, 1860-03-17

make I guod Phorisee but poor Christian.
There are inany persons who think Sunday Is
sponge, With which to wipe out the sins Of
the week
The Silver Hines Of the West.
Alyices from the Pacific have for same tire
past so tscnled with di4cuyeries Of silver mines
in California uud Utah That we have no doubt
many Of our readers must feel in crested III the
matter, aud desirous Of knowing the actual
truth about thcse latest mining DEVELOPMENTS.
4 late number Of the San Francisco Bu3tfia
furnishes US tue means Of gratifying this feel
ing. The subject is IN nbsorbing me on the
Pacific coast, where mineral discoveries hare so
long been the leading feature. The history Of
tue progress Of settlement in California is little
more tlan q narrative Of mineral Discoveries.
Where the gold and quicksilver we're found,
thither the people RUSHED, and there villages,
and towns, and cities grew up, and in the RI
sought to obtsia footing. With the settlement
Of Tie California gold region began an era Of
similar enterprise in other puTti0l!s OF tue la-
cihc coast. Gold led the way to Oregon and
British Columbia, followed By Washington tes-
ritory-in Arizona there have likewise been
gold ptacere, and some vastly better silver
mines. III tile rich and beautiful valleys run
ming downward from the eastern slope Of Ihe
Sierra Nevada goli lass been mined for several
years past, anu has gradually drawn settlers
from California, but the placers have not proved
very tempting 1t was, however, reserved for
the silver discoveries to as.onish every body and
Create an unprecedented excitement. The a5uu-
dance of gold has raised the value of silver in
all tue markets Of the world, and if we can es-
tablEsh upon lucrative basis the mining Of this
important metal in tic United States, it will be
Of scarcely less interest to us 1Lau the discoyt-
~ Of California gold.
3x cf }hn4 nr1spnr1-
portance to know whlt is tue real state of the
case in reference to these silver discoveries. i
ouS and weli.considercd 4. ticle in the San Fran
cisco Balletia, written by person WHO lad just
rstur:led froul lung visit to the Washoe s.rer
mines, says that mineral wealth is there, nor
wllt6t lie exhausted for some years to come.
Lie gees Oh tu say that the MINIS are urgues-
tlonably as rich as represented, and that it is
doubtful whether country Of the same extent
and equal richness i'll mineral deposits can be
found on the globe. 1t has not yet been ascer
tanned whether there were oHc or several silver
Iodes, nor how far they extend; but it was
known that gold aud silver exist US far as Horny
Lake on the north. Wulker River and Sheno
Lake on the South, end Black Rock, about sixty
miles from Carson City, on the east.
This Is j very extensive region, bounded on
the West by the counties Of Plumas. Sierra Ne
rada. PAGER, FL Dorado, and Calaysrus, iu Cali
lornia, j distance of one hundred ard twenty
miles. The point mentioned US tile Eastern
boundary, Black Rock, is not set down On any
Of our maps, nor, indeed, is Carson City, which
is the capital Ut the new region. But Une result
of tue discoveries will be to cause all immediate
survey ofthe dtstric: and the formation Of good
maps, i thing never yet attempted. Western
Utah has up to this period been terra incog-
nita on all known maps, little more than tie
discoveries Of Fremont being set down ther:.
But the State OF California was in the sannc con.
di,ion until the gold h1nters penetrated its
wilds, aul then We were speedily Informed Of
the location Of every mountain, streau, lake,
town, etc in the mining districts.
Now US regards tue yalue uf the discoveries,
the writer alluded to has the following:
The silver is found in Eeins varying from
one to four luchts, existing i'll the form Of con.
centrated sulphurets, the ycius extending with
in ,le walls Of tee rock from one foot to about
eight feet in widlI. The ole exists III yeins in
The old or igneous rocks. Tue inclination Of
the vein is very nearly vertical, aud the dircc.
tlon above ground, in several places. can be
traced with euss mud certainty. Vertical veins,
says Oyernian, are generally valuable denosi:s,
for they extend III i comparatively smAll sur
face deep below ground, and form a larSe arcu
Ii tile veins are ali Injunction from below, such
as those Of the suphu1cts und p?,itrous ores,
they generally afford Il great depth, the end OF
which in no case has becn reached by uny mine.
Veins of this kia1 very seldom run ls1ite per-
pendicplar; they arc in most cases more or less
inclined, and i'll almost all Instances curved.
