Volume 24 (1872) (424 pages)

50 SCIENTIFIC PRESS. (January 27, 1872. (GorREsPONDENCE. Eureka District, Nevada. Eps. Press.—Although little writing has been done for this district, it having grown to its present importance as a mining locality through its gradual development by persevering prospectors, and nothing like the White Pine excitement has ever been awakened in regard to it, yet it may be coufidently asserted that no other region has ever beeu explored on the Pacific slope, which has yielded so farge a return for so small an outlay of capital and labor, 2s has the one named iu the caption of thisj article, Exteusive mining operations were not eommenced in Eureka until after the White Pine fever had subsided, and its disappointed victims had begun to seek in other localities the mineral wealth they had hoped to ohtain there. The First Discoveries In Eureka, however, were’ made in 1865, and a mining district then organized; but itwas not until the rush to White Pine had hrought a great number of adventurers 1o this part of the State, that its merits as a field for successful mining began tobe known. The few prospectors who entered the district in 1865 were discouraged hy the “‘base” eharacter of the ore at first encountered; and, while ‘‘chloride” was all the rage, and White Pine the center of operations, the extensive miuing ground of Eureka, only 38 miles to the northwest, lay almost wholly uuoccupied. The failure to realize profitable returns from the base ores of White Piue caused a scattering of prospectors in all directions. Many went to Utah, others to Pioche, while a considerable uumber turned their steps to Eureka. To these latter, and the few who remained from the first discoverjes, is the present importance of the district due. Smelting Operations. Capital was soou attracted by the numher and richness of the mines, and in 1870 the first successful smelting operations were performed, with very inferior works. But these were supplanted hy more efficient ones, until now the furnaces of the Richmond Consolidated, Eureka Consolidated, Phenix, Jackson, Buttercup, aud the Roslin works are capable of turning out immense quantities of metal from the ores of the district, which are of easy reduction by the smelting process, Eureka may challenge any other mining district to exhibit a mineral deposit of the extent and richness of The Richmond Mine, Ruby Hill. Although the property was sold toan English company for $750,000, the value of the ore in sight at the time greatly exceeded that amouut, and some of the trustees of the Americau company were even in favor of repudiating the act of their ageut in making the bargaiu for the sale of the mine. The sale was made, however, and the mine and reduction works transferred, at the figures named. Large as this amount is, negotiations have beeu peudiug for some time, for a second sale at the enormous price of $2.000,000. If this amount should be obtained, it will be the largest ever paid for a mine in the United States. Prominent (Mines. The Buckeye and Champion mines, be longing to the Eureka Consolidated Compauy, of San Francisco, are also on Ruby Hill, and are nearly of equal value with the Richmond, These, with the Empire, Lexington, Otho, and Jenny Lynch, belonging to the Phosnix Company, keep five furuaces in operation constantly; and the Richmond and Phoenix companies are hoth about to add two new furnaces to their reduction works, ‘ The Buttercup and Roslin Works Are at present idle; but the former, with the mines of the company, have been recently sold, uuder attachment, to George Hearst, of San Francisco, aud the Roslin furnace and mines are houded to a company proposing to purchase them for $250,000. The mines of the Roslin company include the Hamburg, Union, Fanuy B., and others. Mining Tittes. A large number of the mines of lesser uote have heen, and many still are under pond to various individuals and companies who propose to purchase-them. Such are the General.Lee, Wide West, Bullwhacker, Valeutine, Byron, Excelsior, Gaslight, and others. Many of the parties agreeing to purchase have since decliued to do so un. less they can derive title from the United States.,This is especially the ease with English eompanies; and the reason assigned. is the recentaunouncement of Com-. missioner Drummond, that only citizens of the United States can convey titles to mines. Other parties, American as !well as English, now insist that a patent shall iu possession, before a sale shall be concluded. This will therefore soon be done by the owners of all our really valuable mines. Orange Mine and Lemon Mill. The deepest mine inthe district is the Orange, which is now heing worked at a depth of 300 feet, with ore valued at $200 aud $300 per ton. Itis situated on Prospect Hill, upou which also are the Elise, Hamburg, Union, Lemon, and other valuable mines, The last uamed, belongs to the Lemon Mill and Mining Co.,, receutly incorporated in San Francisco, whose mill uear the town of Hurekais nearly completed and ready for work. Mines