The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-12-02


hor.oota .ha $40 feet long and the tive upright shaf.
net me company intend 70 continue tn horisontal
4: s.s a. < print *. ' s. TO
got out shout 800 tons Of quarts which 1t estiated
WIN pay from cents to Is averaging about 10 osnts
mine partly owned ana worked Sy os n:
names Of the owners follows John Read Joseph
ppryos cyT1s 0oli3s James Dove. joseph Read, Asa
plin, and John ssdgwick.
H.sts Bar on the ruoumns paid 81 500 to share
and Psines Bar, just below, has paid $ilOO The men
were at work from nine to ten weeks
In parts Of the Mormon Creek whore there "a nearly
oOnssnty in operation parties are worsinr ana - r
can learn, making from four to ten daars per dav
to each hand Some portions of the Creek which we're
are now being worked Many parties have been smoysd
this Cresk-from Twists garden to the stanissus
summer and spring and some Of them have hal very
good success One company in particular consisting of
nine in the neighborhood Of the Mormon Damp who
commenced their claim last spring have been doing
well most Of the time. This claim has paid well that
1t has been known the rich claim" and has changed
ones As high Is $3.50 has been paid for single share
Each succeeding party has done well the grount and
stl continues 70 pay During the last month il has
several months work ahead Of them still.
- (From the San Jose Viater, Oct Is t.s
o.n ss no place the world Where S
9apce, at the New Amadsh mines, ,situated about
Twelve miles in southery direction from this city The
vicinity Of these mines presents Indications Of the metal
and pure cinnabar frequently found the surface in
many places We have no doubt from our own observe
lions, and from Information impaired to By peae
cal geoogst who has been prospecting in thu and other
parts Of the State for time that there other
as that Of the New Almsden that would pay well
on capital invested and would require labor to
take out the ore from its native bed Indeed there
can be no doubt In the mind Of any who has
amined the locality, and who has any knowledge the
subject that the amount Ct mineral wealth of this kind
deposited nature in the hidden depths in this range
Of hills, is almost incalculsble; and will distant
day become Of the leading II the lead
ing Business Of this valley. The New Asdsn
more Of lstorers and yielding ten thousand
pounds Of quicksilver daily The company are excs-
waiting passage the hill from which the ore is taken
through which BY Of cars can be run out much
more rapidly than by the present method, and With
greater ease to the workmen This Improvement will
completed viii greatly facilitate their operations.
California affords the only mines of quicksilver
Ike oil her other natural resources thew far excel in
richness those Of any other part Of the world The
Almaden mines, In the province Of La Mancha, in
the richest In the world their annual yield being about
10000 cwt., or 6,l00 pounds daily The mines Of
Polatinate the Rhine and these ct Idria in Austria
have also been considered among the rst class the
former yielding about 900 pounds and the latter about
1000 pounds daily. We know nothing about the
atve amount Of labor required in these different mines,
to obtain the and extract the metal the extent
Of operations In the elder mines above mentioned but
should naturally conclude that in SPAIN Germany and
other countries where labor is cheap the whole capacity
Of the mines would be brought into action whereas here
in the New Amaden although the works extensive
being Increased to an almost Unlimited extent. In
view Of there facts look forward with confidence
the day when quicksilver will become Of the chief
articles Of export and Of the main
Of her wealth.
From the Sacramento Union, Oct 2oJ
We were yesterday conversing with q miner Who has
just down from the Forks Of Yu5s and the &C.
count he gives OF the great OF the miners In the
northern regions is really astonishing pany ct
Industry Bar last week consisting of i've men, took out.
in three days 0o0 We shown the gold and there
piece Of less weight than 50 and all Of the very
success Of the miners has BEEN beyond ali precedent
Eight ten and twelve dollars per day s readily paid fog
labor and $4,000 was lately given for single claim at
and the health Of the dggers excellent They are
pecting rain every day. s.s sf
We have been shown some very beautiful specimens
Of native copper in its pure state which In shape and
size much resembles the fine gold which is dug cut of
out Of the earth at Campo seco where It Is said that
while washing for gold one frequently finds In his
from an ounce t. pound or 50 Of copper sometimes
been found in sufficient abundance to justify regular
system of mining to obtain It
dating Oct IS relates the discovery Of very rich silver
mine eighteen miles from that place ct point known
the Aral 1t was discovered by parties engaged by
49, [from the Ban Francisco Post Dot. 81
Fear MI.LkR, October 10, 1851
The miners on the river are doing remarkably WELL
company succeeded In turning the river at two diff
ferept points and In beth places reaped rich harvest
For the last three weeks the daily yield per man was
fourteen dollars The gold In the bed OF the Joa
qun very uniformly distributed thus securing the
miner certain return for his labor The river has beea
where the dirt from The bed could b. obtained II .s
found extremely rich, 90 much 80 indeed that all Who
know about IL pronounce II the Richest IN gold
teen have coumsnced operations about three miles be-
low US which completed before the water raises will
" son Ss ~:
the past week between 1oEsISmns Hui and San Andres
gings about eighteen months ego, Mckin-
MES Humbpg from the fhct that they discovered
BY person Of the name Of McKinne; but - they would
other localities paying more they abandoned
vsueess Nov, they eagerly sought and
almost the entire section In which they situated Is
laid on In claims.
Indian Battle.
The Son Diego Herald contains the following account Of
fight between Lieut. sweeny's command and party Of
Indians Numbering s0o the ella where the United
States troops stationed We COPY the following
count
II seems the Yumss and Cocopas had difaoulty and
Indian agent while he stationed 1T the Ola 70 settle
the matter He decided the matter but HIS decision a
GEARS to have given satsscon 10 either party and
they came TO this conclusion TO II eight IL OUT The
Yumas who are brave race. came en victorious
Though the Cocop were pretty severely whipped they
were not conquered but Immediately entered into .
treaty with the Macopas TO assist them TO drive the
Yumas from the country Lieutenant Sweeney, Who was
left the ella by Major Heintz elman with only nine
men, hearing Of what was going on sent word 10 the
Cocopas that he would allow OF no more aghtng; TO
which they replied that he and bis little party would be
allowed unt the next day ct II O'Clock to the
rancho and leave them TO settle their affairs svee
ney. who Ia - brave man - ever drev blade imme-
diately assembled his little band which, with the ferry
company numbered but twenty men exclusive Of .
few hundred Yunas and prepared to give battle 70 the
combined forces Of the hostile tribes The camp at
tackled the next night by about 500 Indians many Of
them armed with rifles and muskets and there not the
slightest doubt bat that the Americans AID Yumas would
have been ovsrpowersi and slaughtered but for the aid
Of . brass twelve pc under, win which they poured
destruction into the rsnn Of their fe The night had
lasted four days when the Indian who brought the
left the Colorado We tremble for poor sweeney fate
unless he receives aid from this post which regret 10
soy IL not ct all likely, In the present crippled condition
OF the army composing the Southern division.
Prospects OF Trade IN California.
From the Cslifoi mia Courier, Oct Is
nat a, husfp fnr he Lac ain