New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-05
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY DECEMBER 5, 1850

1oto SUPERIOR region mining could only be car
~ied ON proftably by companies, and at very
Troat outlay of capital and labor BY recent ad-
vices from California it appears that lndigldgal
mining is declining, and that the mineral Weat1
of that country can only be successfully deveoPed
by combinations of capital and labor.
Further,-from those adyices ! am inclined 20
think that those engaged in the mining operations
there, do not probably realize as much as the
game number employed in agricultural or other
branches Of industry in that, other sections Oh
our Union and that but comparatively few OF the
many thus engaged acquire more than suilcieht
to pay expenses, or to enable them 10 return W
the old States
Such being the fact when all are lett free and
untrammeled to prosecute their labors, wholly an
constrained as to time or place, and to ENJOY the
fruits of their toll what would be the state OF
things if the country were sw arnln5 with onlce-
holders and the enterprzlng emlgrant after eur
mounting the most appalling dlticutles, dangers
and hardehIps should find himself SUBJECT to the
dictation Of agents OF the Government, to direct
his movements and require Of him a share OF the
means acquired by trying efforts and hercplean
labor ,.c
Therefore recommend that the lands in Calltor-
MIA be sold-those that are agricultural IN tine or
dinary way and those that contain valuable nine
rails in small lots and subject at first to an lncrea-
sed minimum that these mineral lands, after due
public notice. be pat up 70 the highest bidder In
quantities only to suit the demand that alter such
Offering if they should remain unsoId, TO DC SUP
iect to entry at an increased minimum.
And if it be the determination OF Congress
to secure a recompense for the valuable mineral
contained in those lands that they provide by !" ",
that all those minerals shall be assayed In Cailior
mia by the United States,-that given ratio OF
the same thus assayed shall enure to the Govern
ment and that no mineral shall be exported from
the country, until it is thus assayed.
The business Of this Office has been greatly in
creased by the general and special Legislation OF
Congress, granting bounty lands providing for the
adjustment of private claims, making donations
to the States for internal improvements.
Beside all this we have in anticipation the
arduous and immense abors incident to the man
agement of the private land claims, and ot.the
"1ublic lands, in our new acquisitions, which
d0nbtless, to greater or less extent, will be as
signed to this Office by early legislation. j.,
Notwithstanding the actual accumulation OF
duties, and those in prospect, it is not proposed
at this time, to ask any addition to the employees
of this Office as it is hoped that by an energetic
and Jealous application of our present force
10 the public business, it will be found adequate
to the realization of the just expectations OF the
country c;,
For the statistics alluded to in the foregoing,
beg leave to refer to the accompanying state
nents in alphabetical order; and for the condi-
tiop of the surveys to the able reports herewith
from the Surveyors General.
tsigned) j BUTTERFlELD Commissioner.
/ Hon a 81 II STUART. SccU Of the Interior.