The Shasta courier., 1866-07-07
Prospecting Association.

In looking over our exchanges that are
printed in the mining counties, we find para
graph upon paragraph detailing discoveries
of rich quartz veins. Almost invariably
these items close with lament that capital
cannot be had to work them. And so the
story is told and retold, vamped and revamp
ed, until but few general readers will look a.
mining paragraph. The cry for capital to
work quartz lodes is so general, and of course
the districts SO rich-taking the mountain
papers as guide-that an outsider would
exclaim in agony: -" Where is the
capital to come from ?" Sure enough, where
is the capital to come from "a question
easier asked than answered by people in gen
eral; but we who have thought on this sub
ject more than the general reader, are pre-
pared to tell just where it is to come from.
the muscles of the discoverers and locators.
If the capital is not right there, then it is
pretty certain the present generation will
never see it.
We have written much on this subject, and
through our columns have proclaimed and
set forth inducements such as in our inno-
cence we believed would bring capital speed
lily, but have learned the fallacy of our efforts.
We have given it up, and now don't want it;
not because we have it in coin or greenbacks,
but because we have it in the awakening en-
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ing for our whole population to take an in
terest-ond working one, too-in this one
great vital interest of our town and county,
One especial measure we have heretofore
advocated is the association together of our
citizens for the purpose of prospecting and
working some of our. best lodes. Though in
writing we used the strongest language at
our command, it fell upon listless ears, and
for the time we gave up a selfimposed task
so fruitless in bringing about the result
sought, and contented ourselves with witness
ing slower but surer results from the efforts
of small companies here and there, and found
solace; for capital is coming from the rock
daily, and daily more mind and more muscle
is being brought to bear upon its develop
ment, until to-day we congratulate our read
ers upon the fact that all order has gone to a
more populous and better developed mining
district for twelve practical underground
miners for the Potosi Company. This is a
small beginning towards an increase of pop
ulation, but ii is beginning that BODIES a
large addition of a permanent natnre.
But what we began to write about was an
association for prospecting purposes. We
learn from the Downieville Messenger that
the people of Sierra county are in precisely
the same fix as we are in. They have waited
for capital to come and open their mines till
they have tired of it. and have become arous
ed to the enterprise of forming an association
for the purpose of prospecting and working
their quartz lodes. The Messenger publishes
the articles of association, and they show, as
clearly as articles can, that the project is
feasible, and without onerously taxing its
members, must be productive of great gen.
eral good to the county. Any one wishing
to see them can do so by calling at this Office.
The reading may stimulate our citizens to
action in what we believe to be the right
direction