The Shasta courier., 1866-01-06
Our Mining Prospects.

This week we give several items, some on
the result of mines opened, and others noting
discoveries. There is nothing in any of
them calculated to startle the public, but we
think there is enough to satisfy every think
ing man that Shasta county is good place
to mine in as well as a good place to live in.
Ordinary industry and perseverance, direct
ed by common sense, is sure of being re
warded in our Mines There is no occasion
to 90 elsewhere to look for wealth in quartz
That it is here IN quantities to suit is de-
monstrated beyond a question or doubt
and the results Cf such demonstrations are
becoming palpable. Therefore we say to
our miners and business men, fear not for
the future look not for place to go to, but
turn all your attention to matters at home !;
give your undivided thoughts and energies
to the development of our own resources,
our own mines, our own agricultural inter
ests' our own roads, our cwn streams, ditch
es, &c. Stick to it. Work at it. If it will
not work one way it will another. The
wealth is here and must come out. 1t will
come fast if we work. If we are indolent,
and spend precious days in waiting as did
Micawber. then most assuredly will our
wealth wait upon the coming generation
How easy it is for men to work successfully
if they will but go at it. To begin is the
great bug bear; but to those who do begin,
obstacles to success that in the commence
ment seemed mountains high, in short
time dwndle to mole hills Seeming
difficulties disappear before. the constant
blows of the pick and those who would not
advance red when there was only tall
about beginning, come forward when the
work is begun and tender all necessary aid.
Often we have said "captal is not necessary
to prospect quartz mines here" Again we
repeat it. We feel very much like agitating
this question. We mean to keep it before
our readers, and impress our ideas upon
them until they take root.
Again we say, then, capital is not what
we want, if capital means money; but if
capital means Industry, and perseverance,
then we do want it. Yes, that is the cap
ital we want and we venture the assertion
that hundred men, each one chock full of
that capital, could in a year realize each a
fortune in cash. The cash capital is what
we are crying for, though yes, bawling
aloud for it, while it is here, right under
our noses waiting for that other kind to pick
it up and utilize it. Two men possessing the
capital of industry and perseverance in large
quantities, could go to work on any lode in
the county and in years time prospect it
better than any lode is now prospected that
we know of in the same bounds, and that,
too, without q cent to start with. They
would do it by work. They would first
work for some one else until they had money
to buy tools and provisions to start with
they would then commence on their ledge
and at once begin to take out rock-paying
rock-an1 piing it up. What in the name
of all that is reasonable do they or any one
else want better. 1t is there, and its value
is suceptible of demonstration, and so is as
good as money; credit can be obtained upon
it, and the work can go on. The men have
but to stay there daily investing labor and
piling up their reward. When enough has
been gotten out to justify an investment in q
mill so as to make their labor more profta-
Bile, it can easily be done. There never was
any trouble in procuring capital to build
mills where there was plenty of wheat OF
corn to grind, and there would be none
where there was plenty of quartz to grind
Let us show that we have plenty of grists tc
grind and the mills will come fast enough.