The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-02-13
The news from California.

The Gold Quartz The recent inteIlioenco
from California is certenty calculated to turn the
heao OF even the coolest The discovery of gold
lAeo WIN the quartz III the highest ranges of
the sierra Nevada mountains, and that in these
VEINS the rock contains at least $1,0O in gold
TO every pound of quartz, is enough to startle
even the most skeprical IF this be so o-Califor-
ma golden treasures are but Just touched Yet
the new field thus opened to mining labor, re-
CURES machlncry-the ore is to be STAMPED as
III Mexico. This is regular mining and demands
captal' though perhaps Yankee energy will
show even in this department that labor and
enterprise can perform wonders such as the min
ing history OF the world has never before ex-
Mplted. Ihey will associate in larger COM
Panies, and thus they may make up for the large
capital generally required in regular mining
operations in Mexico and all countries, where
the precious metals have been found
ltappears that Hon. T. BUTLER KING is about
sending report to Washington on this quartz
discovery. When that is published, the Califor
MIA fever will be wilder than ever, for these ac-
counts represent that the vast mountain range of
California is deposit Of gold. We COPY from
lhe facI1lc News, portions of its article suf1i-
cent to show the extent of this new gold field:
ne particular specimens which we have seen,
OF lhcse quartz mountain quarres, are in the pos
session Of Mr.. Wright, one of the Members Of
ID,
them on to Washington in the steamer of 1st
Dccembcr. 1hcy consist, for the most part, of
small pieces OF quartz rock, generally of brown
ish tinge, and, III some instances, presenting the
appearance ofa slight incipicnt decay, or dccom-
position, of the rock formation In all these
specimens the gold points, particles, are
very slightly, if at all, visible to the naked
gold more clearly. Besides these pieces. which
Nlr. Wright has himself selected, with great
care, rs the ialrcst average samples of the gen-
eral appearance OF enormous and very numerous
veins, or quarries, of quartz, there is also one
larger fragment OF the same rock, weighing, we
should suppose, some ten or twelve pounds,
from all parts of which the gold protrudes plain
y, IN state almost pure: This single frag-
mcnt of quartz, which Mr.. Wright by no means
regards as an average sample of the quarres,
but which he pronounces to be the richest rock
specimen he has seen, is found by the most
careful specific gravity test, as applied to it by
Mr.. Wright, to contain pure gold to the amount
OF about si1 hundred dollars. This piece of
rock, we understand from Mr.. Wright, is dcs-
tined to be laid (as msmOriaI from. the CALI
Jornsd moHn.ains,) upon the table OF the Speaker
Of the House of Representatives Its appeal, we
think, will be needed
single fact will show the unheard of and
astonishing character of the results which have
been thus arrived at. Mr.. Wright informs us
that ne has recently converscd with an intelligent
gentleman, now in this country, who has been
long conVersant in the capacity of an overseer,
with mining operations, as carried on in the
quartz veins of Georgia From this source, Mr..
" right learns that fifteen horse steam power,
working twelve stamps, will stamp about thou
sand bushels Of quartz weighing about eighty
pounds 1t 70 cents worth of gold is Welded
from each bushcl of eighty pounds, the business
Is considered good one, in Georgia. If the
yield be so cents to the bushel, the profit is
large. Now the yield of the rock which Mr..
Wright has collected and tested, instead of being
a quarter of dollar, half of dollar to the IS
pounds, is, In one great vein, nearly $2to the
pound! Abatc this, in view ofpossibe or proba-
bic mistake, or III view of the superior yield of
single richer vein, to an average of So, or $l,
or OF half dollar, to the pound, and the result
still remains, IN every point of view, almost
equally unexamplcd and momcntous.
Ihe whole question is, does gold bearing
quartz, making any Approximations to any such
weld, exist in California in vast and inexhausti-
bic masses? On this main point, the recent
Investigations of Mr.. Wright, coincide entirely
with the observations and conclusions of Mr..
King, and with the testimony of all tie explor-
crs OF the region with whom we have conversed
They all agree that large number of veins of
quartz, permeate visibly the western slope of
The Sierra Nevada, running, mainly from north
to south, and throwing out branches from the
mann lines, at intervals, in every form, and in
all directons.-Mr. Wright, we learn, is so well
assured of the reality of the result at which he
has arrived, that in connection with his partners,
he has already, at large expense, placed a num-
Der of men at work, on one of the localities
which he has observed, and which he states to
be- apparently, scarcely more promising than
many others-has sent for mule load of quartz
rock, to take with him to Washington, across
the lsthmus-and has already forwarded to the
A tlantlc side large order for machinery, suita-
bic TOR the mining operations whichhe contem-
plates. - fs aais,@
Is it not wonderful that all this wealth should
have lain dormant for hundreds of years, and
yet no soonersdoes California come into possess
sion of our country, than discoveries are made
which make us the Nation and the People to
which the eyes of all mankind are directed
Tor at the present daythe country gold seems
to the world, the Paradise ofworldly prosperity.
fWisconsin.
z, ttSEcRET OCCUPATIONS IN PARIS was the
title of a strange paragraph we give in another
place. New York has its sssecret occupations
also in,,addition to those even of model-artist
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