Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1859 — Col. Fremont in Luck. [ARTICLE]

Col. Fremont in Luck.

A le’ter from California, received in New York, by the Star of the VVesZ, furnishes the following interesting and, we trust, reliable information: “You will be pleased to learn that silver ore, of the most extraordinary richness, has. recently been found on the Mariposa Grant. I have obtained a specimen from the men who discovered it. It is nearly all pure silver, being but slightly mixed with copper. VVe learn from another source that this silver ore alluded to contains ninety per cent., of silver, and was found forty feet surface. The mine is on Col. Fremont's tract. This gentleman will have, in sixty,, days, on Merced River, seventy-two stamps at work, with plenty of water-power, and capacity to work one hundred tuns of. ore a, day, worth from twenty to thirty dollars a tun.”