Volume 17 (1868) (428 pages)

The Mining and Scientific Press. Hig e Lineoln mill in operation, Largo nonuts of bullion are turne.l ont. Nich gold bearing quartz has again been ruek in the south drift of the Woodstock, 10 fect from the surface. A contract has pen let for ruaning a drift 60 feet sonth om the bottom of the north shaft. Work also progressing in the north drift. mith’s arastra at Ruby is now running on 7ondstoek ore. Mose Lyon and party have discovered a ammoth quartz ledge, three or four miles » the northeast of Wagontown. It is said » be from 12 to 18 feet wide, and traceable two miles, They have elristened it the Avalanehe,” and have brought in some of 10 rock for the pnrpose of getting it assyed, Extensive improvements haye been made n the Golden Chariot during the past wonth, The Upper Sinker mill is now runing on Golden Chariot ore, aad will eonnue to do so all summer. Peek & Porter are vigorously pushing brward work on tho seeond extension of he Oro Fino. <A shaft is being sunk on 1¢ ledge, which is from 18 inehes to two tilling ore. Quite a large amount of quartz ns already been taken out. _ iape for taking out heaps of ore, The forning Star whistle will soon be heard zain. The Webfoot mil] has heen thoroughly paired, and put iu good werking order. fhe nil) will eommenee working Woodtock ore ina day or two. Work is still rapidly progressing on the rlenbrook mine. We netieed on thedump larga pile of good-looking ore, which will e worked in a few days. WIONTANA. Helena Post, August 7th: A large gold tick, weighing 962 ozs., and worth $17,p12 iu coin, was smelted by Mr. I. Bohm esterday, and shipped East on Wells, argo & Co's stage, At the assay oftiee of Mr. F. Bohm there as smelted yesterday gold dust of the value f $13,000, coin, The largest har had a bin value of $5,000. Considerable money is being taken out at iegan. On Wednesday last, the Piegan bitch and Water Co. eleaned up 100 onnees fter a run of two weeks with from seven to ight men working on; bedrock. Their ean up before this last, resulted in 200 ozs. f gold after a three weeks’ run. Still betrr results are expected, as the mines inreaso in riehness the further they are fol pwed up the guleb. »The new Basin Guleh diggings in Boulder falley, are proving more extensive than was t first supposed. As far up as elaim 31 bovo diseovery, the ground is found to ay, on an average, five cents to the pan, nd on No. 34 below discovery, nine feet of ravel pays from eight to ten eeuts to the an. ‘The elaim below discovery containhg 600 feet, was sold one week ago for 1,500. It is reported that $15 has been btiined from one pan of dirt taken from edrock in elaim No. 1 in the Eureka disriet. D. L. Lewis gives us the following tems: Williams & Co. are working to adisdvyantage at present, hut are making about lt per day tothoman. Lewis & Co. are ngaged in runving a drain diteh and obnining exeellent prospeets. It is thought hat, for a distanee of three to five miles, the round is equally as good as that of Last bhanee Gulch helow No. 8. The gold is venly distributed and very fine, Claims re selling generally at from $200 to $500. The guleh upon which Helena is situated, 3 hy uo means worked out. Not only are fessrs. ‘Taylor, Tompson & Co. making normous runs, but other parties are doing vell. Messvs. Baker & Brisbee, with 35 ien, are eleaning up about 100 ounces per reek. C. B. Hunt's elaim took ont 38 ozs. f gold for the week ending on Satnrday ight last. They had 10 men at work durag tho week, One-half of the Union Co's aleh elaim, eonsisting of 700 ft., aud situted one mile below the ground of Messrs. faylor, Thompsou & Co., was sold to Chinanen last weck for $6,009. The project for rutting a bedroek flume in Last Chance tulch will be revived as soon as Col. ‘Pruett eturns. Fears are entertained that the resnlis anicipated from the Poor Mau’s Joy lead canhot this season be realized. A elose examnation of the ore shows that it contains tom five to ten per eent. of lead, besides a arge quantity of copper, arsenic and antioony, and it is thought that the presence of he base metals in sucb proportions may so uterfere with the proeess of amalgamation, hat it may beeome necessary to send to the states for the latest improyed and expenlive machiucry. The mill of the St. Louis & Montana Co. £ Phillipsburg, cleaned up $3,000 in bullret in width, and yields a good quality of . The Oro Fino will soon he in proper . ion on