Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1849-02-13
DUBUQUE, IOWA, FEBRUARY Is. 1S49.

shing and demoralising to mutton. regret
that we have these mine in California; but
they are there land am for getting rid of them
as soon as possible. Make tho working as free
as possible. Instead Of boarding, and holding
them up, and selling in driblets, lay them O.
open TO natural capitalize labor--to the man
that has stout arms and willing heart Give
him fair chance. Give ALA fair chance. 1t
is no matter who digs up the gold, or where it
goes. The digger will not eat it, and It will
90 where commerce will carry it. The nations
which have industry--which have agriculture,
commerce, and manufactures--they will get
the gold, provided always that they keep out
small paper money. Not sales, but permits,
pra cticable mode. People are going to Call
fornia to dig, and dig they will. A wise le-
gslation would regulate, not Illustrate, their
enterprise. Permits would put them on the
side Of the law; for it would give them pro-
lection and security: sales and boarding would
put them in opposition to the law, and they
would disregard it. Sir, this lisa case in which
the lawgiver must 60 with the current; and
then he may regulate IT. if he goes against the
current his law will be nugatory, and his au-
thority will be despiscd. The current is for
hunting, and finding, and digging: permits
follow this current, and by granting them, the
legislator may control and regulate the cur.
rent. w., ..o.
If you want revenue, raise it from the per-
mits-a small sum for each-and upon the
coinuge. In that way it would be prac tica bic
to raise as much as ought to be raised. But
revenue is no object compared TO the great OBJ
ject of clearing the ground Of this atlru cton,
which puts an end to all regular industry, and
compared to the object Of putting the gold in.
to circulation. | care not who digs it up. |
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want the mining finished. Let all work that
will lie, them ravage the earth-extirpate
and extcrmnate the mines. Then the sober
| industry will begin which enriches and emo.
| bles nation. Work as hard US we may, we
cannot finish soon. These gold indications
cover moro than two thousand miles. They
are in New MeXico-on the waters Of the Mid.
! die Colorado-on the mounta ms both beyond
and on this side Of the Sierra Nevada. Pro.
fessor Dana. who was geologst to Captain
Wilkes exploring expedition, and who exam
incd the country between the coast range and
the cascade range Of mountains, found the
gold-5earing rocks; as geol'gists call them, on
the Umpqua, the Shasti. and The Klamath riv.
ers, and at the head Of the Sacra mentu valley
He did not visit the Sierra Nevada, but said
there was gold yet to be discovered in the Sa.
cramcnlo valley. 1t has been discovered, and
no one can tell where it is to end. The Sier.
"a Nevada is six hundred miles long, ten CT
twel, c thousand feet high, and has a slope OF
from forty to seventy miles. and all this seems
to be an auri(erous region. South Of the Sicr
ra Nevada are prclongations Of the same chat
and of the same character, and known to pos
sess gold. In New Mexico the gold and min
eral region is described as large and various
by the learned and enterprising DR.. Wisleze
nus, who was making an exploration when the
war with Mexico broke out, and whose work
has been printed by order of the Senate.
will read an extract from him:
1.-The mountainous parts Of New Mexico ar,
very rich in gold, copper, iron, and some sill
yer. Gold seems to be found to large exlcn
in all the mountains near Santa Fc, south o
it IN distance of about 100 miles, as far a
Gran Quivira, and north for u bout 100 mile
up 10 the river Sangre de Cristo. Throughou
this whole region, gold dust has been album
dauntly found by the poorer classes Of Mexi
cans who occupy themselves with the washln.
of ibis metal out Of the mountain streams A
present the old and the now placer, near SAINT;
Fe; have attracted most attention, and not on
ly gold washes, but some gold mines too ar.
worked there. They are, so far as my know
ledge extends, the only gold mines worked
now in New Mexico. Several rich silver mine
Cerrillos, and in the Nambe mountains. bu
none at present. Copper is found in abund
ance throughout the country, but principal,
at las Iijeras, Jemas, Abiquin, Qua de lupit
, de Mora, etc. heard Of but one copper min
worked at present south Of the pacers. Iron
| though also abundantly found, is entirely over
, looked. Coal has been discovered in differen
, localities, as in the Ration mountains, near th
village of Jemez, southwest Of Santa Fc, in
place south of the placers, etc. Gypsum, com
!, mon and selcnite, are found in Ia pc quantitic
in Mexico; most extensive layers of it, l I'm
? derstood, exist in the mountains near AIgodo
mes, on the Rio del Norte, in the neighborhoo,
of the celebrated "Salinas" 1t is used a
, common lime for embarrassing, and the crys
5 tnllIne or selonite instead Of window glass A
bout four days travelling (probabIy 100 miles
, south-soulhcast Of Santa Fe, on the high ia bl
land between the Rio del Norte and Pecos
, are some extensive suit lakes or 'ssalinas,
from which al! the salt (muriate of soda) use,
in New Mexico, is procured. Large caravan
) 60 there every year from Santa Fe, in the DRY
season, and return with as much as they cal
transport. They exchange, generally, on
bushel fsalt for one of Indian corn, or sell il
for one, and even two dollars bushcl.
"Iho annual production of gold in the tw,
pacers seems TO vary considerably. In SOM
years it was estimated from 80 TO SAC, 900, il
other from GO to $4,000, and in latter year
even as high as S250, ZOO per annum."
The Ural Mountains now yielding so mucl
gold to Russia, are but twelve hundred mile
long and five or six thousand feet high; til,
mountain chains in New Mexico and Calfor
MA, which produce gold, are near twice as Ions
and twice as high as the Ural Mountains. i
all this to be boarded by the Governmental,
be sold in two-acre patches-to be guarded a.
thing too precious for the people? Is it t,
be the Hesperian fruits guarded by dragons
and, if SO. where are the dragons to come from
4 lam against the whole scheme of boarding
these mines, or endeavoring to confine thei
product to their own country. l am not fo
\ serving ne ercat upon it. lam not for trying
to stop It from going elsewhere. Let it ge
where it will: like water. it will find its level
4 Let it 60 where is will: it will find its way to in
dustrious nations who Danish small paper mo
ney. If we want to stop the emigration o
gold we may begin nearer home--begin will
the ten or twelve millions of coin ex ported thi
year from New York. But all that is absurd
Let it go; it will come back when we deserve it
SCOTCH VALoR.- time ago, sail
or, who had belonged TO her majesty
navy, went one Sunday to the kirk, i,
the native town Of Kirkaldy, where h,