The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-21 00:00:00

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

Despatches to the 26th March, received at San
Francisco from Idaho, tell how two mining com-
panies endeavoured to settle a difference. They
came to blows underground, and in the charge, J.
C. llolgate, of the Golden Chariot, was killed, and
Meyer Frank, of the Ida Elmore, was mortally
wounded, and has since died. It appears that three
companies are working the same ledge at different
points—the New York, Ida Elmore, and Golden
Chariot—and that the partition wall between the
[da Elmore and Golden Chariot having been lately
cut through, the fact was made apparent that such
was the case. Each party determined not to be
ousted, hence the fight. The ledge is undoubtedly
alio of the richest in Owyhee, and has already
turned out considerable bullion. What the final
result will be can only be conjectured, but it is ap-
parent that more blood will be shed before it is
ended, as both parties have positions well fortified
within gunshot of the two mines, with 50 men
armed to the teeth on each side. Probably reflect-
ing on the consequences, and seeing that a fight might
end in annihilation, when the third company might
cut in and carry off the plunder, it is now expected
that an adjustment would take place. By later
intelligence we learn that on the 30th March, in
obedience to a proclamation from the Governor,
presented to the belligerents by the United States
Marshal, who told them it must be at once obeyed,
they agreed upon boundaries and disbanded their
forces. This was certainly a more sensible resolve
than to fight it out " on that line," the conclusion
Iformally arrived at, the Ida Elmore party prepar-
ing hose to eject hot steam and water on their an-
tagonists. The Golden Chariot is turning out some
of the richest ore, described as pure native silver,
held together as it were by leaves and threads of
gold. A writer states that in different places he
saw ore so rich that the gold and silver could be
detected by the light of a candle. The Ida Elmore
ore is of much the same quality, and so extraordi-
nary is the wealth of the ledges that one cannot be
surprised at the steps the miners have taken to
assert their claims. A ucw strike in the Oro Fino
is also stated to be all that fancy painted it, and the
lower drifts of the Potosi Mine is growing richer and
richer as the work deepens. In all the ore gold is
mixed with silver, but the silver greatly predorni macs.
chiefly in the form of black sulphurets, though pure
native silver abounds, sometimes beautifully crystal-
lized. The Montana Post asserts that labour is
becoming scarce throughout the Basin, $7 a day
with a guarantee of employment all summer, are
freely offered, and this, it must be remembered, is
not in greenbacks, but in gold. Idaho, from all
accounts, is looking up. It is clear from the ac-
counts received from all the mining districts that
there will be great activity this summer in develop-
ing the mines.
The dam at the outlet of the Humbolt Lake,

Nevada, had broken, overflowing the banks below. '
Governor Fall is building a mill, which he expects
to complete by the 15th May (yesterday), working
20 stamps. The Montezuma smelting works at the
end of March shipped 3,7771 b. of fine bullion. Fox
the week ending March 31st Wells, Fargo, and Co.
shipped from their offices in Austin, Nevada, and
Gold Hill, 6,680 pounds of assayed bullion, valued
at $214,733 79. The mining companies in that
vicinity are progressing very favourably. Many
that had hitherto done but little work are being
developed. The export of ore is rapidly increasing,
and the season promises to be very favourable.
Many miners who contemplated going to Sweet-
water have given up the intention. All the local
journals write hopefully of their prospects, antici-
pating a great future. The Reese River Reveille
says :—" The Timoke, in Lander lii.tl, is produc-
ing extraordinary ore from its deepest workings.
The assay of the pulp of two tons which have
just been reduced at the Manhattan Mill gave
a yield of silver exceeding one thousand dollars
per ton. The Florida mine, which never looked
so well as at present, either as regards the
quality of its ore or the appearance and size of its
vein, will produce a fine lot of bitllion for the
month of February. It has sent 70 tons of ore
to Marphy's California Mill for reduction, which
will be completed on Monday next, the average yield
of which will exceed $3OO of silver, coin valuation
per ton. This fine ore was extracted from the
lowest level, which is 400 feet on the incline. Some
ore from the Murphy mine, of the Twin River Com-
pany, was amalgamated in the mill of the company
a few days slice, after roasting in the Stetefeldt
chloridizing furnace. The bullion was found to be
880 fine; while the proportion of gold was about
six times greater than in the same ore roasted in
reverberatory furnaces."
RICH ORE FRODI WHITE PlNE.—Specimens of
singular-looking ore have been brought into the city
from the White Pine district and deposited at the
office of Boalt and Stetefeldt for assaying. It was
most unlikely-looking stuff to yield silver, and ap-
peared to be mere breccia of quartz and slate. Of
two specimens assayed the yield was as follows :
No. 1, $1,737 75c. ; No. 2, $657 09c. The ore was
obtained from the Hidden Treasure ledge, which
developes immense masses of it. It is imbedded
between slate and limestone, and it had been cut
through 15 feet without reaching the upper wall.
Miners on the ground pronounced the queer stuff
worthless, and several bets were made that it con-
tained only very little silver. The large buttons
produced from half ounces of the pulp astonished
even the assayers.