Friday last, the result of a run npon 30 tons of rock froru the Hope lead. Three hnadred toas of a similar quality is already on the ground, and will soon be erushed. Work upos the liumley & Bogher ledge is , being actively proseeuted. . Many of the stampeders aro returning from Wilson’s Creek, aud Basin and Galena Gulehe:, aad more workis boing doe at . Radersburyg than for some time before, ‘fhe opening of elaims on Badger Bar and Bay Horse Hill is actively progressiag, MeBride & Co. about 10 days ago, eleaned up $1,500 from tho first mentioned mines, after a run of 10 days withjone hydranlic. Charity Gnleh is paying woll. A new bar was struek a few days since in Blacker’s Guleh, which is paying better than any mine yet diseoverod at the Radersberg Camp. The gold is generally eoarse, and nuggets weighiag $2.50 are found. The right hand fork of Dry Guleli is heing energetieally worked throughout its entire length and good pay is being obtained. .On Big Indian Gulch the number of elaims worked is limited, hut the few whieh are being mined are yieldiug well. Quartz miniag at the head of the guleh is being actively prosecuted.Tueker Guleh is paying well so far as worked.In Clark’s Guleh a gang of Chinamen are makiag good wages with rockers, Parties working near them are obtaining from $4 to $6 per day hy the same method of workiag. Tho Deer Lodge Jndependent says: A 22ounee boulder, containing abont $325 in gold, was taken out near Silver Bow reeently.Recent developments show that the Pioaeer and Gold Creek diggings are much more extensive thanat first supposed. Riehl mines have heen struck in two plaees, two or three miles this side of the main Pioneer Gulch, whieh promise as large a yield as any of the ground yet worked in that vicinity.Silver Bow is paying hetter than ever before. Donovan & Driseoll ave ground-slnicing anextensive har, at the lower end of the mines, A large area of mining ground holow the town will pay from $4 to $8 per day to the hand, The mines of Smith, Simpson & Nnyenbury, near Silver Bow, are paying about $18 per day tothe man. The Prairie diggings, pay good wages, in sonie instances as high as $50 per day to the man. The guleh below is yielding from $18 to $20 per day, with a seareity of water. NEVADA, Esmeralda, Aurora Union, Augnst 8th: Forty-five bundred pounds of rock, from the Pacific, was brought to town and worked this week, yielding over $400. Humboldt. Winnemucea Argent, August 13tb: J. M. White brought 2,508 ounees of ore from tbe Goleonda mine, for sbipment, on Saturday last. Mr. White presented us with 8 rieh speeimens from tho Goleonda, which are true representatives of the various kinds of ore now eoming from the mine, No, 1 is nearly regulns—probably 85 per ceut. metal, color dark, and pieco somewhat porous. Nos. 2 and 3 are similar, havingheavy black mineral; some of which is nearly like powder and soot, with a red ocherous substanee in strata. These pieces are about 75 per eeut. metal. Nos. 4 and 5 bear tbe same general features. They are of a light yellow eolor, tinged witb green, and are of mueb less density and more crumbly nature, No. 6 is composed of blaek sulphurets intermingled in a mass of soft, graiuless elay, whicb is solidified by exposure to the atmospbere. The tallowy stuff is precisely the same as that obtained from the famous Poorman of Owyhee. Speeimens 7 and 8 combine substanees deseribed in the others. A private letter, dated Orena, August 5th, says: Montezuma smelting works, together with tho entire Montezuma mine, suld some time sinee by the Trinity & Sacramento Mining Co., were turned over to the new proprietors, the Montezuma Mining Company, on the Istinstant. Furnaces are working splendidly—uever did better work, Reese River. Anstin Reveille, Augnst 7th: There is no longer any donbt that the mines of Treasure Hill, in the district of White Piue, are sitnated in Lander eounty. Yesterday afternoon, some 3,000 onuces of bullion were brought into the city from Rigby’s mill, in the district of San Antonio. August 11th: Since the repairs were eompleted on the Manhattan mill, about the first of the present month, it bas been employed in reducing various lots of ore from Lauder Hill and the district of White Piue. The lots are generally small, bnt of a very high grade of ore. It may he fairly doubted) if there ever was a mill before that worked sucli a variety of ore iu so many different lots as the Manhattau does e1ch