Sum Papers on Mining.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 115, 23 January 1872, Page 7

Sum Papers on Mining.

—o— BY JINO, OP OYMPIE. There ar several kinds of gold mining; | Alloovyal digging is act wun—seen the first I ' is mostly a blind gully with 5 hundred men j throwin dirt in all direkshuns, and kuverin j up as much gold as they get, and frekwentiy ! much more. The principal karacteristics of this sort of digging konsist in a grate number of kalico tents, a good deal of strong lau- . guags, and drlnkin ad libbytum. Next there is sloosiug, but that practice is out of fashion, probabli bekaus there is very little worter r and no washdirt to be ad. Kwartz minin iz the most payln gaim, espeshully if yen hav hit it, butt a good mane of mi akwaintausos 1 get doun on their Ink long bed they get doun ( on the gold, and leev the prophets 2 their . successors. Tiie grate objek of the kwartz reefer iz 2 prevent the reef from dipping tew mutch, as it often apeils that the golden eggs ar deposited bi the underli in your naybors ground. This shud be avoided iff possebel ; ( butt karc shudd be taken that the reef is not | pinched out. A shaft shudd be klose reefd | ( in stawmy wether, espeshully if it is sitooated I j on the top of a ill. When a shaft hits the : refe in the centre it is konsidered a good j shot. Frekwentli it glanses off and gets im-!, bed id in hard grene st me which corsvs grate! trublo and aunoyans. Rasing iz a sorft substaus which is always near a roefe ; won it is sorftcr than yousal it is sed to bo good looking stuff, whitah is all stuff and nonsons. The rok is often very dokumposed, butt no ■ nuplesent smell akumpanis it in a Wol kondukted klaim. Kwartz krushing is a veri < eggsentrick operashnu, It iz dun bi meens ov a steam-mill fited up with battrys, stamps, ripel boxes, tables, an other ingenym Icon- 1 trivansos. The tables are kalkulated with the gratost nisety to s’no the exact kwantity of amalgam, an the kopper plates ar baayootifly augraved. The gold seldom gets as far as the blankitts xcept in eggstremely cold wether. Qnickcilver iz imploid in large quautitys. j An attemt was maid too introdous sodyum, j but it vvos found, that this driigg wood knot' amalgam at with the pure motel. Very littel | konvershashun is carryd on durin the proses ; of krushin on akount ov the nois it okashuns, j but 2 make up for it the men tawk in a vero j loud vois; some of the retorts are veri severe, j