Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-06-17
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lst May.
) The steamships Union, Oregon and
Republic hid arrived at Panama
The Union Brough%two hundred pas
sengers and $4,000 in dust, the
Oregon seyqnty-fve passengers arc
100000 III dust, and the Republic
two hundred passengers and ST, 0OO,-
O0o-in aRl S2,050,000, besides
: what is in the hands of passengers
probablySlI 1000, 000more. The En-
pire City brought nearly So, 100000
The Legislature adjourned on the
last day of April, after session o.
four months; but a quorul n was left
in the Senat e on the day of adjourn
, ment. Tho Legislature has passed
an act to exempt homesteads and
other property from forced sales in
certain cases. 1t has also passed a
Usury bill, fixing interest at 10 pei
cent and allowing by special agree
ment Is per cent, per annu m.
The intelligence from the mining
region is most cheering. I
Considerable progress has been
made by the Commissioners in form
ing treaties with the Indians, though
tkey still continue their depredations
in the vicinity Of Los Angeles.
TIE MIEEs--The mining prospects
were very fattcring. The George
town digsillgs have paid well. Many
Of the eanous, among other the Or
egon and Missouri, have been worked
over Some half dozen tim The
digging s we're not thoroughly IN
derstood at the start, and surface
washing was pursued by the miners.
Afterwards holes we're sunk, deeper
and deeper, until late experience has
Shown that shafts sunk one hundred
feet, and then the system Of coyot-
ing adopted, IS the proper mode Of
working that district of country.
At the Volcano diggings there are
some 800 still at work who average
from S. to SIG a day. Three thou
sand pounds of gold have been dug
from this gulch.
TIE SOUTHERN MINEs.-The Stock
ten Times gives some interesting
statements of the discovery Of rich
quartz veins in tho Southern mines.
The editors consider that it has been
satisfactorily established that the
quartz vein will eventually prove an
iaexhaustiblc mine Of wealth to this
country. They say that DIR. Jas.
Brown, scholar and an able practi-
cal man, and DR.. Radcliffe, who have
travelled through the southern re-
gion, making observations at all the
principal points, have express ed this
TO be their opinion. Many of the
gulches, it is said, are now supplied
with water, and Yhe miners are actu-
ally engaged in washing out the au-
rilcrous soil which they have thrown
Iup.
TnE MARIPosA MINEs.-A CORES
Ipondent of the Stockton Journal,
writing from the Mariposa, in speak
ing Of some large pieces Of 2 old re-
Gently found in that section, says:
%The largest piece weighs fourteen
pounds and seven ounces; the next
lis IS ounces; and the next is 80
ounces of puregold. The first two are
considerably impregnated with rock, |
though their intrinsic value is more |
than half their weight The people
have been doing remarkably well
here for the last four weeks, and they
are coming fast from all parts Of the
country"
The Northern Mines have turned
out very proftably. There has been
a great discovery at The Sharta Val
ley. The Marysville Herald says:
The diggings are somewhat pecu-
liar, for all the earth contains gold, |
and from the surface down four feet
to the bottom rock, extensive yields
have been gathered The golq is re-
markedly coarse and it is in this that.
the popularity consists; it, however,
has been found that where diggings
were extensive the gold was remark
ably fine, and distributed with d great
deal of equality. In this valley the
gold is coarse, yet it is distributed
with some sort ofequality Throughout
the region that has been prospeeted.
A FINE SPEcINEN.--A miner in the
vicinity of Nevada took out piece
of quartz rock, weighing seventeen
pounds, strongly impregnated with
gold. It's valued at $4,000, and
found close to the surface.
SILVER Orr. We have heard of
several rich discoveries Of silver ole