Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-01
Quartz Mining.

from the Salt Lake Union Vidette. Oct. ISL
The time was, and not very long ago
either, when the mining and working of
gold quartz veins was considered one of the
most precarious and unreliable of all min
ing Operations-so much so, that parties
engaged in working them generally had to
stand Oh their own bottom, for few mer-
chants or others felt willing to credit or
extend those facilities for working this
class of claims that were usually extended
to other miners, the general opinion being
that such kind of "bed rock pay" would
not answer, and that no one but vision
ary fool of the "Capt. Kidd treasure seek
ing kind" would spend his time and money
in the vain attempt to make them remun-
erative. 1t was the current belief in those
days that there was no permanency to gold
quartz veins and that it would always cost
more to work the ore titan it was worth,
and all prev lOus experience seemed to JUS
tify the opinion-then, the cost of treating O
the ore after it was mined was ten times
greater than it is now, and not more than
half the precious metal saved that the ore
contained.
To-day the case is far different. Now,
no class of mining operations stands so
high in the estimation of the mining COM
munity, and in California none that yield
such rich returns for the labor and capital
expended upon them.
The knowledge gained through the in
domitable energy and perseverance of such
men as Haywood, of Amador county, CAL
ifornia, has demonstrated. beyo the shad-
Ow of a doubt that gold bearing quartz
veins are among the most permanent
and remunerative of all the mineral
bearing lodes of mother earth. The
deepest mine, perpendicular depth, to be
found on the Pacific slope of the Rocky
Mountains to-day, is Heywood's, it being
about Enthusiastically several hundred
feet below the surface of the ocean, and
at that great depth paying richer than ever
before, as the well known princely income
OF its owner from it abundantly testifies.
The machinery for crushing the quartz has
become as near perfect in simplicity and
cheapnesS of construction as it ever will
be.
The average cost of mining and work.
ing gold quartz rock in California, COM
piled from the returns of some sixty or
seventy, mills there, is only about 4:75 per
ton, and so thorough and systematic is the
process now in use, that ledges averaging
only 81 per ton in gold are worked to a
rousing good profit.
There are an abundance of gold bearing
lodges in this and the adjoining Territories,
that for richness of rock far exceed the
average of the California mines-mines
that they are working with such splendid
results.
At this day some of the most princely
incomes of California are derived solely
from the workings of her gold quartz
ledges, and may we not, judging by her
success, anticipate like results from the
the workings of our own mines, which are
known to be far richer in the precious
metal.
In the course of a year or eighteen
months at farthest, we shall have the Pa
cific railroad at our door, and as conse-
quence, bringing in capital and machinery
to develop the immense hidden mineral re-
sources OF our mountains.