on Prospect Mountain. The highest hill in the district, kuaown as Prospect Mountain, which litts its Devouian cliffs to an elevation of 8,500 feet, is full of valuable miues, in a more or less forward state of development. One, called the Valentine, already meutioned, was lately honded at $25,000; hut the hond was allowed to fail. The mine has, however, since beeu taken at tho figures uamed. The Golden Gate is another valuable property, in which large bodies ofore are encountered within 8 and 15 feet of the surface. Ithasashaft down 80 feet, and a large quartz veiu, four feet in width, has just beeu uncovered at that depth. The ore assays from $65 up to $125 per ton. The X. Y.Z., belonging to the South Eureka mining company, of San Fraucisco, is on the same mountain, and is heing vigorously prospected. There is more ore in sight than can be moved from the mine, on account of the preseut-depth of snow on the mountain. The ‘‘Fourth of July” is auother promising miue, owned hy four eitizens of Carson, and haying a well-defined yeiu of silver-bearing quartz, enveloped iu strata of argillaceous oxide of iron, white aud grey carbonates of lead, arseniate of lead, etc. The ledge aud oreheariug strata are at present five to six feetin width. The Diamond and Antelope mines are also well developed, and show large bodies of ore. The Diamond was discovered and opened by two returned Arizona miners, oue of whom is upwards of 70 years of age. He is still working upon another location near hy, while the drifts of snow upon the mouutain side are from three to five feet deep. His uame is Bridge; and he has a prospect of bridgiug over 25 years more of the present century with the remainder of an active and useful life. The Enterprise Nos. 1 and 2, are also valuable properties. One peculiarity of all the Ores of Eureka Consists in the large percentage of gold which they contain, and which, for lack of mills, has beeu suffered to run off in the slag of the furnaces, to a very wasteful degree. The construction and operation of the Lemon Mill, and of that at Pinto, 8 miles distant, will remove this difficulty. in part; $80,and sometimes $100 in gold, is the yield from a ton of ore. The same ore will frequently work up to au essay of $150 and $200 in silver, and contalus but a comparatively small percentage of leal. By roasting out the latter, the ore is rendered extremely profitable for milling. The Piuto Mill has a roasting furnace attached, and the Lemon Co. contemplate erecting one also. Milling and furnace ores exist together, or iu close proximity, in the same mines throughout Eureka district, In this particular the miueral development is wholly different from White Piue, In the latter district the base ores have a range of hill to themselves, while chloride silver is mostly confined to Treasure Hill. Furthermore, the gangue is also different. For while both free aud hase ores in White Pine seem to he always indicated and invested by cale-spar, with a very small showing of quartzite, in the mines of Eureka there is a notable absence of the spar, and a corresponding increase in the size, and a uniformity in the course of the veins of quartz, Infact, the quartz is the silver-bearing rock of the district, although the investing coatings or strata of haser ore, consisting of arseniates and carbonates of lead, with occasioual accretions of galena; and the oxides of iron also contain both silver and gold in paying qauntities. Geology of the District. The mountain ranges of Easteru Nevada, south of the Humholdt river, trend due south. But those portions of each range, iu which aro situated valuahle mineral belts, are posited in adifferent manner. At least, this is the case with White Pine and Eureka Districts. For the hills comprised i in these two ore-belts, lying respectively be obtained from the Governmeut by those . in the Ruhy and Diamond ranges, form an acute angle with those ranges, with a course or bearing northwest and southeast. And the veins of ore-bearing rock, with their accompanying strata, haye a strike corresponding to the same direction. It would appear from this, that these mineral belts are of a later date in their formation and upheaval than other portions of the rauges in which they lie. They seem like immense dikes, intruded into and dividing these ranges into several parts. The entire leugth and breadth of the Eureka belt is an enormous network of quartz veins, imbedded in strata of earthy and base minerals, the whole inclosed in limestone and calcareous shale. Wherever au opening has heen made, upon indicatious of ore, either in the shale or limestone, aud the exploratiou contiuued to a suitable deplh, quartz has been inyariably uncoyered. The yeius dip in all directions, uccording to their situation and with every possible slope to the horizon, But their course is always northwest and southeast, The depth, length, and hreadth of the strata, bearing the earthy ores surrounding the veins, vary in the differsut openings. In the Richmond, Buckeye, Champion, Tip-top’ Marcellina