New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-18
CALIFORNIA.
The Sea Nymph-ThiDgs In San Francisco
The Mines-Quartz Operations-PO litics-
Passengers by the pendencc.
Correspondence Of The n. Y. Tribune.

1ne sea Nynlpn-IuIDHs III san ffuuClscO-
The NIines-Quartz Operations-P Oiitics-
Passengers by the Independence.
Correspondence of The n. Y. Tribune.
SAN Francisco, Wednesday July IA, 1852.
The arrival, on the 4th inst, of the clip
per Sea Nympb, with about one hundred tuns of the
machinery belonging to the " Grass Valley Gold Mining
Company brought me down from Grass Valley few
days ago. The trip Of this vessel has been splendid
one, being beaten only by one two, and ahead OF
many other of the crack clippers.
San Francisco IL increasing with wonderful rapldity,
and the erection of beautiful blocks of brick stores on
the lots redeemed from the sea- has given only
fdence but new impetus to business Real estate has
advanced hundred per cent within few months, and
the tendency 10 strongly upward think California is
just entering upon the times of her real and substantial
prosperity. The incoming emigration 10 Of 20 much
better character than formerly in that possesses SO
large infusion of the social Influences OF famay and
home that we ell feel the cheerful and happy effects
From almost every section OF the mines the reports
Of favorable and these reports substsn
uated by the semmonthly shipments Of gold dust, In
the amount of which you will observe no dimnutlon
Although the quartz interest," both here aud In the At
sDc States has been depressed In consequence of the
failures that have occurred among the first rude expert
mepters in the business II is last reganiDg and indeed
Increasing Its claims upon public confidence This must
inevitably be so, for the foundation for 1t built upon
good dyidend-payiDg rocks"
1t NUT be borne in mind that none of the new and
heavier Glaze OF achinery has yet been put opera
tior. We have only the same inefficient and lightly
constructed works put up last season. and Is folly
look for materially different results Notwithstanding
oil these thipgs, quartz veins of approved quality not
yielding less than rro cents per pound, saable
property 90 houses and lands, and At good prices too
In Grass Valley We are more than maintaining our
pat and welearned reputation The Lafayette Hill
Vein, already so celebrated for i,s rich ores has
yielded immensely for the machinery employed Il has
been worked bu, thee month"; in which time the pure
gold taken out exceeds $50 and the yield con.
Iues with indications not only Of increased richness
OF quality, but of enormously Increased abundance In
the quantity OF rock The vein has gradually wdened
from inches to than I've feel and In addition 10
the principal ledge two other veins have been struck
while ihaiiiDg and tunneliDg the former. The com.
papy owning and now working this vein have mill of
eight tt4mps on'y Or. Bscon, capable Of operating
upon about fifty tuns PER week The gold taken from
the alesmsiors this little mill has been high as
slO0 per day, and seldom less than $500 or 800 The
best yield Sl from three and half tups and the
average OF thousand tuns, up to last week. exceeded
$50 per tun The property of this company for which
$4,000 has been offered for oneeleventh interest has
been put TO stack, and the product of It's
working Is tpo and d-haJ per per month on a capt
tai OF one nihcD WITH machinery as heavy a. that
pspy the Lsfay etts Vein would yield $4,000 per week
at the now average yield. The gentle men who own
this lead ave experienced practical miners DR.. VIM.
Bacon was tor years successful miner in Georaia and
Messrs J. w Hollis and f. X Baxter are perseveriug
industrious gentlemen from the New Eugand States
The main building OF the Grass Valley Company's
works was raised Last week. IL is of hewn timber
twelve inches square snd, nifty by eighty fee, IN dimen
sions. Situate d on the opposite side of Wolf Creek
about eighth of nile from the center, and in full
view of the village, 1t presents q conspicuous OBJ.
jet to the view Of citizens and strangers splendid
vein was discovered and opened the hill iinmedi-
aely adjoining the mill site few weeks ago. Welding
BY pounding and psnnng In from i've to twenty
FIVE cents to the pound. Two other and additional
veins were struck the hill, on which some
eighty claims have BET secured for my Company each
100 feet squsre IL ion neoiatey south of The village
between the Auburn Road AMI Woodpec ker Rsvine.
The Craze Valley Slide" which rich cuyote dig
efngs were discovered In jan usry last presents the ao
pesrsDce OF an antnl. covered Is Il with busy and
excited population. The LEAD has been struck AZ
depth OF from fry to seventy feet In probsby hun.
drtd plsces,-the sy.dht being q stratum of blue
quartz gravel and sand yielding fr twenty tive cents
TO collars to the pan The stratum varies from one
to six feet In thickness. have my self seen pans of
eir produce $40 ano S52 railroad of saved INN. |
Der hes been constructed TO Wolf Creek for the pur
pore OF convey ing the aurferous dirt 10 the water
The collins & Co" u,ll-tne name of which for |
sene ress' best known 10 themselves they have a.
,milafed as nearly possible To that of the Grass
valley Colo Mining Company, substituting Quartz for |
GOla-is doing as well ever Some of the rock now
being cIu,hed by Mr.. Crossett pays $50 per tun.
In buidi GO al other substapiil pens Grass
'ale> eohtiI ues to esd all tbs mining towns new
and spacious Masonic Hall is nearly completed, and
many OF the shsnss OF the olden time are siy.ug
place 10 better strut lures
Mr. Whitney, agent of the Rocky Bar Mining Com.
psby, sDirsd st Grass Valley few exc ago He IL |
an able and ergec man, well calculated 10 carry out
en- cfivtly The operations OF the Company
IN pnlucs. move meDt Of the ws,-rs begins 10 ne
setp. The Democratic Convention meets 10 8 e ~ DAYS
n Be pcis. Having been 30 long absent and In the
have lost the of the wirep ers and
can't therefore predict what the action OF the parry viii
be- All kbaw 10 thst the ponin atoms az Psltimore
received with scclar aiioDs and entire unapimitv
throughout the Sta'e
ruBor prevailed day or two ago. which WAS do.
oieo &c the parers, that cholers hid beep NJ
ne c. Certain II n AZ there has ben a,
esst ens dfaih In ibis ciy by genuine Asiatc cbosrs
hs, Of Col VIM. Ramsey, fsfher.l.,aw of DR.. Wo0ep.
fs' llcisn Conn hsioDer, whosa funer,l took n7..e
ie'1c'y by su'hoIIy for this il beyond ous.,,on
'o fesrs however. Deed be entertained of M. 80.
epce OF that dresd.d scouree In San FeancIsco or
an only eyift herein sporadic cssep
The Innate In the mountains IL very delirbtI n, Mi.
ehson OF The yesr-st least 10 cur portlon of thsn, |
hik Of an stmcs phere clearly Transparent, ,ba,
'si, Can be seen oil Doon-dsy shining In tho ak, a.
fighiy ss diamond points. Iris is no rare occpr.
fpce
The crops ibrous boat the State have been ,nnsr.s
I'd the bsrvs't OF ersIn long slrce over Toare ara
ct no Touring gri,t mile 10 the STATE fo- which
lere Is crest wsnt California can not otjy prodncs
bouih for feedpg her own population, howsyer nm.
ero"f, but have asurplus for expectation The acre.
e beJt, aud lie fertility Which natures 90 bc,nes n