The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1863-04-04
FIFE PLACER HERALD.
AUBURN, APRIL.4, 1868.
Miaing in Placer County.

tssSAcfS oi pn(Sleii suoalanceS dIthoueh
EYER. changing, are ever returning to gnera-
ing. points, and ripe examinations; polti-
Teal changes are bnt the repetition of histori-
cal events long since recorded in the mouldy
annals of the past; each new religious system
is with: slight notifications and changed
n5'fSs, a,.cqpy of'those previously existing.
Thus ever changing ever evolving the
new from tire essences of the old, gradually
The circle. itself imprecepdby advances into
the iiIi,nrabEe progress of the ungraspabe
fu'ute;-upon the great highway Of necessity
TO satisfy that longing thirst, for the family
compreh endel --perteetion.
Reader has This anything to do with the
caption of this .arlicle' Why "only this and
nothing more"
>Ihe. editor of this paper being upon the
"rampage'-for copper lead, places new
hand at the editorial bellows, The foregoing
was written as an exordium for deeply
philosophical subject, but the new hand hav-
ing broke down on that, it was dscovered
thatthese remarks were qnie proper as an
opening upon the subject Of mining-thus
giving practical turn to The matter. Now
'he BOAT Is OH we k'o" mat 'he county
Of Placer from far into the plains Of the
Sacramento to the Eastern State boundary
mas Oeen mined Tor gGId' mat except IN me
deeper mn 0l4gln9S OF loe mountains. 'here
Is comparatively no prom resulting rom
INNING al TINS Nme-hof mas 'here oeen
tor the fYe years past
The rich players in the hills aud gulches in
and about the foot hills, have been exhaust,
ed. The gold in the surface digoings in the
earth, and the goIdseeker is compelled TO
dive h1ndreds Of feet into the dangerous
shaft, or work for years at eXhausrng cost
in rock Of admaniine hardness, through
tunnels, 10 search for the precious metal.
But. presto. Just at the moment of despair,
comes the copper excitement. Attention is
called to the veins of mineral rock interSec'-
ing the face ct the earth Ike the VEINS IN the
human body
Men creep into he abandoned shafts, exl
anime the refuse matter cast M by the pre-
vops gold seeker, inquire into the properties
of this and that curious looking mineral,
sink new shafts, smelt new ores,-in short,
institute ar new era of research. Gold beal
inc rock is found where the pioneers Of the
placers, never dreamed OF; quartz that would
not pay IN gold and was bandoued as WORTH
Iess, is newtiounti 10 be rich IN silver, and
searching for copper, the dehor is astonished
to find himself in mine of silver, or among
mineral substances new to his vision.--
Enough however has already been developed
hoon around ,,o oi,.lo ard ora nov on,or;no.
unon ,ho sooord o,1 n,,,o normo,or, ooor,
nons in MINING The mioer is to scare for
those fountains Of ool1 which hovo voI1od
co r;ch,, tho A,at;ne oo,d Of ,he n,ocers
wal .;..1. ool llos, 10 j. - hmm, ,Lo
.h;.,: ;o,a, t., =, l;1;,o ,1oao 1aox
:. u e;.t, o,,o n,1
;.,o ~ ,;f,od roo,. sand ~, from, ,ho 1o,,,
'"F Wy ''''
S's' . '''"0, g. VS., ~, ;,,.. .,,,,an nI
other nrerious store. where mother earth
cached it from The prying eve, when this
o,oLe WAS youne amone the things of the
ina a,a,n.d Heavens
, ~. :; ;,... o..,,.;,.
., ., o,oi;rol,. shor, ,>o
riod VIII reSene'"'e business "c'"''y !" '"t
foothills Of this, and perhaps many Other
counties in California, similarly located