and othors upon Ruby Hill, they appear in immense deposits or fields, hundreds of feet iu extent, and thousands of tous have becn extracted thercfrom, and reduced to the metallic state by smslting. As many tons of the silver-bearing quartz remain to be reduced by the mills. In the General Lee, Lexiugton, Empire, Wide West, Newport, Meredith and others upon Empireand Adams Hills, the quartz is mostly mm limestone,’ the shale heing very limited in extent. These veins sre composed of milling rock, and the earthy strata are small. Iu the Bullwhacker serics, with whieh this oxtraordinary mineral helt terminates on tho uorthwest, the Otho, the Jeuny Lynch, and the Bullwhacker, are in an immense bed of shale, and yield large quautities of galena as well as a great deal of the earthy orcs. Yet these last named mines area little more than a mile distant from Empiré aud Adams Hills, just mentioned. At the southeastern end, comprising Prospect Mountain—Ruby Hill being situated in the eenter of the district—the quartz aud earthy ores are found together in beds of shale which alternate with cliffs of limestone. The shale is sometimes comminuted aud cemented together very compactly by the oxides aud alittle clayey matter. Boulders of limestone are also iutermixed. The presence of ore is indicated by floating pieces of quartz, accompauied by the peroxide and protoxide of iron; also by the dissemination in the surface soil of the arseniate of lead, which is of a brilliant straw or lemon yellow color. There is also some galena found in the limestone, as well as antimonial sulphuret of silver. But these ores are more plentiful on the southeastern and southweetern end of Prospect Mountaiu, comprised in Secret Caton and Spring Valley Districts. Free ore is also abundant in Secret Cafon, with only just enough base metal to need a chloridizing roasting. This may he obtained at the Pinto Mill, near by. The numerous quartz veins and the ahun danes and variety of the ores of Eureka and neighhoring districts,show that the country rock isan older formation than the dolomite of White Pine. It is truely a cavern limestone; for immense caves have been fouud in the Orango and other mines, the floors of which were covered to a great depth with earthy ores, rich in silver. Oue was barely entered, not explored; for it seemed to have no limit as to sides, top, or bottom. We shall know more of it by-and-hy, as explorations proceed, Yieid of Ores. The results of mill and furnace work show that the ores of all descriptions found in Eureka will yield from $40 in silver up to $500 per tou; and from $10 to $80 aud even $100 in gold. A lotof ore from the Silver Lick miue, haying been previously carefully assayed by sampling, and found to contain at the rate of $80 per tonin gold, was sent to the Manhattan mill, at Austin, to be reduced; but the mill made only return of the silver obtained from the ore, andignored the gold altogether. How much the dre of the Comstock lode will yield even $80 in silver ? Yet the mills on that lode will work ore at a profit when it eontains only $8 per ton. The infereuce against the return above given is obvious enongh. Miners will not continue to send their oro to custom mills to be reduced at such ruinous rates, ‘Climate, » Etc. The climate of Eureka is not so severe in winter as that of White Pine. Only the high hills and uortherly exposed points are subject to deep snows. The town itself, which is 2,000 feet lower than Treasure City, is at this time entirely free from snow. It lies iu a cation among low foothills, a short distance east of Diamond valley, which is a broad plain of 20 miles or more in width. Heavy raius have thoroughly soaked the plain, so that the roads across it are very difficult to travel at this time. Freighting from P&lisade is eonsequently very costly. All this is changed in the summer season, and the ensuing summer will be a brisk season for Eureka District. M, Mines Near Radersburg, M. 7. Ieps. Press:—The Left Hand lode is a true fissure vein, with a crevice averaging about 20 inches in width. Itcrosses the line of stratification at right angles, dips 70 degrees to the south, runs due east and west, and crosses the Keating lode at right angles ata point about 250 feet from its discovery shaft, at a depth of 60 feet. The Left Hand lodo is developed toa depth of 150 ft.,at which point it showe a 2-ft.crevice. Levels are being run east and west from this point. The upper portion of the lode for 200 feet by 50 feet deep, has been stoped out and crushed, the ore returuing about $35 per ton. The Keating Lode Rune north aud south with tho lines of stratification; it pitches about 70 degrees to the west. Keating & Blacker are ruuning about 70 men, having levels run and have out about 300 tous of rock and are now increasing their working force. Mr. Allen has put on a new force on the Allen Lode. His six-stamp mill, the only one runuiug in camp, is crnshiug at the rate of 80 tons per week. Out of his thousand ton dump, the quartz aycrages about $15 per ton. Ths