The .Humbolt Register, March 7, says—" The
Essex Mill is about ready for ore. On the evening
of the 29th of February the shrill voice of its
whistle could be heard for miles around. The first
business for this mill is the reduction of one hun-
dred and fifty tons of ore from the Monroe mine,
after which it will be kept busy on the Essex and
Empire mines." Our readers may probably not be
aware that the Empire and Essex are extensions of
the Tallulah lodes. There are four companies
there established; three of the claims more or less
developed, while the fourth, lying between the
Tallulah and Empire, belongs to the Humbolt Silver
Mining Company,now offered in the London market.
A London paper, professing to be a guardian of in-
vestors, appears to think that Nevada is a populous
city ! not far from San Francisco, and that if the
mine was what the proprietors represent it, any
amount could be there raised to develope the lodes.
he Empire and the Essex have been developed,
the Tallulah was offered in London, but the
owners considered it too valuable to sacrifice
on the terms only then obtainable here, so it was
withdrawn: The Empire and Essex each extend

1,200 feet, while the claim of the Humbolt is 1,465.
The Guardian has not the faintest idea of the wealth
of the State of Nevada, and we dare say is as ig-
norant of the fact that money can only be obtained
even on the best security at the rate of 3 per cent.
per month. That the lodes are worth an outlay of
capital even on such terms, in the opinion cf the
people of Nevada, is clear from their action, and
to say that a mine is worth working in Nevada is
simply to say it is immensely rich. M. C. Vincent,
Esq., Fellow of the Royal Geological Society of
London, has just returned from Nevada, and has
published a report, to which we will hereafter al-
lude, of the Belmont Silver Mining Company. The
property is almost within the town of Belmont,
with 13 acres in the central part. Mr. Vincent says,
" I have examined many of the principal silver and
other mineral regions of the world, and have seen
none more free, probably not so free from adverse
considerations as t his." Aside from the almost unpre-
cedented merits of the deposits, he goes on to enume-
ratecircumstances which tend to give so great a value
to the property, concluding " that it could scarcely
be surpassed in real attractiveness." This is the
opinion of a gentleman alike qualified scientifically
and practically to form one, and is the result of a
close personal inspection of Nevada, not years ago,
nor mouths ago, but a few weeks back. The Daily
Colorado Herald writes :—" Our silver works were
unable to begin operations until late iu the season

last year. They were small and imperfectly con-
structed. There was a want of capital and a want
of experience, yet we produced over four thou-
sand pounds of silver. This year we begin early,
with works of increased capacity, with enlarged ex-
perience and greater confidence. We will turn out
enough silver this year to pay for all the bad invest-
ments and mismanagements of the past. We will
more than double our present monthly shipments of
bullion before the summer is over. There is a better
opportunity to invest in silver property now, on
reasonable terms, than ever before, because there
need be no hazard about it. A piece of property
can be tested on a legitimate working basis,
and its real value ascertained." The Montana
Gazette says :--" Mr. Paddock, Recorder of El
Dorado Bar, has shown us a splendid specimen of
ruby sapphire, weighing over six carats. This is
the largest specimen of stone yet found on this
famous bar, and is of great value. Several other
specimens of sapphire have been found and tested ;
one of them, of bluish colour, is highly prized
.by
lapidaries, being used for cutting and polishing
other diamonds."

