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Show I WESTERN MINXMO- GAZETTEER. - HOW MINERS STAND IN THEIR OWN LIGHT. v ; BLACK RANGE WEALTH. ( , 4 t The San Francisco Exchange shows how the honest miner sometimes stands in his own light, as follows : As a rule, he has no mine to sell, although he frequently has a good prospect. He calls his claim a mine and wants to sell it at a figure which it would be foolish for any sensible business man to offer. Claims with prospect holes only ten feet deep, are valued away up in the tens of thousands. The poor prospector, of course, will, sell at a reasonable figure, but there are a class who speculate in taking up claims in a district and waiting until somebody else develops a' property, thereby giving value to their own. This class of men oppose their own interests, and keep back any district they locate in. The sale of mining property in a district at once raises prices all round. Miners have no money to work mines with and should be only too anxious to bring capital into the country, even at a sacrifice. THE ADVANCE GUARD. The acquirement of lands reputed rich in gold and 'silver have in all ages been incentive to extraordinary exertion on the part of venturesomeexplorers who, when persistently penetrating hitherto unknown regions, have invariably been rewarded through making discoveries crowning them with everlasting fame and conferring upon unborn generations boons of inestimable value. The mighty Mississippi, the Father of Waters, was discovered by the explorer, De Soto, while in search of gold, and some of his descendants arc wealthy and respected residents of New Mexico. Cortez, Cornado, Pizarro arid other old Castilians, venturesome explorers and conquerors, opened the way for better civilizations than those existing in their era of through important discoveries and conquests whilst in anxious and persistent search of glittering wealth. The excitement now incident to our times, based upon the expectation of vast finds of rare richness, is destined to exert a most salutary influence towards opening up wide stretches of land long sealed and only known to the roving nomads, or to races which have long since passed into utter oblivion. Mankind may be condemned for its eager desire, to secure some of the treasures contained within the rock-rive- n hills, yet great and good results will flow from their cnergetic'endeavors to garner the wealth which natures bounteous hand has so profusely strewed amid the fastnesses of majestic mountains. California, almost an empire in itself, beautifully blooming beside the placid waters of the mighty ocean which laves the inviting shores of the Golden State, owes its development, its greatness and its prosperity to the sparkling sands in Suiters sluice, which soon after their discovery caused thousands upon thousands, in localities widely remote, to seek fortune and fame in a far-oland. This history is about repeating itself; and, perchance upon, a scale of extended grandure in that magnificent country but a short distance to the south of us peopled by the descendants of the Montezumas, but whose places are soon to be filled largely by a more energetic race that firmly plants its beauteous banner of substantial progress firmly upon the battlements of future homes along the line of its onward march wherever a halt is made by the myriads of its noble standard bearers. to-d- semi-barbaris- ay m, ff to-d- ay Retorts are -- still encouraging from the Similkamecn gold fields, Washington Territory. This is one of the richest Territories in the precious metals and a few years will demonstrate the fact. Tiie deepest perpendicular shaft at present in existence is the Adclbert shaft in Paizibram, in Bohemia, which has reached the depth of 3,280 feet. There is no record of the beginning of work on this mine, although its written history goes back to 1527. The Carson Appeal gives the matter in a nutshell. There can be no doubt but that a raid is to be made on the Miners Union: Stocks continue to go on the down grade, and it is believed by many tliat the boom will not begin until the Miners Union is disbanded at Virginia City. The Silver State is informed that operations arc wholly- suspended in Lewis district, Nevada. The Starr & Grove Company reduced wages to three dollars per day on the 1st instant. The men refused, to work for less than the old latcs, and work was suspended. The mines and mills arc closed down for the present, as the not miners will accept the companys terms, and have organized a Union. Says the Denver Mining Rcvieur. Reports which almost stagger the senses, descriptive of rich discoveries of silver-bearin- g lodes, in the vicinity of the Black Range, below Socorro, New Mexico,1 continue to reach us. The most recent discoveries of this character are said to have been made some ten miles from Alemana station, which is eighty miles below Socorro, on the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad. A party of seven prospectors made their way over the Cibolla range to its eastern slope, into a steep gorge known as Cibolla canon, .and in one. afternoon discovered fifteen leads, ranging from twelve to thirty feet in width, and from one half mile to one and a lialf miles long, with immense bodies of mineral denuded in their covering throughout their length. The surface ore is said to have yielded from thirty six-tper cent of lead. An fifty ounces of silver and twenty-eigenthusiastic correspondent says it was impossible for him to step on one of these exposed veins without stepping on mineral, but perhaps his feet are large. The locality is easy of access; as it is connected with Alemana by an almost level road, and possesses unusual advantages in the way of timber and an abundance of water. Near here, too, is the Sterling Price property, consisting of forty two acres, rich in copper arid gold, and located in San Simon Grant county, southwest corner of New Mexico, and on the line of the Southern Pacific and Atchinson & Topeka roads the camp being five miles from both railroad stations, the Stiens Pass and also the Granite Pass in the Sierra Madre region. The general average of ore, as far as developed, shows thirty per cent, in copper, $200 in gold and 46 in silver, although as high as $1,000 in gold and sixty per cent, in copper has been shown. The developments under way at present consist of a finely timbered combination shaft, seven feet by ten feet wide, being put down to a depth of two hundred feet on the line of the South Virginia and oping two immense mines from which Sterling over $50,000 worth of. ore has been put on the dump. The mines promise to be the richest in New Mexico, as the veins are true fissures and immense deposits of ore bodies principally smelting ores consisting of. lead, copper, gold, iron arid silver. It is the intention of the manager of this company to develop the property before expending a dollar upon useless machinery. The degrees all the year round average temperature is only sixty-fiv- e the climate of Italy an immense advantage over the snow and regions of the uninviting northern Territories. ht o Price-devel- ice-bou- nd The latest stampede is the Fonts Basin country, Arizona. The Garfield mine, Vaughn District, Montana, is bonded for $40, OCX). The discovery of gold in Newfoundland has been officially confirmed. The Granite, Phillipsburg, Montana, shows a 4 foot vein of free milling ore. town ofConcti; Chili, six ounce gold nuggets are said to have been found. Reno, Nevada, is to have a big custom quartz mill, the machinon the ground. ery being , The average pulpassay-o- f the Ground Prize ore for the week 10th was $159,87; Navajo, $100,18. ending-Feb-. Thbre arc about two hundred men in the Baker district Montana, at present and only two women squaws. Tii new Custer mlli, Bonanza City, Idaho, dropped stamps last week. The ore is chloridized to over 90 per cent, of the as4 say value and the bullion is 950 fine. men are at work in the mines at Placcritas, nine Thirty miles ;from Laguna, San Diego county. Twelve arastras are at work A ch u Ik of gold sent in during the week made a return Near the of 83. - The Pacific Stock Board now makes no other charge tor listing stocks than $50 for annual dues. Quite a number of active stocks not previously on the list have recently been added in consequence of this move. Ore shipments from the Rebellion, Uintah District, keep up, and the ore in sight is constantly increasing. Over sixty tons have been shipped thus far this month, and the amount could have been more than doubled, had the roads been good. j I I j j |