Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-07-13
WEAyER's RANCH. Stockton.
California, April, l, 1919.


more than one emigrant now in CaIilorsia
WEAvER's RAScH. STOCKTON,
California April, l, 1919. (
DocToR 81 find myself again this r3ace
after having visited TnE gold regions of Gal
liurnia. | yesterday returned from our place
of location, about sixty miles distant IN :the
mountains, TO Stockton, with ten horses to
pack goods hence TO the mines or in other
words TO turn trader. | have tried mining 10
my entire satisfaction. and although it F;ias
be pleasant to others to pick the shining gold
from its hiding place. | cannot appreciate: the
luxury. To stand Tor hours aud dig a lote
some six feet deep, bail the water from IT,
(Which pours in almost as fast as can b,lil. ;
then with wet feet pick with your butcher
knife from the crevices of the rock dirt ii. IA
your pan, take this to n running stream EHns
wash (which, by the way, requires tiaue.
patience and ngenuity-aud be rewardeG.1of
your trouble by finding Il few shining Tar
ticles Of gold at the bottom, and Won have al:
idea of gold washing, or mining as it is CALI
ed. Is true one finds occaSIoully piecd, Id
his pan, but these are seldom seen ami rafelv
enjoyed. By industry man will wash ;auG
his ounce, perhaps two, in day-someti.9es
you come across what is called pocket in:thC
rock, hole worn in by the action Of water
snd small stone ages SiuCe, where may be.
found perhaps from an ounce to three or t<.ui:
pounds Of gold. | worked pump with ..yC:
others one day last wees, and while | k:sPl;
the water out others dug the vein, and we t1ot.
out over four pounds Of gold in about s~G
hours. This place has since been wrought,
and perhaps has yielded a few ounces a say
for the labor of three men. The w0rlgz Of
procuring gold in this way IS the hardest .rnd
most unhealthy man can perform and Che.
who could do the most labor by digging lyase.
rock in excavating a canal would be most
successfully rewarded IN digging for gold. : Ii
is here--euough Of it- pounds Of il are pas
sed about you daily, but hard work from ear:
IN dawn to setting sun, Is the only way by
which it can certainly be reached by minis :.
/ believe that one among thousand men who
are mining Ia the region in which am lC<*a
led, has eight ounces Of gold an his posses
sion, although, many Of them have been here:
a year, aud daily Ihear men singing for hU.ane
and say that If they had a thousand or tgyc
dollars in goli they would leave Tor home.in-
stauter-and | believe 1t. Tor upon my w;pd
| would not remain ia these mines one y:.ar
for the price of ten years labor at home. Var
nv many of the passengers by the steaI:er
California that have met in the mines. tire
cursiug fate for leading them into the eold:se-
yer aud California.
Nv business hereafter is trading-i.:: e.
paeking about % mule loads of goods ab<alt
four times a month from this pace-the h@s,d
al water navigation into the mines. from f;Sfv
to one hundred miles distant L. requi:.ss.
three of Us 10 attend to this business, auGz
trim ought ID nett Us two thousand doliars.s--
7 only ask enongh 10 make comfortable ci7l-.
ira; for trade 10 the States and Then i'fa %
/ would not advise friend Of nioe to eo;ae