New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-19
Mining In California.

We print all the information that is sent
liz, or that see in the California papers, she'd
ding LIGHT on the general progress and prospects
Of Gold Mining in that Country. Sometimes we
omit paragraph which seems intended to exalt
or depress some particular enterprise at other
times we let such paragraphs pass, through haste
or nattention /; but in where a well-known
and responsible name is signed to letter, we do
not realize any necessity for saying with each
publication, The witer is himself engaged in
INNING, owns claims on alleged quartz veins
make allowance for that We know that the
most honest observer report may be unconsci'
ously affected by interest or partisanship but
our readers are aware that ALL or nearly all, the
definite reports we can get from the Mining
Region must be written either by sanguine,
interested adventurers, or soured dsap-
pointed men who have adgentured and lost.
The opiniORS Of neither are OF much moments
save az they rest on indubitable tacts. That CALI
fornii has not been exhausted of gold, and does
not seem to be near exhaustion, the semi monthly
receipts Of Dust clearly establish That her
Washlngs are quite as productive in the aggregate
as they have been in former years, seems I'M
deniable but that they now absorb more labor
and pay less per day TO the hand than IN the
JOYOUS early days Of pauning and rocking, is quite
probable. Yet there so many new diggngs
opened every month"; and such heavy enterprises
ON foot in the way of damusing and fumlng,'
turning rivers out Of their beds, and sometimes
carving them miles away, in order to pour their
floods across some plain whose sand or clay is pre-
sumsbly rich in geld, that we DO not believe the
aggregate proceeds Of washing will be materially
Jesse oed for years.
As to Quartz Mining, it is evident that there
have been some brilliant successes and some seri-
GUS diappontments and that as whole, the
business has not as yet been fairly commenced.
Much unsuitable or inadequate machinery has
been sent out sometimes good machinery has
been rendered nugatory by deficiency of power;
sometimes the veins have not justified the expec.
tions based on surface specimens; and altogether
the business has not yet passed the stage of
periment Thut there is immensely Of gold
still imbedded in the quartz, nobody doubts; that
much of this quartz is very rich, and will amply
nav for working is morally certain but who have
tbe durably rich veins aud who will make fortunes
by Quartz Mining, is problem as yet unsolved
save in few instances, which may prove, not
the rule but the exception. We have chroni-
cled some brilliant successes IN uTdsS 'dIey
where the mining of quartz in position has
probably been prosecuted as far as, if not fur
ther than in any other locality and where the gen.
eral result appers to have been very satisfactory
Still. there have been exceptions even there; and
we understand that the Rocky Bar Compa'
nv has thus far been among the unsuccessful,
whether through Encouragement or unfortunate
location, we do not clearly learn. We have heard
that its operations were seriously embarrassed 1t
not wholly suspended at the last advices. Thus
II has BEEN and doubtless will again be, with
other adventures. 'All is not gold that gistens,
and those who invest hard-earned money in Cali
fornia should be sure that they place it in trust
worthy hands, and even then they may meet with
reyerses He who plows and plants a field may
csunt with reasonable certainty on harvest pro-
portioned to the thoroughness of his cultivation
but no science, no sagacity, can determine wheth-
er the next years product of a mine will justify
the expectations which its first proceeds had iair
Nv excited. Successful mining is compound oil
good m mag cement and good luck, and the former
is often neutrazed by the absence OF the latter