Grass Valley telegraph., 1853-10-06
REASON WHY.


REASON WHY.
We often hear men railing against Quartz
Mining, decrying it as humbug, swindle,
good-for-nothing operation-but to sink mo-
ney, and in proof, they point us to certain
magnificent failures in some parts of this
county.
We came across letter the other day in
an Atlantic paper, written some time in '52.
giving an account of these failures, and as it
sets forth the causes in few words, we give an
extract below:
About year ago a man dropped down
at Nevada with wonderful invention
ing less than extracting the gold from quartz
by heat. lie could draw out all the gold
and consequently any quartz that would
yield profit by an accurate assay, would
also pay If tossed into his furnace. He Sue
ceeded IN making good many people be-
lleVe that he had the dead thing" and they
went into the scheme, never once dreaming
that his dead thing could by any possibility
prove their dead loss. Yet SO it has proved
The yellow drippings from Rogers furnaces
have never yet shown through the interstices
OF anybody's pnrse, and | know that anathe-
mas are heaped upon the Professors head
with all the force that a hundred thousand
dollars locked up in machinery by the side of
poor quartz-lead, can impart.
Not FAR from this Rogers Folly stands an
other mill (stampers) silent 1t has double
"Hg ne, enormous boiler power, stamps nu-
n1:rous and heavy enough to crush fortv tons
day, and covered by substantial frame
A company Of men from below-good mer-
chants and good steamboat capitalists good
Judges of the barley market-though it want
worth their while to be dllly-daiIying. bnt
make their ''pile" at once and be off So nm
tney came to Nevada to erect a quartz mill
They found lead and bought it for a SONG,
A magnificent lead, too-six feet tbicfi
beautifully situated into the bargain-abut.
ting on stream of water, and ready TO he
chucked under the big stamps almost without
the intervention of pick or hammer. And nm
went the mill. 1t is currently reported that
as nlgn as So per ton has been saved in this
mill from that vein. The wise old orpv
heads! 1t never once entered their cana
cious noddles that $500 or $1,000 would omen
the lead at different points, and pay the mill
JUST ABOVE them for crushing enough to show
lts capabilities. And now the mill is idle and
can De moved for the boilers are too heavy
ever e, TO be dragged up the hill that unset
them as they went down. Ifsucb blnnderinc
Shout0 succeed. cOmmotl-sense men had bnt2
Ter nang themselves forthwith. Yet such
nav nave been the causes of the failures at Neyadv
Ulty; A man in placer diggings prospects
MS claim carefully by pannitle before he ven
lures to move his Tom or Sluice hundred
yards. These mill-men have torn to tatters
tne venerable adage-"A fool for luck!D
We are glad to see that some of our conn
trymen are manifesting an interest in the
cultivation of flowers. Surely the love of
nature in its purity is more ennobling in it's
influences than the constant craving for gold
winch seems the prominent, and characteris-
tic feature of the present day. Speaking of
flowers, a correspondent of the Dailv Pub
ic Ledger says
There is every Indication around us. that
ere long our pathway in this land of "Gold"
will, indeed, be strewn with "Fowers uand
Flowers, too, of the rarest kind.
we mad the pleasure to-day of seeing sew
eeral plants of the "Spfritus N1nto . in bloom.
just received in this city, they were at the
residence of one of our best and most enter
prlsing citizens.
Ine beautiful pendant cup, of nearly pure
"nlte, resembles indeed, the dwelling of
some sainted spirit; and the form of the
Dove" that is enshrined within this beauti-
ful floral temple, is one of the most EXQUISITE
things in nature. -'-''
!, L men me would love gold less, and love the
beautiful things of earth more life would be
made more valuable, Society would be much
improved, and the ''ten thousand ills which
flesh is heir to-" would, in a measure, pass
away from our midst while as many joys
would take their place. ' ~
FROM DEsERET.-The latest news from
Deseret represents the saints in great tribu-
lation. The Utah Ind;ons