Weekly Calaveras chronicle. (Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, Cal.) 18??-1874, 1867-11-09
Future Prospects of Calaveras.

| "oie more promising aspect, OF Iookee
brighter than at present. From all portions
OF the county we receive the gratifying intel
hsence that business of every description IL
reviving, and that the coming year bids fa'l
TO be one of unexampled prosperity to al
classes of our citizens The recent rain:
have set the farmers and miners at work
and the plough, and the pick and shovel
which had grown rusty in ldleness, are again
brought into requisition. The tide of emf
grafton to distant mining fields has beer
stayed, and many who left US to try theil
fortunes in other localities. have returned
fully satisfied with their experience in for
tune-hunting, and perfectly willing to re-
man at home. The 1dea-at one time SC
prevalent in the entire community, that al
that was necessary to become millionaire
was to procure a few feet in Humboldt
Reese River, or Silver Mountain-is explod-
ed, and our people are giving the mines which
| lie within our own borders their undivided
attention. The intense excitements which
steamship and stage companies have managed
to create regularly, every year, in regard tc
| the fabulous richness of some far-off mining
region, has, in reality, been the most serious
draw back to the development Of our own
mineral deposits. As a general hing, those
search of sudden wealth belong to the class
which we can i'll afford to lose-hard- work
ing, practical miners-the bone and sinew OF
the country. In addition to the loss of pop
ulation which I'VE have incurred by these
| chronic eXcitements, a vast amount of capital
has also been diverted from its legitimate
channel, and instead of being expended in
developing the hidden resources of cur own
county, as it would have been had not the
nomadic propensity of our population been
unduly excited, has been spent in fruitless
endeavors TO discover richer mining locali-
ties. The conviction that we possess mines
of unsurpassed richness and permanency,
which only require patient and perseverins
prospecting to demonstrate their value, which
is gradually taking possession of the public
mind, coupled with the sad experiences OF
those who have deserted good claims and
comfortable homes for the privations and un-
certainties of new mineral districts, will, in
our opinion, be sufficient to deter men from
making such useless sacrifices in the future
Traversing our county in every direction are
veins of gold bearing quartz. That all Of
them contain the precious metal in sufficient
abundance to pay for working would be folly
to suppose-as foolish as it would be to
think that all the gravel throughout the
mining portion of the State would pay for
washing-but that large majority of them
Will prove remuneratiye when proper ma
chinery for crushing the rock and saving the
1t is simply a waste of time and money to
crush quartz without the necessary appli-
ed. You might us well expect to get rich by
digging gravel which you knew contained
gold, and throwing it into the river to be
washed. Years ago, when it was first dis
covered that quartz leads contained gold,
nothing was known in regard to the proper
method of working the ore. Carried away
by the importance of the knowledge they
had acquired, excited by the belief that they
had at last found the source of the golden
wealth of California, men erected costly but
detective machinery on lodges which were en-
tirely unprospected, and without stopping for
moment to consider the difficulties to be
overcome in securing the gold which the rock
contained. AS natural sequence, quartz
mining proved a miserable failure. Since
that time, however, radical changes and i'm
provements have been made in quartz ma
chinery, and in many instances the identical
veins which could not then be made TO paw,
are now proving the most largely remunera.
tive. At Angels, in this county, can be seer
a practical illustration of this fact. Several
years since number of large mills were
erected on different leads in that vicinity
"AANAA "ei0 NiiO"Ai " SOiitoiA SoIu III pay III
quantities. Not possessing the requisite ma
chinery for saving the metal which the orc
contained, labor had soon to be discontinued
and the venture proved disastrous to the mil
owners. This, as matter of course, mate
rally affected the interests of the town bust
ness declined, and many were obliged to seek
employment elsewhere. Recently, the lates
Improvements for saving gold having beer
added to the machinery, labor has beer
resumed on all the claims with the most fiat
tering success. people are focking in from al
directions, and Angels is now one of the
! livehest mining towns in the State. Such
will be the result in other localities wher
people learn to profit by experience. A
Railroad Flat the fine mill erected by Hep
burn s Co. is now ready to commence crush
| ing. and as the numerous leads in thai
vicinity have been thoroughly prospectec
and proved to be rich. large shipments O
bullion will soon be made from that place
adding materially to the prosperity anc
wealth of the county. From West Point W,
have equally cheering intelligence. increased
facilities for working the Lodges in tina
famous locality have been recently obtained
and the shipments of quartz gold dust from
there will now be larger than ever. Tn,
mining interests of Calaveras are second t.
none in the State. and never were they sc
promising as at present.
New PUBLICATIoNs.-We have received
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