month, . The sixteen bars of hulliou, whieh were . bronght into this eity from the district of White Pine on Satnrday, formed as handsome a lot as we had seen for niany a day. The bars ranged from .885 to .9L fine, and their total value was $21,360.21, They were produced at the Centenary mill, in the district of Newark, aad were mainly from oro obtained from the Eberhardt South on Treasure Hill, in White Pine. The bullion was shipped throngh the banking house of John A. Paxton & Co. August 12th: This morning, a small lot of 700 ounees of builion were brought into the city from the district of Washington. We believo it is the first produet of the mill of the Utica and Herkimer Co., reeently completed in that distriet. Augnst 14th: A private letter from the distriet of White Pine gives information of a rich strike in a elaim ealled the Blue Bell, situated above, hut near the famous Keystone and Eberhardt South. The ore is said to be very rich, and equal to that produced hy either of the above. The Blue Bell helongs to some of the owners of the Keystone. The Mountain Champiun, of Belmont, has learned that the mill of the Silver Peak and Red Mountain Co, wasrunning successfully, and that a large shipment of bullion, valued at $100,000, would soon be made. Clayton’s improved crusher, whieh forms a part of the battery of the mill, is pronounced to be a eomplete suceess, Washoe. [fn the Stock Cireular, iu another portion of this paper, will he found late miuing news from this district. ] Virgiaia Enterprise, Aug. 12th: The mills about Silver City, many of whieh have heen for sometime lying idle, are again starting up, and the town is beginning to assnme quite a brisk appearanee. Uncle Joe. ‘Lreneh’s fine large mill, at the lower end of town, resumed crushing day hefove yesterduy, working ore from the Savage mine. This mill alone will give employment to quite a number of meu. The company working the Twin mine, at the upper end ofthe towu, are sinking three shafts upon the lead, and at one of these are preparing to ercet hoistiug works, the engine and much of the machinery for which is now on the ground, The eompany are employing 20 or 80 meu aboutthemine, and are taking out 10 to 15 tous of ore per day that . will yield from $50 to $60 per ton. The new Sierra Nevada 20-stamp mill will, as wo are informed by Mr. Robert Apple, the Superintendent, be completed this week, and will start up next Monday on ore from the mine of the company. They now have out upon their dump, to commence with, some 2,000 tons of ore, which it is thought will at least pay $25 or $80 per ton. Mr. Apple is quite confident that be can mine and crush thisore ata cost not execeding $2 per ton. Aug. 14th: Tho total sbipment of bullion for the past week from this eity and Gold Hill, was 7,094 pounds, worth $192,466.67. Gold Hill News, Aug. 11th: Baldwin distriet, westof Walker Lake, contains some very promising ledges, apparently rich in the precions metals, sone of the ore assaying as high as $900 to the ton in silver and gold—prineipally silver. It also contains asufficient quantity of lead to flux it and make it work casy. The Savage Co. have struek a very promising deposit in their sixth level, in which they fiud a eousiderable amount of milling ore. Althougb tbe great mass of the ore is of a grade too low to pay for milling at tbe present cost, itis boped tbatit may grow richer as it is furtber developed. It is about 100 feet further north than where they have lately had any orein the mine; therefore it is looked upon as a very promising indieation. August 12tb: The Imperial Consolidated Mining Co. this morning dispatehed a company of workmen out to their mine in New Truckee district, 65 miles east of Virginia City, to commence takiug out some of their rich argentiferous galena ore, preparatory to baying it transported over the railroad to Reno, and trom thenee bauled to the smelting works at Galena, Washoe County. There was shipped from Wells, Fargo & Co’s Gold Hill offiee this morning, 10 saeks of bullion, weighing 775 pounds, and of the assayed value of $18,982 43. The Gold Hill Branch assay offiee of Hi. Ruhling & Co. received this morning for melting and assay, 2,605 ouuces of ernde bullion. C. Wiegand & Co., of Gold Hill, reeeived this morning for melting aud assay, 2,321 ounces of ernde bullion. The Pacifie Union Express shipped last night ten burs of bullion, valued at $18,71499. WASHINCTON. The Olympic Transcript