MINING IN CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA. 5
As
regards the classification of the subjects treated in the present
publication, the delegate found it necessary, under the altered
circumstances of the case, to depart from his original instructions, as
the latter were drawn up somewhat ambiguously, and therefore the
following course, as more practical, has been adopted, viz.:—To first
describe the geological and mineralogical features of the country, with
their metalliferous deposits and lodes; then to investigate and take
note of the operations in the latter from their displacement by the
miners, by means of various operations and appliances, through their
subsequent manipulations to the final resultants of commercially
valuable metals and other products, as well as the rejected wastes at
the conclusion of the whole process.
In
describing the various matters connected with mining in America, and
submitting my views for adoption here, it is not intended to convey an
impression unfavorable to what we may have become accustomed to from
actual practice, but rather to give the thinking portion of
our mining community an opportunity to read, compare, and form their
own judgment as to which of the two systems—viz., the Victorian or the
Californian—is preferable, and what should be adopted of either, or
what should be rejected.
"THE DELEGATE."