Davis mill now being thoroughly overhauled, will soon commence crushing this quartz. Other Mines. The Rica, Hidden Treasure, and a seore of other mines are being devcluped this winter; they all show free gold and look promisiug. The Jaw-hone lode near St. Louis, on Indian : Creek, has just made a run of fifty tons of ore; it yielded ahout $25 per ton, and was crushed at the Diamond Mill. A large mill will be put up here this coming spring by the Clancy Co., and acompany is being formed upon consolidated interests on the Iron Clad lode, which we understand will put up 2 mill, and steam hoisting works on their lode. The new impetus in quartz-mining taken in connection with the certainty of an abundance of water, on account of the unprecedented fall of snow, promises that the coming season will be one of great prosperity in this and adjoining camps. W.1Gs How to Serect Proax Nuts ror Puantmno.—The Memphis Farmer, in recommending the pecan tree for cultivation says: Select best Texan pecans, largest and thinnest shells, and plant in December, January, or February, By trausplanting carefully every two years (cut off tap root first year) for two or three times, they will fruitin eightor ten years, and when 15 years old will beara bushel each; when fully matured, one or two barrels of the best, worth generally $20 to $30 per harrel. Plant, say 30 feet apart, aud leave to your children a snng income, BismutH in Saxony.—It appears that that country produces 32,000 Ibs, of the metal annually, and that, since hismuth is as yet nowhere produced in any considerahle quantity, Saxouy rules the market of this article.

50 SCIENTIFIC PRESS. (January 27, 1872. (GorREsPONDENCE. Eureka District, Nevada. Eps. Press.—Although little writing has been done for this district, it having grown to its present importance as a mining locality through its gradual development by persevering prospectors, and nothing like the White Pine excitement has ever been awakened in regard to it, yet it may be coufidently asserted that no other region has ever beeu explored on the Pacific slope, which has yielded so farge a return for so small an outlay of capital and labor, 2s has the one named iu the caption of thisj article, Exteusive mining operations were not eommenced in Eureka until after the White Pine fever had subsided, and its disappointed victims had begun to seek in other localities the mineral wealth they had hoped to ohtain there. The First Discoveries In Eureka, however, were’ made in 1865, and a mining district then organized; but itwas not until the rush to White Pine had hrought a great number of adventurers 1o this part of the State, that its merits as a field for successful mining began tobe known. The few prospectors who entered the district in 1865 were discouraged hy the “‘base” eharacter of the ore at first encountered; and, while ‘‘chloride” was all the rage, and White Pine the center of operations, the extensive miuing ground of Eureka, only 38 miles to the northwest, lay almost wholly uuoccupied. The failure to realize profitable returns from the base ores of White Piue caused a scattering of prospectors in all directions. Many went to Utah, others to Pioche, while a considerable uumber turned their steps to Eureka. To these latter, and the few who remained from the first discoverjes, is the present importance of the district due. Smelting Operations. Capital was soou attracted by the numher and richness of the mines, and in 1870 the first successful smelting operations were performed, with very inferior works. But these were supplanted hy more efficient ones, until now the furnaces of the Richmond Consolidated, Eureka Consolidated, Phenix, Jackson, Buttercup, aud the Roslin works are capable of turning out immense quantities of metal from the ores of the district, which are of easy reduction by the smelting process, Eureka may challenge any other mining district to exhibit a mineral deposit of the extent and richness of The Richmond Mine, Ruby Hill. Although the property was sold toan English company for $750,000, the value of the ore in sight at the time greatly exceeded that amouut, and some of the trustees of the Americau company were even in favor of repudiating the act of their ageut in making the bargaiu for the sale of the mine. The sale was made, however, and the mine and reduction works transferred, at the figures named. Large as this amount is, negotiations have beeu peudiug for some time, for a second sale at the enormous price of $2.000,000. If this amount should be obtained, it will be the largest ever paid for a mine in the United States. Prominent (Mines. The Buckeye and Champion mines, be longing to the Eureka Consolidated Compauy, of San Francisco, are also on Ruby Hill, and are nearly of equal value with the Richmond, These, with the Empire, Lexington, Otho, and Jenny Lynch, belonging to the Phosnix Company, keep five furuaces in operation constantly; and the Richmond and Phoenix companies are hoth about to add two new furnaces to their reduction works, ‘ The Buttercup