Year: 1866

GcLD AyD SILVER BEARING QrAgTz IN
BurrE--The following communication in re-
laiion 10 the developments now being made in
The quartz mining interests of the county, is
forwarded TO rs By az old residen; Of Butte,
and its plain recital of facts is entirely relia
respect is not without, solid and enduring
basis, and with proper effort on the part Of
people, Butte county in two years may equal
The mineral productions uf any county 10 the
State:


OREGoS TOWNSHIP. Apr. 18th, l6G6.


EDITOR Butte REcoRD-Dear Sir :-Hav
ing occasion recently, TO pass through that sec
ton Of our county lying in the vicinity OF Ne
slla Valley aod Nelson's Bar, on The Dogowu
and Susanvile ronte, was surprised 10 learn
of the rich developments il quartz mining
made in that section during the last winter
and spring. l had always been impressed
with the idea that the mineral resources of our
county were greatly moderated. Many of the
thousand and one quartz veins that traverse
the entire length of our county. l am now in-
duced TO believe, are richly laden with gold
and silver. The mineral resources OF our coun-
ty have been too long neglected by our people,
and capitalists have stunned it as az unclean
thing. While poor old Buile has been drag
ging her slow length along the trail of time
unnotieed and almost despised, her people des
pondeut, the good old soul has carried, and
still carries within her bosom untold mineral
wealth, and it only needs the application of
confidence, energy and enterprise to develop it.


had heard OF the recent discoveries in Nor
ris RaviDe, but was surprised to see the extent
of the developments made 10 Mesilla Valley
and at Nelson's Bar. These companies are at
work in earnest with every prospect of reapng
rich reward for their enterprise and perse-
yerauce


Messrs. Burnbam & Co., have located and
developed to considerable extent in Mesilla
Valley, very rich gold and silver bearing
quartz vein. The ledge was struck By tunnel
during the last winter at distance of ninety
feet. A shaft was then sunk twenty feet and
the ledge again cut, showing a solid ledge
three feet in thickness of rich gold and silver
bearing rock, at depth of sixty feet


The tests that have been made there, ard in
San Francisco by simple mill process, as l am
informed show the rock to be very rich in
gold and silver the results obtained being in
the highest degree satisfactory, ranging from
twenty dollars to twenty seven hundred dollars
per ton. Ii this company continue to develop
their ledge as l am told they intend to, by
sinking two shafts or slopes in other places, to
the depth of sixty feet, my opinion is that such
Developments will be made as will awaken, and
give new and living impetus 10 quartz min
ing operations in this county.


At Nelson's Bar, on the West Branch of
Feather River, Messrs Packard & Co. have
been engaged for several months, running u
tunnel to large and beautiful looking ledge.
This ledge is located 10 rich mineral section.
They are now taking out rock from spur re
Gently struck, which shows rich gold and silver
bearing sulphurets, and is pronounced by ex
perenced miners recently from Reese River,
good silver rock The existence of silver bear
ing rock in California being new idea, the
owners of this claim are very much elated 10
consequence of the discovery. They are all
hard working, energetic men. The work has
been diligently prosecuted, and attended with
considerable expense. having to blast the en-
tire distance of eighty feet through bard rock.
They expect to strike the main ledge in about
ten feet. Much credit is due them for the en-
ergy and perseverance, displayed. and if Butte
county had thousand such men to day, be
fore six months wonld elapse such develop
ments would be made as would etfectualy stop
the migration of our mining population to new
localities; give an impetus to every depart
menl of business drive poverty and despond
ency from our doors, and give our county that
reputation for mineral wealth to which she is
justly entitled Respectfully yours,


CITIZEN.