The weekly ledger., 1857-06-13

more shade IL requires 10 keep OH tne sun, III
| ever felt the evils of weight and size it was
in making nv way from Wind Hill, when
there was not breath of air stirring and the
sun shone down harder than horse could
kick, to
BIG BAR
on the Costumes river, at the store of Walker
and Bro; the humane man behind the counter
instinctiyely knew my wants and spread his
tricks" in the shape of soda and coloring
fluid This washed the sand out of my eyes
and enabled me to see that, aside from the
store all the other camps on the Bar were
occupied by Cinnamon This is an old 40
camp, and in wealth is one of the has beens.
The Chinese are doing as well as usual and
are making preparations TO fume the river
very extensively this season. One company
of white men are also to put in fume at the
upper end Of the Bar This is portion of
the "Seawell extension" of Amador county;
and in looking across the river, (now the line)
on the bleak hills of El Dorado, did not
wonder at the pleasure Mr.. Walker expressed
Mt the change in the boundary The tax-col-
lectors of Amador were not tardy in visiting
this acquisition, as the Chinese here can tes-
tify to; no they can't either, for the col
lcctor is a white man.
Leaving Big Bar and facing the East, | in
the course of half mile found myself at the
end of the wagon road; ahead of me was
boating or swimming Not feeling amphibi-
Gus (the pond ahead was water and land well
mixed | retracedmy way, and was well paid
for it, as by this means | was forced to, cross
PossoM BAR,
which / should otherwise have gone around.
The Chinese are getting on here also, but
found several human companies working
claims Among these were the Dutch Co."
who have large piece Of ground stripped off
and will be washing up as soon as the water
falls little more Duckes d Graham have
already got down to the bed rock They
keep their hcle pumped out by large over
shot wheel, and are getting good pay. kirtly
& Ball are making $3.50 day in claim
they have worked for a year past. | went
into the old claim of Mum 4 Co., the upper
one on the Bar, and found the boys Just leav-
ing off work in their drift. This claim has
cost a great deal of labor to get into it in
blasting a tail-race through the ledge. fere-
tofore they have sluiced off tie whole of the
dirt, but now the hcd rock pitches of so they
are trying to drift, with good prospects.
was amused at Duckes of this Co., who in
telling inc his name a second time, gave it as
Bradley You said it was Duckes few
minutes ago" said l. "Well, so it is, said
he, but the boys all call me Bradley and
half the time | am puzzled to tell which is
right"
At the mouth of canon which puts in at
Possom Bar, there is quite fiat of land
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cultivation in fruit trees and melons. / had
long talk with the young man who was IT.
rigating the vines. He seemed to want to be
convinced that his would be the only melons
raised this season. I'll warrant you he had
counted his chickens before they were hatch
ed. Two thousand vines with five melons to
vine at fifty cents each, clear Of expenses,
(cheap enough, seeing that melons are to be
scarce, would amount to five thousand dol
lars,-go home in the fall, get married, buy
a farm and be happy All very easy and
agreeable in the Imagination.
A short walk around the point of hill
brought me to a field of the heaviest headed
wheat L ever saw, and to
RICH BAR
once famed for its mining and now more so
for the hospitality of its residents and its
luxuriant gardens, orchard and nursery. Does
any one desire to see sylvan retreat, the fa-
vorte haunt of the goddess Pomona Then
let them come here, and Mr.. Tibbits will
show you over his grounds. Only think of
three hundred peach trees loaded down with
fruit forty or fifty pear trees the same, and
the cherries, but they are gone now Be
sides these, there are hundreds of apple, apri-
cot and fig trees, but none of these are bear
ing yet. The grapes bid fair to produce well
this year, in fact his whole crop is wonder
off here in this hilly, out-of-the-way section.
Mr.. Tibbets saw things with the right sort Of
an eye, and no sooner did he settle here,
some three or four years ago, than he com
menced setting out trees and planting seeds,
and now his income from fifteen Sr twenty
acres in the sale Of trees, fruit, &c, is for
tune Hundreds of rose bushes and orna.
mental shrubbery adorns the place, and not
the least among its beauties are the old oaks
that have been left to shade the houses here
; A store, (Churchs) and half dozen houses
| comprise the white population, Il don't mean
that the houses are people, and the Chinese
constitute the remainder of the inhabitants
: they have store where all the celestial
delicacies are vended
Rich Bar is quite long one and affords
| mining for at least seventy chinamen
counted twenty at work at one set of sluices
Instead of moving their sluices up to theiI
dirt, one set of hands shoveled it as far as
they could reach down in their hole to another
set who had to tip toe to throw it up into the
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