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Show lUSGlLVM CAX0X. I liiN-aiiAM Canon, Miiy 1, IsTl. Editors Jhridd: Since my ut, I have stutnped it coiisiilurublo up hill and down, the weather boina; most propitious ii'r I lint nuido of locomotion, to tea, al least a portion, of tho cau.-o of the present intenso exeiteuient ra;iiiK in und around the HiiiL'Imm ('anon min-injr min-injr camp. W hen I remind you o! the arrival and dcpariuro of three daily slave couches, with many left behind at both ends of the lino for want ol spaco in tlio same to which you must add cpiiio a number who come by private pri-vate conveyance; tho bustle and rush of merchants new comers of course in pressing forward I he erection of stores, saloons, &.O. , &o. , the crowds of learns passing daily inward with merchandize of all kinds for the store keepers; lumber lor new building-; charcoal at the raio of nearly l.UUU bushels per day for the smelting works of Mo-sis. llucland Uateman, and I he same as regulaily returning outward with their loads of ore and bullionj the throng of happy and exultant miners who, liko birds of pa-sagu, aro continually continu-ally on the vviug, frutn their newly found, or newly developed mines, with t heir specimens in hand of glistening argcntitcrnr.s galena, to the business busi-ness centre of the district; and then add to all this that old and once so familiar sound the rushing rush-ing of the ground sluice and the gushing gush-ing of the hydraulic, bringing one back to the good old Caiilbrnia days of rockers, sluices, riffles, and gold nuggets, you can understand something of the lively times here. Willi all this before your eyes, and the din of such a civil strife lor the "hlthy lucre" in your ears as you pass along through town, you would indeed be likely to think there mu-t be a something near the ''bed rock" as well as in tho "fissure veins" to justify it all, and possibly bo prompted as in my case to go and see for yourself. PLACER MINING. Th:s being the "harvest" time for placer mining, owing to increased supply of water from melting snows, the business is pushed forward vigorously vigor-ously by every claim-owner in the canon, foremost among whom I found liemis, Howard & Co., Crowley & Co., Eagan & Co., Carter & t.'o., the Dix on Co., Hempstead & Co., Ileaton & Co., with an innumerable host of others, oth-ers, all working with a will, knowing iheir.rcward to be both certaiu and remunerative. re-munerative. There is every prospect of this season's crop of gold dust from this c-iuon doubling the product of any jeurin the past. This is mainly due io improved appliances for washing out the gold from the gravel or pay dirt. VEIN MIXING AND '"WILD-CAI-ISO." While to the fortunate owners of those placer claims, ihe profits being immediate, and comparatively inexpensive inex-pensive in production, this source of wealth is unquestionably very desirable de-sirable and pleasant to possess; yet wben we compare the benefit accruing therefrom to the great bulk of a coui-uiuuity, coui-uiuuity, with that of silver and lead mining, we will at once see that, while Hie one contributes to the sudden wealth of a tew, d.ffusiug but litlle circulation cir-culation to any but the owners, and beiDg but temporary in its source of supply; yet the other, or that of vein mining, whether for gold, silver or lead, separate or combined, being more constan;in its supply, more complex in their natural combn.ations, and, as icgards the two latter named metals, being never i'jund in appreciable quantities quan-tities "native,'' they require extraneous means for their separation as well from their own chemical combinations as from the gangue or matrix in which they are held in the veins of their deposit, and therefore call fur more extensive manipulation as well in extraction, as in reduction and final eouvyauce to market, thus giving extensive employment to the many, and consequent distribution of the bidden treasures of the eazth amongst a greater number of the community in such ratio as cannot fail to be sensibly felt, as one of the greatest great-est sources of prosperity to the people blest by 6uch discoveries. Some will argue against mining, by pointing to the sudden fall in many of the noted mining camps. I will admit "the fall," but not the cause. In nine-tenths of the mining camps in which "the fall" took place, tbe mines are as good this day as they ever were even in the timfs of greatest excitement, and "ihe fall" was not in the valuable and paying mines, but in the inflated and fictitious values of real, or rather unreal estate, "wild cat" mines, whisky shops without with-out limit, a surplus of an indolent and unproductive population, speculators without means, and capitalists without brains. In tbese and these only has tbe "sudden fall" of mining camps taken place. Many instances I could cite, but a fact so patent to all needs no further corroberation. A city, a town, or a village, according ac-cording to the surrounding resources, gives profitable occupation to just so many inhabitants. Double, or treble, or quadruple the number: what will be ihe result ? Of course, want and suffering, suf-fering, an immediate exodus from the place, and consequent falling off in values val-ues of that which could not be made available for the use of the owners. !:o in mining camps, where a population popula-tion of say 2000 would do well, thrive and pro-per, there generally rushes in three, f ur, or sometimes five times that number, three-f.nirths of whom, depending on thei.