Their general direction is west ol south and
east of north. There can te no doubt tlist
these are valuable deposits; their quantity
n1ust increase with the depth, aud miners eau
safely dePeuu upon SUCCESS i'll their operations,
if tlley fuilow the veins to tlr greatest pract
cal Depth The igueuus origin of vcin is in afl
cases tile most promising. because its di,ueu-
character of the .cils Ut Washoc, No haze GER
tsinly much to expect frpm their development.
g. Tue gold Of that r:Eon is OF i poor Quality-
in consequence Of lis large adMixtu1e with sit,
vcr, and IS worth, on al average, not ,nore than
nine dollars All ounce. II is found, FOR the most
part, in crystallzea ard partially decomposed
quartz, and is Of q aatk and dirty cotnr. and
found in the largest abundance ut Gold l1il, aud
near tho socalled Devils Gate. It exists iu
large quAut!ties ia the soil, and as you penetrate
the hills it decreases in quantity, while the sill
yer increases. The observance Of this fact has
caused many to conclude that the interior Ut the
hills, heretofore wure I'd only for Eotd will, when
penetrated BY 1uunvls, be found to contain r,cl,
silver ]osts. This Is particularly the C .se with
The following mined clainss, viz: the Yellow
! .cket, Crown Point, Sucker, EmgTant aud
Pioneer"
discoveries are constantly made, and places
are mentioned and ines described infinitely
enough, but these names arc utterly unknown
here, aud evidently the first freaks Of enicrants
fancy, such as eicau1boat Springs, six Mile
Desert, Pine Nut, Copper Canon, E;atcprisc, El
Dorado, and Devils Gate At the last accounts,
the SHOW having disappeared from the hills,
parties were preparing to prospect in al! dircc-
ried on at Eirgi ginia City, seventeen NILES from
Carson City, with which it Is commercially stagc.
The town fever 1ud broken out furious}y. i
place has been laid out ut Devil's Gate called
Silver City, and anothcr near Steamboat
Springs, ca!isd Jauesril:c. Gcnua was the first
town ever bull. III tits region, but it fst into the
possession Of the Mornuns, aud blight has
been upnu it ever since. Carson City has be-
come the focus OF tie mineral district and there
1ll the lines Of travel concentrate. Contracts
are out for the erection there Of more than Il
hundred houses, among then, being several
large stores. Building lnatsra1s~yere in great
demand, md tic saw mills unable to satisfy the
call upon them. We conclrdc With the subjo;n-
cd extract:
"Strictly speaking, all claims where the sil-
ver veiu has not been struck are outside claims,
whether on or of the Comstock lsad. But in i
more general sense. by outside claims mean
those located on different leads. Among these
Valley. the Wi"nen,uck, Tue fankee, tile
Pleasant Valley, The Sacramento, the
| Rodgers or Fiowery Digg1ugs, The st.
Louis, Grown Point, Pioneer, &c. All
| these claims have well-deGncd ledges,
very rich out'crops, and assay from ss:0 10
/
| these claims hare been recently scld in this
| market at $50 i foot Ii we determine the value
| Of the Interior by what appears on the surface,
then no satisfactory and sensible reason can be
| given why interests in these claims should not
6c worth as much. foot Tor foat. rs like ci,ins
on the Comstock lead. Iudecd, in many
Instances the indications are much better. Two
months will effect i change in this particular,
| The foregoing claims give every indication ol
cuntain,ng rich sire dcposita; tunnels are being
run in al, Of them. and in some Instances shafts
have been snnk mud rich orc struck. The most
of these leads are in Virginia City, about half q
mile from tie Com>tock lead, and running par.
| attcl tbcrewith. Whether they will prove o
equal richness, or whether in fact, some Of them
may not prove cren richer than ans tiling vel
found, will soon be determined Should they
do SO the results will be marvellous, and an cx
element produced such ,,s has not jet been wit
nessed. :,.onil they fail 10 do So. however
great disappointment and gloom will he the re-
suit. With such ricE. blossoms, a failure t
strike rich silver orc seems impossible"
Tic Spring Fashions.
And SO the portals Of tile SEASONS arc REALLY
closed On grin, old Winter-the snow-dr,ft. ar.
melting away in the sunny holows, and feu
acentftsS March flowers are bevfnEiDC to opcu