The Placer herald., 1865-01-21
OrARrz IN NEyApA,-Nevada county, or

| the OeStsle!u lor quartz tIih'"S WI lhe Ctate.
There more money has been lost and made
in. the business than elsewhere; and there la
Dor and experience has more fully conquer
ed The difficulties experienced in this char-
acter of mining. and finally established it as
durable and profitable employment. This
fact being fully established to the satisfac-
ton Of lha miners Of Nevada county, has
for son,p ime back caused them to turn con-
>d-rahe attention to the Development of the
ied--s that everywhere traverse that section,
and the result is that quartz prospecting is
at fever heat, and entire communities are
agitated the subject of feet, pockets,
strikes, dips angles, spurs, etc, until no
man considers himself poor if he is recorded
as the owner of a quartz claim. Old Cali
foruians understand that mining exci'ements
in the end fulfill the golden hopes of but few
persons-but these exctements causes pros
pecting, that never fails of doing some good,
in developing some hidden treasure, in
ledge or bank, that Otherwise would have
rem mained long ndisturbed. This will doub.
less be the experience in the present instance,
and that leads will be opened that will 90
further to demonstrate the value aud impor-
tance of the Nevada county Lodges, there
can be no doubt.
Professor Sliman, who is considered high
authority in such matters, has lately made
an examination of the Grass Valley quartz
mines, gives an unqualified opinion in favor
of their reliability in the produce of gold;
and SAYS he considers the locality as the best
field for speculation and investment that he
has seen on the Pacific coast-and in saying
this he does not forget that he has examined
the famous mines on the Comsock lead, or
the promising claims Of the Reese River
country.
This is certainly encouraging to quartz
prospectors in that vicinity, and has doubt-
less added stmula to the prevailing fever,
which will probably extend to other sections
and sill, we hope. lead to strikes that will
demonstrate that our sources of mining
wealth are unexhausted and inexhaustibe.
GE- The Abolition press Of the State
have commenced an early agitation Of the
Senatorial question, in connection with the
successor to Mr.. McDouga. a paper way
down in Los Angeles, comes out for Gov.
| Low, and asserts his his entire fitness fer the
important business. Immediately following
a Sacramento cores pondent of the Dutch
Fla! hnqnirer say the Stars and Stripes is
committed, or will be, to the interests of
Frank PixIey. The latter paper retorts that
that mt so, but inlmaes that it would
just as leave support the irrepressibIe Frank
as any other Aboition'st in the State
These are the first bubbles upon the surface
OF the Senatorial caudrou; there is little
! doubt that "thngs are workng,' ard that
ere long it will "bubbe, bubble, tol and
| trouble" in the Abolition political pot, until
it will boil with excitement.
The Democrats party has bad some dear
bought experience, in Senatorial clashes in
California, but we don't believe our oppor
nents, in their anxiety for place, will derive
any useful lessons from it,
A QUARTz MILL.-Ine recent rich dis
coyery at Quartz II i'll has caused the location
OF many claims on the lodes, that are not a
few, in that vicinity, and among others we
learn that some parties from Sacramento
and San Francisco have secured locations,
and propose to erec. mill for working the
rock.
The origional locators on the rich vein,
| also propose erecting some kind of machine
~, bu. what kind, or how extensive, We
have not been informed.