The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-15


Our loss in baggage, clothing and camp
euuipape can never be repaired. we nave |
lost everything. None of us have but one
suit of clothes, and many are almost naked.
Nearly one-tenth of the army is barefoot.
The single suit of clothes that the luckiest
of us have are wet, and fermenting with the
accumulated rain and sweat that nave SOAK
ed them for thirteen days.-Correspondence
| Mobile Register. II
| TIE New ERA IN CALIFoRIA MINING
We have evidence before our eyes every
day that not only this city, but the whole
| State. is enioying at this time degree OF
prosperity which in calmer days would be
| the subject of much and general congratu-
lation; but few have taken the trouble 10
examine into the causes which nave pro-
duced it. The war, it is true, may nave
| added somewhat to our wealth and popu-
lation, but the main reason for the activity
and hustle which we behold around US, is
the extraordinary development OF the min
eral resources of the State.
In the summer of 1859 were discovered
those rich silver mines in Washoe-noW
the Territory Of Nevada-which are every
day recalling IN the richness and extent Of
i then. aields the famous mines OF Mer1c0
IN the olden time. Previous to that date,
mining upon the whole OF this coast
was fitful, feverish and superficial
: There was no capital invested in the
business but the labor of the adventur-
: Gus gold hunter. Men rushed hither and
thither in search of rich diggings. One time
= thew were hurrying pell-mell south toward
the Colorado; at another, north, in search
q of the golden sands of Fraser river. In such
2 fittings about nothing but the surface was
t only eyes for rich bars and placer dlggings,
: for they had not the means of working any
y others with advantage. With the discovery
' of the silver mines at Washoe, however,
/ we entered upon an entirely new era in mi
4 ning-the mining of science and associated
1 capital. 1t is no longer: sought to reveal
: the hidden treasures of the earth with a
: simple pick. Companies have been formed,
veins have been prospected, tunnels con-
! structed, and shafts sunk. Science now as
q sert her sway over the vast mineral dis
. tricts of the Pacific, stretching all the way
from Fort TETON up to Pyramid Lake k :,
3 ready attained, it is tolerably clear that
n the first decade of mining in California
= was nothing but the skirmishing prelimin-
. arv to the grand battle which is now being
f waged with mother earth for the purpose
e of compelling her to reveal her secrets
i From 1910 to 1859 we were doing nothing
e more than removing the gold found on the
r surface. Now we are engaged with all the
!. appliances which science supplies in
: searching for the precious metals, and as
e the work progresses the larger grows the
v vast field, inviting the labors of the golc
: miner. The passion for the acquisition O
e wealth formerly took the shape of golC
e fevers. There was rush here and recoi
s there according as the new region was I'M
n known or explored. Now mining is al
d steady business as any other in the State
# and is being conducted in accordance will
70 those rules which experience has estab
!. lished.
To engage in the pursuit Of sudden for
q tune heretofore it was necessary to shout
Y der the pick, tramp from place, and I'm
der 90 the seVerest hardships. If working
a placer digging that paid IS per day, tn
}. miner should hear Of another district wher
q SO could be made in the same space o
: time. though it was Q hundred miles dis
e tains, he was off in the morning, and tn
n Chinaman stepped into his shoes. To-day
t. however the whole business is changed
le and associated capital and labor are taking
n possession of the field. Every branch al
e most of business has been benefited b.
j. the mining expansion of the times. Their
ID is, Of course, a great demand for machin
1t cry. The foundrymen, therefore, are reap
1t ing rich harvest. There is demand 70
Of labor, both skilled and unskilled, to con
A. struct tunnels and shafts, and to run mills
10 and the condition of the laboring man
is hereby improved.-Ana Californian.
re| RAISING COTTON IN ILL1No1s.-Severa
~ wealthy merchants of Cincinnati hav
d formed company for the purpose of rails
70 70 ing cotton in Egypt" or Southern Hi
a nois. They have planted seven thousan
=, acres of Tennessee Gotten, which has thu
% far proved q success. They have sewers
~ large cotton gins and warehouses at differ
:. emit points for the purpose of packing an
"a storing cotton. The seed was brought fror
\ Tennessee, at a cost Of thirty cents pc
=, bushel. 1t is the short staple, or uplan
% cotton, and is worked by East Tennesst
90 and Georgia refugees, who, with their fan
lilies, are easily supported, and are doin
a. well. They are paid one dollar fifty cen
or per day during the cotton season, two do
n. lars per day for the culture of the potat
.. This firm Of Cincinnatians are building co
y tayes for them. The cotton section Of III
~ nois is the whole country bordering cd
ad Ohio and Mississippi Railroads south
oJ Jonesboro, and the Illinois Central Raj
N road is its outlet Chicago Journal
70 The Springfield RcpxbJiodH Bays tn,
sss Young men who have neglected to suppo
~ their mothers for several years have sut
denly set about earning something, 30 s
is to claim exemption from the draft, as b
h, ing the sole support of dependent mater
On nal: People may now expect to zee Il
cd rowdy gatherings on the street corner