Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-07-07
DAILY SENTINEL.
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY :.



The wonderful discoveries of precious metals
IN Montana during the past year have induced
an almost unprecedented emigration thither tEis
spring, % be swelled BY the thousands Of off.
GERS and soldiers who have resolved 70 make
their nev bones in that I erritory.
Ii - said that those discoveries were made
mostly under the auspices of wealthy capitalists
OF New York, who sent thither. At large ex.
pense, q scientific corps, under the mAnsgement
of Professor A. X. Eaton. formerly Of the United
States Assay Office. The design was to keep
the facts secre. until The best mining property
had been secured by them. Hence this spring
Prof. Eaton returned, with other scientific men
IN the same interest, taking with them all the
needed machinery for the new process Of redu-
cling ores. Probably from three 10 four thou
sand tons Of such machinery have been sent for
ward this season. and eight or ten thousand tons
OF general merchandise. We presume that Al
least hfty steamers have found more or les EN-
poyneni in connection with that new trade
many going the whole distance 10 Fort Benton
A few days ago We mentioned the return OF
one, on which il was estimated quarter OF
million dollars in gold was brought down
freight and IN the hands Of passengers General
Dodge estimates the number OF wagons crossing
the plains, though not all destined for Montana
Al four thousand, yet others assert that full that
number is destined for that Territory alone.
The amount OF gold produced in Colorado last
year is estimated at twenty four million dollars
and letters from reliable sources intimate that il
will probably be doubled this year The increase
is owing. in large measure, to the improved pro
cess now IA use for reducing ores Indeed the
tailings have yielded under the new system i'm
mense profits 70 all concerned
There has not been, for some time, any doubt
az 20 the richnsss Of the Colorado mines, bat the
difficulty has been 10 working them probably.
Their ores have been. in miners phrase, rebel
lious"-hard 10 reduce. That difficulty is now
overcome 10 a great extent The MuOntain
mines, however, are of somewhat different quail
Iiy, yielding higher assays, and situated amid the
greatest abundance Of wood and water. The
climate IS unsurpassed in healthfnlness. aud the
valleys are Of mild temperature, 2bouDdlng in
cereals and vegetables Of all kinds. Cattle Craze
in them throughout the year The new road
opened, and about TO be improved by Montana
company. stimulated by Il large Congressional
appropriation, makes the distance, overland. from
orusha to Virginia City. only 500 miles. without
crossing mountain Tha, road winds through
valleys furnishing Abundant forage and game
The Montana Post says. " The journey from
Omaha in stages, by the new route, can be made
IN eight days IN summer and ten days in winter }"
The new discoveries referred 10 were in Rat
tlesnake Hills, short distance from East Ban
mock, ind are silver lodes, some yielding a. high
as 50 ,OOO per ton. Previously, the only mines
of note known there were of gold, Of gold and
silver combined. The new silver mines are in
crevices varying from two to twelve feet, and are
nearly perpendicular, widening you descend
They are in side hils. and give five hundred feet
IN depth before reaching the waterline The
most famous silver mines in the Washoe district
Nevada, average less than one hundred dollars
per ton; and those in the Reese River district
generally average less than three hundred The
latter, however, are in such narrow erevices as
TO be worked with great difficulty Comparing
the Nevada silver mines with those Of Montana
eminent biologists, metallurgists and miners
have expressed the opinion that the latter will
yield from six to ten times greater profit
The new gold lOdes at Beaver Head, Prckly
Pear. Mill Creek and Dear Lodge, as assayed
at the United States Assay Office in New York
give In some instances, $4,000 per ton, and in
one sl4 900. New York capitalists have been
eagerly at work TO secure those mines and con
troll as many others there as possible
With such vast country, aud its immense re-
sources Of precious metals, &c as feeders for the
st. Louis trade; and with the large mineral and
agricultural advantages furnished W. by or
neighbOring States-now that our natural routes
to the Southern States are open-ihis city ought
speedily TO become what friends have uniformly
predicted-the greatest inland city on the globe.