New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-18
oraRrz MINING IN CALIFORNIA.

nuaRTZ MINING IN CALIFORNIA.
We cave in our last extracts from Cali
amin papers which speak discouragingly OF the
,rospects of Quartz Mining generally. tbs but
s;r 70 state that this was but one side of the
tory and that letters received by this Mail, as
ali as articles in other California journals put
entirely different face on the natter We received
nothing, from Mr.. Winchester, but private letter
h.fore us from another mentions his arrival in
Grass Valley by stage on or about the 10Th u.t.
fof course his machinery cannot be there for
months.) The following are extracts from private
letters, whose writers we deem reliable, received
by this mail :
GRASS VALLEY Nevada Co, April IL, 1852.
ave can crush with five stamps 90 tuns in twenty.
four hours; this did the last week We put through
one tun OF the Gold Hill unburnt rock free from dirt in
81 minues Our Dsisey Hill claims are yet good, aud
vield as largely ss usual. Osburn Hill maintains It's
Character admirably. The - claims far exceed our
biahest snticpations, far have worked them,
and see no why they may not continue good.
Some Of the rock has been estimated to yield more than
$3.50 ,ul.
@Gen Winchester and family arrived here last eve
ming. The location of this Company is on New.
York Ill., down near Keey's Mill.
sWeek before last we took out $500 in one day.
o POUNDS Molly now don't you burst yourself.
"P S-We have Division of the Sons here 1t was
members quite fair beginning for this place Hs"
Another private letter before us, dated "Grass
Valley, April 10, 1882 speaks of various leca-
tons in that valley doing or promising wei,
and says of that on which the writer is WORK
ing u,c,.
sTbe rock 90 far as we have pro,pecied is uniform
l., ane ovd Although say we send you specimens
gooo ~, ho,,er than the rock ccncraly-itis es
rys,aa 10 nav from tro three hundred dollars per ~
umateo W Pay c."
On the average 81, .,o..
to the same results, dated ""ross 'alSy' Aprn
r." says: VIZ,
meher tpan we are AZ work is much richer tina
rbere we commenced. Before putung INTO tne oat
,erv the new get of stamps which are now IN operanon
NE crushed rock for "a hours last week on tne Khd
- I'VE are now raising and the next morning TOO
so-, he tables rifles and battery between S34OO an
4S5o of retorted gold. We probably crushed abou
10 uns of rock to obtain tas resu sud .rs ain !.
ON the Hill I cag.not say as it will all pay like the
above and probably will not, bet tninA may saley
say 1t will pay from 500 to SlSo per !un :. a. mas oeen
estimated TO pay as high as SoVV i'n' " i' 'uP'-''
So,ne Of the mills about Nevada City stopped opera
tons but my impression Is 4 IS more from want 81 it s
~ atari with or Of skill in collecting the god than
from The want of gold in the rock Many have erected
mills and spent money In DONG SO than tney couo
command When finished they then SET 10 "ofh WIN
ont experence and of course do not obtain gold as
thew expected and are obliged to stop till they can
make arrangements that will allow them to proceed
Yours J. C. =.
The above coroborates the following paragraph
from one of the newspapers of that locality
The Neroda Journal says that quartz miners arc Ia
much better spirits than three months ago The Gold
Run Company have just extracted 81 100 from hve ana
. half tuns of quartz The Revere Company has been
yielding from $50 to $40 tun. The Wyoming realized
about $50 the Central $50 and the St Louis mill from
the Canada Hill lead $3.50 per tuu last week Com
mentng upon the foregoing the Journal says: The
plain secret of these temporary embarrassments Is this
MANY of the companies owning leads are composed oil
men of small capital By application to capitalists they
were led believe that certain amounts would be sur
hcen to erect the necessary machinery and not unire'
quently the very instrumental In producing ths
impression would Immediately commence negotiations
10 supply the necessary funds the credit OF the en-
terprise. But when the amount was expended, me
work only halt, and, in some instances, one-tnlrI
DONE Finding the operation cost twice what they an
ticipaed they became dsrustfu and, IN their anxiety
10 get out of what they finally conclude TO be an awk
ward position created like distrust in the minds OF
others"
The reader has thus the other side OF the
picture from that we gave yesterday. Each is
doubtless true in part neither is the whole truth.
CAPITAL. talent and hard work will make money IN
Quartz Mining as in almost everything ese-per'
haps faster there than almost any where, but the
risk and distance are to be considered.