Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-06-29

TO the mines, or in other words TO turn trader |
have tried mining to my entire satisfaction, and
although 1t may be pleasant TO others to pick the
/, shining gold from its hiding place, cannot APP
precaie the luxury. To stand for hours and
dig hole some six feet deep, bail the water from
it, which pours in almost as fast as one can bail,
then with wet feet pick with your butcher knife
from the crevices of the rock dirt TO fill your pan,
take this to a running stream and wash (which
requires time, patience, and ingenuity, and be re-
warded for your trouble by finding few shining
PARTICLES Of gold at the bottom, and you have an
idea OF gold washing or mining, as it is called.
lis true one finds occasionally piece in his
pan, but these are seldom seen and rarely enjoy
cd. BY industry man will wash out his ounce
perhaps two, in a day sometimes you come
across what is called Iocket in the rock, a hole
worn in by the action of the water and small
stones ages since, where may perhaps be found
! from an ounce to three or four pounds of gold.
! worked pump with two others, one day last
week, and while kept the water out, others dug
the vein, and we took ont over four pounds of
gold in about two hours. This placer has since
been wrought, and perhaps has yielded few
ounces day for the labor of three men. The
work of procuring gold in this way is the har
dest and most unhealthy man can perform, and
he who could do the most labor by digging loose
rock in eXcavating canal would be the moSL,
successfully rewarded in digging for gold
1t is here-enough of it--pounds of it are pass
ed about you daily, but hard work from early
dawn to setting sum- is the only way by which
it can certainly be reached in mining: believe
that not one among a thousand men who are
mining in the region in which am located, has
eight ounces of gold in his possession, although
tiidny of them have been here year, and daily
hear men signing for hcic, d.sa say that if they
had thousand or two dollars in gold they would
leave for home instanter-and | Believe it for
ttsbn my word would rot remain in these mines
one year for the price often years labor at home.
Very many of the passengers by the steamer
California, that have met IN the mines, are cur1
sing fate for Leading them into the gold ieFer
and California.
Ny business hereafter is trading-i. G pack
ing about 20 mule loads of goods times month
from this placc-tlie head of water navigation
Into the mines, from 30 to 100miles distant. 1t
requires three of us to attend to this business,
and u trip ought to nett us two thousand dollars,
only ask enough to make Il comfortable capital
for trade in the States, and then I'm off. would
not advise friend of mirc So come here unless
for few thousand dollars he is willing 10 make
the earth his bed, the canopy of heaven the cur
tain ofhis couch the stagnant water of frog pond
cross without watar,) for few pounds of the
fil,hy lucrc. | en here, ard mus do tho best
can-but place me in the United States with the
knowledge | have Of California; and say so me-
=" work for some good farmer for your board and
clothing d a dollar Cor the fourth of July, or
90 10 California, and in two years make 500
900" | would work for the farmer. To men
accustomed to labor daily, hard labor and small
pay, California presents superior advantages.
| 70 those having comfortable home and steady
employment ut a roderatc salary, say remain
at home, and let others suffer the priyaions and
hardsllips Of California and procure its gold.
We have thousands of Moxicans coming in
deily, and the number speaking tile Spanish LAM
guage compared With those speaking English,
are as eight to one. 1t would give me great
pleasure to hear from home. um 50 isolated
/ that paper from Buffalo would he worth It's
weight in gold-Gnd | wouldn't mind having it
soaked little.
| tnkc pleasure in being able to forward to you
! q piece Of gold from Stanisus river diggngs-
a piece which saw taken from the earth, and Gan
consequently vouch forit. 1t WIS taker out by
an Indian from whom purchased it. We are
ell in excellent health. The rainy season is over
and | know of no sickness in the min ?. All IS
peace and quietness and Ju1ge Lynch will see
| that good law and order is constantly preserved.