New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-08-31
CALIFORNIA.
Affairs On Grass Valley.

, Affairs In Grass Valley.
CeErssToslsnee Of The n Y Trbane.
GRASS VALLEY. Jaly - lsss
Nuch has been said heretofore Of the region Of coau
Try Ia hch reside and Of Grass Valley especial
y ard ye, DO not know that any has ever 10 any
respect eIage srstcd acts as they The town il
steadily Increasing in population aud other substantial
signs Of improvement and business Handsome dsellings
gardens and Enclosures have geS,y changed the lace Of
things in tie eighteenmontEs past We have aow three
Churches. and al the other II sccisI improve
meDt found in v,ges of the older Seses and yoa will
remark in the accosns from California how fes items
are devoted 10 cur Criminal slendsr.
The past, or rather present. has been the most sue
cessul mining known 10 this Valley aud vi
cuity Tkc erat Reduction in the expenses consequent
Hpon cheaper labor in an departments e business gives
% quartz operations ua important timulusin the 10
crease of profits last year Their reductions equal
"a p G. descriptions of expenses Incident to
Nning other business.
Grass ysley is likely eventually to become Eag-
liSA Mining Iuiag, The Location here Of ths "AQus,
TarA' and West Mariposs" Mining Companies Of
London are but tse f1reuncsrs of extensive iuvest-
ments n the quart veins Of this locality by English cap
itasts No American company can successfully com
re wits the large cash capalsof these aud other Lon
don Com ,snes aud the result viii be that the valuable
veins sead fast passing into foreign hants and ccu
troll. Ardisa few year, British Capital will obtain
complete monopoly of the gold mines OF the State which
Americans are too stngy aud too timid to secure for
themselves
The Aqua Fara' are erecting the most extensive
machinery eve: brought into Csfornc for mining pur
poses aud besides negotiating t'r the best leads o
lusrtz-vlcb tSer abundant cash In hand gives them
iaclitiss which Others present. Where Amer-
stockholders expect returns from investment Of
fifty seventy se thousand dollars. English companies
exptnd four five hundred thousand before considering
themselves in position 10 deyeopthe wealth hidden in
the gold ores of ou mountains.
Collins has got his engine and machinery up and Ia
motion. though no; yet operating upon quartz l am
most sgrceaby surprised with the admirable arrange
mcuts invented ard adopted BY him for quartz crushing
would not like TO offer opiDisn upon the merit OF
his machinery till | see fairly a. work; brs my i'm
pressions from seeing its movement that II the best
cr,sher yet invented On this shsssy more on fuller
evidences. which will shortly b. presented.
Mr. Cutting of the Phenix o. W Co., is putting up
a pair of Bcr,sns Bowls al the Lafayette Mn, (Mr.
Conway > which will be in operation in all this week.
So shall have in actual experiment two OF tho
noted improvements in Machinery for quartz work
log heretofore invenevd and presented 90 the public.
Upon the results great interest il felt here and doubt
by others the Atlantic side. NJ own op,r-
aOns not in so forward state a. could be wished
obstacles OF formidable nature having inerppsed be-
yond my power to iorrse provide against Dnt this,
other DELAYS in no respect whatever initiate against
the fact that Quart, Mining here nosf sRceeSgM asa
business and is simpy question OF CAPITAL Means
adj quae the ends must be brought into requston or
the enterprise must o. necessity anguish
The recent change in the Ownership and management
Of the Nicaragua line of steamers gives 20 the travelling
public on this side the coGtinent she most unsigned
satisfaction While the Directors sbi officers Of tho
Accessory Transit Company m Aing every cfrt To
provide adequate accommodations for passengers In
crossing from ocear ocean the u1popuarty OF Van
derbilt in the cement Of the steamer lines com
petey ractei their intentions Though Thousands
If lives have been art by contact With he dea Ny mts-
ria of the lshmuo Of Panama AM the seeds OF DIS
ease planted in he consttut ,os OF oil 81 thou
sands who have Travelled that vay, yet sll the
current Of humanity has 1oJa in that CHANNEL
solely because If the unpoI Marty eIvoa' 10 tho
Nicaragua Route nv Vanderbilt nd his agers& day
of better things California i'm sg ants has dtsn.d ~
the change above alluded to-as can ncs reiterats
what said p 70 psoer nearly swo years eo IN hvor
of the route by Nicaragua. sat OF thn matter icei-
iuqly for am sep,y q suiersy. When Tho comforts
and safety of h man beings stake IL ia great duty
Ia uont out To tnel what is f. their good The present
management o he Nicaragua Route may Dc relied upon
10 redeem ever reasonable expectation d the public,
and cordial .recommend al persons Callfornia bound
10 come that say In b-ali 10 peasan 5ess-in all taat
can conduce o make trip agreeable sad last though
not least IT, speed snl safety | conlsier this rante
infinitely prc cradle TO than by Panasn. An elliott Is
m hing by the merchants and cti,ers generally oil
California ndnce Corares to send, the mails ~ tho
Nicaragua route by whsaa least trG.a five 10 seyea lays
will be- ga ,sd BY the transit of correspondence. ms
is Qr,at matter and cannot be rS@ected by ne Ad
unistrat on without snl Disregard OF the publc III
terests asd eonysnerse OF the wbGLS Union.
Yo.s Truly J. WlNClISiEh