San Andreas independent., 1858-06-19

claims which pay regular from $40 to S12
per day to the man. Among the best were
those of Messrs. Kelly & Co., Shoemaker
q Co., Beebe & Co., Joe. Debold 4 Co.,
Geo. Gardner & Co., Creal 4 Co., and
Cochran Il Co.; these claims are opened
and paying well. Many other claims are
not yet into the pay dirt, which will be
equally valuable when opened; other claims
are taken up and will soon be worked
These shafts are sunk through the sand
some sixty feet to the river bed and worked
by horsepower. Messrs Wattles & Co.
have claim in the gulch between Chap
arel Hill and Poker Hill, which has paid
over s2S per day to the hand; Leary &
Co. have claim on Chaparel Hill, yield
ing from $40 to SIS per day to the hand.
On Oregon Bar, half mile above Win
ters' Bar, an old resident informed us
he had panned out thousand dollars per
day with an Indian basket, whilesix ounces
per day was considered an average days
work on the river.
CLAY'S BAR.-Messrs. Wilcox & Co. s
claim is said to be paying three ounces
per day to the hand. Most of the claims
on this Bar are owned and worked by
Cinnamon.
WINTERS BAR-This place is quite
retired; below the camp, between that
and Poverty Bar, on both sides of the
river, is considerable hydraulic mining,
and in going down stream on the south
side, we crossed eight or ten sluices, all
in active operation cutting away the high
bank, but with what success could not
learn. The great tunnel of Mr.. John
Andrews, to drain the rich fat on the
Campo Seco road, has its outlet just on
the verge of the camp. This tunnel is
over thousand feet long, cut most of the
way through slate or solid blue rock
The work is completed and the sluices
laid. The critics" In the bottoms of the
sluices are made of sawed blocks set in
the bottom this economy in saving the
gold and durability, is far superior to the
old plan of rifles. This tunnel, &C., is
among the most extensive mining ope-
rations we have yet seen, and the enter
prising proprietor deserves success for the
perseverance and expense which has at
tended the improvement.
CAMPO SEco-Is also quite dull, the
Frazer river fever prevailing to an alarm
ing extent. 1t is refreshing to look over
the fine gardens in this vicinity; nice Or
chards and well cultivated vegetable gar
dens surround many of the snug, neat
cottage houses In one of the gardens
we observed the veteran, Major Jessie
Thompson, like the sage of Kinderhook,
hoe in hand, cultivating cabbages-
Cincinnatus and his plow seemed to
shrink into obscurity as we saw Thomp-
son and his hoe, and wondered if he was
the discoverer of Thompson river, which
is now the Mecca to which all the wor-
shippers of mammon pay their devotions.
We return thanks for the hospitalities
of our friends, and especially to Messrs.
Paine, O'Neil, Loenivig, {" Lud," as he
is Familiarity called and host of others
at Phillips Hotel, in Campo Seco. To
Messrs. Jas. Tredway, James L. Now
bray, Frank A. Martin, and others, at
Poverty Bar, we are indebted for an
agreeable time and material assistance in
the way of patronage; also, to MIR. Lurch,
of Lancha Plana.
SUBsIDED. - The recent malarious
sickness which attacked so many of the
citizens of Poverty Bar, with such viru-
lence, has subsidized One of the most
serious cases was that of Mr.. J. E. Cooper,
who, we are happy to state, is entirely
out of danger. He is rapidly improving
in health and strength. May he long
live to enjoy renewed health and contin-
ued prosperity. Mr.. Cooper is one of
the oldest settlers on the river, and has
seen too many "Goid Bluff" humbugs
to be taken off suddenly, with the Frazer
river or any other similar epidemic.
RICH DIRT.-Messrs. Marlette & Co.
washed up their dirt taken out of the
claim this Spring. 1t yielded a little over
two hundred ounces The earth was has
tily washed, and it is supposed nearly as
much more remains in the dirt.
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