The Shasta courier., 1865-10-14
Quartz.

| The Calaveras Chronicle-one of the best
weeklies in the State-thus discourses of the
natural wealth of Calaveras and its needs OF
DEVELOPMENT. 1t is made evident that Shasta
county is not the only one in the State dying
of starvation with untold abundance within
the reach of even poor labor, to say nothing
of capital. As the Chronicles remarks
exactly apply to our condition we call
especial attention to the ideas given;
In the old cook books. under the head of
Preparing hare for the table, was this
instruction: '' First get your hare," and
the advice is equally good in mining; first
get your quartz lead. There are parties In
this mining section who seem to think that
capital is bound to do everything for their
interests-not only to prospect for quartz
lodes, but after finding, develop them
Labor and capital becomes auxiliaries when
they work to the advai ia re of both. Busi-
ness men are occupied in making money in
their legitimate spheres. and it is only when
they see good chances for investments that
they come out of them and purchase mining
claims. Capital is always anxious to add to
its resources, but is remarkably timid when
venturng odt of its usual channels. 1t sell
dom seeks Of its own accord new fields Of en-
terprise, but must be attracted by induce
ments held out by those who are interested
in the development of the country. In every
mining community we find men clamorousy
calling for capital to come in and open their
mines, who have never done an hours work
or paid single dollar towards prospecting
the claims in their immediate vicinity
Capitalists say: if you think you have good
quartz lodes in your county, go to work and
prove to US that they exist-search among
your hills for groupings. and then sink shafts
and run tunnels, and if you find q well de-
fined lode, that will pay by working process,
ten dollars and upwards per ton, we will
give you twenty, fifty or an hundred thou
sand dollars for it, There will not be the
least trouble about disposing of claim that
is really worth anything. There are few
communities in this county but what can
afford to prospect the quartz lodes in their
neighborhoods, without the aid of outside
capital few hundred dollars judiciously
expended, will open any lead sufficiently to
tell whether it will pay for working. The
real expense commences when machinery
must be erected in order to crush the ore,
and this will be borne by capitalists who will
either purchase the lead or agree to work
the ore for share of the claim.
Several leads have been sold in Amador
county during the last year or two, for large
amounts; most of them were taken up and
prospected by poor men, who now have a
fortune on which to retire if they choose, or
to expend in further discoveries in quartz
mining. The tide of speculation has not
reached Calaveras yet, but by another year
we are in hopes that our leads will be fully
as attractive as those of our neighbors. We
sincerely believe that as good quartz mines
will be found on this side Of the Mokelumne
river as on the other, but so far there has not
been 1.-THE of the labor done here that there
has been in the adjoining county. Labor
uiacet omnia," is an old proyerb, and is
equally as applicable now as it was two
thousand years ago. If we would make
Calaveras one of the richest counties in the
mining section, we must go to work and re-
veal her dormant wealth: she is ribbed with
golden threads of quartz that will pay
millions, annually, into the treasury of the
world, if her own citizens will but open the
seams and invite capital to come and gaze
upon the glttering particles of gold that her
/" dark unfathomed" depths contain.