The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-09-24

: undoubtedly heoa onee part of lhai ia
tie qaaHz.--aad has found rs way down
"a he lapse u uauumberoa years By dis
indignation and washines. Occasionally
on tie SUBMITS of these hills, pay DIT can
be found IN places at the surface such
are called patch lggiaes.n
4 lo3e Is discovered ii lhe FIRST instance
By observing on the top Of the ground a
peculiar formation Of rotten stone, called
blossom rock" Tlis can Be peckcd up
with "a common mauo,k, down several
feet. when tlle creyice Is struck, which
consists Of gold quartz, or pyriies Of iron,
the latter being much richer Than quartz,
aud is nov called the "motbcr Of eold.o
This cresicc Is from four inches 10 eight
OF ien feet 10 width, and quite different
from tie rock on either side of It, which
Is kind OF granite, and called wall rock,
but somewhat aurilerous but never suf
fciently so TO pag. The lodcs are named
as fast as discovered, sometimes from tie
discoyerer's name, and sometimes not
Gregory Lode, Burroughs Lode, Kansas
Lode, Grinnell Lode, Bobiail Lode, etc,
are among the very rich ones near Us. 4
shaft Is sunk III the creyice, or across it, II
too narrow. and the rock il taken out and
run down the bin on a railroad, to the
foot, where the mills are situated. These
mills, Of which there are nearly three hum
dred in this whole vicinity, are propelled
by either steam or water-though steam
mills are much the most numerous. They
have from three 10 sixty stamps, or pes
ties, weighing about four hundred pounds
each. These are driven by a shaft, on
which are cans which are attached 10 the
shaft Long rods extend up perpendicu-
larly from the stamps, on which arc iron
shoulders. The sbaftreyolying, the cams,
which are curved downward, coming in
contact with these shoulders, lift the
stamps several feet IN height, which then
suddenly dropping down Oh the quartz un-
derncath, crpshes tito powder A stream
Of water is constantly running into the
5aHeyH (the place where The stamps drop)
and carries the rock that is crushed suf-
4 iiciently, through Gpc screen or sieve.
thence over plates Of copper that are COW
cred with quicksilver to catch the gold
sill on, over wooden blankets, through
sluiccs, till all that can be saved is sup
posed 10 be caught. This, too, is gath
cred similarly to The "gulch gold" and
the amalgam reored in the same way,
DR.. Burdsell Of this place (Nevada) is
constantly experimenting with smelling
apparatus which he has, and he is very
sanguine Of succeeding in saving many
times rs much gold as by any process hith-
erto known, but he is losing credit of late.
I He claims 70 have saved at the rate Of
COCO dollars to the cord, where the mills
get but 80, but fails 10 show it satisfacto-
rily. There is supposed 10 be a sulphuret
Of goll with the sulphuret of iron or py-
rites, which thus far defies all attempts at
an analysis. The taings" of the mills
after being exposed TO the weather one
year, have in many instances, being run
through the second time, yielded as much
as at first, and it is believed that if no i'm
proyements in saving gold are made. that
these will pay for years TO come, by sue
cessiye workings. Thousands are on the
qui rire Of expectation that among the
many experiments at gold saving, some
viii be successful, and for that reason cap
iial Is Withheld from being invested ii
mills like those now here.
We are constantly in receipt Of intelli-
gence Of the discovery Of new diggings il
some remote quarter, where fortunes can
bc made with all certainty and dispatch,
and hundreds Of unfortunate miners are
attracted hither and thilher by the slight
est reports, as they have been constantly
since they came out here, and viii in most
instances probably return as poor Is they
came.
Since ! wrote son before, the war feel /
ing here has reached fever heat. Instead
Of two companies being raised, now II Is
full regiment. Reports here just come
that Forts Wise and Garland ID The south !.
ern part Of The Territory, have been cap
inred by the secessionists and Indians.
Tie iniiniaiion held ont ~ Chief Justice
Hail, III opening Court at Canon City, the
other day, that il would be the duty Of the 4
Court 10 take coenizancc Of the crimes Of