New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-17
Miners, Convention.

A Settlers and Miners Convention has
assembled in Sacramento, and has continued in
session from day to day. A series of resolutions
were adopted, setting forth the views of the Con-
vention relative to the disposition proper TO be made
of the mineral ard agricultural lands OF the State.
They claim that the public domain should be donated
to actual settlers in parcels OF 100 acres that, IN
the settlement OF private land claims, IL is the duty
Of Government to give more vitality 70 any con-
cessIoH or grant than 1t already possesses, under
the Mexican law, and that no latitude should be
given in the confirmation of such grants that the
Board OF Land Commissioners should not receive
the former customs of California as evidence in the
settlement Of titles thai the swamp and tue lands
should. IN no instance, be granted In large quanti-
ties that, IN regard 10 city and town lots, actual
occupants should have the night to purchase at noml-
nal rates.
The eleventh resolution recommends a General
Convention OF Miners for the purpose OF drafting
laws TO protect the mining interests, &C In refer
ence to the miners the twelfth resolution sets forth,
as general principles, that priority Of claim should
be uniformly respected that, IN quartz mining,
claims shall not exceed one hundred and hfty feet
in the direction OF the ledge,-tOuole claims being
allowed to dscoyelers that lii canning and hu-
mlrg no prior company shall back water upon the
claim OF another for more than ore season, and not
al all, II the subsequent company VIII conduct the
water Into the fume or race OF the hrst that the
extern. Of claims being governed by their richness
snd accessibility, no system OF laws can be made
uniformly applicable in all districts.
ANOTHER TRAGEDY-A dreadful tragedy
was enacted a, Peuy's Camp, on the Calsveras
River. week since. A difficulty originated at a
faneango, at which Americans and Mexicans were
gathered. Knives we're drawn, and pistols fired,
and the ARRAY resulted in the killing of Alexander
Mcdowell, and the woundipg OF James Pagmall.
The next Gay, the Americans, being terribly exas-
perated, captured TWO of the Mexicans known to
have been concerned in the fight, and after trial,
hung them at O'Clock in the evening.
A Rich LEAD.--We learn from The Ne
rsda Journal that aurferous vein, lately disco
vered by DR.. Weaver, In that vicinity, yields, in
some parts, $500 to the pan Of earth
QUARTZ MINNG.-Quartz Mining still at
tracts the attention of the mining population, al
though they are beginning to find the difference be-
tween prospecting rich quartz lead and obtaining
the necessary machinery to WORK the same We be-
lieve only one Company IN this State has, as yet,
pas any dividend and this honor is claimed by the
Gold Hill Quartz Mining Co. of Grass Valley, who
the 10Th inst, declared dividend of 10 per cent
on their capital. This Company has been In opera.
ton about four months and, although they have
been thus successful, yet their works are rude and
they consider quartz mining TO be yet In It's infancy
in measure an experiment, and one, too, which
has proved very costly TO many, as witness the al
most Ell tire failure OF several prominent companies
IL the Southern Mines. The present quartz opera
tors experimenting for their successors benefit
No doubt remains now IN the minds OF those ac
qualLted with the subject that the go bearing quartz
viii average nom two 10 three cents value OF gold
70 the pound OF natural quartz, and when the proper
machinery and mode OF WORKING II are hit upon, ii
Will prove great and fourlshing interest in Calf
ioIIIa tSan Francisco Picayune.
INDIAN TREATY DR.. o. NJ Wozen-
craft L. S Indian Commissioner. has just returned
from the Southern country having in a brief space
concluded treaty with the Cahuiia, Pablo, Calien-
ties and San Luis Rey Indians, which STIMULATES that
III consideration OF presents Of iron, cattle clothing
&c, ana the setting of to them Of tract OF land
forty miles long By thirty miles WIDE, commencing
al Tsmecula, and running north TO San Gorgonio,
nOThea to The San BernaToin mo Mountains thence
south east TO the Desert thence along the line of the
Desert TO WarneI's rancho, and thence south west
to Tamecua, they Will forever remain at peace with
the United States. The Commissioner promised
that he would eLdeayor TO purchase Tamecua for
them. lSan francisco Pcayune.
BOUNDARY CONFESSIONAL portion Of
the Commission for surveying the boundary between
Mexico and the United States Territories have ar
rived at San Diego. The party arrived from the
CHA Surveying Expedition, under Mr. Gray The
survey OF the ella was commenced in the latter part
OF October, under the most unfayorabe auspices,
ard prosecuted for about three hundred and fifty
miles, and was only abandoned at the last moment,
when the party hau no alternative but Starvation
The survey was abandoned about sixty miles above
the confluence OF the ella and Colorado.