says: The heach miues at Gray’s Harhor are now beiag worked profitably. hey yield $5 a day with a Long Tom. Wells sunk some distance back from the beach show that pay is generally distributed through the surrounding country. Our informant inteads to prospeet in the neighborhood, and if the reports are vorified, will ereet maehiacry _ sueh as is used in Gold Bluff, California. The Wine Interest of California. [The following article is forwarded to us by a writer who has the interest represented at heart, and who is also fumiliar with the process mentioned for its great improvement and speedy advancement.) To raise the wine industry of California to what its climate destines it to be—the first wine-growing eountry on this continent—as it has been plausibly represented, requires a radical reform, as well in the mode of workiag the wine, as the entire system observed. As long as we have to store wine for two, three or more years, till ripe and saleable, we eannot eompete with other wine countries, however pure and good our product may be, ‘Quiek sales and ready profits” is the watelword in all industry. The present mode of fermenting the wiae, by exclusion of air, does not permit it; that mode, violating nature’s plainest direetions, has had its days, though they numbered two thousands of years. It has been proved now, and everybody ean demonstrate it for himself, that fermentation is an oxidatioa proeess, requiring the oxygen of the atmosphere applied to every part of the substance to bo thorough and eom plete. Therefore, the adoption of the mode of impelling air into the fermenting substance— patented by R. d’Heureuse, of San Franeisco, August 6th, 1867—is an absolute necessity for all wine-makers, By it the wine obtains, with a speedy and perfeet fermentation, full stability and ripeness in a few weeks after it is made, is free from all earthy taste, and ready for shipment to any part of the world the same seasonit is made. But this alone, though essential for profitable wine manufaeture, is not sufficient. As in all other industries, the manufaeture should be a separate branch, independent of the grape-growers, from whom the grapes should be purehased by manufacturing establishments of sufficient eapacity in all grape-growiag districts. The wine and brandy will be thus obtained more economically, and, uuder proper direction, superior to that done more expensively in small lots. This rule of division of labor alone has given satisfaetiou in all other branehes of industry, and is finding its way also in the wine distriets of Europe. California eannot do without it. The foree of the argument bas been admitted by reflecting men of this and other States. No time should be lost in the formation of eompanies, with capital, for the purpose of erecting proper ‘establishments for wine and brandy-making in the various wine distriets, to contract for the purchase of grapes and sale of their produet, which are readily taken by the best wine-dealers, if properly air-treated in the manaer indicated. Fifty per eent. and above, on the money invested, it is elaimed, will he the profits of a few months’ work. All these hundreds of small vineyards, now rather a loss than otherwize to their owners, might beeome profitable to them, if they eonfine themselves to the sale of their grapes at 75 cents or $1 per 100 lhs.; and thonsands of otbers to be planted willrapidly inerease the common wealtb of the State, giving happy bomes to thousands of industrious husbandmen. Wine is the only bulky produet of manufacture which in tbis State will find constantly a market in unlimited quantities, with fair profit to all concerned. Properly promoted in tbe direction indieated, the anuual wiue produetion in a few years will exeeed the value of tlie production even of the precious metals of California in her palmiest days. Wine-growers, and all those interested in the prosperity of this eountry, and those looking for safe, profitable investment in indnstrial, not merely speculative pursuits (for honest industry ceases where wily speeulation steps in), should lose no timoiu acting on this suggestion. Bunion Brroiz.—A bridle was reeeived at the Exhibition to-day, whieh is made of silver bullion, weighing fonr pounds, and which cost $550, It was made for Col. Curry, of Carson City, and was intended for a present to President Lineoln, before the news arrived of his assassinatiou, but was then presented to a eitizen of San José.

