The Placer herald., 1873-02-08
INZtE'S VERSION or j. e. C.'s LOVERS
LEAP.


toward the plain
Which IN the Summer ripeness is covered with
waving grain,
And in Autumn purple vintage sets Au5urns
heart aflame.
But the fourth is bold and rugged; crag on crag
piled deep;
Frowning sky and troubled waters and n wall
that Will not sleep,
And far down the moaningriver mirrors forth the
''loyer's leap"
l know no legend that you tell to your snow
white, "tluttering dove"
AS IN your arms she closely nestles and lists to
your words of love:
only tell an idle fancy Of an Indian maids deep
love-
Years ago, when the red men roved over fair
Placer's hills
Through the forest quiet reigned no sound of
mines mills.
| And bronze brown maidens auching ba.hed
their face in dimpled rils.
Fairest of all was Wnona; flower of the rcd
| mans race;
| Pure rs the unstained snow drift lovely in form
Many young chieftans sought her. their wigwams
dark to grace.
Proudest of all was Osola; stately as mountain
pine;
! Owning rich profusion of washing of golden
But worsbipping no Manitou with cross or
prlestly sign.
Winonas father sadly shook his old and snow,
head
AS he said, Deep in the future Osola's paths
hlool-red;
For the Spirit frowning looks from dark clouds
! overhead"
| Climbed Winona and Osola to the mountains lofty
peak
While the storm god in his anger shriekea
Your home and safety SEEK"
And the red rose all had faded from Winona's
olive cheek.
But Osola in the tempest gloried while his dark
eye flashed.
And the river moaning, sobbng its banks with
wild waves dashed;
! Through the forest and overhead long peals OF
thunder crashed.
Brave Osola gayly chanted: "Oh ye wind gods
| defy,
See. | stand unop the rock cliff while YOU hurry
coldly by;
An' the lightning, swiftly flashing, holds no
harm in his red eye.
Screamed the wind god, "You defy me? So,
then i'll my wrath,
| will send you from the rock cliff down in the
rivers path;
And the lightnings red shaft fold you in a fierce
and deadly bath"
So the lightning from his quiver sent fierce and
fiery dart
Flashing swift through all the heavens, buried in
Osola heart.
And Winona IN her anguish saw her lovers lif,
depart.
From the cliff the storm god hurled him. where
tle Wild waves sleep,
" here the weary, moaning waters ever their sad
viGlls keeps
And Ninola swiftly following, lcft the tale OF
Lover Leap"
MtNISd IrEM,.-IHs oA1s4G.-This mine,
which paid 50 hatteringly for the first hundred
feet, is again, $50 feet deep, showing fine,
rich ledge. From about ITO to 10 feet the lsdg
seemed broken and badly defined, but when the
shaft reached near 15J feet it came into the
shaft the same old golden, fam liar, fat rock
hnely defined, ana promising to hold out for any
depth. This mine is the north line of the
townsite, ana all are pleased at its present good
showing. 1t IS local company, with ~. Swan
as Superintendent
Tne new rich strike, spoken Of last week. was
made by \. o. Bell and Benz. Mitchell neaI
Temperance Flat, three niles northwest of here
in the Lone Star District. The ledge is two feet
thick, and not only Bell, Mitchell & Co. hav,
perfected their locations, but many extension.
have been taken up. 1t is pronounced by ol
miners rich strike indeed, and one that is very
promising in the future
The st. Lawrence MILL just below Ophir, will
soon be completed and running under the super
ntendence of Mr.. II. P. Parly. They have
plenty Of rich rock.
GREAT BLUE GRAVEL MINE.--The Superintend-
ent of this mine p. Pow II, has sent us a b TX oi
specimens of the washed rock gravel and cemen.
from this mine located near Todds Valley, tax
EN- from point 23O feet below the hosting
works and $50 feet deep from the surface, ana
evidently from near TIE bottom of the channel
These specimens carry mineral and show beyond
cavil that they came from old river channel
The specimens reached us just before going to
press yesterday, and we cannot refer fully to
them this week.