Litchfield enquirer., 1871-06-22

with whom have spoken-that no man but a practical miner can succeed on quartz. Students and professors, however great their theoretical skill and scientific knowledge, have made no success here. Partly and largely no doubt this is because they do not know how to work economical. ". and. as practical and successful miner and mine owner said to me. '.It is not the richness of the ore, but what it costs me to get the gold, that I think of But partly, | must conclude also, it is due to the fact that no merely theoretical person can come
 here and form sound judgement of ores. ''Yon must study quartz veins many years before you know quartz" said one person to me. 5 | cannot imagine more interesting. ol instructive journey than tour through this country in company with practical
 California mining superintendent. We met On the stage gentleman, Mir. T. i will call him, who, himself mine-owner and a
 successful man. gave us much interesting
 information upon the mining district we
 have passed through. His career shows ' what may be accomplished here by patience and perseverance. He came to the state,
 he told me, ten years ago, with wife and
 child. and so little money that he was obliged, as soon as possible, to hire him. self out to any labor he could get After a while he determined to make quartz min ing his occupation. He engaged in a stamping mill, at day labor, as 8 shoveller,
 who supplies ore to the mill. From this. successively, he went into other parts of l the business. so as to learn it thoroughly. In less than 8 year he was engaged as su- perintendent of Q stamping mill at $15O per month; and from this he went on, un- til now he owns controlling interest in two or three mines, and manages both these and an important Hume, or artificial water course, which, I believe, belongs entirely to him. This gentleman knew nothing of metaliurgy. geology, when he came to the state. But he had the ability and deter. mlnation to learn all that belonged to the profession he had chosen.
 was surprised to discover how abundant and cheaply attainable are mining superin- tendents. A practical man, with some reputation, capable, or supposed to be SO, of conducting the whole operation of a quartz mine and the machinery which be- longs to it, receives usually, am told, not more than two hundred and fifty dollars per month, with little cottage for his family. Such man has large responsible ities; he should know the qualities of the ore, the most economical methods of get ting out, the best way to save the gold in the mill, aud he ought to be thoroughly honest and conscientious, as well as able. The best men receive, with their salary, an interest in the profits of the mine; but if understood my informant aright. their salary becomes less if they take this inter- est. It follows, of course, that the bnsi- ness is not difficult to learn, and that any man who is industrious and intelligent may hope to master 1t. 2
 ''The pay is not large," said to one gen. tleman. ''No." he replied, ''but we can get plenty of men for that; and they all know that if they have the ability they may hope to become owners in turn: because they have the inside chance of discovering a cheap purchase"
 Mr. T. told me story of young broth CT of his, which p eased me because of the thoroughly characteristic American traits it displayed. At seventeen be hired him. self for year to a shoep. farmer in South ern California at thirty dollars month, as 8 herder. In his life on the hills he dis covered quartz veins; when his time was out he located claim and g quarter section of land, and began work over two hundred -miles away from civilization. He dug in- to his mine, built himself a Mexican aras- tra to reduce his ore, got out gold enongh to pay his slow way, stuck pertinaciousy to his mine, and after six years, when less than twenty four years of age, had mas tered fortune, for his mine proved rich, and he is now able to sell out, if he would, for fifty thousand dollars. In all these years he had lived in the wilderness. eom- ing up to San Francisco only once or twice to learn assaying, and occasionally to the sea coast to procure supplies, and had be- come mechanist, miner, and, as Mir. T. added with just pride, a thoroughly honest and capable man. Such career any fath- CT might, think, wish for his boy.
 D@ A few days since, two members of the 'sThird House" met on the steps of one of the hotels in Hartford, when the follow ing conversation ensued
 J." We'll, how's the new County ques- tion ?"
 w." Don't think there's ghost of g chance for it this year. /"
 J.-"That settles it for ten years. at least, I suppose ?"
 W.-"Yes, I believe it does"
 J." It's all right then, as far as you and I are concerned, for we shall be pitching quoits in ae golden st,'eets by that time"
 WAITING FOR THE LAST TRUMP.-A cor. respondent, who forwards his address, puts to record the last words of noted gam bier :: l # We have, or had whilom, in these parts, man named Westfall. gambler by pro
 fession, who oscillated up and down the line
 of the M.. K. and T. R. R., turning an
 could, and who. after prolonged spree, turned up in Humboldt, sick, and became