The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1859-10-15

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For the feeble efforts at quartz mining
made in his behalf in his years Of absence
lin the absence, too, Of all successful
experience Of such minipg-only served
to involve him still more deeply in debt,
| which was further swelled by unfortunate
agencies aud business connections, until
/. the aggregate Of his liabilities on account
Of this property can hardly have fallen
short Of half million dollars.
Such were the circumstances under
which he determined, in 1857 TO return
to his California estate, and here, sur
rounded by his family, devote all his time
and energies to its improvement aud
renovation. In the spirit Of that determ-
ination he has since lived aud labored,
rising with the lark, and striving to OBJ.
| tain complete knowledge and mastery
| of the entire business, taking more and
more labor aud responsibility on his own
shoulders as he felt himself able to bear
it, until be is now Manager, Chief Engi-
necr, Cashier, Accountant, and at the
head Of every other department. but that
of Law, for which he finds it necessary
still to rely on professional aid, And his
mines are at length becoming productive
! and profitable. His first (steam) mill,
near his dwelling, runs eight stamps night
, and day his second (water) mill, three
miles distant, on the Merced, at the North
end Of his estate, runs twelve stamps, al
so constantly and the two are producing z
gold at the rate of at least S25O, 900 per
annunl, at an absolute cost, | am conf
dant, of not more than $50, 900. OF
course he needs all the profits, if not
more, to extend and perfect his works,
having already a much larger water mill
nearly ready to go into operation beside
that on the Merced, in which he expects
l believe, to run ffty-s stamps, and he
| hopes to haye one hundred in all running
before tho close Of 1860. With that
number, | believe he would be able, by
giving his constant personal attention to
the business, aided by faithful and eara
ble assistants, 10 realize a net profit OF at
least SIC, 900 per week, which would very
soon clear him of debt aud leave him un
ineumbesed in tho ownership Of perhaps
the finest Mining property in the world
Still, the Spanish prnverb. 1T takes a
mine to work minc,' is exsnplifrd IN
| his case as in others. A large additional
| Investment is needed to render bis prop
erty as productive as it might be For
! Instance: he has Just coutrdcted for the
transportation OF 80, 600 tuas ot vein.
stone from his great mine to his mill on
the Merccd (barlcy 4 mile and q Nalt
down hiii) Tor $50 0oD o. ha'r Of tltis
would construct a railroad frotn tho heart
of the n,in, dowa TO the floor OF the mill
and tax lowa this amount q rock, lcay-
ing The railroad and $50, ,090 clear gain.
| Bat ire must have the rock at oHce, while
the ralre ad would require time, and a
heavy outlay of ready cash A Rethschiid
would tni,d the road forthwith, aud save
. $4,000, but Col, T., not being set a
Rpthschila, whatever he may in time be,
come, must bide his tiac.
His great mine, though not the richest,
is probably the most eapaelous Of any in
| California Its thickness varies iroal
eight to thirty eight foet--I believe il is
in Que place sixty feet wide 1t is in fact
elf or pyramid of gold bearing uartz
| inelosed in a N onntain of slatc--a noun,
tain deeply gashcd and scanned in various
directions by the watcrcourses which run
down it to the Merced. These ravines,
this river, aided by proper engineering,
obvi,tc all the usually heavy, often ruin.
Gus, expense of pumping; the mine,
properly opened, will not only clear itself
of water, but the vein.stone may be cas-
i'y run out on Inclined tram roads instead
Of being hoisted to the surface through
shafts by an enormous outlay of power
Then the width of the vein obviates al
necessity for dead d-work save in sinking
shafts and running up adits the princi
pal work is rather quarrying than mining;
and there can be no apprehension that
the vein will give out aud be poor, be.
cause it has already been tested ut its va
rious outcrops to depth Of fifteen hun
dred feet, aud is richer at the bottom thar
near the top, where it has mainly beer
worked 10 this time. | have no doub
that there nre Sl0,oo0,00o in this mine
! a,..oyc water level-that is the level o.
the M.rced and that, though the yiclc
Of gold thus far has fallen rather below
| $40 Der tun, it m...v even at that rate b
mined at a net profit oil at 'eastons'fourti
Of the gross product. Coz. T.. Is conn
dent that his present works do mt sePa
rate half Of the gold contained. in ~
rock, aud that, by the use Of the new
amalgamators he is about to apply, he
4 will doubls his weekly product without
an increase of cost. This conviction ii
founded on chemical experiments ane
tests which. seem to leave no doubt of III.
| fact that the additional gold is in the rock
but whether the means of extracting il
have yet been discovered remsins to b
seen. At all events, feed sure that tn,
productiveness Of these works will in
/ crease much faster than their expenses s.
| long as Col T shall devote himself t,
ftheir management 50 entirely as he is nov
doing In the hands Of tho agents an,
attorneys, they would probably beco.n
again what they once were, and what al
quartz. mining works managed at second
hand have been. II. G
I TEsT OF CHARACTER IF you faa
man disposed 10 cnrip'ain Of the colanes
of the world. be sure that you will FIJI
that he has never brought am thing I'M,
the world to warm it, but IL u pessoat
lump of ice set in the midst Of it. |
| yon find man who complains that th
world is ait base and hollow. TRIP him, an
J be will probshiy sound base and b allow
! And SO in the other way, a kind mm, wi
probably dnd kindness everywhere abou
, him --Dr Chaplin. .