Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-17
PACIFIC COAST MINING PROS
PERITY

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one of great prosperity rs regards
gold and silver mining operations
on the Pacific coast. The CONNER
cidl Herald, of San Francisco, under
date Of January II, has an exhaustive
review of this branch of industry,
containing many pregnant facts and
figures of progress and well sustain
ed production. From the review,
we learn that there are nineteen
counties in California in which min
/. ing operations are actively carried
son at the present tine. These con-
tain within a tride of five thousand
quartz mills, costing about S6,5OO,-
900, Independent Of water trenches,
created at an additional cost Of
some 100000.
In the State of Nevada is located
the great Comstock Lode, whence
the bulk of our silver is drawn.
There are in that State 16S quartz
mills, besides q number of metal
lurgical establishments for the treat
ment Of ores by smelling; the cost
Ofthis entire class of improvements
being estimated at $4,000, 200. The
White Pine mines, recently de
veloped, promise to rival the Com
stock Lode, though no great pro
gress appears to have been made
thus far. In Oregon there are 81
quartz mills, but the business of the
past year is stated not TO have been
very profitable, owing to the scarcity
Of water. Some new and apparently
rich "diggings,' are reported to
have been found. In Idaho, there
ar. 43 quartz mills, costing 500, 900,
and the bullion yield for the past
year is estimated at about $1,000, 600.
In Montana new and promising gold
and silver mines have been discov-
cred. There are now over 80 quartz
mills in the Territory, and the yield
of bullion in 1868 is stated at about
Sl4, 100000 Washington, Arizona,
Utah and New Mexico are said to
contain valuable deposits of the
precious metals, though mining op-
erations appear to have made but
little progress thus far.
The copper mining interest of
California seems to have languished,
owing to the depressed condition of
the markets for this metal. Coal
mining, too, was only moderately |
prosperous; but California has dis
covered a new wealth in the shape
of rich tin mines, in San Bernardo
no county. The Quicksilver mining
companies Of California, IL is said,
have entered into an arrangement
looking 10 4 restriction of their
joint production, to quantity not
likely to he largely in excess of the
prospective consumption Of that
metal, with the view, As is supposed,
of enhancing The price
The general conclusion with re
gard to the precious metal is, that in
no preceding year has there been a
greater degree of mining activity,
or more solid progress made, than
in 1868. 1t has been marked by the
introduction Of more permanent
and scientific methods Of mining,
the application Of improved ma
chinery and modes of reduction,
and methods Of separating the pure
gold from ores containing other
compounds; dispensing with quick
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