Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-05-09
PANAMA, April 10th, 1875.

M. >. >. COS. steamer Granada,
when leaving San Francisco, will
endeavor to scribble few lines for
the edification of the readers of the
TIMES. You cannot expect an old
miner to be either graphic or pretty
in his descriptions, nevertheless I
have promised and here goes. AS
good luck would it
THE VOYAGE FROM SAN FRANCISCO
to this place was made in the finest
of weather and without accident, and
the Granada made port on the morn
ing OF April 9th-twenty days from
the Golden Gate. At times the
briny deep became just little bill
lious, and throwed up its breakers
sufficiently high to satisfy the long
ings of " land lubber - like N.Y.
self. If you have never been
SEA SICK,
there isn't much use of my attempt
ing to give you an idea of the COM
motion which stirred up my true in
wardness during the first days OF the
voyage. 1t was my first experience,
and of course to me it seemed just
simply terrible, the only consolation
derived being that there wasn't a
man, woman or child aboard our
craft who could beat me in
A GOOD, SQUARE PUKE,
though nearly all Of them tried it
on. The sensations are these: First,
one begins to feel drowsy, like;
after he imagines that some
body has his head for doll-baby
and is rocking it to and fro. He
walks down toward the stern; it
isn't any better. He gets amidships.
Its worse. He begins to feel as if he
would like to raise row with the
captain. He can't find him. He
takes chew of tobacco and spits at
a mark. He don't hit it often
enough to take his mind off his now
whirling head. He begins to think
his breakfast wasn't good, and Won
ders if he can throw it up. He fin
ally slides slyly Oft to his stateroom
for fear somebody will think he is
sick. Things smell bad. He again
if he can't throw up that
THE STILL SMALL VOICE
of his morning meal meets his query
halfway up his throat, saying 'I'm
He believes it. He goes
to the bowl and looks in. "W-oo-pe,
woop!-woop-wy- oo-oopv" There,
the things over-no, it isn't!
''Woo-oop, -e-e-e-wo-oop !"
Well, now, its ov-"Who-pee, wau-
Oop-ee" Any6ody's liable to
''whOo-Op"-make mistake. Well,
there you have it, or part of it
for that is about the way the old
thing works, until one is thoroughly
and disgustingly sick and exhausted.
it lasts a day, and some
times week, according to the size
Of fellow. AS l am 10 continue
my journey to Aspinwall, and thence
10 Savanillo, U. s. of Columbia, |
have had no time to look around for
the wherewith to make a letter de-
scriptive of this point, and will not
attempt it. l have just had con-
with a prominent gentle
man here about the recent discovery
by party of Americans of some
"a OLD MINES ON THE ISrHMUS,
to the eastward of this place several
miles, synopsis of which may
prove of interest. A party of Amer
lean miners, about II in number,
had started out from a town called
ChepO to prospect the interior, and
shortly after discovered evidence of
some gold washing in a river near
by, showing that mining had been
carried on there in ancient times.
After satisfactory prospecting, the
miners filed a location, or, as it is
called here, denounced" their
claim before the authorities, and
formed company for development,
called the
RIVER GOLD MINING CON-
The Pasiga, the stream upon
which they have established their
works, empties into the Bay of PAN
anna, some 30 miles to the eastward
Of the mouth of the Bayano river.
These miners report that in their ex-
plorations they discovered the
RUINS OF AN ANCIENT TOWN
on the west side of the Pasiga, near
q small bay known as Ensenda
Rica. From this pile OF ruins roads
lead out to the mines, showing that
at one time it was their source of
supply. Here they found traces of
ancient workings in the form of
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