The Placer herald., 1860-04-28
From Washoe.

The Carson City correspondent of the S.
F. Herald thinks the time has arrived for
those who contemplate visit to silver land
to make the start. He gives his IDEAS this
wise:
If the weather and roals will admit, the
time has now arrived when those who in.
tend coming over may safely start, AS
there is a large amount of prospecting nee
essarv to be done, and all the different chan
nels of business are soon to be running full,
AS they can as we'll be doing first as las,
when wind and storm no longer prevents,
though none have as vet lost time by not
coming. Indeed the pioneers have endured
sci the gains made by coming here so early:
and as for mining or other business persuts
including the agricultural those who are vet
to arrive stand just as good chance as any
who are here now. SO far as mining claims
are concerned, my own observation teaches
me that men will come here and stand qni
etly by and SEQ good claims located which
they might have occupied weeks before, hut
for some reason did not.
AT the mouth of the canon below Virgin.
ia claims have been located every dav for
several weeks, AMI still the work goes on,
and men who have been here for months,
will sometimes walk right over them and
not consider or ca whether they are vaua-
bic or not. Quartz lodges frequently run
for miles wi'hon' cropping out or showing
themselves at all; they do not necessarily
run in q straight direction, therefore mi
ners 20 have u sure thing and save days la
Dor prefer to locate claims on such pla es as
the ledge exhibits itself above the surface,
and ifthey cannot find this they leave it al,
together and 90 in search for another.
Where exceptions to this manner are observ
ed the lead must be of the richest discrip
ton, for Instance, the "Comstock," which,
known to be OF exceeding richness, has at
tracted much attention on the 'extension',
both ways but, as either "dips" or spurs
out of line very much, the enterprising men
who have tried to follow it, have so far ut
terly failed. This is the way with rich
claims; but if a lead is only known to be
tolerable, or not known at all, why your has
ty man would rather search week for
something new than to prospect on lead
which may or may not be good, but which
is not clearly defined. The time, then,
when men "wil do well' to come to this
country having arrived, mention it in the
way have not as advice to come at all haz-
ards, bu. to such as have or may contem-
plate the journey, that between the lst of
May and the lst of June seems as propitu-
GUS time as one will be likely to enjoy, al
though do not wish to be understood as
saying that to not come just now will mate
rally lessen or ini ure mans chances to OBJ
tain good claims or to engage in business.
OF the difference between silver and pold
mining he says:
Silver mining requires capital to work
claims, to find them, or to purchase them.
Placer diggings for gold in California re-
qulre but little outlay of time or money to
commence operations. Silver leads pene
rally grow wider and richer the deeper
down they are worked; they are of more
reliable character than gold, which, as every
one knows is liable TO give out entirely at
the very moment extensive calculations NAV
have been made for working them; this is in
brief the gist Of the whole difference between
this country and California Let those who
anticipate coming here mark it and act &C.
cordingly, or else, if they make nothing
here, "forever after hold their peace"
Gs- Feldberg is receiving his stock of
Spring and Summer Clothing.