New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-27

drauEe claims. and when found near the surface,
large proportion of il must 60 to pay ditch COM
papies for the water used in wssf.iag. la lSol
labor pocketed all the profit OF the mines; IN aeo-
capital pockets most Of it.
A. 10 the prospects Of min.ns AS business Tor
The future, the general impression among inteui-
cent miners is. that its course for the next ten
year. will b. If the tenure of the mining lands be
not changed, mere continuation oil its course
from IL to the present time-lioor losing and
capital gaining ground every year. and the gross
Weld of gold remaining about the same. As time
passes and the country grows older, wages must
fall the price of provisions must be reduced roads
must be- improved the cost of transportation will
decrease, the interest of money VIII fall, and with
these changes the expense Of mining VIII be re-
dueed and claims winch are now worthless viii be
workable at profit, and will become valuable.
If the price of tabor were reduced hity
per cent. the amount of valuable mining
ground would BE- more thsa doubled. There
are now hundreds. yes, thousands, of aurter-
Gus quartz claims in the State which have
us enough gold in them not To pay; but If the cost
of working them were only half of the present cost,
they would yield almost as much gold as the present
total product OF the State. There are many known
veins or sheets of goldbcaring quartz foot thick
and of unknown depth extending ten or fifteen
miles, none of which are rich enough Ia pay now,
though all the rock is considered valuable because
the time cannot be- very far distant hen it can b.
worked with profit The very rich quartz s very
rare while the poorer qualities are very abundant.
Where there is one lesd that viii average 800 of
gold To the tup OF rock, there are dozens tiat will
average $40. a ten dollar lead, however, vail not
pay unless very favor4bly situated, the cost of
crushing and matchmaking alone being from : to
81 per tun. leaving from 80 Ia So To pay tor quar-
ryire and transportation, which, al most Of the
. veins now worked, average more than 50. The
consequence of this state of affairs is, that many OF
the poorer quartz veins are claimed but not
, worked, the claimants hoping that, by reduction
of the price of labor, or by Improvement, in mining
machinery or processes, their claims viii, at some
time. make them wealthy.
Many quartz mills are building. but they are
often put up to work veins which. though rich near
the surface. prove Ia be barren ut depth of -
or 20 fcet. The Da5ipoSa GG-e!te remarks very
justly:
"Quartz MIL, which at present main re-,
sources OF productive character, are being put up
quite often perhaps "a Is warTautabe IL IL to be
feared thsf many of these improvements are male
without . substantial and reliable basis, and that in
the end vii but embauass and distress their consruc-
t0rJ Ii ia often the tlat debt incurred in
building of oneourth The cost, has proven the pecu
mary rum Of al concerned
The discovc-ers and owners Of quartz leads are
usually men Who have no experience in quartz
miTing and when they find rich spot they are too
apt to supIase thai large portion Of the vein must
be sftbe same character, and that they must have
WhiNf their owH Ia work 1t 10 advantage.
l. shall nsx descend from generals TO particulars.
bil, fIa ,.unraIiV has haan haenmiuu los
ana less profitable ~ most of those engaged in il.
there have been great ups and downs in the proc.
perty of different mining camps bearing no rea-
ton to the general profit of the business. For in
starce. the To%n Of Oroyille which was only COM
menced il II, ), had grown IN lSj7 10 have 100
voters but no~ il has fallen bach to 500. Mchi-
pan City henan 10 j-"S, and Was for three years
very prosperous place, but It 10 now decaying
| again Iowa Hill was laid out in ici2; in 1865 il
had 500 voters. now it has not half so many.
Georgetown had $50 voters in l.j5 and now has
80. The greatest changes, however, are in the
I smaller camps, which rise and fall in prosperity
and population almost greatly and as irreguary,
though not so often, as the mountain torrents.
None oi the mining towns are growing much now,
except Poverty Bar in Caayeras County. The
san Aadros bidCPendem referring to the growth Of
the place. says:
"Busress is liveL and the camp is tnronged with
strangers ard miners-a enjoying regular ~ times,
amid tine general saturnaha of prohgacy and ts et
tending exctcmcnts. The of this il the recelt
discovery oi rlch and extensive diggngs at Poverty
Bar, L,ncna PInna, and vciuties, followed by the
sudden asst mbage oi great numbers of people Of all
classes. New buildings are going up in every direc
tlon, ahd many permanent Improvements being made
The great E8pe Claim at Oroyille, which yielded
S37i ,s25 during the Summer and Fall Of -, about
S2CO, GOO Of which was clear prof: to the owners,
has not paid expenses this year. The Allison
quartz VEN near Grass Valley continues 80 yield
~ = 20 Clll 4 month N.thuu has haap .,ii ht,lV
in tie papers about the Soulsby quartz lead in
TuOlumne County, which promised AT one time t.
Outdo every other claim m the state. The great
antediuyiar rlyer beds under Table Mountain in
TuOumne County ard IN Sierra County still yield
abUudanlly.
The Supreme Court Of the State rendered de-
rison, week before last, in the of Fremont
agt. Crippen, in whicf judgment was rendered for
tie plalntif, thus restoring 10 hun the possession
Of the valuable JOSEF phne quartz vein on his Mari
posa ranch Col. Erem0nts attempt to recover
the Josephine vein, by offending the squitters
led them to attempt to dispossess him of the Pine
Tree vein, and the riot on that occasion.
The MdSiyosa Gd-eue of the 9th inst. says:
"Tae Bear Valley Mil Fremonts) running eight
stamps Yields weekly an average of about S2,JJ0.
The Eureka Quartz Mills near Jamison City, in
Sierra County, have crushed $500 tuns of rock
during the past t%elyemonth aud have obtained
S-0, 0o0 from il. The profits were 81, ,0O0 Of
which half was paid ndi'dends, and the remainder
expended in Improvements.
suspension hum., $500 feet long, hung on
wire, supported by ten towers, most of which are
10 feel high, has been erected at Tunnel Hill,
Amador County. The body of water which it car
RES is three ieet vide, and fifteen inches deep
running al a speed of siA miles per hour
4 good word for the mrch-abused Cinnamon
Tie UeactrrWe journal says:
"Cbinamen the Trinity have done some admirs.
ble work-fum.ng AM wing-tamming. They make
un in numbers u xoralnrn wnat they lack in iuven-