and Roslin Works Are at present idle; but the former, with the mines of the company, have been recently sold, uuder attachment, to George Hearst, of San Francisco, aud the Roslin furnace and mines are houded to a company proposing to purchase them for $250,000. The mines of the Roslin company include the Hamburg, Union, Fanuy B., and others. Mining Tittes. A large number of the mines of lesser uote have heen, and many still are under pond to various individuals and companies who propose to purchase-them. Such are the General.Lee, Wide West, Bullwhacker, Valeutine, Byron, Excelsior, Gaslight, and others. Many of the parties agreeing to purchase have since decliued to do so un. less they can derive title from the United States.,This is especially the ease with English eompanies; and the reason assigned. is the recentaunouncement of Com-. missioner Drummond, that only citizens of the United States can convey titles to mines. Other parties, American as !well as English, now insist that a patent shall iu possession, before a sale shall be concluded. This will therefore soon be done by the owners of all our really valuable mines. Orange Mine and Lemon Mill. The deepest mine inthe district is the Orange, which is now heing worked at a depth of 300 feet, with ore valued at $200 aud $300 per ton. Itis situated on Prospect Hill, upou which also are the Elise, Hamburg, Union, Lemon, and other valuable mines, The last uamed, belongs to the Lemon Mill and Mining Co.,, receutly incorporated in San Francisco, whose mill uear the town of Hurekais nearly completed and ready for work. Mines on Prospect Mountain. The highest hill in the district, kuaown as Prospect Mountain, which litts its Devouian cliffs to an elevation of 8,500 feet, is full of valuable miues, in a more or less forward state of development. One, called the Valentine, already meutioned, was lately honded at $25,000; hut the hond was allowed to fail. The mine has, however, since beeu taken at tho figures uamed. The Golden Gate is another valuable property, in which large bodies ofore are encountered within 8 and 15 feet of the surface. Ithasashaft down 80 feet, and a large quartz veiu, four feet in width, has just beeu uncovered at that depth. The ore assays from $65 up to $125 per ton. The X. Y.Z., belonging to the South Eureka mining company, of San Fraucisco, is on the same mountain, and is heing vigorously prospected. There is more ore in sight than can be moved from the mine, on account of the preseut-depth of snow on the mountain. The ‘‘Fourth of July” is auother promising miue, owned hy four eitizens of Carson, and haying a well-defined yeiu of silver-bearing quartz, enveloped iu strata of argillaceous oxide of iron, white aud grey carbonates of lead, arseniate of lead, etc. The ledge aud oreheariug strata are at present five to six feetin width. The Diamond and Antelope mines are also well developed, and show large bodies of ore. The Diamond was discovered and opened by two returned Arizona miners, oue of whom is upwards of 70 years of age. He is still working upon another location near hy, while the drifts of snow upon the mouutain side are from three to five feet deep. His uame is Bridge; and he has a prospect of bridgiug over 25 years more of the present century with the remainder of an active and useful life. The Enterprise Nos. 1 and 2, are also valuable properties. One peculiarity of all the Ores of Eureka Consists in the large percentage of gold which they contain, and which, for lack of mills, has beeu suffered to run off in the slag of the furnaces, to a very wasteful degree. The construction and operation of the Lemon Mill, and of that at Pinto, 8 miles distant, will remove this difficulty. in part; $80,and sometimes $100 in gold, is the yield from a ton of ore. The same ore will frequently work up to au essay of $150 and $200 in silver, and contalus but a comparatively small percentage of leal. By roasting out the latter, the ore is rendered extremely profitable for milling. The Piuto Mill has a roasting furnace attached, and the Lemon Co. contemplate erecting one also. Milling and furnace ores exist together, or iu close proximity, in the same mines throughout Eureka district, In this particular the miueral development is wholly different from White Piue, In the latter district the base ores have a range of hill to themselves, while chloride silver is mostly confined to Treasure Hill. Furthermore, the gangue is also different. For while both free aud hase ores in White Pine seem to he always indicated and invested by cale-spar, with a very small showing of quartzite, in the mines of Eureka there is a notable absence of the spar, and a corresponding increase in the size, and a uniformity in the course of the veins of quartz, Infact, the quartz is the silver-bearing rock of the district, although the investing coatings or strata of haser ore, consisting of arseniates and carbonates of lead, with occasioual accretions of galena; and the oxides of iron also contain both silver and gold in paying qauntities.

