The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-04-04
Mines and Mining.

Twenty-Five years ago, the announce
ment Of the discoveries of gold mines
made in California was circulating
through the world, exciting incredulity
and mazement wherever it went. And 4
now there are almost monthly announce
merits of discoveries of mineral deposi
ties vastly greater than those that agi-
tated the world q quarter OF a century,
ago, but without producing any very res
markable sensation in the public mind,
Then multitudes of adventurous men
rushed for the Pacific El Dorado by all
the lines Of transit that sea and land
could afford. For weary months they
soiIed with slow-trudging teams across
ssthe Plains" that constitute the great
american plateau, rejoicing beyond
measure when they could finally took
out upon the Pacific Slope from the
snowy SUBMITS of the Sierra Nevada.
and press on thither in hope of speedy
fortune.
Little did those brave-bearted pio-,
neers, who pushed on across the vast
territory now known as Colorado, and
Utah, and Arizona, and Wyoming, and
Nevada, know that they Were passing
Immediately over mines infinitely richer
and more accessible than any ever found
in California; about which the world
then went mad. But SO 1t was: they
were trailing their weary way TO wealth
directly by vastly greater wealth, with
out suspecting Its existence. "a
And there oil that ,immensity of
wealth continued to be hid until the
great war was ended, until the great
national debt was made, and the great
national industry recognized upon the
basis of freedom. Then it became re-
yealed that there, in those hills to which
civilized man had been forever q stran-
ger, hidden from all human knowledge,
lay tho wealth needful for the REIN
bursement Of all the money cost of the
war, for the extinguishment Of its debt
and for the re-establishment of the new
ly organized industry OF the Nation upon
q basis broader and stronger than ever
before known in the nations history.
Wsnow read almost daily of the new
lodes Of silver and new mines Of gold
discovered in Colorado, Nevada, and
among the Black Hills Of Wyoming Ter
rftory. We are told of the hundred tons
of silver held by the Government, and
the hundreds of other tons owned by in
nividuals, and hear the same spoken o
by t.tons'' as though it were iron or coal
$50 plentiful indeed Is 1t becoming tha
wise men are becoming doubtful whether
or not it will any longer answer the pur
pose as money, at all.
Still, it would seem that we are really
but commencing the development ol
these long hidden treasures. A yoyager,
writing from Colorado only two weeks
age, after having ''prospected" the coun.
try around the River del Norte, thus
speaks OF the recent gold mines Of that
regions /.
ssrhis Summit Mine is, In many respects, the
most valuable gold mine ever discovered. The
whole top OF South Mountain, nearly 1,0Ot
acres, is mass Of burnt quartz, and contains,
whereyer prespected, free gold, assaying all
the way from s44s to $1,000 per ton. It is all
claimed, and the stakes are as thick as in Q
newly discovered graveyard One nugget wai
found in the Little Annie Mine tine only one
that has mill yeti worth nearly $4,000. sav
a nnmberof nuggets that CAME from yariou,
claims in the mountain varying in value from
IS to TO $50. OF course these are exceptions
/. and 1t would not pay TO work the quart
for the nuggets; but it is very rich in inyisibl