The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-04-14

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The 6ft eokl digging wa begun
IN 1869 Wv tnly, 1865, mid Uis
found N Ahler tluIeh 4 plre W
Ten thousand peoplo ,pmug up hero
ina year, mIlcd Virplnm tit, ind
tcn million dollnft vofih VI pold
was produced IN this slnt the hrt
/ year During the winter ~ isGl.i,
I gold dHoyerio4 were madc along llin
eastern slopv of The Rocky Mmn
I taibs, one hundred and twenty miles
North VI Virginia Cts, In u voy
rich guloh called "lasl hanco, and
here spmng up the city of Helena,
which has now eight thousand people.
Fast Of the Missouri river, during
last SUMMER, discoveries were made
ut Confederate Gulch, where Dia-
mond City, now containing iourthou-
sand inhabitants, has since gathered
Gold lodes occur everywhere IL
connection with Gulch diggings.
One Of the best gold lode mining
districts is on the Madison river, IN
what is called Hot Spring district.
There arc already three quartz mills
set up there.
The ores Of Montana are reported
by scientific men TO be much richer
than those of California. Those OF
California yield an average Of twenty
dollars per ton. The great majority
Of the lodcs Of Montana promise al
average Of more than four times tho
, above, and a few lodes exhibit an as
, tonishing richness. There are few
: sulphurets of iron and copper, carry
! ing gold, in Montana, such as prov,
so troublesome in Colorado. This !,
!. owing to the fact that the Formation
A is SO open and perforated by water
!, that the sulphurcts have been de-
( d0mposed. For the same reasor
!, miners in Montana are not troubleC
S with water, and are saved the hcav,
g expense Of pumping.
4 The silver ores are in the form o
b. argentiferous galena, which must b,
i smcltcd as our Western lead ores are
I and the silver separated from III,
e lead by cupellation. This process j
5 simple and easy. The lodes are o
J, three classes. The first class orc
t yield from 5000 to $4,000 per ton
r the second class from sl00 to 5000
I! and the third class from $50 to 81
/ per ton. OF the second and thir,
class of silver lodes there is grea
abundance; of the first class ther
are but few, not more than half
+, dozen as yet.
The silver ores are much NOR
. trustworthy than those yielding gold
i and experience has already show
that silver mining will be in Mon
tana more profitable than gold mining
The veins are more uniform in tn
|. yield and last better.
In proportion to its population th
: yield Of Montana has been vastl,
, greater than that of any other of on
= gold fields.
The veins of copper ores have bceI
!, traced for a great extent, and th
ores arc found to yield from thirty
|, three to sixty-five per cent? but lit
tic attention is as yet given to thi
metal, as gold and silver monopoliz
, the attention Of the people.