Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1864-04-09
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1864.
OLD SERIES, VOL. "a, NO. 80.

will be found only upon more patient and
thorough research. As the present popua
ton of Colorado only began emigrating there
four years ago, and went cmpty-handed
they have had neither the time nor means
to make the careful examination ncces.
sary to bring to light this hidden mineral
wealth.
In his late message, Gov. Reed, of Utah,
remarks:
ALREADY are the eyes of thousands fixed
upon our mountains as containing rich stores
of yet undiscovered mineral wealth, and
with the early spring it cannot be doubted
that many will hasten hither to seek for the
precious ore. Unless the signs of the times
and the evidences all about us are incorrect
y interpreted, gold, silver, and copper min
ing will soon become one of the most i'm
portant, if, indeed, not the predominant
interest of the Territory"
THE CALIFORNIA MINES.
An article in the Alta Californian saws:
The silver mines of the State have been
thrown into the shade of those of Nevada
Territory, but it is not to be doubted that
in few years Esmeralda, the Slate Range,
Coso, Inyo, and the Mojavc regions. will
contribute thousands of pounds OF silver to
commerce monthly. In silver mining, too,
We have made important improvements, and
the time is not far distant when the silver
miners of California and Nevada will stand
rs high in their branches as do the gold
miners now.
"The Aimaden mine is recognized us the
best quicksilver mine in the world.
The copper mines of California, though
they have been opened but few wears. and
the value of many is still in doubt. are con-
sidered to be the most valuable collection of
mines Snown. Some other lodcs are richer
than any we have, but no country contains
SO large a number Of rich veins. Whether
we arc to succeed or not with the new fux
is still doubtful, but, if so, it will prove the
greatest discovery i'll the metallurgy of cop
per within two thousand years.
Our tin mines are not vet opened, and
various difficulties may stand in the way for
several years to come. but before the wear
1870 the tin mines of California will have
become the most productive and the most
valuable mines of their class.
THE GREAT SILVER MINES or MEXICo.
The inducements to silver mining arc. no
doubt, immense in any country supposed to
contain that mineral, if reference is had to
the experience i'll Mexico. The recent re-
turna from the mines there show a product
up to 1856. Of 1854, ,tlj.0O0, while vast
amounts have been smugglcd out OF the
country in the shape of bars, in which shape
its export is prohibited. When it is con
sidercd that these official returns show the
least that the mines have yielded, with ini-
perfect means of extracting the silver, add
ing what might have been saved by better
processes. and what has been clandestinely
removed from the country, it is easy to see
that the sum above stated falls far short of
what really has been and might be produc-
ed of the ores actually raised TO the surface.
The accounts of particular silver mines in
Mexico show what handsome fortunes they
have been to their lucky owners. There
were in the State of Mexico the mines FL
Lacal and La Bicaina, which, in one series
of twelve years nettcd over $1,000, 900. A
particular rich lead is called a bonanza. and
one of these lucky ones yielded SG,O0O,0G0
net i'll seven years. The Nora Madrc, in
Guanajuato, yielded, during the space of
tifty-nine years, $39,000,000 year. The
vein Of Catorce yielded, i'll two years, to a
good Jesuit Father, who was one of its pro-
prietors as his share of the profit, So, jO0,-
900. The working miners there must have
made good thing of it, as they had half
the ore they brought up, which was dollar
Il pOunt al the PIT mouth.
The owner of the Pavelon mine in Zaca-
tccas paid, in ten years, to the crown S12,-
100000, which was only fifth part of the
whole Product, and shows that product 10
have been six millions year. The same
individual struck bonanza" about 90 feet
by $50 in dimensions, which in eight
months yielded eleven millions and half
Of dollars. Aqua Ca!iente, in Sonora, pro-
ia Inn, ,z,1,. ..
owned by three extensive families, number
ing several hundred, including all the rela-
tivcs, each of whom had his ccmmonest
family utensils made of virgin silver.
GOLD AND SILVER DISCOVERED IN THE LAKE
sCPEMoR REGIoN.
The Detroit Tribune says "There is ap-
parently no limit, either in extent or in
variety, to the rich resources Of Michigan
No similar extent OF country upon the habi-
table globe is equally rich in natural werlth,
and certainly no other region offers such
tempting inducements for the investment of
capital to properly develop its resourccs.-
She is rich IN iron, copper, coal, gypsum,
and salt, to which silver has recently been
added, and it is now ascertained that rich
deposits of gold lie embedded in her virgin
soil, as will be seen 10y the following extract
from the PhiladeIphia Mining Register, of
Jan. .:
In connection with this silverlead re-
gion, there has trauspircd in this csy cir,
cumstance which it Is not pretended will, il
believed, abate the excitement now prevail.
ing therein. y sample iron pyrltes, said by
It's owner Ia have taken from a quartz lode
in the silyer-lead region in Michigan, by
analysis OF Du BOis " Williams, analytical
chemists of this city, was found 70 be won,
drrM,ly rich in gold the value for the ton
%. rock being above the average of that "a
The ogc OF Colorado The specimen above
referred 10 MAS delivered To Mc,srs Du Bnis
& Williams by Capt. john spaulding, of the
steamer Northern Light, one OF the pioneers
of the silyerlcal enterprise, and came from
section 10, town 40, range 20 west, belong.
ing 10 the Marquette Silver Mining Compa
ny OF this city.
SEN DISCOVERIES.
We have oircum,tantial accounts, says the
Toronto Globe, of the discovery of gold ln
large quantities ou this side uf the Rocky
Mouniaius, within Bri,h territory, II Mas
dlscoYcIed by Am vrican minefs, Nho are
docking 10 the locality, Bow river, IN large
uumhen.
\ new silver region hss been discovered
Ia the ATgeuline hepuhlio, at the foot of the
Andes, Tho orc 10 found la a tract one
mile by forty ln extent Ia British Col
ony OF Victoria also, very rich silver de
poslls have BEEN discovered. These with
the pFoduelion of Nevada sud the pfoslsct