Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-01-21

DC seeU. lne pan OF art, aNhu' CDc-
third of a pailfui, will yield all tho way
from two TO twenty-five cents wotth Of
gold. But the miners don't condesc, I'd 10
"pan" it, when they can slice it as well
The gold is of better quality than most Of
the Californian, being % Ia csrats fine.
"a csrats 6ne heine pure Some II !,
has been sent to Philadelphia mint, and
is stated 10 ''coin" about Sl9 per ounce.
while California nuggets ..coiu' about
Sls37; the usual quality of the Caiirr-
nian gold is $3.50, and some is as lew
as Sl2 per ounce. So it will be seen that
an ounce per day Is pretty goou wages,
for New England laborers at least, This
is ''wringing substance from the rocky
soil' in reality. But this is no better
than Mr.. BY claims he can make right
along, now that he has got things gorg.
The only difficulty that has been ex.
pc:ienced thus far, has been the water
teaching from the brook iuto their dig
gings, to the amount Of % or 80 hogs.
heads every night. all Of which had to
be pumped out the next morning. But
help was cheap (sl.50 per day and self
board ng), and now they will soon get so
high that the water need not trouble
them. just before returning this time,
Mr.. BY leased three quarters of mile
more of territory along the creek, max
ing about 2 3.4 miles that they have now
leased, the lease covering all the farms
except the tilage lands.
The mode Of making the sluices is DIFF.
ferent from that in California. They are
2 feet long. IL inches long IN the clear,
and IA inches high. made of plank u
inches thick, and tightly caulked. The
boxes, or sluiccs, are placed end to end.
being so made that they cannot be turned.
while the Californian oues, being scarfed
off where one enters the other, can be
easily turned one way or another, and
easily taken to pieces. The fall of water
is about eight inches in every twelve feet,
though six is all that is necessary, and
three or four is sometimes enough. And
a strong head Of water with little fall
is better than weak bead with more fall.
But the earlier miners there just reversed
this plan, and lost their gold IN consc.
quence. .........
All of the gold found in Vermont is
the "dust," no nuggets having yet been
met with. This field has now been open
IL years and worked, after fashion, for
I of them. Mr.. Bly, will soon return TO
those fields, to be gone until March, in
making necessary preparations for next
summers work, which begins about the
middle of May.
A citizer OF Springfield, who has like
wise found it profitable to spend he sum.
wer in Vermont, is William Hankerson.
who has tax out about Sl2, 900 from the
State within dozen years. all by ''wash-
iBg' during the summer months. Indeed,
he is one Of the pioneers Of gold digging
in that State, having served his time in
the mines Of California .n
The only company doirg business to any
I great extent in mining ip Vermont, is that
OF Smith and Slatery, Mr. Slatery being a
Norwegian They have been en- loying
quite t;rcs at Gay,ville in Stockbridge.
on the White River, and at Bethel, 2S
miles from Plymouth. and near White
River junction. The force at the former
place has been transferred, recently. to q
place called Stony Brook. Although there
is gold at GaysvlIie, certain circumstan-
ccs prevent the claim being proftably
worked. The gold is in q brook, bed a
short distance below woo!en mill. and
the water from the mill is so oily that the
light "dust' rises with it to the surface of
the water and floats off. There has also
been some mining done near Plymouth, at
a place known as Five Corners; and these
four places, Plymouth, Bethel. Stock
bridge and Five Corners. are the only
ones in the State where the business is be.
ing CARED on systematically and profia-
bly,. There was considerable excitement,
last season, over discoveries made at Rut-
land Of gold deposits, and some men even
did so well as to make from SS TO $40 per
day there but the work was soen gwen up.
1t would seem from the accounts by
Mr.. BY. who is certainly competent to
iudge whereof he speaks, that there may
yet be profitable industry for gold min.
ing opened in the Green Mountain State,
and that. in addition to iron, slate. lead
and marble work, that State shall yet reck.
on gold among her catalogued productions
Springfield Union.