Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-05-15

wish u say u you, my reader, c1nfidentislly, vi
though what know about them dues not amount
to much. yet d. not ba-e my hopes VI IN,
future ,ninition to the Presidency Of this Re-
public up m that fact. -lul get that probably,
c,aI-e when, two ur three weeks from now ynu
and ARE standing In the crowded San Fmnciscu
court romn, listening to the trial Of Mrs. Fair
for shouting Judge Crittenden IN the Oakland
Ferry, my "nobe, humane heart, that always
pulses divine sympathy for the weak and OPP
pressed" will ycarn to " bail out " that lair.
delicate gentle, darling, sweet little murlerrss
Of naughty Judge Critcnden. | tell You it j.
heart. not consistency NOR huins that gives
unn the inside truck on the Presidential race ~
rel, ing upin my heart TINT know is Of the a.
surcd size, don't ,aio if do not know much Of
the Sierra mines ard mining, or about anything
else and why shnuld know much about them,
since what do know came to inc through the
car window, as We gljed down the mountain
side and through the mining towns Of CUllnx,
Auburn, Clipper Gap, etc, and from answers
that the miner, who sat by me, gave me, in re-
Sp ,nse to some casual qao~tons2 Bat what got
that morning you shall have
Everywhere upon the mountain side there is n
PERFECT network Of trenches We, in Vermont,
would call them bitches. Through these run
water taken irum some river further up among
the mountains. Ia like the yein-work Of the
human bldy main veins, and from these branch
out smaller veins, and from thee smaller ones
still These water courses are all owned, and the
privilege VI tapping certain trench aud taking
thereIrpm certain amount Of water, is bought
and sold, the same AZ part oi the water power
Of Vermont mill dam il blught and sold.
But what l. the object Of all this lacng and
interncing this slope with canals, bitches and
trenches Rise up, my reader, and look out ol
the car window here, away down into that deep
gulch, quarter Of mile oG What DO You
see It lloks like couple Of men, with large
hand hose, playing away upon the side VI the
gulch, as though il we're on fire and they were
trying to put it out. Well, it is Just what it
lluk- like, barring the Gre. Just see how that
JET Of wnter tears that bank u pieces it crum-
HES and ats away like sawdust there roll.
down n rock, here tumhles tree. Tie water H.
the trench we Just rode over runs into q little
dam down there s,mewhere. to which that h,Se
pipe 10 the mems hands is joined The hank Of
tINNt AAiN i'7 UN'N w ~ $40 'sN|N ~ ~ i.'
play ing Of the pipe tear. the bank all ~ pieces .
the water lehrs away hath the dirt and the gold
intn another trench tie gold Icing heavier than
the dirt Is srn washed clean, and sink- tn the
hortuu Of the trench nj the distance Of few
rs- from where these men are at work, while the
dirt is inrne on and thai, with tie water, will
do duty agun, further down tie mountain side.
in ime other mining guch. The yellow mud
dimes of the water in t'mt trench just there,
-h"w~ That some miner, and perhaps hail 4 z~u
Of tlen, have used it already up in the wood-
there somewhere. The mining 10y washing the
earth is called placer miung, and you viii -e,
the iirct- Of Ii u-mnrrw morning, rs you ride
up the Bay from Frisco o. PetAluma. u the miu-
ing e.. on, | nm MT sd sure but that all old
sierra will set he in the h'ttlm OF san Pahh'
; Buy, This afternoon these men will cease play
ing water upon tie bank, and collect the gold
that las been washed out 1t they hud that then
, bed is pretty well played ~ Tonight, they will
sell nut 90 ~lne Cinnamon and strike Tor another.
You zee that group Of men up yonder2 Well
they are tie " lleathen Chinee,' and they are
working at sime Old played placer mine.
which the miners long ngn gave up M WORTHLESS.
lHtl VIII Naht EHiu thtN- nui hl W. IT dliti
they have rewa>hed i: some ruughs do not come
down and " < through - their camp, My read
En- we mean heilrc we finish this " Trip u give
tins same " Heather Cnnee, " Ms well Ms some 81
Z n, fellow lleathcn, wlnme not Chinee, ample
ia~ti,e and 50 we will leave him iJr now quiet,
washing the " old played placer, content, Who'll
~ intent, to take the second or even the third
chance at the mine, if only the roughs will let
him alone; and, as ylu have git all we know
about mines and mining, before we leave thu
Sierra upland Ne want YOU Il, take a vood long
look of u the westward. 10 the eastward VI
2 look into the mountain side. but not so to the
, westward The eve il looking down upon one oil
tie graudest valleys in the world, the valley oil
. the Sacramento 10 the northward, it srre,che.
away and away toward Oregon 10 the south !,
uarrows tremendously down until tie eve loses il
in the pas, the Sacrament, has carved through