, 1860-03-15

SUNDAY, brings interesting intelligence kFou
the letters in the New Tork papers, We espy ths
following:
| MINING SLws.
Correspondence Ct tee Times, Feb. :ol
The San Jose Exporter mentions ; r1ch mine
Of cinnabar Is miles from Giroy and frou,
New uaris- Thomas Edwards discovered It
two years ago, but iatterly has traced itnearly
mile in length, and arrangements are making
Two youpg men who have been prospecting
IN tie Coast Range, within II miles Of Clear
Lake, Uust beyond Napa county to the North, }
brought into Sacramento on the 18th inst,
specimens Of which being assayed, showed &ll5
OF geld and 80 OF silver to the ton-that is. the
rock contains S1l.50 to the ton. Not yery fiat
.tsr1nS; but, as they say at Wa.aoe,. the deep
er you 50, the richer the rock," !" md so the W.
say will not allay he e1eitement'n in that direc-
AZ Hornitas, in MaEiposa County, the good
old days Of '5J'' have come ngain. A Mexican.
tince then eight hundred ounces Of gold hass
been shelled out from it. Other Teins in the
riciuits are said to open rich. a1d from the tips
ofthe foothills, the listener hears on MI sides
the grinding Of the quartz in the hand.mortar.
which indicates that tho "pEospecters" are
about.
The Placer H3raA SAYS that Mr.. DoIs lately
purchased, for 500, half Of a lead. near By. Of
which be was before the onwer Of one.haIf; it
vas lead thnt was opened yeats afo and abAn-
doned. But in three days after Mr. Doig re-
commenced work, be took out tno hundred
pounds OF rock worth 53,06G.
The Pluuaas 4drgus says IN assay Of thetop.
rock OF quartz leHts, opened q week or two ago
III that vicinity, gave $l35 to the ton. Thirty
feet down the rock is thought to lie worth 81 900
the tnr. This quartz, the story goes, lies not IN
lsdges, but uudetles the whoie mountain, and
there il water plenty the year round Already
$50 calms hare been located.
The late explosion of the Mt. st. Helens bub-
Lle does not prevent the instant growth Of
another orer the same locality. Nr. Anderson,
Of Sapa. has been taking out some qusrtz which
he is confident vii! yield Il 600 to tie ton.
Judge Ely, b.tSeen Eapa and Sonora, has found
ii copper rein. a. J. Bailey and J. Cyrus. from
merse banlders-m;ll;ons Of tons iu &inount-
from which, on cracking off' pecc. glubules Of
quicksilver roll out. In rome places they found
fluid metal in little bools on tue rock. The rock,
they say, is not ciunabar, but reddish-gray
stone. aud exceedingly hard.
In Southern Oregon, near Jacksonville, some
400 people were ous on the 18th, Ginning, for
reach Of nine miles, the newly found placer
't1igeingt:-s '-'';'.' ''7'
The Crescent City mines give down liberally.
On the 10 b inst, four men took out $91, aud On
the 11th $40. There are prospects Of SGT The
pan.
Ninety-orc men started from Victoria on the
6th and 9th for tho Upper Frazer mines, and
100 mules and horses left the Da1les in one day
WITH supplies for tbs starving wretches at the
Similkcmeen. Everybody is getting wild about
S,mslkamecn, though really no.hiag has b. on
heard lately that was not old q month ago. The
Oregon farmers ara Rrcaaing in a!alun, lest they
shall lack help to plant their fields or hands to
gather the htryests next summer.
Coming back to our ONu State VIC hPnr rnths
lny bat good news. In Calreras County, they
have made svme Of the best luck of the season,
since the opening Of February, On the "Sand
Hills" claims. The San Andreas Iod<r<hdeat
gives the average Of dust per week taken out in
the thre1 camps Of PoreFty Bar, Camanche and
Lnnchu Plana at $2oo, ,0ou.
The Nevada Jonradl. Of Feb. 10, reports
merry times at Gold Bar, where '.last week
threc hands took cut $3.50" AL the hands bad
averaged Sc day for months back. but lately
they haEe made $50 dug. This is on ground
that has been long ago worked over on the sur
the hands are averaging ia day. Or Boulder
Bar, half q mile abDre Gold Bar, The hands Az
erage IS to s. a day. The miners of Chalk
Bluff aud Red Dog have just completed 49,
mile glitch, by means of which they think they
lave waller eaongh to lay bare the gold in the
most astonishing manner.
Col. Fremont is sendin. down from his mills
to San Frauci:co chunk Of gold, about the size
Of Philadelphia brick, every week.
Of course the Washoe excitement orertops
ali others. The papers hare been faithfulY H.
boring to show miners that it is capital anil ma-
chincry, not naked hands. TINT can fnd profit
there, and that those who arc ttgcttins color
IN the ran" elsewhere, better not rush to
Wasl,oe. Still there begins to be a hum Of pre-
paratioa to be OF, over the frowning Sierras, and
into the sno~; they will doubtless find starva-
tion and silver there.