Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-02-16
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with all the gold have made i'll those thirty
nine weeks. A merchant from New York
recently came up with high expectations,
having made all his arrangements and pre- |
pafalions for carrying on mining one sea-
son. Being strong and vigorous man, he
attributed the want of success Of which SO
many complained, to tlleir- incidence or
want of energy. The question which he
frequently put, when on his way to the
mines, was "How mach can be made by
hard and preserving labor" as il he thought
such labor must succeed. He reached the
an1nes and saw on the bar below him, some
miners hard al work. As he watched them
he thought, that indeed is hard work, and
here is an opportunity 10 Judge for myself.
He directed the muleteer TO wait while he
went down 10 the bar. There he saw the
preparation which had been made Tor
washing, and the stones and the dirt which
had been removed before the gold could be
reached. He saw the men in the pit knee
'o'io''Se 49, -ss->Sa--eAa.---- hnokots He
the operation OF washing The dirt through
The cradle. As they prepared to wash down
sn pans, he inquired, Show many buckets
otdTt have been washed TO procure lie
gold now in the machineg" "Twentv-fve .
was the reply. ''fiew MANY buckets can he
washed out in day9" NSowetitfes more
SEINE times less. We wash out ore hundred
and fifty" tHow man, men in your com.
pahy? Four" While these injuries
ere going on, oife Of Ike party was panpipg
down the gold, and bresght it 10 where thew
were seated, upon some rocks. allow
rHuch gold is there in that PAM he eagerly
inquired. One said he thought there was
Sc while another thought there was not SO
much. Ii was weighed and found Ia he
5 ,62. lie could make his own calcuIa-
ton OF their days labor. Tie sum Total was
1912; for each of the four men. 50. az He
looked about him. There was ali Thai ,Sle IF
rubbish to be removed-euoagh 10 employ
them whole day, before the could wash
gold at all, "Wkere are your tents2n he
asked. I'VE have nene." Where are vonr
provislonsy" "This geld is 10 purchase
fhcm." "You bad better purchase mine.
winch can be done cheap, as shall be on
my way TO San Francisco in ten inmates
Jan. %. Since my last it has rained
constantly, SO that little work could be
done.
Jan. ~. A lovely spring morning, but
the water is too high 10 work. Very little
is doing here. We are now averaging a
daliar day on the whole week. A New
Engiauder, who left business in which
ne iald Up -SoeO year, has not made 5000
dn an, when is not enough TO support him.
rep. f. ms Is day 10 be remembered.
Letters from home. If any one would learn
bass teT fnoiftfsass>
word from his loved ones; an unhappy ex-
ale from his own family. They may be sick,
suffering dying, aud he who should be near
them, TO care TOR and protect and comfort
them. is far away and knows not their con-
dition. One has just opened his letter and
burst into lmmoderate weeping lenqulr-,1
Ahe cause. My wife and child 70 ooth
dead soya
regard. p Id mile above us. CAM, w
and myself have spent the day there and
have made S5s37 each. The lumn OF ooid
found at Sonora and which, il was said
weighs seventy pounds, weighs only TWEEN.
~ TWO pounds. The miner from whom
received my information had a claim next
TO The one IN which this lump was found
1t lay within Two inches of tie very sno,
where he was at work. One blow of a nick
would have given him possession of it'
Feb. 6. Made rs cents. Feb. , Ok
cents. Feb. s. II cents. Feb 9. S41o,
FEB III. 1862. Feb. 10. Is cents. Feb.
d. 0, and concluded TO break IN ior some
other diggings. The miners are on the
move. The log and stone houses and
alld sometimes tents are deserted
Within short distance we saw over
dhree hundred pack mules, moving about
IN every direction. Feb. 20 as cents
Feb. 81. 81, each. Feb. % Slip
Feb. %. $50. Feb. IS. $500 Dur-
lng List night we had violent snow storm.
which brok down our tents over our heads
Feb 26. $l,87. Feb. II. $66l. Feb.
70, Driven home by rain. March IL
Kept from work several day bv rain
March s. Made $2,06. March 6. One
OF our number while working with his knife
IN a few moments look out three lnmns
worth $2I,75, but during the whole dew the
Others dad moi make rs cts. March r Driv-
en- in by rain, but made 81, rs each.
March I6. Saturday. Since nv last
date we have dug 10 the bottom of our
claim, though it caved ia several IImes up /
on US. We were SO deep ia the ground, |
tLat we could not throw out the dit, and !
We're compelled to'thscw il up, upon plat
form, then from the hole. Alter digging
down eighteen feet, we were troubled with |
water, which came in SO fast as 10 require
one to be kept bailing most of the time At
last we reached the bottom, washed The
gold dirt carefully and as the result Of
weeks labor Of four of US, we shared the
sum OF $l,87. We have had severe and
continual rains. Every thing is completely
drenched. Our cloths, our blankets, our
provisions are all wet ind muddy. Our fire
Is exilnguised. The water rippes under
The pine bougbs, under orr blankets. We
were compelled to cutsmall.drains from the
middle OF our tents TO the large drain that
lllrrnnndad Il /