Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-03
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And be the exhaustless granary of world "

Extract from Speech Of Hon Edlrard Everett.
But, sir, to come to more practical, and you
will probably think, more appropriate topics.
will endeavor to show you that | am no enemy
to new discoveries in agriculture or any thing
else So far from it, | am going to communi-
cate to you a new discovery of my own,
which, if | do not greatly overrate its impor-
lance, is as novel, brilliant, and as au spi-
cious of great results as the celebrated discov-
cry of DIR. Franklin; NOT the identity of the ell
ectric fluid and lightning. don't refer to that,
but his other famous discovery; that in the lat
itude of Paris, the rises several hours before
noon; that he begins to shine rs soon n he rises:
and that the solar ray is cheaper light for the
inhabitants of large cities that the candles and
oil which they are in the habit of preferriug TO
it. | say, sir, my discovery is somewhat of the
same kind; and really think full as important.
] have been upon the track of it for several
years; ever since the glitter of few metallic
particles in the gravel washed out of Capt Sut.
ter 5 mill race first led to the discovery of the
gold diggins of California; which for some time
past have been pouring into the country fifty or
sixty millions of dollars annually.
My discovery, sir, is nothing short of this
that we have no need to go to California for gold
inasmuch as we have gold dggins on this side of
the continent much more productive, and CON
sequently much more valuable than theirs. do
not, OF course refer to the mines of North Car
DINA or Georgia, which have been worked with
some success for several years, but which com
pared with California are of no great moment
i refer to a much broader vein of aurferous
earth, which runs wholly through tho State ON
this side Of the Rocky Mountains, which we
have been working unconciousy for many years.
without recognizing its transcendent importance:
and which it is actually estimated will Weld the
present year ten or fifteen times as much as the
California dggns; taking their produce at sixty
millions of dollars.
Then. sir this gold of ours not only exceeds
the California in the annual yield of the diggins
but in several other respects. 1t certainly re-
4uires labor, but not nearly as much labor to get
1t out. Our digging may be depended on with far
greater confdencefor the average yield on n
gwen superfcies. certain quantity of moisture
sno doubt necessary with us as with them, but
you are not required, as you in the placers
OF California, to stand up to your middle in wa
ter all day, rocking cradle filled with gravel and
gold dust. The cradles we rock are filled with
something better Another signal advantage
OF our gold over the California Colds, that alter
being pulverized and moistened, and subjected TO
the action of moderate heat. it becomes n crate
fal and nutritious article of food whereas no
man mot the long cared King Of Phryeia him
seif-could masticate thimbefu of the Cal
norma dust, cold or hot to save him from starya-
ton. Then, sir, we get Atlantic gold on
good deal more favorable terms than we get the
California. 1t is probable, nay it is certain,
that for every million CT dollars worth of dust
that we receive from San Francisco, we send out
full millions worth in produce. in manufac-
lures in notions generally. and in freight; but
the gold which is raised from the diggins this
side yields, with good management, a vast in
crease on the outlay-seme thirty fold, some six.
ty, some hundred. But besides all this there
are two discriminating circumstances of a mos,
peculiar character, in which our gold differs from
that of California. greatly to the advantage of
ours. The first is this:
On the Sacramento and Feather rivers
throughout the piacers, in all the wet diggins
and in all the deposits of auriferous quartz. you
can get but ono solitary exhaustive crop from