- wits, their cheek and brass, rather than on muse'e, expand ex-pand everything. The city is expanded for miles around ; the mines are expanded ex-panded and exteuded by extensions innumerable, in-numerable, until the "feline family" or "wild cat" species of minim; becomes be-comes so numerous that in tho clamor for notoriety by each of their respect ive advocates, owners, cappers and puffers, the name of the good and valuable val-uable mines are never heard of but by chance ; and thus it runs for a season, perhaps two. In the meantime some gudgeons bite; they expend large sums in cultivating the "wild critter;" but it's no go; the murder then "outs;" in the transaction one was knave, tbe other a fool; the bubble at last bursts, and then follows the fall of the reign of "wild cat" The original cultivators cultiva-tors of "wild cat," Cheek & Brass, "vamose the ranch," pronouncing the place "a bilk." But soon the atmosphere atmos-phere is clear, and we behold a nice, thrifty, healthy, and legitimately progressive pro-gressive mining camp, rid of the drones; the industrious bees keep on produo ing in silence, presenting the result which we to day can see in many of the old silver mining camps of the j coast. Control mining as you would any other business, according to the rules and laws of outlay and income, of profit and loss, investigating and gauging the chances and rates of profit to be expected from a certain investment invest-ment therein, before embarking in the business. The mine is before you, es- litnalo its extent and probablo continuity. contin-uity. The ore is thero also; test it, figure on its value, cstiniato costs of ex-iractimi, ex-iractimi, reduction, &o., &.c. ; figure it up and w o if a margin remains for profit. Ksliinate, in the meantime, what would bo perfectly safe to figure on in the purchase of the mine, another to puy for tho mine just s.) much a.s there may be profit from the oro in sight, or adding such a percentage thereto for ore not exposed to view as in your judgment, as a business nun, would bo safe as an investment. in-vestment. Go into mining thus, or do not go at all. If so carried on, not ono case in ten of failure would ho witnessed throughout tho mining communities of this coast. GAS1IIL1NG IN MINES. The misfortune to mining is not in ihe want of merit in it-elf, but in the way in which it is handled; mining on paper being so much moro easy of manipulation than mining under ground; hence, the "curse on mining," and dread in the minds of the best business men of all countries of embarking em-barking therein, it being made nothing more nor less o, than a species of gambling. Oily tongued gentlemen pick up mines, with high sounding names, present them to their friends, depicted in most glowing terms as to merits, &c. ; they invest, the paper l'ocs well for a short time, there never being any merit in the property which is tho case in most of the mines disposed dis-posed of in this way there never can be any, and so the investment is a dead failure. This soon becomes known all over, and the result is that it throws a damper on legitimate operations when presented in the mining market of the world. These remarks are drawn forth by remarks just made by some disappointed adventurers in my presence, pres-ence, who were never known to invest a dollar of money in any valid mining operation, but go round trying to borrow a mine from some hard working work-ing miner, to speculate thereon. SILVER AND LEAD MINING. Returning to the subject of mines once more, and having disposed of a small portion of my observations on placer mining for gold, I refer now to silver and lead mining. I found Messrs. Bristol & Daggett not only progressing rap dly with the erection of tbeir reduction re-duction works, but also renewing operations ope-rations on their "Winnemucca" mine, extracting therefrom a large quantity of fine grade ore. By the time the furuaco is ready June lit not May 1st as stated iu my last thepe gentlemen gentle-men will have a very large supply of ore on hand from the mine named, as also from the "Spanish" mine. I have examined the "Yosemite" mine belongiug to Messrs. May & Merrill, and Hud it, indeed, all that is claimed for it, a mine of big promise for an un-limiied un-limiied tupply of ore. The "iSo you-don't" mine, owned by T. H. B. Jones & Co., is a mine of much nieiit, displaying a huge body of good mineral. The "Da-haway" lode, ownad by F. Jones, McNauiee & Co., also promises wed. The "Savage," "Devils Wing," and "Robinson Crusoe" are receut discoveries with very fine prospects indeed, in-deed, and are situated a shor'. distance west of the "Huil" .Furnace.. The "Snow Storm" tunnel, opposite tbe B. &, B. Works, is now in 115 feet, having cut through numerous stringers and feeders to the main ledge, of fiue grade galeua, the ledge for which they are running being still several feet further iu tbe mouutain. Toe "Angell & Co" tunnel has cut through a very extensive body of fine grade ore, exactly ex-actly similar to the ores of the Buel & Bateman mine contiguous thereto, from which it is distant about 400 feet. Several large lots have been shipped abroad by Messrs. A. & Co. "West Jordan" tunnel is pushing forward rapidly for their ledge. The "(jalena" mine is also being sunk upon, for the purpose of preparing it for the extraction extrac-tion of ore. THE BUEL AND BATEMAN MINES. The Buel & Bateman mines are being be-ing commenced upon with renewed vigor, two tunnels being now run to strike the ledges of the company at lower depths, and al-o to afford drainage to the mines. Work has been resumed in the extraction ex-traction of ores from various points on the property; and in every instance exceedingly ex-ceedingly high grade ores are met with, averaging from 55 to 75 per cent in lead. This company have men engaged en-gaged in tracing their ledges eastward. Although this work was only commenced commenc-ed a few days sine-', very fine ore has been discovered on tbe line of tracings, some 300 feet from the present openings. open-ings. Owing to want of coal, the company's furnace bad to be shut down the latter part of last week. This, as mentioned in my last, is being remedied temporarily tempo-rarily by Col. Buel procuring coal from the Sierra Nevada mountains, as owing to the vast depth of snow which fell in the forests of pine towards tbe head of Bingham Canon the last winter, the charcoal there is at present, and likely to be for some two weeks yet, inaccessible. inacces-sible. The supply to be had from this source as soon as the snow is melted away, Ls absolutely inexhaustable. 1 also paid a visit to tbe "Hidden Treasure" mine, the " Silver Hill" and "Queen," all owned by Messrs. Mal-loyand Mal-loyand Seager, and must confess that these are real beauties of mines, and. being worked to considerable depthj give positive proof of permanency, several hundred ton3 of ore have been shipped from these mines the past winter, to the various reduction works in your vicinity, and much of it has been shipped abroad. 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