Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-19
The Present and Future of California =
Mineral Wealth of the Nevada REGION.

The Stockton Independent (Cal publishes
an article under the head of "Washoe and
our Eastern trade, from which we make the
following interesting extracts:
Two years ago California was in the situa.
ton of q cholera patient in the collapsed
stage, when stimulants and narcotics are of
immediate necessity to check the exhausting
disease Just long enough to keep the sufferer
alive until proper curatives have time to
operate on the system. The State was sick
very sick, and its case considered incurable
by the wisest of our political and even our
commercial savans. Our disease was invol-
untary depletion; the life blood of the State
was ebbing away with fearful rapidity. There
was no visible means of supply to the declin-
ing current.
In the year 1859 two causes contributed
toward cure of our depletion disorder the
impulse and organization given to agricul~
ture by the general formation of societies in
the State and in districts, and the develop
ment Of rich and extensive mines of gold and
| silver in Nevada Territory. Of the first it is
| not our purpose here to speak. The mineral
| discoveries in Nevada have never been esti-
mated at their real importance to the inter-
| ests of this State. The real wealth Of that
country has never until quite recently been
| ApDEeCldItus III luO bluBlO ulSbllCb Vi w dSuOO
alone, including Virginia City, Gold Hill,
Silver City and the region dependent on
| Carson River, there are now in operation
somewhere near one hundred quartz mills,
extracting gold and silver, and nearly every
one of them paying good dividends, while
several of them yield as high as $50, 900 pei
week dividends. The aggregate weekly
yield of these one hundred mills is 1850, 900
or $43, 720, 900 per annum. We may safely
| hat 4lio ic fhop tho
yield of gold in all the State Of California
But the resources of our Eastern neighbour
do not stop here. Discoveries have extended
southwark to the Mojaves and eastwardly Il
the Humboldt Mountains. Excellent mine
of gold and silver have been developed alonI
the Humboldt, one hundred and twenty mile
east of Washoe. The Esmeralda mines ar
considered as rich as those of Washoe, AM
only await the introduction of capital an
| machinery to be proved. All these mine
9 | are permanencies. Millions of dollars ar
invested in them; and millions more al
> seeking favorable chances for investmer
there. Whether the projectors of these mir
q ing schemes sink or swim, Individually, th
5 general result can not fail to be most favor
able to this State. Already it is felt mos
vitally in San Francisco, whose trade neYe
was so prosperous as at this time. In tw,
| years more it is not extravagant to estimat
the annual products of the mines of Nevadl
Territory at $lOOOOOOOO and her stapl
population at sixty thousand. 1t is nov
seventeen thousand without counting lndi
f ans. The characteristics of the country ar
f sterility of soil and forbidding climate
Whatever they consume, therefore, we mus
produce for them and when the miners o
Nevada become opulent they will certainly
seek the fertile fields and benign climate 0
, California for homes. They are now Great
ing for US that market for our surplus sgri
cultural products for our unemployed labor
and for our mechanical skill, which we hav,
so long needed. They are applying the frs
bandages TO stop the depletion that has beer
killing US for six or seven years past.