Geology of the District. The mountain ranges of Easteru Nevada, south of the Humholdt river, trend due south. But those portions of each range, iu which aro situated valuahle mineral belts, are posited in adifferent manner. At least, this is the case with White Pine and Eureka Districts. For the hills comprised i in these two ore-belts, lying respectively be obtained from the Governmeut by those . in the Ruhy and Diamond ranges, form an acute angle with those ranges, with a course or bearing northwest and southeast. And the veins of ore-bearing rock, with their accompanying strata, haye a strike corresponding to the same direction. It would appear from this, that these mineral belts are of a later date in their formation and upheaval than other portions of the rauges in which they lie. They seem like immense dikes, intruded into and dividing these ranges into several parts. The entire leugth and breadth of the Eureka belt is an enormous network of quartz veins, imbedded in strata of earthy and base minerals, the whole inclosed in limestone and calcareous shale. Wherever au opening has heen made, upon indicatious of ore, either in the shale or limestone, aud the exploratiou contiuued to a suitable deplh, quartz has been inyariably uncoyered. The yeius dip in all directions, uccording to their situation and with every possible slope to the horizon, But their course is always northwest and southeast, The depth, length, and hreadth of the strata, bearing the earthy ores surrounding the veins, vary in the differsut openings. In the Richmond, Buckeye, Champion, Tip-top’ Marcellina and othors upon Ruby Hill, they appear in immense deposits or fields, hundreds of feet iu extent, and thousands of tous have becn extracted thercfrom, and reduced to the metallic state by smslting. As many tons of the silver-bearing quartz remain to be reduced by the mills. In the General Lee, Lexiugton, Empire, Wide West, Newport, Meredith and others upon Empireand Adams Hills, the quartz is mostly mm limestone,’ the shale heing very limited in extent. These veins sre composed of milling rock, and the earthy strata are small. Iu the Bullwhacker serics, with whieh this oxtraordinary mineral helt terminates on tho uorthwest, the Otho, the Jeuny Lynch, and the Bullwhacker, are in an immense bed of shale, and yield large quautities of galena as well as a great deal of the earthy orcs. Yet these last named mines area little more than a mile distant from Empiré aud Adams Hills, just mentioned. At the southeastern end, comprising Prospect Mountain—Ruby Hill being situated in the eenter of the district—the quartz aud earthy ores are found together in beds of shale which alternate with cliffs of limestone. The shale is sometimes comminuted aud cemented together very compactly by the oxides aud alittle clayey matter. Boulders of limestone are also iutermixed. The presence of ore is indicated by floating pieces of quartz, accompauied by the peroxide and protoxide of iron; also by the dissemination in the surface soil of the arseniate of lead, which is of a brilliant straw or lemon yellow color. There is also some galena found in the limestone, as well as antimonial sulphuret of silver. But these ores are more plentiful on the southeastern and southweetern end of Prospect Mountaiu, comprised in Secret Caton and Spring Valley Districts. Free ore is also abundant in Secret Cafon, with only just enough base metal to need a chloridizing roasting. This may he obtained at the Pinto Mill, near by. The numerous quartz veins and the ahun danes and variety of the ores of Eureka and neighhoring districts,show that the country rock isan older formation than the dolomite of White Pine. It is truely a cavern limestone; for immense caves have been fouud in the Orango and other mines, the floors of which were covered to a great depth with earthy ores, rich in silver. Oue was barely entered, not explored; for it seemed to have no limit as to sides, top, or bottom. We shall know more of it by-and-hy, as explorations proceed, Yieid of Ores. The results of mill and furnace work show that the ores of all descriptions found in Eureka