New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-27
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Mining In tire Gadsien Purehase w.
We find the following highly Interesting correspond
ence in the National Intelligencer, Of the 18th:


YUMA, CAL, Feb. 20, 1857.
Gentlemen: enclose herewith extracts from let IA
ter received BY me from the manager of the Sonora
Mining MIMI, =, and Exploring Company, with some add
denee here of eighteen months has convinced me
that the attention Just drawn to this section Of
our country is but prelude to history unparalleled
wealth. Population is increasing gradually and emf
GRAFTON has received an impetus from the proposed
separate ORGANIZATION of the Territory. conven-
tha % pn.. m %nicn All be represented every section Of
tne fucnase Win certainly assemble to petition again
ior separate Territorial government, in the event Of
me present Congess refusing to grant the request
c;ans aad y nolv y no nstehed BY schemng
any citizen has right to claim under the law.
TrBAs, GADsDss PuncHAsr, Feb. IL, 1857.
We are progressing well id our mining
explorations and operations. -"
The La Aravaca Rancho, lately purchased for the
company, contains many silver mines Of rich ore,
We have lately discovered and occupied teu vssns IN
of silver ore near the Ceno Colorado, between Soper
and La Arayaca, Of promising richness The princi-
pal vein is named in honor OF our old friend and
President, the Heintzeman Mine,H and Yields upon
assay thirty marcos to the earya of 800 pounds or
nearly 800 in silver to 100 pounds Of The ore
employed in its extraction, but have no bellows or
means Of smelling and refining.
send you specimen, which, if opportunity offers,
please send to your friends In San Francisco for ex
this mine.
We have now in possession and working sga
Santa Rita Mines. Mnes.................-.-+.. q veins.
esssess .ey
san cssstan ~. ~ ~ ssatg
TotaL ~ .keres.! ..ssei
The value Of these mines is of estirelys
GENTLY, but predict early development Of silver
from this country, which fwilf have marked sed6tt
upon the commerce and finances of this country ~
We have three excellent mining engineers continu-
ally in. the feld-Messrs. Ehrenberg, scbnchardand
Brumckow-and you may look for the most reliable
and satisfactory results from their explorations and
By the arrival o the schooner Jeannet at ts mouth
of the Colorado the Arizona Mining Company received
some $l2 900 worth Of goods and machinery, which
will much facilitate their operations. II @ ,ss @s
The ella River Copper Mining Company, whose
mines are only twsnty-f miles above Fort Yuma re
eeived BY the same vessel tools shop and
the first time with advantage. This mine promises to
yield all that could be hoped for or desired Some
fifteen or twenty veins have been opened, and the
made from time to time. 81 70
Assays have been made of four different specimens
Of the ore, with the following results S. 81 56, and
3l.5 per centage OF metallic copper. The occurs
as gray sulphnret, red oxide and carbonate. >.~-
Since these assays other veins Of gray oretwo
tanning blue crystals of copper-have been opened,
4 averaging from 90 to so per cent. ttst S-s as
| The silver mines of Mr.. Douglass, at the Sopori 3
Ranche, reported to be exceedingly valuable and
| of;very great extent. Other rich veins have been
abaHdbned on account of the Apaches !: but when .
| DEMOCRATIC Congress shall have extended over the
citizens of Arizona the protection they claim under
separate territorial organization then these, mines
will be resumed, and add to that great weth which
is to make Arizona the peer of California in mineral
| resources.
SINGULAR CAsE.-An important decision was made
in the Circuit Court on Saturday last man nanied
Parker had been fined bysPpiice Justice Morsen for
gambling, whfreppea Parker appealed from The JUS
tees decision, takng the ground that his official ap
tel Of 1920 IT waytaken to tie Court on Saturday
last and the Court in the clearest manner expressed
itself in favor of the appellant and DECIDED that the
manner in which police magistrates have all along
been invested with office is contrary to law The con-
sequence is that all the offices ofIoiee magistrate in
Washington are now vacant. r..
IL Washington Union, Goth.
- Nor BAD.-That was pretty fair Joke we heard