The Mining and Scientific Press. Hig e Lineoln mill in operation, Largo nonuts of bullion are turne.l ont. Nich gold bearing quartz has again been ruek in the south drift of the Woodstock, 10 fect from the surface. A contract has pen let for ruaning a drift 60 feet sonth om the bottom of the north shaft. Work also progressing in the north drift. mith’s arastra at Ruby is now running on 7ondstoek ore. Mose Lyon and party have discovered a ammoth quartz ledge, three or four miles » the northeast of Wagontown. It is said » be from 12 to 18 feet wide, and traceable two miles, They have elristened it the Avalanehe,” and have brought in some of 10 rock for the pnrpose of getting it assyed, Extensive improvements haye been made n the Golden Chariot during the past wonth, The Upper Sinker mill is now runing on Golden Chariot ore, aad will eonnue to do so all summer. Peek & Porter are vigorously pushing brward work on tho seeond extension of he Oro Fino. <A shaft is being sunk on 1¢ ledge, which is from 18 inehes to two tilling ore. Quite a large amount of quartz ns already been taken out. _ iape for taking out heaps of ore, The forning Star whistle will soon be heard zain. The Webfoot mil] has heen thoroughly paired, and put iu good werking order. fhe nil) will eommenee working Woodtock ore ina day or two. Work is still rapidly progressing on the rlenbrook mine. We netieed on thedump larga pile of good-looking ore, which will e worked in a few days. WIONTANA. Helena Post, August 7th: A large gold tick, weighing 962 ozs., and worth $17,p12 iu coin, was smelted by Mr. I. Bohm esterday, and shipped East on Wells, argo & Co's stage, At the assay oftiee of Mr. F. Bohm there as smelted yesterday gold dust of the value f $13,000, coin, The largest har had a bin value of $5,000. Considerable money is being taken out at iegan. On Wednesday last, the Piegan bitch and Water Co. eleaned up 100 onnees fter a run of two weeks with from seven to ight men working on; bedrock. Their ean up before this last, resulted in 200 ozs. f gold after a three weeks’ run. Still betrr results are expected, as the mines inreaso in riehness the further they are fol pwed up the guleb. »The new Basin Guleh diggings in Boulder falley, are proving more extensive than was t first supposed. As far up as elaim 31 bovo diseovery, the ground is found to ay, on an average, five cents to the pan, nd on No. 34 below discovery, nine feet of ravel pays from eight to ten eeuts to the an. ‘The elaim below discovery containhg 600 feet, was sold one week ago for 1,500. It is reported that $15 has been btiined from one pan of dirt taken from edrock in elaim No. 1 in the Eureka disriet. D. L. Lewis gives us the following tems: Williams & Co. are working to adisdvyantage at present, hut are making about lt per day tothoman. Lewis & Co. are ngaged in runving a drain diteh and obnining exeellent prospeets. It is thought hat, for a distanee of three to five miles, the round is equally as good as that of Last bhanee Gulch helow No. 8. The gold is venly distributed and very fine, Claims re selling generally at from $200 to $500. The guleh upon which Helena is situated, 3 hy uo means worked out. Not only are fessrs. ‘Taylor, Tompson & Co. making normous runs, but other parties are doing vell. Messvs. Baker & Brisbee, with 35 ien, are eleaning up about 100 ounces per reek. C. B. Hunt's elaim took ont 38 ozs. f gold for the week ending on Satnrday ight last. They had 10 men at work durag tho week, One-half of the Union Co's aleh elaim, eonsisting of 700 ft., aud situted one mile below the ground of Messrs. faylor, Thompsou & Co., was sold to Chinanen last weck for $6,009. The project for rutting a bedroek flume in Last Chance tulch will be revived as soon as Col. ‘Pruett eturns. Fears are entertained that the resnlis anicipated from the Poor Mau’s Joy lead canhot this season be realized. A elose examnation of the ore shows that it contains tom five to ten per eent. of lead, besides a arge quantity of copper, arsenic and antioony, and it is thought that the presence of he base metals in sucb proportions may so uterfere with the proeess of amalgamation, hat it may beeome necessary to send to the states for the latest improyed and expenlive machiucry. The mill of the St. Louis & Montana Co. £ Phillipsburg, cleaned up $3,000 in bullret in width, and yields a good quality of . The Oro Fino will soon he in proper . ion on Friday last, the