The Goodhue volunteer., 1863-10-28
Wealth Of Mexico.

w.. Wealth Of Mexico. :,
Bishop Simpson, one Of the most distiu-.
guished divines Of the Methodist Episcopal.
Church, recently delivered sermon full Of
startling conclusions. He expressed the BE-
lief, founded not only on present appearanc.s
but also on . series of facts that had come
to his knowledge within the past ten years.
that the battle Of Gettysburg saved us from
French Intervention. Napoleon understands
everything relating to the condition Of our
Southern and Western borders, Mexico and
Central America. Nine years before, when
about to visit California and Oregon. the
bishop sought out the published descriptions
of the country, and particularly Of tho gold
regions. The very best he could find were
from the pen of Napoleon. written before hs
came to the throne. At that time he con-
cluded that Napoleon would improve tho
first opportunity to interfere in tho affairs Of
Mexico. Again. when on tbs Pacific coast,
last Autumn he was surprised to find that
the best papers on the wealth and recoulces
Of Nevada were paepared by the agent Of
Louis Napoleon. That wealth seems in
credible. The only discoveries in Califor-
mia which astonished the world and opened
that immense region at once to civilization;
were the faint foreshadowings Of the miner.
al resources actually buried in those noun.
tain ranges. On this topic the Bishop says:
Were the debt Of our nation to amount to
$40, 900, 100000, there is wealth enough
there. when Our debt is paid off. to give TO-
every soldier who returns from our battls-
fields, a musket Of silver in place OF iron
and when our iron clads come back from
the scenes Of victory before Charleston and
Mobile, and shall have swept away the de-
fenses Of Wilmington, when the iron clads
como back into our harbors, there shall bs
silver enough left to plate those boats mors
heavily than now they are plated with
iron. do not speak now from idle specu.
lation, but speak Of that wealth from oh.
servation and actual calculation. While in
California visited the mines. and I thought
tho time would como when they would b.
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 been
able 10 measure. I will mention single
instance to give you some idea Of the inex-
haustible supply. In what is called tho
Ophir mine, single lead as it is called
there, is City feet in thickness and inclinss
1t an angle Of five degrees. Think Of tho
extent Of that, nearly as far as from this
alter to yon wall. This Is all silver min.
gled with gold. There is more gold than
silver in value, but more silver in weight
than gold. The company have only 200
:set working and out Of that they are rsali.
zine about ten thousand dollars day.
There is this peculiarity about it. that the
deeper the the mine extends tho richer and:
more profitable it becomes. When Iwas.
there they had penetrated 200 feet. There
were five chambers which they had dug out
one under the other, leaving large pillars to
support the root. They would sink shaft
down about forty feet, mako another plat
form. dig out the metal. leaving pillars -
before and then sink another. One Of tho
directors told me that each lower Platform
gave as much yield a. oil the other platforms
shove combined that is, the 9th platform.
was as valuable in it, Yield IS the four above,
it put together. Such wealth never was q
matter Of contest among oil the powsrs Of