will yield from $40 in silver up to $500 per tou; and from $10 to $80 aud even $100 in gold. A lotof ore from the Silver Lick miue, haying been previously carefully assayed by sampling, and found to contain at the rate of $80 per tonin gold, was sent to the Manhattan mill, at Austin, to be reduced; but the mill made only return of the silver obtained from the ore, andignored the gold altogether. How much the dre of the Comstock lode will yield even $80 in silver ? Yet the mills on that lode will work ore at a profit when it eontains only $8 per ton. The infereuce against the return above given is obvious enongh. Miners will not continue to send their oro to custom mills to be reduced at such ruinous rates, ‘Climate, » Etc. The climate of Eureka is not so severe in winter as that of White Pine. Only the high hills and uortherly exposed points are subject to deep snows. The town itself, which is 2,000 feet lower than Treasure City, is at this time entirely free from snow. It lies iu a cation among low foothills, a short distance east of Diamond valley, which is a broad plain of 20 miles or more in width. Heavy raius have thoroughly soaked the plain, so that the roads across it are very difficult to travel at this time. Freighting from P&lisade is eonsequently very costly. All this is changed in the summer season, and the ensuing summer will be a brisk season for Eureka District. M, Mines Near Radersburg, M. 7. Ieps. Press:—The Left Hand lode is a true fissure vein, with a crevice averaging about 20 inches in width. Itcrosses the line of stratification at right angles, dips 70 degrees to the south, runs due east and west, and crosses the Keating lode at right angles ata point about 250 feet from its discovery shaft, at a depth of 60 feet. The Left Hand lodo is developed toa depth of 150 ft.,at which point it showe a 2-ft.crevice. Levels are being run east and west from this point. The upper portion of the lode for 200 feet by 50 feet deep, has been stoped out and crushed, the ore returuing about $35 per ton. The Keating Lode Rune north aud south with tho lines of stratification; it pitches about 70 degrees to the west. Keating & Blacker are ruuning about 70 men, having levels run and have out about 300 tous of rock and are now increasing their working force. Mr. Allen has put on a new force on the Allen Lode. His six-stamp mill, the only one runuiug in camp, is crnshiug at the rate of 80 tons per week. Out of his thousand ton dump, the quartz aycrages about $15 per ton. Ths Davis mill now being thoroughly overhauled, will soon commence crushing this quartz. Other Mines. The Rica, Hidden Treasure, and a seore of other mines are being devcluped this winter; they all show free gold and look promisiug. The Jaw-hone lode near St. Louis, on Indian : Creek, has just made a run of fifty tons of ore; it yielded ahout $25 per ton, and was crushed at the Diamond Mill. A large mill will be put up here this coming spring by the Clancy Co., and acompany is being formed upon consolidated interests on the Iron Clad lode, which we understand will put up 2 mill, and steam hoisting works on their lode. The new impetus in quartz-mining taken in connection with the certainty of an abundance of water, on account of the unprecedented fall of snow, promises that the coming season will be one of great prosperity in this and adjoining camps. W.1Gs How to Serect Proax Nuts ror Puantmno.—The Memphis Farmer, in recommending the pecan tree for cultivation says: Select best Texan pecans, largest and thinnest shells, and plant in December, January, or February, By trausplanting carefully every two years (cut off tap root first year) for two or three times, they will fruitin eightor ten years, and when 15 years old will beara bushel each; when fully matured, one or two barrels of the best, worth generally $20 to $30 per harrel. Plant, say 30 feet apart, aud leave to your children a snng income, BismutH in Saxony.—It appears that that country produces 32,000 Ibs, of the metal annually, and that, since hismuth is as yet nowhere produced in any considerahle quantity, Saxouy rules the market of this article.