result of a run npon 30 tons of rock froru the Hope lead. Three hnadred toas of a similar quality is already on the ground, and will soon be erushed. Work upos the liumley & Bogher ledge is , being actively proseeuted. . Many of the stampeders aro returning from Wilson’s Creek, aud Basin and Galena Gulehe:, aad more workis boing doe at . Radersburyg than for some time before, ‘fhe opening of elaims on Badger Bar and Bay Horse Hill is actively progressiag, MeBride & Co. about 10 days ago, eleaned up $1,500 from tho first mentioned mines, after a run of 10 days withjone hydranlic. Charity Gnleh is paying woll. A new bar was struek a few days since in Blacker’s Guleh, which is paying better than any mine yet diseoverod at the Radersberg Camp. The gold is generally eoarse, and nuggets weighiag $2.50 are found. The right hand fork of Dry Guleli is heing energetieally worked throughout its entire length and good pay is being obtained. ..On Big Indian Gulch the number of elaims worked is limited, hut the few whieh are being mined are yieldiug well. Quartz miniag at the head of the guleh is being actively prosecuted..Tueker Guleh is paying well so far as worked..In Clark’s Guleh a gang of Chinamen are makiag good wages with rockers, Parties working near them are obtaining from $4 to $6 per day hy the same method of workiag. Tho Deer Lodge Jndependent says: A 22ounee boulder, containing abont $325 in gold, was taken out near Silver Bow reeently..Recent developments show that the Pioaeer and Gold Creek diggings are much more extensive thanat first supposed. Riehl mines have heen struck in two plaees, two or three miles this side of the main Pioneer Gulch, whieh promise as large a yield as any of the ground yet worked in that vicinity..Silver Bow is paying hetter than ever before. Donovan & Driseoll ave ground-slnicing anextensive har, at the lower end of the mines, A large area of mining ground holow the town will pay from $4 to $8 per day to the hand, The mines of Smith, Simpson & Nnyenbury, near Silver Bow, are paying about $18 per day tothe man. The Prairie diggings, pay good wages, in sonie instances as high as $50 per day to the man. The guleh below is yielding from $18 to $20 per day, with a seareity of water. NEVADA, Esmeralda, Aurora Union, Augnst 8th: Forty-five bundred pounds of rock, from the Pacific, was brought to town and worked this week, yielding over $400. Humboldt. Winnemucea Argent, August 13tb: J. M. White brought 2,508 ounees of ore from tbe Goleonda mine, for sbipment, on Saturday last. Mr. White presented us with 8 rieh speeimens from tho Goleonda, which are true representatives of the various kinds of ore now eoming from the mine, No, 1 is nearly regulns—probably 85 per ceut. metal, color dark, and pieco somewhat porous. Nos. 2 and 3 are similar, havingheavy black mineral; some of which is nearly like powder and soot, with a red ocherous substanee in strata. These pieces are about 75 per eeut. metal. Nos. 4 and 5 bear tbe same general features. They are of a light yellow eolor, tinged witb green, and are of mueb less density and more crumbly nature, No. 6 is composed of blaek sulphurets intermingled in a mass of soft, graiuless elay, whicb is solidified by exposure to the atmospbere. The tallowy stuff is precisely the same as that obtained from the famous Poorman of Owyhee. Speeimens 7 and 8 combine substanees deseribed in the others. A private letter, dated Orena, August 5th, says: Montezuma smelting works, together with tho entire Montezuma mine, suld some time sinee by the Trinity & Sacramento Mining Co., were turned over to the new proprietors, the Montezuma Mining Company, on the Istinstant. Furnaces are working splendidly—uever did better work, Reese River. Anstin Reveille, Augnst 7th: There is no longer any donbt that the mines of Treasure Hill, in the district of White Piue, are sitnated in Lander eounty. Yesterday afternoon, some 3,000 onuces of bullion were brought into the city from Rigby’s mill, in the district of San Antonio. August 11th: Since the repairs were eompleted on the Manhattan mill, about the first of the present month, it bas been employed in reducing various lots of ore from Lauder Hill and the district of White Piue. The lots are generally small, bnt of a very

