Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-03-22
TILE San DIEGO MINRN

The special correspondent Of the San
Francisco AHA, writing from these new
mines, under date of March 18th. says:
The placer deposits n undoubtedly
superficial, and will not keep 100 men
employed for two weeks. That Is my
~opinion, after an experience of nearly
twenty years in placer mining. Very
few persons here have made more than
from 81 to 81 per day. The country
does not bear the aspect Of extensive
placers. There is no heavy "wash,"
and the diggings are nowhere o
than 6 to 5 feet in depth.
The Good Hope is the name Of a To-
cation made on the 9TH, In the Julian
District. The ledge was discovered by
Geo. W. Swain and Capt. Miller. Ii is
half a mile north Of the George Wash
ington. The rock taken out Is very
rich. specimens being thickly studded
with gold. ~ the point where the
ledge was open the vein Is two feet in
width.
Other discoveries are daily reported.
Many very valuable lodges have un-
doubtedly been found, aud, | believe,
many more are yet to be discovered.
This whole region Is evidently rich in
mineral deposits. 1t Is a spur Of the
Sierra Nevada range, splitting oil at
Owens Lake, one spur running south
erly through the counties Of Los .Ange-
les, San Bernardino and San Diego to
the Peninsula of Lower California, and
the other southeasterly across Arizona
into Mexico. Like the range above
owens Lake, the slopes OH the east are
srgentiferous. IL Is in this western
range that the recent gold discoveries
have been made.
Well, / really think that l could sit
down in your sanctum. and, after lin
terviewing" half 4 dozen returning
prospectors, get up 4 better account Of
The mines than I am now about to give
ycu The fact is that here the excite
ment Is so intense that II scarcely
knows whether he Is OH his head or
heels. Imagine 500 men turned ont
loose in the mountains, with as little
sense, and as much ''triskyness " rs so
many horses. The people here are
positively wild. Such 4 thing rs sober
thought Is unknown. The rumor
comes that Tom, Dick or Harry has
.sstruck is" and forthwith the whole
camp rushes pell nell for the NEW
digsings." People don't sleep here at
all Tor IL they do they are more lucky
chan ~ All night long the feroclous
SPECTATORS make the hills resound with
their stories of the days adventures.
Talk Of Babel Let n fellow try camp
ing out in the mountains h~ereabouts,
and he will realize the force OF the
quotation, Confusion worse con-
founded"
There has been considerable suffer-
ing from the recent cold weather. The
night of Thursday, March 10th, was
really terrible. A very large proper
ton Of the people were without shelter,
and the driving storm came upon them
with full force.
Another correspondent writes:
Some half dozen other leads have
been discovered. Some said to be rich,
Others said to be doubtful. There can
be no doubt but that other leads will
be found. The only question Will be
as to richness. There must be Lodges
Mt the heads of the creeks, on which
placer mining is now made TO pay.
The headings of the Santa Maria and
San Vicente are now worked profita-
bly, with rocker and pan. On the San
Vicente ranch some miners said they
had realized from two to three dollars
per day. Near where that creek joins
the san Diego River q miner told me
he found gold in small quantities, but
,.arv fine Dorticlns
ii. however, people start down there
expecting to pick up gold without
sweating. they will pay the price Of
their folly, ~ thousands already have
done elsewhere. Many have visited
the mines, and because they did not
pick up what promised richly, have
turned back to curse the mines, forget
ting their own want Of practical fore
sight.
Parties who are doing we'll had
better stay where they are. Profess
sional men. artisans and clerks. better
stick to their occupations. Practical
miners, or those intending to become
such, will be needed In that section;
and the time Is coming when SYSTEM
attic operations will bring from those
mines large returns to augment the
resources Of the State.
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