The Nevada journal., 1860-08-24
Correspondence.

hand. Won NAV have imagined that " Eoenezer
re x,, haze ever ,iyen thought to that tumble
individually had lost his scalp; or-wnlch Is
,rs., deal more uulikely-made his pile and
l.ft for the Atlantic States. But have neither
been so lucky as to do the latter or so uHi"cky
A 10 do the former; but have been roYing thfo
the hills and mountains with pick, snovei anu
N.ntsts "indication" hunting. have hardly
boen in camp long enough at time to write a
letter, and when had made up my MIND 10 give
vou n short history of matters here there was
always sure to be something turning up, ana
throwing down pen and paper, would seize my
nick and shovel and be OFF after one OF tae
hsst tbinps ever struck" This would have been
the country for Micaw5er,-thinss are daily
turning up" 1t is now rich surface dis5inss'
now a quartz lead "lousy vi h gold, ald again
"silver till you can't rest"
The Comstock is regularly " struck - once IN
two weeks. Now in American Fla! now beyond
Carson river now six miles north Of Virginia
CITY. "No doubt Of it-can't tell the rock from
the best Comstock ore--if any odds the new
thing is best"
But Notwithstanding an occasional false alarm,
many good things have been fouad during the
last month, and men arc always ready to mount
and be off at amoment warning, tea, twenty or
fifty miles, to "nsw thing.
Last week there was quite rush to new
place, soma Is miles southeast OF Chinatown.
district has been formed called the Palmyra
District, and quite number OF men are now
prospecting in that vicinity. Whether the new
mines will prove valuable rem iins to be seen
A town has been laid of and quantity Of goods
taken over and one or two stores started.--
One or two ledg ges prospect silver ana are Thought
10 be good. but as yet nothing is known OF them
except to the depth of some SIX or elSAt feet---
There Is an abundance of WOOD good water, ana
grass from two to six feet hi gh. Men aro push-
ing out to the distance Of 5O l03 and one party
came in Yesterday that had been out 100 miles
in the Humb oldt ejuniry. Ihey have located on
ten different leads, ana bring IN soms splendid
rock. What am now writing is 4. present a
secret here as tbs discOverers intend taking out
n stock OF goods and don't wlat it generally
known till they have had sUn start to oe
the first in at the new mines. Ihis party went
out some six weeks ago to find this sams place,
but failed to get the right noaa t. guide them
aud consequently did not find the mines. Ab3u'
three weeks aso they started gain i'm the night
with an old Frenchmau wAo had lived near tAe
place, and wac first brought in the or1, and sue
CO, led without difficulty il fndlnS the spot
T,c rock brought in is all from above ground
m,rely broken of from the groupings, AMI looks
well, containing pretty lalr Snow oi what has
the app.araace of silver taoout as rich In ap-
pcarance Us the second OK tlird quality of or.
from the Comstock) with soma bad aatlm2ny
aud traces of copper. The party also located
some ground for placer mining. The rock viii
be assayed to-day and il | can learn in time
will giys YOU the result. l think there is NJ
humbue about this as | AN we'll ac 1uainted witd
some OF the parties interested and tiliGk they az
perfectly honest in what they say OF these n-!Aes
thou rh they ar1 of course liable to be deceived
in regard to the richa OF the ore. They mr.
much elated with their prospects and think they
have hold on the world IN the right place. They
eaw a great maay Indians but were aot molesed
in the least. Taere arc good mlny Indians on
Carson River, in the naigaboraood of China
town, who are, no doubt, Plh- tes, Though they
are shy and peaceable. They claim to be from
Walker River. There is danger now from
the Indians, as they seem willing 70 make friends
again with the whites, and as they got the bsst
Of the war they can afford to.
At Virginia City they are taking out ore, run
ming tunnels, sinking shafts, putting up ma
chinerY and, IN SnOIl. RolH55 oil iuDut AZ uSltl
The Ophir Company are taking out some very
rich ore Some specimens have seen are nearly
pure silver. In this place two steam quartz
mills will soon be in operation, aud there has
boen some IS or 10 arras;ras built within the
past two months. The arrastra is Old fash
ioned and slow contriraaee for extracting gold
from quartz, but if men will not come in aad
build mills the miners seem bound to go to work
in the best manner their limited means viii ad
IL Al. fl4.sr
claims.
What the veins in this district will prove to be
is hard to say, for don't believe there is shaft
fifty feet in depth in the district but il is the
general opinion of the miners that all the gold
leads will eventually run into silver, and 1t is
certain that the veins worked have become richer
in silver as the miners get dowd on them. Some
now leads in this vicinity mostly silver veins
THAT is, they have different look from the gold
bearing quartz from the top as the = Uomeward
Bound" ''Charles the Fifth aud the Pacific"
These veins all show good prospects OF silver
near the surface and may prove to be rich when
the shafts and tunnels now being driven are in
to the lode.
The lead on which the first mining for silver
was ever done in this country WAS found few
days ago and company formed to work the old
mine. The shaft had been filled up by placing
timbers, brush and dirt over the mouth.
There has Tor some time been stories Of min
ing for silver having been done here som. years
ago, and that there bad been furnaces erected
on the South For. of Gold Canon. The story
is land there are men now here who were then
on the Canon and remember the circumstancesl
that two brothers. named Crush, who were well Z
educated men, and well versed in metalurgv /
found a silver mine near where Silver City now
stands, in 1854, and sunk q shaft on the lode /
which was considered rich-that they had fur /
naces and apparatus Tor testing ores-that one
of the brothers struck pick into his foot aud
died from the effects of the wound and was bur
RED on the cannon, below the forks at the base
of Grizzly Hill. His grave is 20 be seen vet at
the spot mentioned. The surviving brother re-
manned but short time after his death. but left
tor California. He died shortly after CROSSING
the nouutains, at Diamond SPRINGS ona-story
Is that he died of grief, as he sunnoSsd bo b.I
caused his brothers death hy annly;, -.
thing to his wound which ad pois,naI ,. .,
smother that he had his legs frozen in o,s.;.,
over the Sierra Nevada, and died in oa.7
quence- From these stories some men yser, i,
duccd to search for the furnaces aud the .slos,
hole" as the saaftwas termed. They found tbe
furnaces, or one of them. There being no proof
that there was ever two, except heap of burnt
seones and rubbish, in toerable state of pres
ervation, among some willows on the creek
hlled and partly covered with mud and sand
which had washed over it. They soon after
fund The old shaft on the side of hill ipuedi
stel.y above where tAe furnaces vera located. No
one Tho has seen the remains of these furnaces
INK of their ha;-.x