high grade of ore. It may he fairly doubted) if there ever was a mill before that worked sucli a variety of ore iu so many different lots as the Manhattau does e1ch month, . The sixteen bars of hulliou, whieh were . bronght into this eity from the district of White Pine on Satnrday, formed as handsome a lot as we had seen for niany a day. The bars ranged from .885 to .9L fine, and their total value was $21,360.21, They were produced at the Centenary mill, in the district of Newark, aad were mainly from oro obtained from the Eberhardt South on Treasure Hill, in White Pine. The bullion was shipped throngh the banking house of John A. Paxton & Co. August 12th: This morning, a small lot of 700 ounees of builion were brought into the city from the district of Washington. We believo it is the first produet of the mill of the Utica and Herkimer Co., reeently completed in that distriet. Augnst 14th: A private letter from the distriet of White Pine gives information of a rich strike in a elaim ealled the Blue Bell, situated above, hut near the famous Keystone and Eberhardt South. The ore is said to be very rich, and equal to that produced hy either of the above. The Blue Bell helongs to some of the owners of the Keystone. The Mountain Champiun, of Belmont, has learned that the mill of the Silver Peak and Red Mountain Co, wasrunning successfully, and that a large shipment of bullion, valued at $100,000, would soon be made. Clayton’s improved crusher, whieh forms a part of the battery of the mill, is pronounced to be a eomplete suceess, Washoe. [fn the Stock Cireular, iu another portion of this paper, will he found late miuing news from this district. ] Virgiaia Enterprise, Aug. 12th: The mills about Silver City, many of whieh have heen for sometime lying idle, are again starting up, and the town is beginning to assnme quite a brisk appearanee. Uncle Joe. ‘Lreneh’s fine large mill, at the lower end of town, resumed crushing day hefove yesterduy, working ore from the Savage mine. This mill alone will give employment to quite a number of meu. The company working the Twin mine, at the upper end ofthe towu, are sinking three shafts upon the lead, and at one of these are preparing to ercet hoistiug works, the engine and much of the machinery for which is now on the ground, The eompany are employing 20 or 80 meu aboutthemine, and are taking out 10 to 15 tous of ore per day that . will yield from $50 to $60 per ton. The new Sierra Nevada 20-stamp mill will, as wo are informed by Mr. Robert Apple, the Superintendent, be completed this week, and will start up next Monday on ore from the mine of the company. They now have out upon their dump, to commence with, some 2,000 tons of ore, which it is thought will at least pay $25 or $80 per ton. Mr. Apple is quite confident that be can mine and crush thisore ata cost not execeding $2 per ton. Aug. 14th: Tho total sbipment of bullion for the past week from this eity and Gold Hill, was 7,094 pounds, worth $192,466.67. Gold Hill News, Aug. 11th: Baldwin distriet, westof Walker Lake, contains some very promising ledges, apparently rich in the precions metals, sone of the ore assaying as high as $900 to the ton in silver and gold—prineipally silver. It also contains asufficient quantity of lead to flux it and make it work casy. The Savage Co. have struek a very promising deposit in their sixth level, in which they fiud a eousiderable amount of milling ore. Althougb tbe great mass of the ore is of a grade too low to pay for milling at tbe present cost, itis boped tbatit may grow richer as it is furtber developed. It is about 100 feet further north than where they have lately had any orein the mine; therefore it is looked upon as a very promising indieation. August 12tb: The Imperial Consolidated Mining Co. this morning dispatehed a company of workmen out to their mine in New Truckee district, 65 miles east of Virginia City, to commence takiug out some of their rich argentiferous galena ore, preparatory to baying it transported over the railroad to Reno, and trom thenee bauled to the smelting works at Galena, Washoe County. There was shipped from Wells, Fargo & Co’s Gold Hill offiee this morning, 10 saeks of bullion, weighing 775 pounds, and of the assayed value of $18,982 43. The Gold Hill Branch assay offiee of Hi. Ruhling & Co. received this morning for melting and assay, 2,605 ouuces of ernde bullion. C. Wiegand & Co., of Gold Hill, reeeived this morning for melting aud assay, 2,321 ounces of ernde bullion. The Pacifie Union Express shipped last night ten burs of bullion, valued at $18,71499. WASHINCTON. The Olympic Transcript says: