Nebraska advertiser., 1861-03-28

10 an outfit is brought into remembrance,
and the support Of Betsy and the brats,
IL he has any. If not, Of the support on
bis return. back Of some sweet insended.
After revolving all these things in his
mind, be becomes POSSESSED Of enough
courage to try IL again. So be sinks the
hole d foot deeper, and tries another
pan, bat nary speck makes is appear
ance. What then7 He makesf for camp
and examines bis stock Of provisions and
finds he has enough and perhaps a lite
tie more, to last him to the Missouri riT-
er. So he utiers the universal cry ''hum-
bug O. "humbug - and hurries away lest
by a longer delay be should be cheated.
The supposition is that if the person de-
scribed-whom l consider a fair sample
Of hundreds that came out here last sea-
sony had he gotten a dozen colors in his
pan not being accustomed TO banning,
would have washed all away.
We next come across a company Of
persons sinking a hole, who are down
about six feet. Well, boys: what luck7
Do you get much of a prospect? Well,
no-yes; l believe we've got a fortune;
fifteen colors in the last painful washed ;
but the dam water is beginning to both
er SO. A fellow might get sick from
being in it so much, and I'm told sick
mems chances in this country are not
many; and / for one am not very desir-
Gus Of leaving my bones in these noun
tains. What do you say, boys? / move
we gun tnIs waterypIace, and try il some
place else. They try it some place else,
but with a like result. What next? It's
well boys; l think that we had better
try it some place where it is dryer, in the
bank. for instance. The bank is tried,
but the prospect is not rich enough to give
satisfaction. Next a claim must be bought
Time is TOO precious to longer waste it
prospecting. One is bought. The next
thing is to open it. A tail ditch is cut
from FIVE to eight feet in depth, probably
half way to the bed rock. Then sluice
boxes are cut, and at it they go in dead
earnest, TO washing the rifles are al
night cleaned up, but somehow or other
there is not much gold ia them. Then
comes the conjecture of the cause. The
boxes are placed in a more level position
the next day, and nearly every day az
forwards, there is some change made,
but all apparently to no avail. They may
take a notion to cut cross bitches if the
gulch is wide; say they do SO; do they
find anything of consequence at such a
OF course not. What then ?
The claim is sold, or, most likely, desert
81, and they are of for home,
Some of the more ~scrupulous would
say that they had dug to the bed rock.
What if they had 2 Do any Of them sup
pose their search is complete They
worked like thousands Of others, by the
basis of California, and it is almost nat
ural that they should think SO. / say, as
a general thing, it is not half completed.
The gold in this country is found in
streaks varying from one to six feet in
width; not like in California, scattered
promiscuousIy W the bed rock. And
it never pays much more than wages eff
Of it, Georgia and Humbug Clutches ia
ken as a basis, which are, without doubt,
the best paying gulches yet opened in
in this country,) hence the reason for so
many Californians "~stampeeding" last
season. They were among the first to
cry "humbug."
If the miners had worked more 10 one
another's interest, viz helping y an
other to cut the tail bitches 10 the bed
rock, instead of cutting them, as was
The case, half way, ere this, this country
would have had a different name. But
the most of them were too hayward and
selfish. They "did not come here to
work for the interests of others;" and
TOO thick heG@ed to see hat it would be
a mutual Advantage.
am very sorry 10 say that in the GeOr-
gian we first see our exemplar. 1t is a
little humiliating to the Northerners, who
are so much noted for their quick per-
ceptions and inventive powers, to see the
Southerners our leaders in this one i'm
portnnt case. Itprobably is because the
most Of them are from the mines in Geor.
gia and that from long experience there.
became convinced that the Union Rule, -
as of old, was the only one TO safely
sail under.
Georgia and Humbug are the only
gulches yet completely opened in this
Blue Pine country, and, without doubt,
pay best of any in oil tins Pixies Peak
country. Is it TO be supposed that these
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