. The wills put up there last year, some of them yet unfinisbed, are etandiog still with a very lew exceptions, aod some of the most noble gold veing tn the country, large, rich, and easily worked, have been so long deserted that the prospect boles and gouging are lioed with graseand bushes to the bottom..Dr. Carpenter, at the Mclotyre mill, has fixed the reverberatory desulphurizer in that mill so as to testhis process. Ie took 800 pounds of tailings from the Mercer County, lying outside of the mill, which assayed $9.03 aton, desulphurized it and sent it to ‘Clear Creek to ElHcott & Snider's arastra. Ie also sent the same amount of the same tailings, undesulphurized. From the latter the arastra ght ten grains of gold, from tbe former seventyfour grains. From the Denver News of Oct. 3d: Our . latest advices from the Snake River mioes are that Whitney & Whiling will ran a tunnel on ‘Yen-Mile creek this winter. ‘Whe agent of . this company is developing their property iu Peru and Snake River miniog districts. J. Blackman, of Mill City, is packing over the range one thousand pounds of ore from tbe Esmeralda lode, Snake River, to be sent to Philadelphia for test..Joe. Il. Boyd, prospector for the Nonpareil Company, is now sitking a shaft on a lode with a 25-foot crevice, in Colfax Park, Snake River district. The ore isa very fine appearing argentilerous galena mixed with chloride of silver, and those who have seen it feel confident of its great value. It is called the J. &. Wharton lode. AorrcutturaL CovLtecr.— ‘the Board of Directors of the California State Agricultural College held a meeting io this city ou Monday last, when they decided to immediately comnience tbe examination of the various sites proposed. ‘They visited San Jose on Tuesday, Oakland on Thursday, Naps on Friday, and will be at Sacrainento on the 22d, These are the only counties thus far whieh bave made proposals for the location of the College. Counties or communities having locations to offer, should make their propositions to the Board immediately, and they will be promptly acted upon. ‘fhe Board consists of Gov. Low, Chairmao; Charles I?. Reed, President af the State Azricultural Society, Sacramento ; H. J. Booth, Presideot of the Mechanics’ Institute, San Francisco ; Felix ‘Tracy of Shasta ; Willian Holden of Mendocino; C.T. Ryland of San Jose; Henry Phillips of Nevada, aud J. R. Meader of Copperopolis. A Liquomerer.—At one of the late sittings of the French Association for the Advancement of Scienco, a new instrumeot, called a liquonietre was exhibited. It is intended for estimating the ainount of aleohol in wines, and is based on the principle of capillary action. It consists essentially of a very fine graduated tube. ‘I'he instrument is said also to give separate indicatione of the amount of tartar and extractive matter. Remarkastr Purnomenox.—A private letter written by a St. Louisiwn, sojourning in New Ksngtand, gives the subjoined descriptioo of a wonderlul phenomeuon witnessed by himself and others from the summit of Mt. Washington on the afternoon of the 28th of August : «We were stunding about on hour before sunset on the southeastern portion of tbe cone with our {nces turned to the east, looking down upon the Glen House miles below. Immediately in front of us rose the lofty Carter rnnges, which were occasionally hidden trom our view by hcuvy mosses of tist, which, rolling up the mountain side, enveloped us at times, ond then canght by o cbangiog wind, would float afar off down the valley. It was while onc of these floating clouds was sweepiog between us and the Carter mountuins, that we perceived at first the faint tracery of a rainbow, which gradually developing itself, expanded into full perfection, with this exception only, that instead of being arched it formed a perfect circle, apparently about fifty yards in diameter. Suddenly, to our inexpressible amazement, we beheld our own figures photographed as it were on the misty back ground which formed tbe center of the raiubow. So distinct and perfect were the representations that each ooe of the porty readily recognized their individual figures. Arme, hats and shawls were freely waved by the porty; fingers.expanded, and instantly each motion was responded to by figures in the clouds. ‘I'bis phantom-like picture lasted about a niinute, aod then was gone.” The figures of the party were, as will be noticed, directly io the lioe between the “ misty back ground” and the setting suo, whose rays were tlius iotercepted. The mouotaios beyond served as tbe coating of the mirror. The same appearances have, we believe, beeo witnessed in the Catskill mountains. The famed “ Spectre of the Brocken, the higbest summit io the Hartz mountains, was a source of superstitious fear with the German peasantry, to whom it furoished the subject of a legend. A gigantic humao figure, believed to be a direfnl porteot, was at times visible. Science has explaioed it as the image of tbe, observer’e owo figure, produced by refractioo aod reflection ; aod occurriog whbeoevor certain atmospherical cooditions and a certain elevation of the sun coiucide. Insect Wax.—We clip the following paragraph from the Farmer (Scottish) ; * The trade in this article in Chioa is large. Io 1864, from the single port of Hankow alone 5,100 ewts. were exported. It is takeo by the Chinese as medicine, but is principally used as stearine in the manufacture of candles. It is one of the most valuable of the many products of SzeChuen, being wortb sixty and seventy taele per picul (133 ths.}. The wax is deposited, for the protection of its eggs, by ao insect whicb iohabits the trees on which the wax is secreted. The formation of tbe wax was a subject which occupied the especial attention of M. Simon,a French savant, who, a year or two ago, passed a considerable time in the interior, during which he is said to bave traverscd the greater portioo of Sze-Chuen, aod to have reached tbe eastern confines of Thihet. It is to be hoped the result of his researches into the products of the former fertile provioce will ere long be nade public. Revotvino Firsarus.—Tbe New York Artisan, in copying the story of the ancient revolving pistol, which Col. Colt once saw with feelings of great surprise in the historical collection at Dresden, (wbicb account has also appeared tn this paper), adds the following : “Tn the World's Fair’ at the New York Crystal Palace, in the year 1853, there was exhibited a collection of ancient ‘weapooe from the Tower of London; and among them waea revolver like that above described and of about the samo age. Col. Colt’s patent was oot for the revolving cylinder, but for making it sel/revolving by the act of cocking the hammer.” Warer, in passing from the eolid to the liquid state, couverts 140 degreee of seusible into latent beat; in passing from. tbe liquid to the aeriform condition, it absorbs 1,000 degrees of heat, rendering it latent. Alcohol, in evaporating, ahsorbs 374 degrees of heat; ether, 163 degrees; aod spirit of turpentine, 138 degrees. : -_ Vator or Kyow:epor.—Koowledge is the trne alchemy that turns everything it touchee into gold. It gives us dominion over nature, unlocke the storehouse of creation, aod opens to us the treasures of the univeree. ?