Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-04-04
Frssh GoIa and silver EreItemeut.


Tue late news fion California and Oregon
.f indieat,s that every body has fe'h attack of
mining fever, and is well calculated turn
immense emigration of adventures from the
Eastern States Pacific ward. The Oregon pa
pers are glowing with accounts of the marvel
Ous richness of the deposits recently discovered
in Southern Oregon. The gold quartz rock
gathered at a locality called Gold Hill shows
astonishing aurierousness Rock taken from
the surface, and at depth below, averaging
from to four fest, gives an average ED Of
$40 to the pound of quartz and it is
e csrtained that there is twelve feet Of the ledge
of pure unburned quartz twenty inches wide
and six feet deeP.thatis permeated with threads
Of gOld and willPay about $40 per pound So
for, its richness increases with depth. Quartz
taken out at depth Of six feet, yields 81 to the
ounce. In six hours nearly three tons Of rock
-- and ali Of the most extravsgant richness were
taken out. The Ish company had slready eI-
tEaetea fully SIPS 600 worth Of geld quartz rock
while the ledge gives indications of increasing
richness and extent. Such in brief, is an ab-
stract of the reports in the Jacksonville Sentinel
Of Feb 25th.
8r.r The Alta California speaks Of the arrival
from the Southern Oregon mines of Mr.. Philip
Mesgher, with number of specimens of gold
quartz, VIII ch were the subject of admiration.
Says the Alta
zone of these weighed between two and
three pounds, and broken off ad lbitum
by Mr.. Meagher, from the Maury mine. 1t is
psfectly filled with gold, that it may sp>
propLiRtey be called qusrtz gold gold quartz
Ia fact the gold is appsrent all over and through
it. This splendid piece is to be sent to the
Washington Monument, and will be a splendid
exemPlar of the immense richness OF Pa
cifc slope Of the continent. There were also
half dozen smaller pieces, which, with
the large one, will be exhibited in this city
Our informant is perfectly relisbe man -
. well known in this city. He says that
the story of the two men having taken out
$4,000 is quits irue. He went into the ex-
caystions OF both of the mines-the lsk and
HJ the Maury-and for himself the wonder
ful richness of the placer1. 1t like
a scene of fenohsntment-Aladdin's wonderful
lamp, or other fanciiul creation of the
Arabian Nights--than the reality of sober
facts Above, around, everywhere, the very
walls Of the excavations specked with
gold. Indeed, such, it would seem, must have
besnthe case TO accord with the telegTaphic
dispatch which reached here on Tuesday night,
that $4,000 worth Of gold were taken out of
the lsh claim the 5th nst'
These facts place this mine far beyond
the famous Allison lead, Nevada county, as
that is beyond the ordinary quartz leads
The small quantity of gold received by the
last steamer from California, less than million,
is attributed to the great rush to the Washoe
-- silver mines. which have already heen noticed
An classes Of people at San Francisco are de-
scribed As raising money to 60 to WashOe, or
g to invest in property affected in price by the
Wsshoe fever. Thirty tons Washos silver ore
smslted in San Frncseo yielded an average of
over $4,000 per ton, or about 100000 in all.
A large smelling laboratory is to be established
in Carson Valley.