The Nevada journal., 1852-04-11
QUARTZ MINING In NEVADA.

we are Slad 10 see that those en-
'gage'l in quartz mining in this vicini.
,ty, are in decidedly better spirits now
than two or three months ago. Nor
is this encouragement without good
'ind reasonable foundation. For
flew weeks past the results of the ope-
,rations have been remarkably cheer
ing From gentleman connected
with the Gold Run Company, we
learn that from five and a half tons of
huartz, taken from the Shoemaker
lead, crushed few days since, they
received SLIGO, being just 5000 per
ton. This, every one knows, is an
Extraordinary yield; nor do we pre-
tend to say that this or any other lead
Vili produce the amount as general
thing. But this lead is doubtless one
IF extraordinary richness, If it will
n an avel age produce 500 per ton,
which we have good reason to believe
/ will, its wealth is almost beyond
computation. We were shown lot
If specimens, which rs we understand
avere selected from the rock quarried
Dor that days work ,and which had not
Seen crushed. These specimens sur
passed any thing of the kind we have
ever seem and if they had been added
p the 8 l2 tons, while the addition
% the gross weight would have been
Ilmost imperceptible, it had certainly
ydded some $3.50 or $500 to the net
Hroduct, making say $3.50 per ton.
Y In addition to this we have been
furnished with the following results:
Vhe Revere has been yielding from
% to 4O$ per ton though we are not
certain it has ever come quite as low
= 80 The yield they may safely
nslculate upon, is about 80 or 40$.--
he Wyoming, we are informed, re-
olizes about so, the Central so, and
ne St. Louis Mill, from the Canada
.dill Lead, last week, $50 per ton.
V We are not enthusiastic. Some of
slcse statistics may come TO US exag-
'erated, though we believe not. We
Rve in no way participated in the
dependence produced by the tempo
7ary failure of two or three companies
come months ago. A combination of
circumstances made the business un-
popular with many of the capitalists
IN the cities below, who had made in
vestments which they imagined were
hot safe, for which reason they threw
ihcir influence against the operotion
with the same rash reconsideration
with which tn y embarked therein
both being done without duly under
standing the consequences. That
those owning leads have, to some ex>
tent, been culpable in creating an en-
thusiasm in the public mind the reali-
ty would not justify, we do not deny.
The effect OF this must of course lead
to disappoint nent, and that disappoint-
dnent to sink the credit of the enters
prise far below what it descl yes. But
this matter is Of great interest to the
world, and as it has merit, this dis
credit and depression cannot last long.
Tt was thus we viewed the matter.
when the tide Of public opinion took
its downward tendency last winter,
and after carefully viewing the inhu-
ences with which we would have to
lcontend, and having every confidence
in the wealth Of our quartz leads, we
Thought it prudent to make no oppo,
isition TO the course of the panic, but
await its reaction. That time has
now come. Several of the companies
have persevered, some of them against
obstacles that would appal ordinary
minds, until their works have been
put in successful operation; and every
experiment they have made, has pro-
even the entire success Of their UNDER
taking.
The plain secret OF these Temporal
ry embarIassments is this MANY of