The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-03-22

den account OF affairs there abouts.-
He says that the miners are focking BY
hundreds from the valley towns, having
replenished their outfits, into the variou.
districts Of the gold bearing mountains
where rich diggings have lately bee,
discovered, and that within eight days
developments Of startling Importance hav.
been made in the mountains known a.
the Norwood District. lie says:
Within ten days past, gold diggins oil
the very finest and richest stamp have
been discovered on the head waters OF
the Arkansas. Norwood District. tha,
extensive new territory which has been
proven and developed within the past
ten days extends over aspace Of twelve
miles; situated north west from the Gel
ebrated rich Gregory Diggings Of last
year-and you may judge of its pros
pecting superiority to the latter, when
assure you that mostly all who had what
everybody here viewed as extra fine
claims, have left those claims almost
perfectly Indifferent, and betook them
selves by day, and walking all the night.
to secure those claims opened in the sub.
districts Of the Norwood discovery. On
this latter territory, the snow in some
places was four feet deep-is shoveled
away off the.surface. The ground under.
meath being frozen scarcely at all; and
they are at once enabled to dig and take
out the gold right from the very surface
down. within most cases of most reliable
authority, success unparalleled, This
celebrated region is about miles from
Mountain City or Gregory's Diggings. =
Parts of it were discovered late last fall,
BY certain parties who kept the whole
thing absolutely private, and swore one
another not to divulge until spring
should open, ,and they, thinking the winter
would be very severe, left for the States,
to return early with outfits and facilities
TO become milionar;es at once, and ex.
clusively; but murder will out, and so
has this matter leaked out or been super.
seded in discovery.
The writer says "several wash out at
an average thirty to fifty cents TO the
pan, right along from the grass roots
down three or four feet deep, when and
where the color grows better" but that
the best places are as yet under the heavy
SHOWS in the bottom gulches. Every
piece Of quartz that has been ground has
yielded well and the rocks are more de-
composed than in other diggings. The
rush to the mountain mines is astonishing
one hundred and fifty.seven persons
passing Golden Gate canon in one day
and that is but one route OF the three or
four to this Ell Dorado. Parties have
taken out one hundred and fifteen dollars
to the week, working three hours a day
and one man with two rockers makes
regularly twenty to thirty dollars per day
Tho writer adds:
To show what some can accomplish
while others do not, will here state
what is everywhere known here---that
near the Navads gulch, in the month o!
November last, when everybody was
starting away for the valleys or the
States, poor, common looking old man
who apparently had no energy whatever
about him, built himself rude cabin on
his claim, and continued working there.
on ever since, crowbaring the earth du-
ring frosty weather; hauling it into his
cabin to thaw before log fire, and wash
ing it afterwards in his rocker, in his
cabin, has in the past three months
made thereby above his living the hand
some pile Of 1000, while others left or
loafed.
The writer gets 80 elated with his
subject as to give vent to the following.
1t is my belief that great natural
watershed region, or quadrilateral table
mountain. SO to speak, from the several
corners of which the great Arkansas, the
Rio Grande, the Platte, and the Colorado
rivers take their rise and flow in their
several opposite directions--one to the
Gulf OF Mexico, the other to the Gulf Of
California, the other to the Mississippi
river, and the fourth to the Mississippi
near Omaha, Nebraska; say it is my
belief that, enveloped and embodied be.
tween those great natural starting points
or watersheds, there is solid mouniai,
mass Of gold!
Washington's birth day was celebrated
at Denver City-the eggs that furnished
the nogg costing twenty five cents each