New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-20
sIining News.

The news from all the mining regions is
of the most encoura ging character, as regards the
amount of gold which VIII be taken out. The dry
dggings VIII be most successfully worked during
the Winter and the rain will be likely 10 present
little obstacle to working the quartz mines.
Many companies are preparing TO WORK quartz
mines with improved machinery and we snail ex-
pect TO hear of heavy yield from those mines. sup
plies are Icing rapidly sent forward and there seems
TO be no well founded reason to suppose that less
work will be done through the Winter than the last
We condense the following intelligence from the
San Joaquin papers.
From Moqueiumne Hin there Is the most cheer.
Ing Intelligence The miners have discovered gold
In spots where they never before dreamed Of look
ing for II and 1t would appear from the accounts,
that there is not an acre oil ground IN that region
where the soil is not strongly lmpregnated with
The precious metal. Fandangoes are HI the ascend
ant, music rs heard at night IN almost every house,
and the places sof public amusement are daily
throngtN by crowds.
The accounts from the bars on the Tuoumne and
the Mariposa mines are quite gratifying. BuSl-
ness Is brisk, and rich mineral Developments are
daily made.
The black sand that is found in the beds of some of
the MYERS, IN immense quantities. Is beginning TO at
tract attention. The gold, however, is lntersperSed
III exceedingly minute PARTICLES and II is fonnd to De
impossible 10 separate II from the sand. When the
discovery OF the agent which separate the geld
from the sand is made field for labor will be open
I'd of immense magnitude. Samples have been sent
TO eminent American and European chemists for the
purpose OF experiment and We doubt not that some
extremely simple means Will be inveRted, adapted
TO the end required.
The Sonora Herald SAYS We are Just from
the scene of operations OF the Fort Washing
ton Company on Woods Creek, about one mile
above, Sonora. They have been working IN this
same place for about year, having originally
purc hased the clam for three hundred dollars.
During portion Of the time they have been engaged
in the labOnOus work of digging long ditch nearly
two hundred yards long BY nom twelve 10 twenty
ye fee, deep Their luck has been variable, but on
the whole very good Sometimes for two months or
more they did well for every day then again for
few weeks the tide seemed 10 turn. We saw one
OF the large humps taken out by them weighing six
pounds, ten three-fourthS ounces.
Many smaller pieces also exhibited, one
weighing one hundred and fourteen dollars, another
sxty-four dollars, another htyhve. Several of the
largest specimens had been deposited at REYNOLDS q
Cos office, and We did not see them short time
ago. II was estimated that the Company had taken
out fifteen hundred dollars during the preceding
weeks -Four shares In the Company have recently
been sold for SIN hundred dollars each. The names
of the present members are David ID. DAVIS, Hamll-
ton Ellison, Albert Grant j. W Vaudeville, Geo.
w. Roberts. John Server, Bernard Laurex, John ii.
Mhhgan.
The Stockton Journal saws All the accounts we
have from the southern placrS agree IN representing
them as beng equally productive now at any time
during the past year. The ram has somewhat Ella
ted the prospects OF the placer dlggers al the same
time that has IN measure stopped the progress of
a numser of quartz improvements. gentleman a
day or two since authorized his agent 10 sell SIX
shares In splendid quartz VEN, which promises
rich because wages would increase beyond his abb
lily TO pay when the whole extent Of the ravine dig
glngs rs thrown open 10 individual enterprise and
labor.
Every person can make handsome profit on his
own labor, when water Is generally dlhused through
the mines, and consequently help increases worth
from It's scarcity Every American naturally desires
10 work on his own hook - exemplIfy hls ndepend-
ence and when the chances equal, ninety out OF
every hundred Will prefer Il. Thus capitalists are
haax fol a,l -,
some cases can hardly get them for any Mex
and Chiloans do the burden Of the work IN the
southern placers, and II is likely they Will continue
10 do Il.
The following article on the prospects of the miners
or laborerS IN the Sacramento placers IS from The
SacrGmfafo tnioH OF the 9Th The editor appears 10
indulge IN some unnecessarily gloomy iorebo1lngs
II the RAINY season, which at present bids fair 10
set IN unusually early. comes soon upon us II VIII
prove as disastrous ie mining operations IN the rivers,
u VIII cheer the heart of the digger the raylnes
Who has been ioiing for months IN heapng up earth
from which 10 CLEAN that which Will recompense hun
for his summers labor. There Is no doubt however
that an early FANNY season Is TAR more INJURIOUS 70
the interests OF the MINER who Is az work IN the
rivers bed. than II = possible for any person unac-
ouainied with mining operations 20 conceive Of
Tie dams, with the limited materials al command.
and the unskillfulnesS of the miner who not usu-
aly either bultder or mason are constructed IN a
frall and insecure manner, and liable 20 Dc over
thrown BY any i.e freshe, IN the stream IL IS not
then 10 be wondered al that az the first cloud which
obScuFeS the sun, the miner turns an ANXIOUS eve 10
windward 70 note any change IN the weather how
ever slight. knowing full well that If the foods de-
scend upon his works. he is irretrievably ruined.
These views are suggested 10 us, AZ this time. Ii
consequence of the severe showers which fell here
during TWO or three nights last week. In the noun
,ains the rams were more severe. so much 80 that
the tributaries of the Sacramento were swollen over
a foot, ard the force OF the water was 50 great IN
some instances as TO sweep of dams which were
bu' partially completed.
We are Ye,olced 10 hear however that 10 material
damage las vet been done but If the equinoetiai