The heach miues at Gray’s Harhor are now beiag worked profitably. hey yield $5 a day with a Long Tom. Wells sunk some distance back from the beach show that pay is generally distributed through the surrounding country. Our informant inteads to prospeet in the neighborhood, and if the reports are vorified, will ereet maehiacry _ sueh as is used in Gold Bluff, California. The Wine Interest of California. [The following article is forwarded to us by a writer who has the interest represented at heart, and who is also fumiliar with the process mentioned for its great improvement and speedy advancement.) To raise the wine industry of California to what its climate destines it to be—the first wine-growing eountry on this continent—as it has been plausibly represented, requires a radical reform, as well in the mode of workiag the wine, as the entire system observed. As long as we have to store wine for two, three or more years, till ripe and saleable, we eannot eompete with other wine countries, however pure and good our product may be, ‘Quiek sales and ready profits” is the watelword in all industry. The present mode of fermenting the wiae, by exclusion of air, does not permit it; that mode, violating nature’s plainest direetions, has had its days, though they numbered two thousands of years. It has been proved now, and everybody ean demonstrate it for himself, that fermentation is an oxidatioa proeess, requiring the oxygen of the atmosphere applied to every part of the substance to bo thorough and eom plete. Therefore, the adoption of the mode of impelling air into the fermenting substance— patented by R. d’Heureuse, of San Franeisco, August 6th, 1867—is an absolute necessity for all wine-makers, By it the wine obtains, with a speedy and perfeet fermentation, full stability and ripeness in a few weeks after it is made, is free from all earthy taste, and ready for shipment to any part of the world the same seasonit is made. But this alone, though essential for profitable wine manufaeture, is not sufficient. As in all other industries, the manufaeture should be a separate branch, independent of the grape-growers, from whom the grapes should be purehased by manufacturing establishments of sufficient eapacity in all grape-growiag districts. The wine and brandy will be thus obtained more economically, and, uuder proper direction, superior to that done more expensively in small lots. This rule of division of labor alone has given satisfaetiou in all other branehes of industry, and is finding its way also in the wine distriets of Europe. California eannot do without it. The foree of the argument bas been admitted by reflecting men of this and other States. No time should be lost in the formation of eompanies, with capital, for the purpose of erecting proper ‘establishments for wine and brandy-making in the various wine distriets, to contract for the purchase of grapes and sale of their produet, which are readily taken by the best wine-dealers, if properly air-treated in the manaer indicated. Fifty per eent. and above, on the money invested, it is elaimed, will he the profits of a few months’ work. All these hundreds of small vineyards, now rather a loss than otherwize to their owners, might beeome profitable to them, if they eonfine themselves to the sale of their grapes at 75 cents or $1 per 100 lhs.; and thonsands of otbers to be planted willrapidly inerease the common wealtb of the State, giving happy bomes to thousands of industrious husbandmen. Wine is the only bulky produet of manufacture which in tbis State will find constantly a market in unlimited quantities, with fair profit to all concerned. Properly promoted in tbe direction indieated, the anuual wiue produetion in a few years will exeeed the value of tlie production even of the precious metals of California in her palmiest days. Wine-growers, and all those interested in the prosperity of this eountry, and those looking for safe, profitable investment in indnstrial, not merely speculative pursuits (for honest industry ceases where wily speeulation steps in), should lose no timoiu acting on this suggestion. Bunion Brroiz.—A bridle was reeeived at the Exhibition to-day, whieh is made of silver bullion, weighing fonr pounds, and which cost $550, It was made for Col. Curry, of Carson City, and was intended for a present to President Lineoln, before the news arrived of his assassinatiou, but was then presented to a eitizen of San José.