The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-01

little brush dens which it could be supposed ould ,hsts
pscs of mortality ldthinS themselves against the win
ters and summers heat which are here ,svers-itt
nothing. The water in this gully was dried up with the
exception OF few pooh and holes asked one of the al
fornians to lot satisy our curiosity BY washing te
OF his eauh which hay At the ese of small pond or pool
and which he had brought from the gully little higher up
where was found quite rich h. course asseut6d and
led us the wa to his cradle He brought the ear in
Indian basket. holding little less than peck and as h.
threw The earth the cradle top dashed the and
Capt. . rocked the cradle We worked away with spirit,
atracting several SPECTATOR who laughed undgn
ned positon-but twas first in making money by
our own labor and entered into with zeal and great
erest at the esut After about fifteen minutes dashing
water, during which l got q good soaking below. and
splashed Nil in my vicinity got tired and cried hold off
Our friend Californian as eager to see the result as our
selves himself out the black sand and gold and
several gathered around him to see how much there was He
kind enough to show us the gold when he had cleaned
and the guessss as to its quantity varied from two ouu
ces There was probably more than an ouncs of pura cold
taken from the EARTH had been hauled from the hill
side less than half hour and in second visit which
had occasion make and in which learned more of the
difficulties and profits of gold hunting was satisfied that in
many perhaps hundreds of csadss ike this 90 era mile,
long, the earth rich to excess and will give many vean
work to from twenty to fifty thousand hands who
reckon upon ounces of pure gold Der ay while washing
To fasten this conviction upon .nv ona in THE oo,nt,x ia
not difficult now-it wa, some months sncebut cold ba,
fallen om sixteen dollars the ounce to esbt and svaral
tho mines ware sailing fom neces.itv for s;y IN.
ounce.
rode from ons end tn the obs of the main q. av in III.
dry dggngs and Questioned almost everv man tbs,. And
they ALL without single exeention xer. then .tin. f
two ounces to two hundred dollars ns dav when tb.v h
TO work Many had ,banties with trint.,s blanket, and
IN icoes FIR tho Indian, and ,o, f,. I'd ,...; e
white. l tbinL :, Is.,, ,uo ,hod -, ; H.. a'o
Csiforpans wer. nm the drv dio,ing,.f,h. Amsr. Eh
and one bou.and on tho river in d;f.rsn, n,,. ..hi
There can NOT he less than tvvo ,bon,,nd a, ,h VII ~
nouh fork of the Ame;c,, ND NV Eth IT,; -. m lns &c
- ~
dance A. .lmo., ov.,v d.,o, =; H. - - - IN:
fac. which onIv The d.;v oon,a sI ID aaL ~
of thai far MANY n,is. If ,;Id I'D a.. $50 L n
nearly Ill the ...,.r, ,r;hn,.-.. af 49, C ' 80
IL, o., NO., Of 81; ~. =; ,h ~. VIZ. s Sao,a",eo uasei
where the hin. On etbe, ,ide ara If ,v "a , 80 ~
slate ceps out in the bed of the auy and ,b.,s n bon
washing he is sure to get some gold Sometimes v,I go
TINES two three oy tan doll,,s woth pu, ~. Iii IL -.
tered in oil the hills of cayey and .Iate,, form N, and b
geological features of the counrv am told nv ,boe mo-,
intimate with tbsn, .ro ns,r ,h. s.r,. Co.. H.,
400 to the Motcnmepex sbou, LAT a7o .nd TO-. d. -
mencemsnt of m. hills On ~; a. f,o,, a. 80 - 49, -
east Gold b,, been bound ,hnnas,, .non.h ., .....I
LATEST scepto in large mari of tb. d;strio, I'd
enthusiasm which Nv tho ,yav h., ~, So wv. c ay
.vstsm ,nca c.ms ,ornd Con-. H. -, 80 80, pa'. " ~,
Mexcans think ,bs (aforns.-for GOLD !, fond IN b,h
ubder the en,e,nIsnr eod Iov;n, Vs. LII I .o -
= IN ton million. IS "a .,.,.I', :; H.. - 1870. '
1t wa, estimated by the mos, n,.iosn, ,h., 40, ,
hundred thousand dollars had he.n tsLen onr v,b NV
there. thrHe months after pnhic nv tho
small vagrant and vaRabond populaton of C.Iorn. Ths
fourths OF the men saw working in the drv dgei -
either runaway SALON or .d or. or men bo b.d a h
suddenly and might be called drinking fighting bnt NOT
working popu alton will not ,epeat any of ~ bnndrd
sorie Iheard who had found many Don nds in dav
and Others getting into rich spots and killing be, bo.
rather than risk being followed back and bringing ont aob,
of gold but my second trip up the mines was nd
ing down The main dry digging and teamster who had
stopt his team and stood looking with whip in hand at
chap busy picking niche pocket in the rock called on,
me- Just come here Capn and look at this man nick
ing out the god' turned NV horse In the ,no and ura