The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-12-24
LETTER FROM VARYvILLE.
Showing Up the Experts-The Poor
Miners Heipless-What Practical
men ars DOing-Facts and Figures.
VARYvILLE, Dec. 10. 1873.


OF the mining interest of this part Of
humboldt county may be of some in
terest to the patrons of the SILVER
STATE. The camp is quite dull at
present ltbere being only one mil
IN operatiou) and | will now give you
THE REASON WHY THE CAMP Is NOT
MORE PROSPEROUS.
In the first place the mining opera
tors IA San Francisco cannot be induced
to take time enough to visit new out
of-the-way place as this, it would take
up too much of their precious time,
consequently they will send some per-
sou under large salary to examine the
mines, the principals paying but
little attention to the qualification OF
their Inspector. Ia nine cases out of
ten the expert or agent could not dis
tinguish the difference between a grind
stone and q boulder OF quartz carrying
thousand Of dollars to the ton of gold
and silver. After his arrival at the
mine he puts on very knowing look
and will remain at the mine from
quarter to- half an hour. He will
take two or three small pieces of the
ore, aud within twenty four hours
after his arrival in the camp he will
take his departure for San Francisco.
He has looked at (not examined one
mine in the district, where there are
one hundred or more mines scattered
over at least eighty square miles. Now,
Dir. Editor, what. kind of report can
such person make of the camp, allow
ing him to be perfectly qualified?
Should the report be favorable their
negotiations commence for the purchase
of the mine through some agents, and
in mott cases their is some plan con-
cocted to
OBTAIN POSSESSION OF TIE MINE
Without paying the actual owners
anything, and in most cases they are
successful. They tken commence
/ operations by building mill and in
cooperating, with their principal place
of business on California street, 80 as
to give the thing tone. Then they
commence to peddle out the stock, and
to assess it. But not one dollar of the
money ever comes into the camp 10
pay the expenses of developing the
mine or to pay the miners or lahorers
for their services. If there should be
an hopest superintendent and the mine
should pay from the surface the
employees stand some show of getting
their just dues. But if the mine should
not pay from the start the working
men have no remedy, as it is
IMPOSSIBLE FOR POOR MINER
To get at the wealthy incorporators on
California street, Such has been the
case in this camp. and the bullion that
has been produced was taken away
never to return, and the men left des.
tituto. The mine holders and pros
pectors here have lost all faith in San
Francisco experts and interpretations,
and the next mine that is purchased
in this district will DO for coin, and not
jaw-bone. The men that are here have
more faith in the future of the mines
than ever before. Messrs. Grant &
Mathews have had the Florence mill
leased for some time past, and they
have made
AN ENTIRE SUCCESS.
They have worked twenty-ejght or
thirty tons of ore from their o~n
mine that they worked mp to $7S per
ton, saving only the free gold, the
mill not being calculated to save silver
or gold sulphurets. They then ptr-
chased from the Independent mine
sixty TONS of ore that had been cast
aside bY San Francisco expert and
mill man as worthless. They have
run through thirty tons, and cleaned'up
yesterday, getting return of $50 per
ton. Messrs. Grant Mathews don.
claim to be nmalgamators nor mill men.
and yet they can work ore aud make
profit that high price mill men cast