Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1859-07-01
Plymouth Gold Diggings.


of DIR. Scott, who generously aided US in our
excursion about the country, our faci lilies
were much enlarged for making cxamina-
tons.
We visited nine diff rent claims and saw
about 80 men engaged al work in the mines.
Mr.. IIankerson's claim has heretofore
been worked with the most success, yield
ing from SO TO $40 per day, and in few
instances more. For few days past he
has not done so well, having got off from
the Lead as it is called. lie is at what is
known rs the Five Corners, and showed
us between $500 and $500 worth OF gold
(which lie has dug this season. A 5! ort
distance below him is a claim worked by
some Frenclmen, but we did not learn
with what success. A little further down
and we noticed some claims staked our Tut
not yet worked; and further on is a long
Aume which somebody las erected, and
then abandoned without having given it a
trial, as We were informed. Still further
down we passed other claims to one worked
by Messrs. Pinney. They have ''panned'
from hole about 6 or 5 feet square, some
$50. They We're enable 10 get in this way
several dollars per day, and wien we were
there they had become so much encouraged
that they had stopped TO build a water
wheel with which TO run their pumps
We did not 90 further down this stream,
but learned that Mr. Oliver Hudson far
mer, on what is called The Branch" occa-
sionally digs and gets from one to Two dol
lars day. On the whole the day we were
there this stream did not look remarkably
promising, and some of the miners above
the claim of Mr.. HankerSon were absent
in other parts of the town prospecting"
We next visited the CLAIMS on Reading
Pond Brook Here most of the miners
were at work building sluices. Some three
dams have been thrown across the stream
at different points. The sluice of Sawyer
g. Eddy was in full operation and with con-
siderable success. Their claim now Yields
them handsome profit, say from $40 to
SIS per day. They have never averaged
less than S.. Mr.. Eddy very courteously
shut off the water from the suice that we
might make observations, and in the first
rifle, which generally catches about three
fourths of what gold is in the sluice, con.
tanned some $40 worth of the shining ele.
ment The water was then let on and the
miners again commenced work This was
between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon
We think they must have got some Is OF
20 dollars that day. We followed up q
branch of this stream called Buffalo Brook
where we found some miners at work bu
with no success, in some instances not find
ing "coor." We shall look with some in.
terest for the result on The claims lower
down on this stream, when the sluces are
put in operation. Mr.. Eddy showed u,
some so worth of gold dug on their claim
1 Quite number of visitors are among the
miners every day. The mode and manner
}of getting gold has been recently explained
in this paper and we therefore pass thai
part of the business.
From what we saw we Judge that ma.
jority of the miners have not made very
paying business. Those who commence
with good pluck and understand the bust.
ness of mining make the most. In some
cases they have made good wages. We
believe the same is true in all other gold
diggings. There is now no prospect thai
gold will be found in Plymouth in suct
quantities as in California or Kansas, but
gold is there and some of the miners are
making good wages at the business.
1t is hard work to dis sold very differ.
ent from what many expect Any ons who
is constitutionally lazy will be sure to f,
Of success. All such therefore should sta,
away. Tie sluiees all built ard the biz
stone all removed, padding in the grave
and water in Il warm day is quite agreeable
provided you are in the shade. Aside
from the gold everything else is ceriainl,
superior to Pixies Peak or California. Their,
is no danger of famine nor other obstacle.
incident TO new settlements.
! Those in our villages and cities whC
would Ike stroll into the country vii
find amply room for things to admire il
the town of Plymouth besides its gold
There is the old trail made by the arm
under Lord Amherst, 1--WE believe it was.
} in the time Of the French war. He starte,
from Charlesiown, n. H., passed through
. WeathersGeld, Cavendish, one corner o
: Reading, and encamped at, what is now cnll