Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-01
GOLD MINES EAST OF THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS.

MOUNTAINS.
A few issues back we gave a synop-
sis Of Mr.. Taylor's report of New Next
co and Colorado. The next Territory
spoken Of is Montana, which has been
increasing in its yield of gold from ST.
600, 900 in 1868, to Sl2, 600, 900 in 1866.
Great progress has been made in quartz
mining. Over 200 lodes have been
opened, and the average yield Of the
vein rock is forty dollars a ton. Seven
teen quartz mills have been erected and
thirty more are in course Of erection.
The silver veins which have been dis
covered promise ever greater results
than the gold mines. The assays Of ar
gentiferous galena have given from $500
to l,700 per ton. Three furnaces for
smelling silver are in operation-one at
Baunock, M at Argeuts, and a third in
the Valley of the Boulder. The total
population is estimated at $1,000. The
coal, iron and petroleum formations OBJ
served in Colorado are extended north
ward under the same conditions and IN
equal proportion along the eastern flank
Of the Rocky Mountains, and far into
British territory. A large number OF
copper lodes were discovered in Montana
last year, which yielded from thirty to
seventy per cent. of the pure copper, IN
crevices ranging from four to six feet in
width; 30 that this Territory seems 10
possess mineral -esources as varied as
they are valuable. The same may be
said Of Dakotsh Territory, which is rich
in gold and silver, rs well as coal, iron,
copper and pine forests. with the
p%acifcation of the Sioux Indians" says
Mr.. Taylor, "and the establishment OF
immigrant roads, this district of Dako-
tab would doubtless be the scene OF
great mining excitement, as the gold
field of the Black Hills is accessible ut a
distance of 100 miles from the Missouri
river"
The Saskatchewan district, in British
territory, ia then touched upon, with
the various results which explorers have
obtained in prospecting the country.
Ten dollars a day, it appears, has fire.
quently been taken out to the hand from
the bars or gulches. GAS the Montana
explorations" says the report: have
advanced toward the international from
tier, each encampment proving more
productive than its predecessors. The
opinion has prevailed that the sources
of the Saskatchewan would develop rich
deposits Of gold and silver, especially
near the great center of physical DIS
turbance, where Mount Hooker reaches
an elevation of $1,000 feet, and Mount
Brown $500 feet above the sea, and
| from which the waters Of the Saskatche-
| wan, Peace, Fraser and Columbia di-
| verge to three oceans. So prevalent is
| this belief in Montana that q sudden
migration of thousands may at any mo-
ment be anticipated
The Vermillion district in the State OF
Minnesota, comes next in order in the
report. Quartz veins are found in this
tract of country assaying S23 G3 Of gold
| and 81 ~ of silver per ton Of 1000
pounds. So far there is little definite
knowledge Of the auriferous character
| of the district, but several mining or
ganizalious are determined to give it a
| test the present year.
OF the Madoc mines, ear Kingston,
| Canada West, little more is known than
| that gold has been found in considerable
quantities. Our kilograms, however,
announce great excitement just now in
this newly discovered mining region.
An assistant Of Sir Vim. Logan, the
Government geologist, says that the
Richardson mine, in the Madoc District
ais as remarkable for its richness rs
for the manner of its existence" and
that he sees in this mine the best as
we'll as the most encouraging Of oil in
dications for the search of gold in Upper
| Canada" In Lower Canada the Chau-
diere mines, near Quebec, have given
assays of $2l, S37, and even Ss5 per
ton.
It is, however, in Nova Scotia that
the auriferous yields show indications
of great richness. The results in this
colony are indeed, in many instances,
almost incredible-from some of the
mines as high as $1,000 a ton having
been obtained. The average yield is,
however, $40. The cost Of reduction is
about 81 per ton, giving the miners,
therefore, a pretty large margin. The
gold is among the purest that is found,
being twenty-five carats fine. The bars
or ingots are current in Halifax at $50
an ounce. 1. is a fact which is probably
not very widely known, that these mines
give a higher average to the man than
those of most Of the great gold coun-
tries. In 1865 they averaged 1854 so
per annum. The Australian mines give
but $500. The total value of the Nova
Scotia gold product Of 1865 was little
over half a million Of dollars-a small
yield certainly, in comparison with the
production of our mineral regions west
of the Rocky Mountains, but still large
enough to show that extensive aurifer-
Gus deposits are to be found on the At
lantic ~ we'll as on the Pacific side OF
| ,ba .ont;nant & r. DtJiu TIM,