Goy Haight of California pocketed and killed
sixty hills of the late Legislature in that State, among
them those fur the promotion of silk culture and beet sugar
making.
Wilk,es's Spirit affords the following items :—Obituary.
—The celebrated Abyssinian stranger, known here as.the
Cynocephalus, whose reflective face and equestrian grace
were the theme of universal admiration and applause, has
passed away. The disease which thus cruelly cut short
the dazzling career of this bright oinament of " the pro-
fession" was inflammation of the lungs, superindiced by
exposure attendant upon an unremitting devotion to pro-
fessional duties. He expired on Saturday last, with more
than Christian resignation, in the arms of his beloved
friend and trainer, Monsieur Olivier, whose agony of soul
at the dissolution of his friend and his own financial
prospects was harrowing in the extreme. The almost con-
temporaneous demise of two of the greatest of modern
Abyssinians—King Theodore and the Cynocephalus —in
opposite quarters of the globe, is a singular phase of the
theory of chance.
Lucille Western is in Syracuse. Maggie Mitchell and
James Collier are in Chicago. Theatricals in Salt Lake
are flourishing. Providence, Rhode Island, has got th 3
"White Fawn" badly. The gross receiptr of places of
amusement in Chicago for the month of March were :—Ar-
lington's Minstrels, $4,621; D uprez and Benedict's Minstrels
$1,522 75; MlVicker's Theatre, $ll,BBl 75; Opera House,
$59,110 55; Wood's Museum, $9,873 11l ; South American
Museum, $268 40 ; Tom Thumb, $3,011 90; Hess, C. D.
and Co., $14,527 09 ; German Theatre, $1,306 05. Louisa
Gross, professionally known as De Vernon, has sued for a
divorce from her husband, William Gross, ail actor for-
merly in Wood's Museum in Chicago. Chauf ran is in
Chicago. Lotta the Marchioness is in Cincinnati. Mr.
and Mrs. Billy Florence have sailod for England, Ireland,
and Wales. Fanny Morita secedes from Wallack's next
season, and marches under the banner of Booth. Dickens
gave M. P. Wild, his tiskat agent, a check for $l5O as a
mark of respect and gratitude. Mr. Wild intends to pre-
serve the document unchanged as an autographic memento
of his distinguished friend. Ethiopian delineators and
circus attractions monopolize the amusement world of New
Orleans.

All receive with satisfaction the announcement, that in
consequence of the Reduction iu Duty, Horninzan s Pure
Teas are sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. 2,500 Authorised
Agents—Confectioners in London and Chemists in the
provinces—supply Elornintan'3 Tea only in Packets.

