Grass Valley telegraph., 1856-02-12
Quartz Mining.

Quartz Mining.
The business of quartz mining must even
tually become to California what the manu-
featuring interest is to New England-the
great staple business of the State. Hence it
is thas'in its present incipient condition, we
should look with peculiar interest upon every
isolated effort at its establishment. 1t is with
this view that we shall continue from time to
time to lay before our readers the progress
which the different Companies are making in
the Development of their mines and in the
erection and working of their machinery. 1t
is our purpose to visit and report Vi Jon every
mill and mine in this locality, where such Wis
its may not be deemed intrusive by their pro-
prietors or agents. We shall also endeavor
to collect similar information from all quartz
operations in all parts of the State. and shall
esteem it an especial favor to heartiom COM
panies at distance, and be placed in pos
session of such facts as may be deemed of in
terest to the public, or those engaged in this
particular branch ofindustry.
In tEa details which we have kretofore
given, and probably in those whic we may
hereafter give, our readers viii bserve a
lack of aet particular information tlich may
be most desirable to parties CONTEMPLATING
Investments in this business. Their IS rea-
son b this, and perhapsse. geeess>ae The
most Of the Companies now enga gel n ,4artz
operations are acting in the capacity O. pri-
vate individuals, managing and attending to
their own concerns, having 10 stock dis
tant lands Or in the market, and whslls ir-
responsible 10 the public Whether they ma e
or lose. AS much as we may De desirous TO
learn what these companies are realizing
from their investments-whati it costs to raise
and crush their rock, and what its precise
yield and their profts-we must nevertheless
beg to be excused from prying too closely
into our neighbours business to learn the facts.
even though we may have for an incentive
the laudable object of the "public good"-
That they are generally doing well, however,
may be legitimately inferred from the fact
that, for the most part, they keep constantly
at work, night and day. Since the panic
which succeeded the first excitement in re-
gard to quartz mining. we hear of very few
probably than in any ether
business in the State.
While we shall endeavor to avoid the ap-
pearance oftoo much inquisitiveness into the
details of the business Of those whose works
we may from time to time visit, we shall still
at all times deem it an especial favor to be
placed in possession Of such information, as
shall enable others to judge more definitely
Of the comparative profit of this description
of mining. We have some promises of such
which we believe will be relia-
BILE, and which we shall lay before our read
ers at the earliest practicable moment
There are, however, some general facts of
interest and value, which any person, at all
with the business, cannot fail to
observe, on even a casual examination of
mills or mines. The different kinds and ar
rangement of machinery, and the general
Of veins and their ores, and
notes of the progress of the workings at the
mines are facts which possess an Importance,
well worth inquiry by all who feel the slight
est interest in the progress and success of
quartz mining. Such observations are al
ways open to the public, and we shall avail
of every opportunity to spread
such information before our readers.