The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY.
ITE OF PREFERENCE STOCK to complete the Line.
""rPOrated by 9th and 10th Victoria, c. 103, and 14th and 15th
Victoria, c. 75.)
,m
oci, 'e, 72 miles in length, will join the Aberdeen Railway at
and proceeding northward through a rich, populous, and
)1/.3"'and district, wilt accommodate the towns of Kintore, In-
, tiuntly, Keith, and Elgin.
Cee Present issue of stck consists of 30,009 preference shares of
4„,4eY, entitled to a minimum preferential dividend of 5 per cent.
t o,l:eations for Shares may be made to the Secretary at Aberdeen,
.re following Stock and Sharebrokers :--,Messrs. Carden and
' ,:haitd, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings ; J. C. Morice, 1, Warn-
.,-°llll, London; G. and T. Irvine, 2, India-buildings, Liverpool ;
tuseither of whom forms of application for shares, detailed pro-
and maps of the line may be obtained.
AE ALBION GOLD MINING COMPANY,
lior working the Gold Mines on Burns' Creek, and the Quartz
!ins, under a Conveyance in Fee simple, of 1,000 acres, near
burgh, Mariposa, California.
ltal, £lOO,OOO, in 100,000 Shares of £1 each, to be paid up in full
without further liability.

On the Cost Book system, requiring no deed of settlement.
4either the directors nor any co-adventurers will have power to
7a2t debts to bind this Company in California, there being a law
uast it in that State.

TheTRUSTEES.
Most Hon. the Marquis of Donegall, G.C.H. and P.C.
"".nobert Price, Bart., M.P.

DIRECTORS.
Sir
ROBERT PRICE, Bart., M.P., Foxley-park, Herefordshire
and Stratton street, Piccadilly, Chairman.
"le llost Hon the Marquis of Donegall, G.C.H. and P.C., Ormeau-
-0
''ark, Antriln, and 6, Portland-place.
',John Villiers Shelley, Bart., 31aresfield-nark, Sussex, and Albe-
. roarle-street.
;leant Francis S. Murphy, M.P., 3, Serjeant's-inn.
tatlhew Crawford, Esq., 8.A.L., Middle Temple, and Haverstoek-
hin
Hampstead.
etlrY W. Wood, Esq., Britton Ferry, Glamorganshire.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Price, Marryat, and Co., 3, King William-street, City.
to4,2ressrs. Cocks, tliddulph, and Charing-cross.
'arse Miran° ENGINEER.—David T. Ansteil, Esq., F.B.S.
and F.G S., Professor of Geology, King's College.
SECRETARY.—George Jackson, Esq.
OFFICES.-3, Copthall-buildings, Bank.
hist,
110 Company proposes to take possession (under a conveyance in
the,one thousand acres of land upon the freehold estate of Alfred
the, Esq., in the county of Mariposa, California, and to work, on
eost book system, the gold mines thereon. Situated in the
Olt of that famous region, the Burns' Creek range of gold depo-
iVilands unrivalled in the land of unlimited riches. Through the
iZ,',ro of this estate, consisting of upwards of 2,000 acres, from south-
tol,".t:e north-west, a ridge of hills, the great basis of which is the
ar,, bearing quartz rock, discloses to the observer at intervals, veins
Viell ore cropping out at the hill sides in manifest splendour. From
!til 'ea and banks of the clear stream called Burns' Meet. which
taklinmer .unfailing and in winter unfrozen), flows .through the
to at the base of these hills, it is known by miners of that locality
iaearly a million and a half sterling of line gold has been tak en in
t,',._last tyro years, and tbe placer gold diggings of that stream are as-
hir`loed to be but the washings of ages from the masses of gold-bear-
q_nartz above. To blast these rocks, to sink shafts, pursue the hori-
t4ined to be but the washings of ages from the masses of gold.bear-
tal veins, crush the rich ore by powerful steam engines, and ex-
and remit the gold is the great object of this Company. For
ltb,,,DurPoses the most improved machinery must be purchased,
Itti-Initted, and fixed; skilful miners, quarrymen, and engineers
Tor'ttged; stores furnished for their support, and dwellings erected
t 4 heir habitation To command these things and success, large eapi-
hhand skilful direction is required, and in the formation of this Corn-
-114, those leading objects have will be attained. Situated in latitude
tural u about 37 with the climate of Italy, and with the woods and
pasture; abounding in cattle, deer, and other large game, S
oes froth the gold mines and quartz- crushing works. of the Noveau
kZe Company, and between the Mercede and Mariposa Rivers,
10Z -Power has placed this splendid mining property within 6 weeks'
01i,,,eY of London, and (excepting only about 25 miles not yet railed,
coh'ue Isthmus of Panama), railways and first-class mail steamers
ibfeY the traveller and treasure with the safety, punctuality, and
foijd of the iron train, between London, San Francisco, and Atock-
1,,0n the San Joaquin river, whence a good road runs through this
'Le, 70 miles from Stockton, to the county town of Mariposa, 20
files distant. From the Burns' Creek, ore piece of pure gold was
c 4171, weighing 17 pounds, and was sold for 7501. This fact is
to„Iled by an eminent geologist, D. Charles F. Spieker, of New
who, in his report of a survey, made in 1850, on the spot,
",ie,ns thus' •
tve‘ -the mos't important feature in the geology of.this district, how-
lit 1., Which gives it such great value for mining purposes, is the ex-
lE?4'ee here in the diorit formation of such an as!onishing number of
s of quartz, for nowhere in the auriferous districts of California
'e I seen such quantities of quartz veins accumulated within an
1111%1 of such comparatively small extent. Nearly every one of the
N and ridges above described contains the outcropping of a quartz
tk,ll_ Sometimes of very large dimensions." And again, "On my
14".nning them in reference to the proportion of gold they contained
loon lonarison with other veins which I 'had seen in California, I
111Z1d them to be of the best and richest kind which had come under
pi_ebservatien there. One of these veins was distinguished by great
tntities of cellular quartz, which inclosed a very large amount of
native
gold ib small particles, presenting altogether some of the most
o',lfal and richest specimens of that kind of auriferous quartz
11d in - (See Report.)
fk4verage specimens of the gold quartz .brought by the proprietor
,e 1 the veins transferred to this Company, have been submitted to
Citing and assay at the Bank of England, and the great result is
"'vil in the following