SETH GREEN'S PISCICULTURE IN THE

UNITED STATES.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The American Fishery Commissioners have
issued a report regarding fish in the United States.
It is shown that the supply is decreasing both in
the rivers and on the coast, and that the remedy
lies in artificial breeding. Seth Green, of Mum-
ford, Rochester, New York, who has induced the
commissioners to try experiments on a gigantic
scale, believes. that the lakes and streams of the
United States may be so stocked with all kinds of
fish that " the people won't be able to catch 'em
out if they try." Of the eggs batched but one is
spoiled in every thousand, and those who know what
the destruction is when the fish are left in a natura 1
state to spawn may imagine the swing. The corn-
in;ssioners say that the ponds for trout breeding
ought to be five, of an acre each, which would
be sufficient to rear a millio❑ fish. The secret con-
sists in feeding the young till able to feed them-
selves, and protecting them from becoming the
prey of other fish. Seth Green has been most
successful in shad, and we learn that the inte-
resting experiments in shad-culture which were
begun at Holyoke, Massachusetts, last year, will
be resumed shortly under his personal inspection.
l'he following letter in Wilke,s's Spirit, of May 2,
gives an amusing account of a couple of green-horns
at the Mumford Ponds :—Having occasion to spend
a short time in the Flour City, I cast about for
some amusement, and was told that Seth Green's
trout ponds were only about an hour distant by
rail; and as I had about every other kind of sport
bt.t fly-fishing, and never had had time and oppor-
tunity till now to try that, I procured a letter of
introduction from a leading citizen to Seth Green,
requesting him to show us every attention in his
power; and so, in company with my partner
Harry, jumped on the 10 o'clock train, and soon
found ourselves at Caledonia. After reading the
letter, Seth asked us if we understood the art of
casting the fly, and being answered in the negative,
he produced an elegant Hornbeck rod, presented to
him by Mr. Dexter, of Boston, and proceeded to
give us lessons. He then took us in his boat and
paddled us a few rods up a brook, where we could
see trout of all sizes and in vast numbers. We asked
him if we could fish, and he said, " Oh, yes ; fish as
much as you please ; you cannot catch any. Harry
wondered why, and asked him if they would not rise,
or if Green could catch any. He answered that he
supposed he could catch a hundred, but we could not.
Very indignant, and supposing he was joking us,
we determined to catch some of those trout if we
stayed a week ; so he told his son to take his rod,
and go with us and let us fish the Hornbeck, being
too precious to be entrusted with greenhorns. We
had but one rod between us, and each in turn tried
his hand and got several rises, but never a fish.
After trying patiently some hours, we spied Green
peeping around the corner of the house and laugh-
ing at us. Seeing that we saw him, he called out,
" Spit on your bait," and then brought out his own
rod and hooked and landed several trout from under
our very noses. Harry determined to try fresh
tactics—procured some worms and caught several
little fellows, of which sportsmanlike proceeding I
warned him I should notify the Spirit, but he kept
on calling out " Worms ahead" at each rise, and
laughing at me for not being able to catch any with
my fly. Finally, finding it was no go, I, with
Seth's permission, cast the fly in one of his little
pools, where four or five thousand great big trout
were kept, and then I had sport. Harry joined
me, and in a few minutes we had eight and a half
pounds of splendid trout. These breeding ponds
have often been described in your paper, but it
was a great treat to see thirty or forty thousand
large trout in a space a few feet square, and see
their eager jumping when being fed with chopped
liver, and how they would actually jump into the
tin pan which Seth held down to the edge of the
water; and one huge trout actually grabbed a big
iron spoon that Seth held down with some liver
in it, taking the whole bowl in his mouth and
almost carrying it away with him. Here we also
saw nearly half a million young trout of different
ages, and were shown the entire system of breed-
ing. The writer, Harkaway, was back in Rochester
by the evening, and he carried his trout to the
little hotel, the Congress Hall, where he and several
friends had a hearty supper.

AMONG THE SIIMIERS.—Xmcng the rules posted
in the office of a hotel in a Shaker village in New Hamp-
shire is the following: —"Married persons tarrying with
us over night are respectfully notified that each sex occupy
separate sleeping apartments while they remain." Some
time since a newly married couple, on a little bridal trip,
visited the Shakers. The evening was spent in talk ; bed
time came—and the couple were invited to sleep. They
passel out of the office, up stairs, there saw two sober-
faced Shakers, a "brother" and " sister," each with . 3
candle. "Mau to the left !" said the brother, and into a
room he escorted the bridegroom. " Woman to the
right!" a 3 quietly said the sister, and into a separate room
the bride was ushered—the newly-made man and wife
separating without even a good-night kiss.
In the interim of the House sessions, General
Schenck is busily at work on the Tax Bill, and will report
it for action and consijeration at an early day, and for his
labours on this important and intricate subject, while his
fellow Representatives are recreating at home or dawdling
attendance ou the Impeachment trial, he deserves the re-
wind of a faithful servant. Other matters of consequence
also await decision, but the result of the Impeachment
trial will determine the character, even move decisively
than the time, of the future legislation.

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