New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-03
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The Overland Mail.
MELof's HTATIoE. Az

| The overland nkil c6hen run sia fraDclsco oates
20 Msreh IL arrived st this station az ABOUT AZ CLOCK
last night,
SAS FRAScfsco, hsren u. noon.
mere have been Io arrivals. 5.iled, 10th, EMP
Enjly, Nnnim, fer Callao.
Duiirg five days OF lsst week, the San Francisco
Branch ut has come $685., 900 ia double eagles.
Thirty tops Of Wsthoe silver ore lac been smelled
at ban fsTesco yedii aveIa Of - 900 per tau.
Much activity existed ut the Napa Quicksilver mit as,
$40 iSs wtIk Of oletipg them hsd commenced in Fix
ffierent lls,es creating considerable demand fOr
| labor.
The quartz mines In Jackcn Ccuuty, Oregon, con.
true 10 yield imneIse pro6s. They are reported 10
excf any thing yet brosn 10 California. TIE dn,uz
tsien fc.e enc mile ie sad TO be worth $2OOOO per
tim. $40 900 worth has besn already taken from the
uire, aDc 80 nuch more Is visible in The small opening
|. maze IN TIE ledge
TIE bill authorizing Bate Comfy to subscribe
$500 600 toward extending the Sacramento Valley
Railroad Iolthward TO Oroville, tas become law.
Tie people OF Stockton taking active ste % to.
ward opening trade with Carson Valley, via the Big
Toll route.
The California Stage Company have expressed a
willingness to carry daily Insil between C"iisornia
and Portland, Oregon, for the same pay the Steamship
Company receives for carry ing ir monthly mai be-
tween San Ffspefco and Portland.
responsible merchant of SIN Francisco has paid
visit to tie Jackson County, Oregon quar- mines add
returned He csed at The Buileim flee and exhib.
fed specimens Of quarz sAen from the Ish nine sew
en- feet tecw the surface. The gold in these speci.
mems is evenly distributed through the rtek as II II
badbstD broken and rounded Into email pebble shapes
and a rred in while the mass was hot. The OF
the mine claim that the quartz taken from IL IS worth
800 eco to ihe tun. They already taken 500 OOo
woih out AID can much more OF equal richness
ia The su all opening made IL the ledge.
Valuable quartz discoveries are also reported at
Yreka a lead nipe having been opened 10 the noun
tain at the bead Of MIef street. from which 5U was
talen DE FIST Gay after ne discovery;
nv. w. s. Taylor. Ieli-be merchant, bss just re-
tuIped e. om yist to the Washoe mines. lie informs
The alta California that be found 1000 people at
Virginia City ealing what they could get, sleeping oa
floors and in epts AID living generally 10 ioa' style.
He down 100 feet into the Mexican claim IN the
C,u stock lead. Three were engaged Ia dlggiog
lie ore in carry ing up the surface ana three
In separating the rich from the poor The vein Is
ABBOTT ten feet wide TIE ore pays % Voo 70 Tue tun
AID grows richer as they 60 deeper. Tunnels a'e
teng cUg to reach other points OF tn Lead tuone
il to 10 SEQ feet bea the present mining places
ord vii 40 under Virginia CITY. fhis account Is con
s;dered by TIE AHa Cdifornia as entirely reliable
Mr.. Npheus Ball, banker is now at the Washos
mines. lie writes to friend, as follows: -,
"Tbe country is unknown, aud much chat Is SAID
| must be taken with great degree OF allowance.
Jaw but two c>ims that ere paying an ounce OF Tue
| mineral; the balance NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. then
! value is all conjecture. To me it appears to be a
mineral country and the relative feocess of the ad'
venimc,s, will / apprehepd, correspond win that
Cf our early Gold.Geebers IN California"
| correspondent Of The Sacramento Chion writes
from the Dalea Oregon under date of Feb. 10, con-
| ce1nipg the new Simikameen gold mines, that the
rsto,ts o. ri Ii gold fields confirmed, bat that the
| extent Of them is not yet determined Parties that
have cone into valley the past few weeks TOR sup
ples report thst for seventy miles, good prospects
are found and that the richest of all, some forty miles
from here ia the bar that first discovered. Fifty
three men left this place for the mines eorday. The
tide Las fairly set N, and nothing eau prevent RI ,ll
to the nires. The has eit us, and farmers have
commenced putting in Their Spring crops"
! BIZ Telegraph 10 Fresno CITY.
| San FRASoIsco, March l3-5r NJ.
Eight bui)dirge destroyed by fire at Shasta on
! tie 10Th. Ioss, $500.
A telegrsrhic dispatch from Yreka last night says
that GeoJee sh aud three others concerned in the Ish
claims at Jacksonville, Oregon have arrived at Yreka
route for the Atlantic Sates. ledge of almost
solid gold has been found their claim twenty feet
below the surface. Thomas Corough was offered
$50 eco for bis fifth interes but refused it, saying that
the wealth of the Rothschds would not tempt him to
sell it.
Sugar market buoyant; No. China brisk at BIC joebiug
sales Crushed l l7c. 800 rkns Of od Butter a. auc-
ton brought 8occ H. Provisions dull; sales from
the fleet that Gay. The Market generally weaker
trade without improvement and the city trade
buy ching untl they compelled TO do so. = .
Arrived steIday tp Reynad from Boston To day ships
Harry Hsrtinss Repubc Ocean telegraph, Expounter
and Good Hope all from Newly ork Danish ship Carolina from
Australia steamer Sonora, from Panama
Sailed, ship Sparkling Wave for Realeo.