The weekly Butte record., 1863-12-05

HuxBoLDr ORE-At the Banking house Of
Faulkner & Co, the curious in such matters.
will fiod temporary cabinet comprising spec
linens of the most reputable lodes in the Hum
boldt region. Each ore is classified, with
remarks on its character, together with other
incidental and interesting information. We
observed Argen,iferous Galena from the Sum-
nit Series, said to pay from $3.50 10 $500 TO
the ton. From the simplicity attending its
reduction this is generally considered to be the
most valuable Of all the ores, and will pay
where the more complicated ones-though
trebly richer in the precious metals-refuse
And where fuel for smelling is at hand, and the
conditions otherwise favorable. as appears TO
be the case in the lodges cited, their future
value can scarcely be oYerrated.
Samples Of ore from "Puebla," a new dis
trict about one hundred miles northwest of the
Humboldt river, exhibit what i. known as an
argen.iferous grey copper ore. The ledges are
said to preserve parallel course for eleven
miles. Fifty pounds of the ore has been re
dueed in Sau Francisco, and yielded an aver
age OF four hundred dollars to the ton in gold
and silver A mill, it is understood. has been
purchased by one of the companies, to be des
patched the coming spring. Some capitalists
in San Francisco are the chief owners. These
mines are said to acquire additional value from
their closeness to the confines Of California
facilitating transport-and from the abundance
of timber and water power in their vicinity.
A peculiar looking ore, resembling much
the Sheba, OF dull antimonical lustre, evi-
dently containing among its elements iron, pur-
ports to be fragment of al immense deposit.
discovered within the last six weeks in the
neighborhood of Black Rock, the place where,
it will be remembered, Lassen was murdered.
And where, at q less remote date, an emigrant
is said to have run out Of the rock silver bull
lets. This ore, the description intimates. has
not yet been tested authoritatively, but blow
pipe assay made at Chico by an amateur, left
no doubt that the ore contained a large per
centage of the precious metals. This result,
taken in connection with the largeness of the
deposit and the thick dissemination through
the veinstone, which is said to exist to such an
extent that the matrix itself is but minor
feature added also to the fact that O distin.
gnished firm below has become Interested
would seem to indicate not only that the ledge
must prove immensely valuable, but that that
fact is beginning to be recognized. Indica-
tiOns Of coal are said also to exist in the vicin-
ity.
There are also specimens Of the "Sheba,'
and the Mars" and the Alabama" all ledges
of repute. Some Cinnabar which looks as if
might pay forty per cent pure metal, from the
neighborhOod of Buena Vista district; some
crystalized gypsum; some fossil fora, in the
shape of petrfed tree, reported to be three
hundred feet long and twenty feet through also
from Black Rock, complete the main features
of the little cabinet.
Nevada Territory is certainly, from all re-
ports, wonderful country, and strictly SUI
generis With mineral resources perhaps nev-
er equalled, it is in all else desert Depend
ent upon California for all the staples of susie
nance, for transport, machinery, the mines of
that region as they are worked must give rise
to constant and ever increasing exertion en- the
part of California TO keep pace with the de-
mand. Agricultural interests must flourish.
Manufactures must flourish. And as to trans.
port, faint idea of this great interest may be
CLEANED by studying the figures which exhibit
that the transport of ms trchandise to
Washoe alone. has at the end of the present
season. amounted to near six millions of dollars
So with all their vast resources the Hum
boldt, the Washoe, and Reese River mines are
condemned to become simply the tramsmttte,s
of a wealth which we finally enjoy by inevita-
bic reverson.