The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1863-09-08

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70. We quote de remainder e 'he
Blth0ps Interesting statements ihis
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While ia California. last Cab, !
thoaghl would visit the territory Of
Nevada. 10 sec something Of Che wealth
o. that country, and I vas there sur
pflsed 10 find the beet papers written
on the subieci Of the resources and
wealth III Nevada, we're irom the pen
Of The agent q Louis Napoleon. saw
again Tie footsteps cf the French I'm
peror there, and thought be was look
ing 10 see what degree Of wealth could
&c found ia case United States should
In time be dissolved. That wealth
comprises that which The nations Of
The world never have yet oonlended
ior. Were the debt Of our nation 70
abouut 10 20,0oo00 600 OF dollars,
there IS wealth enough ihere when our
deb, is psid oii, to give 10 every sol
der who returns from our battle fields,
muskots Of silver n place Of iron, and
when our iron-clads come lack from
the scenes Of victory before Charles
ton and Mobile and have swept away
the dofenses Of Wilmington. when the
iron.clads come back into our hArbor
there shall be silver enough leil to
plate those boats more heavily than
now they are plated with iron. do
mol speak now from idle speculation,
bat speak Of that wealth from ol.er-
seryaiion and actual calculation. When
In California | visited the mines, and
thought the time would come when
they would be exhausted but in the
mines Of Nevada there are no such
Indications visible. The more the
mines are worked the richer they yield.
The extent Of the lodges containing
the precious metals no man has yet
heen able 10 measure. will mention
a single instance TO give you some idea
81 the inexhaustible supply. In what
Is termed the Ophir mine, single
lead. as il il called there, IS fifty five
feet in thickness, and inclnes only at
an angle u Eve degrees. Think Of the
extent Of that, nearly as far Us from
this altar to yon wall, This Ii all sill
yer mingled with gold. There is more
gold m value than silver, but more sill
yer in weight than gold. The com
pany have only goo feet working, and
ont Of that they are now realizing about
ten thousand dollars a day. There i
this peculiarly about it, that the deep
en- the mine extends the richer and
more profitable il becomes. When |
was there they had penetrated 200
feet, There were five chambers which
they had dug out, one under the 9TH
er, leaving large pillars to support the
root. They would sink shaft down
about forty feet, make another platform
dig out the metal, leaving pillars "a
before, and then sink another One
Of the directors told me that each low
er platform gave as much yield as all
the other platforms above combined
that Is, the fifth platform was as yalu-
able in It's yield as the four above it
put together. Such wealth never was
a matter Of contest among all the pow
ers Of earth before"