The Shasta courier., 1865-09-16
What We Need.


and developing the quartz lodes which
abound in such wealth of numbers. One
can scarcely converse on the streets of cur
town for half hour without hearing of the
locality of dozens of lodes within a few miles
of US. The story has bccome old, and like
all chronic diseases, it is left to old fogy
remedies or the course of nature. Brick and
mortar are piled up in our town into the
form of houses. and many of these stand
tenantless, and every day the chances of
improvement grows beautifully less while
all around US, within stones throw, lies
hidden wealth sufficient to pro6tably employ
Thousands.
A combined effort on the part of our
business men would remedy this. The lodes
here, if located at Grass Valley. prospecting
in the groupings as they do here, would sell
for fortunes, but unfortunately they lie here
and are valueless for want of enterprise to
open them.
Why not ge. together, form a prospecting
company to the number of fifty or more,
appoint trustees and superintendent, en-
ploy couple or more good quartz miners
and puk them to work on some of these lodes
"A choice can be had-and get out a hun
dred tons of rock, more or less, according to
circumstances, and when that amount shall
have been sufficiently tested 20 justify it.
procure some cheap machinery to work it
When the lode shall have been thgs sufficient
ly tested to justify extensive machinery
capital to procure it will readily present
itself. Capital will come fast enough to in
vest in paying mines. Iti very hard to get
it to invest in prospecting. A recently in
vented machine for crushing, known as the
Little Devil, ''seems to meet our very need
1t is cheap, light and a great worker. 1t
can be set to work here at an expense offrom
twelve to fifteen hundred dollars, and will
crush five tons or more per day. Place on
top of the gibund a hundred tons of twenty
FIVE dollar rock. clear off place to put your
Little Devil and the money to buy it
will drop into the company's hands; and
why? Simply because capital sees there is
something tangible to justify investing. 1t
sees returns and safety right there.
There is not one Of our citizens but knows
there are an abundance Of lodes. the crop
pings of which justifes commencing the
work of getting cut rock. They all know,
toe, that there is hardly an owner or dis
coverer of lode that has means sufficient to
enable him to go on and take out rock. All
such must have immediate returns for their
labor or starve; hence nothing is done but
all, Micawber like, wait for something to turn
up. To persist in their waiting longer is
suicidal. and should be ended by some life
like stir among those who, banded together,
can spare the pittance necessary to keep two
men at work. Suppose no quick returns are
had from the immediate business in hand,
the benefit to the town and county will
largely overpay the trifing outlay that each
man will make in thus testing some of our
lodes.
Start the ball rolling prore that we have
few rich l.des and capital will come run
ming in streams to work these and find more.
The talking that we, and all our citizens
combined could do, would have less efec:
than the consummationiof one small effort on
the part of our citizens in the development
of one gohd lode. As an instance Of what
can be be done when effort is made to do,
instead Of not to d., we will cite the enter
prise and energy of Messrs Kelly 6 Peck,
the owners of the small mill at Copper City.
Just read paragraphs elsewhere, and learn
what live men can do what an effort of will
and little locomotion can bring about.