The weekly Butte record., 1863-09-12

Sunday Times thus eloquently discourses upon
the future of California:
California is stretched out by the Almighty
as a vast canvas, such as no tribe of men ever
received for the genius and fidelity Of colonists
TO ill with beauty One Of our own citizens
has recently indulged az artists dream of what
the State may look ike hundred years hence
He sees in vision .'long ribbons Of fields
stretching to Fort Tejun. each field different
color; green grapes. brown furrows. emerald
vines, ringing hedges; grain growing, cream
coored grains, grains anreaie and russet !;
houses dotted along like dew drops in clover
fields; houses reaching forth like moses in the
crystal brook houses ciumped, houses group
ed hamlets modest. hamlets blooming and
lnxuriant Ike gorgeous creepers villages with
spires. towns with FURNISHED domes goldened
by the sun and silvered By the moon cities
with mnarets, cities with columns, cities with
tall needle chimneys, pouring up to God the
fraukIncense of labor terraced foothills laugh
ing with generous villas soping forelands
alive with herds swelling mounds DestliDg
with vines oval knobs crowned with festoons
of fruit blossoms, breathing sweet perfume to
the sky; mountain gorges rolling out metals
mountain peaks staring at opposite peaks from
the bold faced palaces, mountain rivulets mur
muring to trellised, rose-hidden cottages noun
tain wales creeping away to love God in dreamy
repose."
MINING TRAGEDY.-Cariboo correspondence
of August 10th, says
A very melancholy story is told By Mr.
Shlbley and two others, who have lately re-
turned from prospecting trip down the Bear
river. AT a certain point by the river they
found some white rags fastened up as flags or
signals of distress, aud upon searching the
neighborhood they at last found blanket,
which, upon removal, was found to cover a
body in state of decomposition. They also
found by the head Of the body tin cup bot
tom up, upon which was scratched Donald
Munro, Of Iverness, Scotland died of starva-
ton, June 1863" The poor fellow had quiet
" aud compoSedly stretched himself out in his
blankets, and covered himself carefully that
the incorFuptibe might put off the corruptible
and alone in this wilderness he passed from
earth to the presence of his creator.
Discovery RY.-An important discovery in the
reduction Of copper ore is reported at the bay
The Alta says there are really two alleged dis
siicate of Cadmium-a rare kind OF Clay
exists in Contra Costa county and the sec.
ond is that the silicate of Cadmium is a most
valuable fux for smelling copper ore.
The present process of smeltsng copper ore,
is complex and expensive. There are twelve
different operations. which require so much
skill and money that copper mining and cop.
per smelling are two distinct occupations, and
nearly all the copper of the world is smelted in
Swansea, in England. Abont $4,000 tons of
ore are transported from distant cIimes every
year TO that port-includipg 40 900 tons from
Chile aud 5000 from Austraa-countries
near the AntipOdes. This transportation is, of
course, very expensive. and there is in many
cases costly land freight before the sea is
reached, Thus, much of the Lake Superior
ore goes to Swansea for smelling and has fur
ther to travel before reaching the Atlantic
than afterwards
1t is evident therefore that the discovery of
any new aud valuable fiux will add greatly to
the value OF copper mines and relieve them of
one Of the chief difficulties 1t is said that
cilicate of cadmium is such q tiuX that by
means Of it. three smetings will be saved
that copper can be obtained with a purity of
ninety eight at the first smelling that ii can
be used with all forms of copper ore, and that
the slug made by the cadmium with the earthly
elements of the copper ore will be valuable
for many purposes for which coarse earthern
ware is now used
The value of the cadmium has not vet heen
established by experiment on large scale
but one is to be made soon, and if successful, it
will add much to the wealth of California In
that case we shall ship as much pure copper
as we now ship of copper ore.