New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-09-05
News from the Mines.

The news from the SOutAcrA mines : extremely
satisfactory, and particularly 50 IN regard to quartz
veins
The waters are fast receiing in the dIieren, rivers
IN The san Joaquin valley and dlmnnS operations
are being extensively engaged IN. From All the
streams the news is most encouraging, and me rEer
mining is assuming an Importance second al0he 10
the quartz speculauons All the sn'ISs on me '..-
rous streams are held Al premium, which si'vrt
time since could have been purchased Tor onc-thi1
Al Indian Bar particularly where the tTIal-test
last wear was sui cn 10 warrant the m acrS n 60
ing 10 any expense in turning The river nom Us uel'
the company have nearly succeeded III pcr1c ing
their race. draining perhaps one thousand yards oi
the stream and IA the course OF week II IS an,'i-
mated that the water VIII he sufficiently turned INTO
The canal they have dug TO enable the enteTpr9ng
prOpnetors 10 engage m reaplug some reward Tor
their patient and perse'ern ton ihefe is no u9,ot
that tins company, composed OF some forty or MY
members, have truly earned any fortune when may
be shoWerod on them and sc can but WISH such
patient and enduring lator an ample ana compete
success.
At Morgan Bar ON thc Tuo,umnc, just below the
above company. they have also succeciei 40 turning
the water from thelr clam and have procured q
large steam machine, with winch they intend 20 ioIce
we condense from TIL Sacramento C..oa some n-
torostIng intelligence Of dtmmns operations nos"
carried on IN the NORTH. South and MldOit folh- %
the American River
The North Fork IS pretty oGcctiialy damme rom
Mormon Island 90 the Middle Fork. 40 New OH
Bar four miles below the Middle FORK, company OF
and are averaging over >2t0 per day.
Vt Long Bar an excellent dam has been complete
and he bed Of the stream is proving FcrJ gen ~
has been washed out, bringing so per on Aet J ne
Company II Boale', Bar, near the Junction OF the
North and South Forks, have constructed tNO races,
and are draining a very large seclon oi me stream
AT Negro Bar. the miners have CONSTRUCTED rage
over mile IA length prospects encouraging. Oh
condemned Bar and Oregon Bar, damniug c1hpa-
MES are hard al WORK.
On the Middle FORK. the greatest work rs OIL Muir
ID. 10 sfrnc sr l.
and the companies commenced TO divert The waller,
which Was very low, day before yestefdiy.
On the South Fork. a. salmon Fails, siefc are
three canal companies, The upper one mas done
f. we'll but the two lower ones are DISTRACTED IN their
operations by slack water. " Ouch Bar there IS
a company who make good wages - draining me
water from abandoned claims.
The South Fork above CoOma i crowded WIN
companies, ard the stream for many miles aosfe
that town scarcelyru runs over lis original oel.
The Texas Company. who have been faithfully
AZ work about 100 yards from the ricA .hn oi me
. Louisiana Company. have az last struck me GOA
bearing quartz, and found i rich beyond tnclr mos
Saneune expectations. This Is but one citlm oil the
. many that are daily proving rch, anu oti"ie many
months Sonora VIII astonish the world Dy erqulrtZ
mines even more than she has done by her Placets'
ment IS increasing N favor OF quartz VEINS IN me
vicinity OF sonora and jamestown many shafts are
beng sunk, and exceedingly rich gold-oeann2 VEINS
made visible. The ore has been strucA IN every
! part OF the Sandals Mountain where miners nave
/ pIospected
Tie Tennessee Company have struck VEN of
. twelve hes thick.
vein OF decompoSed quartz has been discovered,
SO soit 10 crUmble with the bands. is extent IS
visible nifty yards, and Will weld ten cents to
The pound. Rasifs, or track mills a simple con
stTucton for smalgamatlng,l are now being made,
each OF which VIII pulyenze aud amalgamate forty
five hundred pounds Of The quartz per day giving to
the parties interested a very bountiful Yield
Al the vaShlngs the miners are dong well. On
Woods creek, above Sonora, q company OF ten lnen
take from Their long tom, daily from four 10 se hun
dred dollars Where water can be had without cart
ing earth. the miners well satisfied win the re-
suit Of then DAYS labor Many Of the digglngs are
without water, and earth is cared distance OF one
10 three miles. The StanlSlaus Water Company VIII
remecy thai eYi Tor many miles from the commence
ment of the work. which they expect TO finish the
course Of no months II VII give a5und ant sup
ply Of water 10 the different camps and lrrigate many
OF The beautiful gardens 10 oe on The mountains
The quartz miners OF Sonora have held a meeting
and formed Joint stock company for the purchase
and erection Of an extensive scale Of suitable ma
chlRery for crushing the quartz rock