The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-31

will exercise except where verdict manftes
instance The exception the capacity Of the plaintiff wa
properly oveHpIed The judgement was therefore affirmed
Angusn. for plaintiff and appellee rThe verdict and
note with legal interest from judicial demand and costs
MArHURrs LrJEUsE us. ADoLpHE HEBERr-.appea
from the Sixth District Court, West Baton Rouge)-
| RosT, j.. Judgement of the lower Court affirmed
WIDOW CYpR1EN GRKM1LLroN u.s. Wrpow Louis Bon
| AvRNTURE. No liza, in the Supreme Court RDpea
from tie Ninth District Court, parish of Ponte Coupee
RosT, In this the Court held that the cause Of
action was not stated with sufficient precision in the plead
lngs and that this omission well calculated produce
surprise The therefore emanded for further pro-
ceedngs with leave to both parties to amend defendant
| and appellee to pay the costs of appeal.
WIN. CHAPMAN, u.s. J. B. BOND admir-. -. Appeal from
| the Fifth District Court, Parish of TerreJonne).
| SLIDELL, j.. Question of Acknowledgement affirmed.
NATHAN X. KNOX POLICE JURY WEST BATON
ROUGE Appeal from the Sixth District Court Parish
of West Baton Rouge. RosT j.. This was an action
by plaintiff ransferee of the claim for making new
evee in front of the property OF Dupuy absentee
| originally adjudicatel to Edward Brady and William
l McGrovan, by whom the work executed The verdict
of the jury in favor of the plaintiff for $780, The Su
Court reversed the Judgement rendered thereon and
judgement in favor of plaintiff for $685. with legal
interest from Oct. 6, 1S45, and in both courts
| UzEBIEN BRoussARD Us. JOHN NOLAN . .4ppeal from
the Si1th District Court parish of West Baton Rouge
hOsT, in THIS case the supreme Court held as has
been repeatedly done BEFORE that before the verdict is
recorded the jury at liberty Withdraw it, under leave
of the Court in order 20 make ii explicit" The Judge
ment in favor of plaintiff for the land controversy and
$l28 damages, was affirmed with costs. Psw.
Conclusion of Decisions in uextl
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zDLUVIAL GOLD DEPOSIT OF CALIFORNIA.
| ~ WASHINGTON, Dec. g. 1913.
The excitement of the public mind, growing out
OF the discovery of native gold in the diluvia de-
nG Cali ELL
Tor the present communication. | examined yes
terdayg In the library of the War Office the several
specimens transmitted to the Secretary of War bv
Col Mason, through the instrumentaity of Lieut.
Loeser, which are mentioned under numbers | to
| Ii respectively, in the documents ACCOMMODATING
the annual message of the President to Congress-
Judged by external character, agreeably to the
principles of mlneraOgy, they may be comprised i'm
the following groups, namely:
l. Small masses of native gold, in the separate
forms OF grains and scales, minute plates, from
which all extraneous matter has been ceanly
washed. @
2. Similar forms of equally fine and highly col
ored masses, with the loose residuary iron sand of
washer. az -
3. Masses of scale-form gold, of an ounce or
more In weight, but offering other peculiarly of
character.
4. An ovate mass of two ounces weight, having
portion of It's original weight of quartz still adj
herring.
Tie scdlc-Iofin anu lump gOId eXhlDltS
or less distinctly, the marks of attrition and of
having been carried, in its alluyal association in
the valley OF the Sacramento, some distance from
IFS original position 1t is of the sub-species of
gold-yellow native gold of the systems-the Gold.
geIber Gediegen Gold of Werner The sneci6c
gravity of this variety, in its refined state is gener-
ally from l7O0O to $4,000. By analysis it is some
times found to contain very minute portions of silver
and copper (a.)
The preceding notices embrace all the specimens
OF the native gold in the thirteen separate packages
received at the War office, exclusive of the caddv
named in Col. Mason's report. The following num-
bers comprise the other species sent:
D. Native masses of a metal of light steel gray
color approaching to white, of considerable weight.
These are scale form, resembling in this, and in
SIZE, the scale or plate gold. They present the
peculiar color of patina, which is difficult, how
ever, to distinguish from palladium. The specific
gravity OF native platina varies between 1861 and
1891, but reaches in its refined state to 23OCo o.
8. Angular masses, of a dull metallic ustre and
coarse granular fracture which has the external
character of iron pyrites.
z. lump of red-coored ore. This mass is
large and heavy specimen of the ore of mercury,
called cinnabdr, and is well characterized as the
dark red variety of the systems. (c) /
8. Arenaceous magnetic ironstone, of its usual
form, color and lustre, and specific gravity This
ore is the usual residuum after washing away the
aiuvlal matter from The grain and scale gold and
has been transmitted to denote that fact, and not
as attaching any importance TO its value. ID
In appreciating the gold formation of California
may derive some light from the history of the
discovery Of this mineral in other quarters of the
globe. Much of the native gold Of Asia, Africa
and Europe, of ancient periods, was found in |
earthly deposits in the beds or valleys of streams or
plains which have been produced from the disinte
grafton and gradual degradation and removal of pre-
existing rocks The early sources Of gold bullion
of which the bed of the Pactolus is a memora- |
BILE example, have long been exhausted, and, as |
the surface gold of later ages has been picked up
washed out its origin has been generally traced |
to fixed veins in contiguous mountains where the |
expense of crushing the hard rock has been found
to be well nigh equal, and sometimes more, than |
the value of the gold In other there has |
been a complete exhaustion as at the Ladhills in
Scotland where, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, |
fIC0,O00 sterling were obtained in a few seasons |
from the auvial soil.-James0n. |
A very large proportion of the native gold of |
South America, which has yielded more gold than |
any other part of the world, is explored in duvial
disintegrated soil whichis generally found spread
out at the foot of mountains or outbursting valleys
from table lands. Such, too was the position of |
the Mexican gold, although at present it is mined |
chiefly in quartz veins, in connection with silver
and other ores, in mountains of mica, slate and
gneiss. 1t is altogether probable, and would be in
accordance with recorded facts in other parts of the
world that such should also be the relative position
of the native gold to the original gold bearing veins
in California.
The fact of the existence of virgin gold in the
plains of that province was not unknown to the
Spanish Humboldt, prior to 1916, mentions that
there is plain of IA leagues forty two English
miles, in extent on the California coast, covered
with an alluvia (e) deposit, in which Jumps of gold
are dispersed. Vide Nueva Espana.) The same
author states that lump of gold was found in
Choco, weighing twenty-five pounds; and that a
piece Of gold was found near LaPaz, in Peru, in i
1870, which weighed forty-two pounds He gives
the annual produce of the gold mines of the Spanish
American colonies at twenty-five or twenty-six
pounds troy. The gold of Brazil is chiefly washed
consolidated deposits which stretch at thefoot of
high chain of mountains running nearly parallel
TO the coast from 50 to 300 of south latitude From
this region nearly 10000 Portuguese mares of gold
are annually exported to Europe, making the annual
produce OF gold Of the gold d mines of Spanish and