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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 272, 19 July 1878, Page 16

Melancholia, which has struck the Czar of Kussia, is said to have affected every autocrat of his family after the age of fifty. The Crown Prince, who will be the next Czar, hates England. One of the most remarkable mines in California Gulch is in lead three feet in thickness, the ore from which yields from 240 to 276 ounces of silver to the ton, and lies like a coal bank in a stratification of limestone, dropping about fifteen degrees. Two openings have been made at points GOO feet apart, and sufficient ore is in sight to make millions of the " dollars of our daddies." The owners have gone far enough to know that there is a full acre of the ore in one solid body, and some conception may be formed of the amazing richness of this discovery by a brief calculation of its dimensions. A cubic foot weighs 190 pounds, and, as the ore lies, twelve cubic feet make a ton. There are 53,560 square feet in an acre ; and fhe acre of ore, being three feet in thickness, makes 130,680 cubic-feet, wMch, with twelve cubic feet to the ton, makes 10,900, tons, worth 250 dols. per ton, the enormous value of the aggregate of 2,700,000 dols. The Crescent is another mine worked like a coal bed, the ore lying horizontally in the large room that has been opened, the roof being held up by heavytimbers with very stout caps and tugging poles. The ore breasts from a foot to three and foux feet, and occasionally very fine specimens of horn silver are found.