The superintendent's report for the year ending on the 1st of Ju gives the following figures relative to the ore extracted: $93, 220 04 Average yield of all ore reduced, per ton, $42 38. During the last four months preceding the date of the report the duction had varied from $11 69 to $12 95 per ton. 38. THE YELLOW JACKET MINE. The following statistics of the yield of the Yellow Jacket Silv Company for the year ending July 1, 1866, are taken from the annu made by the officers of the company: 218 tons first-class ore worked, yielded, per ton..... 53,307 tons second-class worked, yielded, per ton.. 1,479 tons sold, yielded, per ton. Average of all ore worked per ton $1,69 1, 69 Assessments to the amount of $300,000 were collected, and no divid declared during the year, but a debt of $379,771 was paid off and a $142,915 remained on hand at the end of the year. Among the ex are the following items: It appears from the annual report of the Crown Point Mining Co the year ending May 1, 1866, that the recepts from the mine in that $689,191 37; the number of tons reduced, 18,259; and the averag ton $37 33. Excluding about $8,000 of assay chips and bullion was $243,967 86 in gold and $437,207 27 in silver. The average tracting the ore was $8 97. The cost of reduction is not given prec 40.-THE HALE AND NORCROSS MINE. The Hale and Norcross Silver Mining Company own 400 feet o stock lode. They commenced operations in 1862, and worked on for at great expense, before they found any considerable body of ore to re levied and collected assessments to the amount of $875 per foot, making or the company of $350,000 invested before any return began to come February, 1866, 1,261 tons were taken out, and the amount has since increased. September yielded 2,152 tons, and the eight months from. y to September, inclusive, 16,986 tons, which produced $736,394 32 in an average of $43 35 per ton. 41. THE IMPERIAL MINE. otal receipts of the Imperial Mining Company, from the beginning of its s to the 31st of May, 1866, were $259,133 80, including $50,000 of uts. The dividends paid amounted to $527,500. The following are gures for the years ending May 31, 1865, and May 31, 1866: tracted eld yield per ton 1865. 1866. $1,019, 275 91 extraction per ton ullion for 1866 was worth $2 02 per ounce on average, the fineness in ng .039 and in silver .942. ost of reducing 11,404 tons of ore at the Gold Hill mill was $8 66 per at the Rock Point mill, (where 23,227 tons were reduced,) $10 15 per 42. THE EMPIRE MINE. ollowing are extracts from a report made by Benjamin Lilliman on the to this time (November 30) this company have crushed, since their uct the cost of the mill in 1863.. Virginia City.... aft and present improvements to 1864. * $731.720 48 $60,000 75,000 70,000 205, 000 00 526, 720 48" emains for the presumed cost of mining and milling... president of the company, in his report for the year ending November e receipts of the year, from all sources, amount to the sum of $543,081 79, * * e main shaft has been sunk 133 feet, and drifts run, at various levels, , consuming 554,500 feet of timber.' 1,212 253 450 1,000 1,019 44.-YIELD OF VARIOUS SILVER DISTRICTS. The total annual yield of Lander county, Nevada, (or, as it is oft Reese River region,) is about $900,000, and the yield of the Owyhee silver is about $1,500,000; so that this latter is next to Virginia Ci the silver producing districts of the United States, and it has the res increase its production greatly within a few years. The yield of I was nearly $1,000,000 in 1863, but it is now not $100,000, and the 1 district does not produce more than $50,000. 45.-IMPROVEMENTS IN SILVER MINING. Although the silver mining at the Comstock lode is not in a satisfa dition, it is at least progressive, and there is a certainty of steady imp for a long time. So far as the extraction of the ore is concerned, there better anywhere. The pumping and hoisting are done by machinery passed excellence. A machine has been invented for lowering men w nine, and another for framing the timbers to be used in supporting the roofs of drifts. It is in the reduction department that the chief defect For a long time most of the ore was sent to custom mills, and as they I a certain sum per ton, it was their interest to reduce as much as possible pecial regard to the thoroughness. For years this was the only method ing any return from most mines; and besides, it was in accordance with om of the silver miners of Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia, where for centunines and the reduction works have belonged to distinct classes. * a time it became evident that the most productive mines must have a works of their own, and now they are provided with magnificent which the processes of pulverization and amalgamation are carefully y many careful and competent men; and they will undoubtedly make contributions to the metallurgy of silver within a few years. Although ditures in the large silver mines are immense, they are not extravaThe general financial affairs are very carefully studied and strictly The operations are so extensive, the amount of material consumed t, and labor is so high, no small sums of money suffice. The complethe railroad from Sacramento to Virginia City will reduce the cost of d of various other important supplies, nearly or quite fifty per cent. and llowed by consequent reduction in the price of labor; and the complehe Sutro tunnel will reduce the cost of draining and ventilating the d of extracting the ore. The railroad may be in running order within the tunnel will not be finished for several years at least. SECTION 4. CES OF NEVADA, OREGON, WASHINGTON TERRITORY, UTAH, MONTANA, AND IDAHO. cal sketch of Nevada.-2. Geography and products of Nevada.-3. Mines and al resources of Nevada.-4. Mining property, &c.-5. General view of the mines vada, Oregon, Washington Territory, Utah, Montana, and Idaho. 1. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF NEVADA. aries.-The State of Nevada, erected from the former Territory of extends easterly and westerly from the 37th to the 43d meridian west. shington, and from the 42d degree of north latitude to Arizona, havon and Idaho on the north, Utah on the east, Arizona on the south, and Ward, in his book on Mexico, speaks there of the reduction works in the leading stricts of that country: "The haciendas are mostly close to Guanajuato, and ow in ruins, their number and extent attest both the former importance of the 1 the opulence of the rescatadores (amalgamators,) by whom these extensive vere raised. Few or none of them possessed a sufficiency of water to work their 7, for which purpose mules were employed, and 14,000 of these animals were in (to work the arrastras and tread the ores in the patio) before the revolution. The es purchased their ores at the mouths of the shafts, relying entirely on their own estimating by the eye the value of the montones (heaps) exposed for sale in such as not to make a disadvantageous bargain. In this science they attained great ; for more fortunes were made in Guanajuato by amalgamation works than by miselves; while the extent to which the system was carried afforded to the successful r the means of realizing instantly almost to any amount. During the great rich yield) of the Valenciana mine, sales were effected to the amount of $80,000 7; and it is to this facility in obtaining supplies that the rapid progress of the works ne, after its first discovery, may be ascribed. Had it been necessary to erect nalgamation works in order to turn his new born riches to account, many years must sed before the first Count Valenciana could have derived any advantage from his or when fortune began to smile upon them, the man who was destined in a few ank as one of the richest individuals in the world did not possess a single dollar." California on the southwest and west; comprising within its limits an 80,239 square miles. This region was a portion of the territory acq the United States from Mexico under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, b previous to its transfer to the "department of Alta California." Pri acquisition by our government it was inhabited only by the aboriginal rad being no settlements of civilized people, not even, a mission, within its At the time of the discovery of silver in 1859, ten years after its first se by the whites, it contained less than one thousand inhabitants, which two years later, had increased to nearly 17,000, as appears by the censu taken in August, 1861; the estimated population of the State being a between thirty-five and forty thousand, at which number it has remaine stationary for the past three years. The aboriginal races.-These consist of three or four principal divided into many small communities or families, sparsely scattered entire country. These nations are the Washoes, inhabiting a succe small valleys along the western border of the State, the Pah-Utahs o the balance and greater portion of the western; while the third divi Shoshones-hold the eastern part of the State. Some have considered haps properly, the Pannocks, a race dwelling in the northern and nort portions of the State, as a distinct nation. With the exception of the las these Indians, though often at variance among themselves, are natural ful and inoffensive, being distinguished less for their warlike propensit a good natured indifference as to what is going on around them. never manifested any great degree of hostility towards the whites, nor objected to the latter entering and settling in their country, their of generally extending no further than an occasional protest against the de of their pine orchards, upon the fruits of which they are largely deper their subsistence. The Washoes, though the least numerous of thes have always been remarked for their honesty and friendliness towards s These Indians, though somewhat nomadic in their habits, have their places of abode, these being generally along the rivers or about the s lakes where fish and wild fowl are to be obtained. These localities usua their winter homes, much of their time during the summer and autun spent in the mountains, where alone is found the pinon, a species of scrul the nut of which forms with them a staple article of food. These peop vate no land, depending entirely on the natural products of the count livelihood, and as these are not numerous or abundant they sometim from want. They build no houses, scarcely even a wigwam; a few sa or willows put up to break the force of the wind, affording them, even i ample protection. Few of them own horses, fire-arms, or other pro value, the whole race being distinguished for extreme poverty. Form dressed in the skins of wild animals, as many of them still do, the ski hare being chiefly used for this purpose. Latterly they are becoming to a more civilized but scarcely improved style of dress, clothing th with the cast-off garments of the whites. The women are by nature and chaste, and, as among most savages, have to perform the greater p labor necessary to their own sustenance as well as that of the men. a whole, these cannot be considered a bad race of Indians, exhibiting f savage and murderous traits that distinguish the tribes further in the and though shiftless and indolent they are not averse to work where opportunities offer. Many of them are now employed by the whites, bei very useful in various kinds of unskilled labor. Two reservations have apart in the State for the use of these Indians; but as yet no thorough tematic measures have been adopted for retaining them at these places structing them in the arts of civilized life, nor is it likely that much accomplished towards that end through the agency of these reservations |