The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-08-03
Letter from the Vermont Gold Diggings.
GOLD REGIONS. Ply mouth, VT, Z
july 2S, 1860.

Letter from the Vermont Gold Digsinss.
GOLD REGIONS. Ply mouth, VT,
July 2S, 1860.
To the Editor of The Caiedoniaa.
Here am in the Glen House at Plymouth
Five Corners in the heart CT the Vermont
Gold Regions. left your place on Tuesday
the 23d, by rail to White River Junction.
Then by cars to Woodstock Station up the
Central miles. Here | took the stage to
Quechce 3! miles. Quechee is noted for
some remarkable CULTS and other fine scene
ry. Two days were spent in transferring
some of the gems to my dark box. The next
day a ride of miles brought me to Wood
stock, where found the birthplace of the
renowned Powers i'll its original style of
architecture of more than sixty years ago
Not the Tom Powers of political notoriety
but the veritable Hiram, the sculptor of the
Greek Slave-the most distinguished of all
American sculptors. The old house has been
scarce y altered from the time of Hiram's
birth 1t is designed to keep it SO as long
as possible. BY the assistance of the present
owner | was enabled to stow the old house
and It's surroundings into my trunk and
bring it away with me for the benefit of your
citizens. When returned to the Wood
stock Hotel found the polite landlord had
turned his hotel into an express Office, and
had sent my trunk with its array of chemi-
Gals back to ST. Johnsbury by express. Be
tween not very good accommodations and
pretty stiff charges. with the carelessness of
sending my trunk away, did not find much
to commend in Mr.. Henry's Hotel. As an
other hotel is going to be opened here it may
be possible for the traveller to find more
decent house
y ride OF 6 miles by stage to Bridgewater
Village, and a private team to this place, six
miles more completed the trip and brought
US to the gold regions. This place is report
cd to be the most profitable digging ground
in the state. 1t is an old place in a deep
glen, shut in by high hills of the brightest
green imaginable. A more romantic region
could not well be conceived of, and it has the
peculiarties OF place removed from the
great tiIoroughfarcs
\ good story is told of New York exqui-
site who came up here, and was SO struck
with the out Of the world appearance Of eve
lything and the barbarous looks of the mi
rers that he selected the most human looking
man of the crowd, took him aside and conf
dentiallv asked him if it would be safe 70,
lam to stop there over night.
visited several mines to-day. but onl,
two of them are worked on account of {
scarcity of water to wash the gold out-tht
drou,h having DELAYED the mining yer,
much. Some of these mines are working GU,
from five to twenty dollars a day to each
: man, but there is work in it, as any one may
Judge from the huge heaps of earth and rock
that are moved BY the miners. Ii is not SC
easy to spend money here as at the White
: Mountains. but there is more picturesque
' scenery here and more diversity than there
1t is probable that the miners do not average
more than they could at some other bushes.
as many lose their time where one gets hi:
"pile." However the stimulus is such tina,
many rush into it and out of it in yer,
short time, the claims changing hands yer,
often.
There are diggings al over this town ant
: in some of the neighboring towns. They arr
all more or less worked, but the one at Ply
| mouth Five Corners seems to be the head
quarters. Dat of small mill pond in sigh
of the Glen House, Mr.. Henderson. the mar
who first discovered the gold in these region.
is clearing four or five thousand dollars a
bove all expenses this season.
Several Of the most picturesque digging.
and other views were transferred to my pack
age to-day, and | shall leave for some Other
d;gsings on Monday, satisfied that some O
} the people of this state who rush to thu
White Mountains, might see more and pleas
anter things in their own Green Mountains
| if they chose to take the trouble.
THE CovETOUs MAN.