Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1872-11-21

The DIAMOND PARADISE. The Denver
given in Denver by Ex-Governor William
Glpin, upon the diamond fields of Colo
RADIO and New Mexico. BY the aid of
maps Governor Gilpin traced the coln.
try, rich with sparkling stones an bright
metals, from the San Juan district of
Colorado, through Mexico, down into
South America to the Cordillera of that
country, and compared it with that of
South Africa, where thousands are now
gathering diamonds. Governor Gilpn
said that the rocks which contain the
silver have an altitude of about ten
thousand or ten thousand five hundred
feet, while gold is from eight to ten
thousand feet. Gold is sometimes above
nine thousand feet. and silver below ten
thous md feet. In the carbonate of
lime, or limestone formation, of an alti-
tude of about seven thousand feet, the
diamonds will be found. Here strait
fed rock of sandstone occurs in plates
like india-rubber, which is carboniferous
limestone, and from this comes all the
precious stones. At an altitude OF seven
thousand eight hundred feet above the
sea level, the best stones are found in
the greatest profusion. Ere long it will
be demonstrated that our Territory, in
San Juan, near Ponche Pass, will devel-
OPP more diamonds than any other local
ity in the world. The southern portion
of the Territory, near the New Mexican
line, is prolific in the most precious of
minerals and the largest aud purest of
diamonds. The diamond country of
Colorado he claimed to have the finest
climate of the continent; the warm winds
Of the plains being cooled by the ice
capped mountains that sheltered the
beautiful country in which the richest
of the gems and metals are to be found.
Then there is a superabundance of water
for diamond washing, gold and silver
mining. But nature here did not ex-
haust herself in the carboniferous, orife-
rous and argentiferous, the surface land
is rich and arabic, and will produce
sufficient to supply hosts of miners with
the best that can be grown anywhere.
IMMIGRATION TO AMERIcA.-s ccording
to the last quaterly report of the emf
grafton officers at Liverpool, the mum.
Der of people emigrating from Europe to
America is not only immense, but
constantly increasing. During the
months of July, kugust and September,
ninety-nine ships left Liverpool for the
United States, carrying SO, 491 Storage
passengers, and nearly 10000 in the
cabins. Seventeen ships left for Canada
carrying 5,G07 emigrants; one left for
Victoria and one for South America.
The aggregate number of passengers
was 03S5-of whom the greater por-
ton (lS,279) were English, and only
5,l04 Irish. The most notable feature
OF the quarters return is the sudden &C
cess of Swedes, Danes and Germans to
the immigration from Liverpool-no
less than 1858 of the whole number
having been drawn from the Scandina-
Wan and German countries, coming by
way of Hull to Liverpool, and thence to
the United States, in preference to ship
ping from the Baltic direct by the
Bremen and German steamers. The
Liverpool returns show that during the
whole quarter tue departures of ships
for the United States have averaged
more than one per day, while the emf
grants have focked W estward at the rate
of $4,000 per month or IA, 900 per year.