Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-28


reports the following results:
No. produced grains per b. or to the ton Of 2,24O
lbs, 1913 dwts
No produced 10 grains per h., to the ton of 240
No produced a3 grains per b., the of 240
No. produced 46 grains per b. to the ton of 24O
No produced IA! grains perlb the ton of ,24o
No. produced II grains per b., the ton Of 24o
lbs I, 100 dwts.
And within few days the "Phadelphia Bulletin =
gives assay Of godbearing quartz made at the Mint
which weighed 1873 in its natural state and pro-
duced 81 7Sl in gold; equal to 1920 the
These statements selected from list Of several Others
given, not from any wish to make display but mere
to show that If such large amounts be extracted
from quantity Of the quartz rock by the aid of science
and Skill then the estimate which has been made of the
annual product Of the Mines based upon yield Of three
cents to the pound may be regarded as reliable.
What will be the amount of gold dust during the next
three yearsf At least hundred and fifty millions per
annum. This also is demonstrable from facts The mm-
grafton of the present year will far exceed that Of any
preyious great will be the increase that not less than
hundred and fifty thousand miners will be engaged in
active operations throughout California by the ensuing
summer the average Of their daily receipts may be set
down at two dollars and fifty cents EACH giving gross
product for three hundred working days Of hundred
and twelve millions five hundred thousand dollars Add
to this as low estimate, thrtyseven and half millions
from the quartz mills being erected in actual ope
ration and have as the aggregate amount the sum
named which is much within the limits of the
ticipated by the miners themselves.
Two objections may be started to this calculation first
that the number is overrated and second that
the diggngs may to yield heretofore
to reward the labor and time required work them To
both of these brief reply is DUE it is well known to
Caornians that such opinions originate from ignorance
Of the real condition of things in that country To the
first reply, that manifest injustice has been done to
State and her interests, by the grossly
turns Of the census the numbers given by the officers APP
aI that than
contained in the Cities towns and villages throughout the
country without any reference whatever to the miners
a separate body The population of California believed
by your memoraliss to be fully $50 000 without taking
into consideration the immense numbers going there the
present year. In what manner this grave error which
has been committed be rectfed is beyond the
duty of your memoralists to suggest Justice to them
Selves however demands that wide discrepancy be-
tween and we'll known facts should be
passed in silence and they have hesitation in
sorting that the of 1850 regards California is
utterly and egregousy wrong With regard to the second
supposed objection of the gold dggngs becoming exhaust
ed it must be said that to persons who have not visited
the mining regions and examined into the subject it is
very difficult to convey adequate idea of the extensive
which remains to be explored by the miner Fifty
years is but moderate estimate Of the time which half
million of people will have to work before they cease to
obtain adequate reward for their labor from the innu
merabe creeks, canyons gulches, river BEDS and bars
Cayota dggngs and surface washings spread the
surface OF tract of country which is varousy estimated
at five hundred miles in length, and from twenty to fifty
in breadth All the ground which has already been gone
again and again will be further submitted to mprov
ed modes of extracting the gold and long machinery
will take the place of manual labor Time and space for
bid entering into any discussion to the origin of the
gold which seems to permeate the earth in every drec
ton Various theories have been preached the SUBJ
ject entirely satisfactory. One point alone
to be conceded by all that quartz, being primitive
rock, is the matrix of all the gold found in California
and that the hundreds of millions which have hitherto
reached the Atlantic and other shores but the wash
ings of the countless hills which raise their pinecad
SUBMITS throughout the mineral region. How gold was
injected into the veins of quartz is than
but the evidence appears conclusive that it inject
ed in liquid state The deposites upon which have
drawn largely during the past three years must have
taken place after the upheavng of these hills, at some
distant period of the earths existence which at first
exposed the action Of the atmosphere and washed
away to the various pacers where find them
cred with different depths Of soil and sand Of gravel and
stones Very lately have accounts Of rich deposes
being found at depth of lbs feet and frequently the
miners have sunk shafts from 40 to 10 feet deep before
reaching the object of their search How wonderful does
all this appear to the thinking, rejecting mind Does il
not though allwse and nscrutabe Providence
had kept from the knowledge of mankind treasures like
these heretofore considered visionary and romantic until
such time they destined to become useful in
ryng out those supendous plans for the diffusion of re
gion, knowledge, and happiness throughout the world
which must be the great end and object of creaton Can
doubt that California has been marked out in
srument in the hands of Almighty wisdom for dissent
mating these riches in the funess of time and for
dressings
the remotes isles Of the Pacific and to the
forbidden shores Of Japan?
In connection with the foregoing statement Of her mine
raj resources your memorasts would respectfully sub
NIT that Congress should make disposition Of the min
eral lands of California, and they fully in the
commentator contained in the Presidents message that
these lands should be left the property Of the
American people.
In the products Of our agricultural lands with
out rival in the world Perhaps the soil Of country
will be made to produce abundanty and in such
variety as the soil of California In fact for variety and
quantity the yield is almost incredible In the natural
productions of the EARTH conducive TO the susenance of
man. our State is remarkably prolific In several parts
Of it also the banana the orange the lemon the olive
the fig the pantain the nectarine the almond the april
cot the the peach the pear cherry plum
ounce, apple, &C. abound We find the grape too, in
uxuriance throughout the State and in the southern
counties it is cultivated to very great extent In the
Of time California must rival the south Of France
the product Of its white and red Wines and furnish
supply of these luIures to many parts Of the world In
deed, there is scarcely fruit plant, shrub
flower, a mineral a vegetable, Of which any land
boast but what embraced in the products Of California
The vegetable products of the State in comparison with
the yield in the Atlantic States is remarkably strik
ing Specimens we're exhibited at the late Agricultural
and Horticultural Fair in San Francisco Of the various
kinds Of grain and vegetables produced in the State.
We're we to describe the Of those in comparison with
such are grown in the Atlantic States the account
would scarcely meet with credence. country pro-
life in its products and nexhaustbe in its internal
widespread influence upon the trade and commerce Of
the Pacific wen add prosperity and strength to the
Federal Union.
The rise and progress Of the commerce Of the west coast
Of the United States within the last three years. since
the discovery Of gold in California and Oregon, and the