Grass Valley telegraph., 1857-01-31
Mining SUMMARY.


Mining Summary.
The late rains and subsequent warm wealth
er has given new impetus to mining opera
tions throughout the State. The first part of
the season has been quite severe, but the
present condition of things seems to promise
ample amends, and the balance of the season
is highly fattering. The unusually heavy
fall of snow in the mountains will keep up
the summers supply of water late into the
dry season, and will afford rare opportunity
fer prospecting high grounds and localities
1an4eee lroa ditehes and deciding upon the
brfHts s-s:ss' -4--..-i
Rich ''strikes1 were never more abundant
than at the present time, and it is probable
that the gold yield of the two or three months
fron the middle of January will greatly ex-
ceed any other equal period of time since the
discovery of the placers.
In almost every locality where the hy-
draulic hose can be rendered serViceable,
miners are adopting that system. We have
within the past week seen some four or five
localities where the ''hydraulc" with six or
eight men to manage it is doing vastly
more work than was accomplished, in the
same localities some two and three years
since with ten times that number of men,
Diggings that with simply the use of the pick
and shovel would not pay the expenses of
the water and labor, by this means are rem
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have paid by the common process, are of
course enhanced in their profits accordingly.
OPERATIONS IN QUARTZ.
Quartz operations are progressing with
even more rapid advances than the placer
workings. The success in this branch of
mining, in some cases. is almost fabulous.
and nothing but actual observation is suffi-
cicnt to satisfy many of the reality. New
mills are going up in every direction, and
new, and extraordinary rich leads are being
almost daily discovered. We append few
''items" which have come under our notice
during the past month, promising that they
are but an imperfect record of the actual pro-
gress of the quartz mining interest of the
State.
MARYLAND QUARTZ M1LL-This property
in the town of Placerville, which has been
idle for about year, has been purchased by
J. M. Douglass and ]. Hines, of that place.
1t will be at once put in order, and will be
in operation in six or eight weeks.
ALIENS QUARTZ MnL-At this mill, four
miles below Mokelumne Hill, on the river,
the lead has been struck by tunneling, and
found to be very rich.
Leads of gold-bearing quartz have been re-
Gently discovered near Lower Springs and
Gold Hill in Shasta county. They have not
yet been thoroughly prospected, but speci-
mens of quartz have been found, in which
gold is plainly perceptible.
QUARTZ AT ANGELs.-Some very fine speci-
mems of quartz has been discovered at An
gels, promising increased wealth. Great i'm
proyements are being made in the machin-
cry from which the best results are antici-
pated.
A RICH CLAIM.-The Sonora Democrat
says that the Italians Quartz Claim on
Browns Flat, had yielded ten or twelve
thousand dollars worth of quartz, the result
of three or four days labor. The company
thus far have realized from fifteen to eigh-
teen thousand dollars in the three or four
weeks they have been at work, and the rock
seems to be richer the deeper they go.
New QUARTZ VEIN-The Columbian says
IA new and exceedingly rich decomposed
quartz lode, was recently found at Browns
Flat, between Columbia and Sonora, by two
or three Chilenos. The first day in which
they were fairly engaged at work, they tooE
out $4,000 in dust and specimens, and on the
second day their labors were rewarded with
the snug little sum of $4,000. This lode il
thought by many to be one of the richest yet
found in the Southern mines. IL is reported
that $4,000 has already been offered for it
aud refused
BEAR VALLEY, FREMoXT's QUARTZ CLAIM
Bear valley is fast growing in Importance
In the fall, an unusually large number o.
miners congregated there, and late operation;
in quartz has added to the population large
ly. A large steam quartz mill is being
erected by Col. Fremont, and parties witt
whom he is associated, at the upper end o.
the valley, the whole of which is upon Col
F's claim. Near the mill is the celebrated
Josephine" or by some called the ''Pint
Tree" vein of quartz, which is probably a;
extensive and rich, taken as whole, as any
in this State. The wealth of this mine is ia
bulous. There are fifty hands engaged ir
getting out quartz, which is said will aver
age $50 per ton. Ultimately particularly
if water should be introduced into this sec
tion Of the country, Bear Valley will be th'