New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-01

defendant 70 right 10 occuP! aNu
the mine, supposinc 1t to be- the proper! oa VIZ VIZ
United State. is not well founded. Congress has
invited miners to work in the gold fields, ou' mas
not invited Companies to occupy large CLAIMS; ana
if il had issued such sn invitation, tins Company
would have forfeited their claim 10 privileges uhder
il by fencing up square leagues oil hnd, htepiUs
every body away from their VICINITY AMI setting up
fraudulent title based on forged papers. Judge
Hoffman deyOtes his opinion t0 an examination oi
the evidence aud finds that there Is very good
cause 10 believe the whole claim OF the Company 20
b- fraudulent. The Judges do not pretend 10 de-
eide finally or iully that the clam Is fraud OF
that the lsnd does not belong 10 the Company; ou'
tLey find that the title of the United States IS so
good that their interests should be- protected b! an
Injunction. The injunction has been issued aud
served but the Court refused 10 appoint receiver.
Judge Harry |. Thornton, however, has been
appointed Commissioner to visit the mine, ana
report whether receiver should be appointed.
The general opinion Is that receiver Will be ap-
pointed and that the n. A. q. II. Company VIII
never get possession of the mine again. Ibe pres
ent position of the affair l., that the WORK Al the
mine has ceased: the Company are still IN possess
sion Of L: and the Commissioner, who las instruc-
tions 10 report 10 the Court what measures are
necessary Tor the preservation OF the NINE, hai not
vet reported, but his repert is expected to-day.
The Injunction was granted to stay - waste, to
prevent the removal of the quicksilver by rreSp0n-
sibe parties and the Court expresses IT. intention
20 provide for the " preservation OF the property.
The proceedings and language OF the Court Ill
regard Ia the Injunction seem 10 contemplate
stoppage in the work of the mine. and that would
prove most prejudlcial To California.
What the amount of damage 10 the State would
be if the working of the mine were stopped, We
have no method of ascertaning, even within any
satisfactory approximation. Capt. IL. W. HaIlech,
present manager of the mine, and 4 gentleman who
for the official positions be has held and the social
postion he now holds should be truthful gentle
man. wrote in October, %, IN reply to an otlclai
communication of the Surveyor of Santa Clara
County that the average annual produce ot the
mine was l,0-7 600 pounds, put up IN TASKS
(wrought IRON bOttlcs) containing - pounds each.
But il appears from the Cust0m-lo books that
al no time during the last four years has The annual
export been less than 2O, 600 TASKS, or loOO,OOO
pounds And then, We know that much more Il
exported than appears on the Custom House books,
many captains carrying off hundreds Of TASKS With
ont mentioning them in their manIieStS. The Gus
tom-IIouse statistics for l-57 show quicksilver
export of O.26j TASKS. while The Mercantile
GG-ctfc saws the true export was 21,2b2 TASKS or
2,0ii $50 pounds. We have no means of knowing
thr amount sumed IN our State but II Is large
perhaps 100000 pounds, perhaps 100000 per
year. The company have kept their affairs very
secret, and there is 40 public record from which
this information 70 BE- obtained. Let us suppose,
however, that the total annual produce Is 250O, 900
pounds, and this at % cents per pound, the whole
sale price in this city, will be worth Sl,625, 600.
Add to this amount lost BY the stoppage of the
mine the cost of 800 600 pounds imported, az =
per pound-it would probably cost more-and the
direct loss 10 the State on the quicksilver alone
would be more than 81 600 yearly. But the
loss indirectly, by the injury To the gold mining,
would be much greater. 1t appears from the
books of the Mint that about - per cent of the
gold deposited there is "quicksiyer gold is,
has been obtained by the assistance of quicksilver;
and presuming that the proportion is as great in all
the gold taken from our mines say $50 000 600 per
year. we have S22 800, 900 tho annual produce
of quicksilver gold. Heretofore all our quicksilver
has been Obtained from the New-Almaden Nine;
but il It's working be- stopped, We must import
mercury. and pay greatly increased prices, partly
because ot having to bring 1t from distant countries
and partly because the other mines would scarcely
be able no supply the demand.
The present members of the New Almaden
Mining Company are John Parrott II. w. IIallock
james X. Bolton. VIM. T.. Barron, John Young
and Robert Watkins Shaw of CALIFORNIA; Manuel
Escandon in the City of Mexico Barron, Forbes
\ Co. of Tepic. and others. Two hundred work
men are employed at the mine, and Capt Ialleck
says the expense of working it is S2c0,OOO per
year. He also SAYS the net value of the mercury is
37i per pound, and that the ore reduced in 81
NNlu'u ! pti tfIl VI Vulf I'tdls Inc NOiuVdUS
do not obtain so high price for that exported AS
for that sold for consumption in this State. The
exports of quicksilver in 81 were, according Ia
Tie .N6rc0RfHe Ga-ttte. as follows: To Mexico,
l433i TASKS; To Ncw-York : .37i; ~ China, 3,55l
Ia Chile, 200. The ore is the sul phuret OF mer-
curry. commonly called cinnabar, and IN structure
and color fresh fra nents of il resemble pieces OF
bright red bricks but after being long exposed 10
the ar they take on Il vermlllOn hue.
II seems that as coal is found where it is needed
for smelling iron. 80 quicksilver is found where il
is needed for gold and silver mining. The greatest
quicksilver mnes are those of Almaden IN Spain,
about l1j miles \. ~ +. from Gibraltar which
produces 2,2OO. coo pounds per annum; iluanca-
yellca in Peru. which yields about 400, 100 pounds:
ldria III Austria. which Is not permitted by Gov
ernmenl to produce more than 800, ZOO pounds;
and mine in lunnan in China, of which We kno"
little, but from which most al the Chinese yerlnl-
ION Is obtained. The ncighborhoods of Almaden
and ldria were once rich in gold; that OF Huanca
yelica is still rich in silver.
Ii is the general opinion OF persons well informed
in regard to the case. that the injunction owes lts
origin not To pure zeal on the part of the Cabinet
for the interests of the Government, but 10 the -
trgues of other claimants of the mine al W Washing
ton The mine ls almost beyond doubt. on the
ranch of ,Just0 LarIOs, now owned by Laurencel;
but before selling the land 10 Fossat. under whom
Laurencel holds. Laros sold the title of all the
minerals in the land TO somebody, who sold again
10 an Eastern Company, of which Robert j. Walk
er IA or was member. Again, certain members
OF the United states Senate employed as attor-
news for Iaurencel. whose interest Il To have an
il junction granted, Because it depriyes the chiei
opponent of the ,news of war. Now, the claim OF
Laurcncel has been confirmed BY the United States
District Court. snd the presumption is that the
land is his: and if the lsud be his, Why not the
mine There Is as yet no law or authoritative de-