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I am sorry that I have no wash-gold from old Placer at hand for a com- 
parative analysis, but the above mentioned result shows that if any differ- 
ence exists between the two ores, it cannot be considerable. 
wo gold mines are — ita this time in new Placer; one by Mexi- 
They are said to be very similar to each 
visited the cesta, _ belonging to Mr. Campbell, an American 
te of new Placer. Mr. Campbell commenced mining only a short 
time since. His oetagernier ‘nih was not yet in operation; but he had 
aeady lected yeep 0 f gold ores, and invited me to see the mine that 
opened. It lies about one and a half mile southwest from the to own, 
near the top of a high mountain, to which a rough and steep road leads, 
iecoattite only to pack-mules. The gold mine i s found, as in old Placer, 
in sienite and greensione; it runs horizontally from east to west: the 
gang is iron ochre and crystallized quart he vein was from eight to 
ten feet wide, and explored only to the rae of about 20 feet, and to the 
i of about 10 feet. ‘The ore seems to be very rich 1 in er and the 
be found in this mehidle range of mountains, that of a bate situation as a 
town than old Placer, and of more assable roads. But 1 nied other 
mining places will no doubt spring up in this peiskioelion od as soon as the 
state of the country wllows it. Up to this time many causes have sisted to 
prevent rather than to encourage mining enterprise. ‘Though the law in 
New Mexico was geverally very liberal in granting lots for mining, the 
instability of Mexican laws, and their see be scrape ed have neu- 
tralized pnd annihilated it. When a New Mex wants to work a gold 
or other mine, not yet sea: poms by another, he aks 4 to a piF- = the nearest 
alealde; (justice of peace of the district,) who, according to the means and 
—_ work of the individual, allows him a smaller or larger tract of 
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