The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-05-21

was reeking with wealth sir I" They have Dome
and gone. Their mills, their houses, their shnfts'
their historles, end metines their debts. only
rem1tn. Their uuar'I NAV have aRaHyed 500
per ton, but cost tep 20 die H. out and crush IT,
When YOU visit tno-e old California mIning
ever, 81 e. All that IL needed to unlock wealth
from the earth Is capt H." "All we want"
ga they In their simple way. us for strangers
to come among Us with capital to develop our
mines" They will sell YOU any number OF
mines. They do not mean TO deceive you, for
"a are honest In their belief Every one Of
these old re idents IL nrmiy impr ssed That
Tow thousgnd dollars = ,ont in sinktng on his
vein would certainly oring about em II fnaii-
cal millennium. Ev ry fo.rih hill In those
mountain cpunhcs -. In their estirhrtion. IA
with R1l tut ever tantalilinply locked up Tor
lack 81 capt. l." In luol mne county five
are IN operation. All that the remaining
thirty i've ne. d IS outside capital"
DEsERTKD DIGGlNGs.
The palmy days Of river mining are long past
stream, siCh NJ the NOkel1mne, StlntsIdus,
iuOlumne, ana MERGED, lined twcnty Years AGO
for forty niles win the miners teuts aud cabins,
nov nov onward 10 the Sc unvcxcd aud quiie
deserted. The Chiuaman uug the LIST gold.
Even he has ueparted. few lingering wnite
men, old gray, and grizaled-the relics of 20
WIN speak Of events IN their Il stern bOyhOOd
homes IA though they we're of yesterdav, still
remain, gathering the golden gle iuings ON some
Tar, once the residence of ny hundreds.
RottinR log cabins and rough, lackened stone
| chimneys marx tue site OF once thriving lamps.
| dowa shut and barred, are ocoasionally seen
! stinuing amid piles VI Doulders. tne surround
| ing ledge washed bare OF soil. Even the deer
| and grizzly resuminR haunts from which
| tney were driven twenty wears ago. SOLITARY
gravestunes are on the red hiiisides;
| Look at Iawkiuss bar on the Juulumne.
| Twenty nve wears ago " honst,d 80 inhabitants.
There we're tents, cabins. hotels. saloons. stores
| gamblers, BILLIARDS, elections, rows, shooings,
| justices courts, ! " suits, pack trains inilug
| ana gOinR aud great wtgOns laden with nicr-
en- noise creakins down the steep hill aud all
In its train disturbing the Drnieval quiet Of un-
| told centuries OF this, only Vandam and his
hin now remain. Ianoam Is n old New
! Yorker. lie Is Of the New York Of thirty We rs
ago. Oftnc New YORK. centcHnV about Madison
square and the Flfth Avenue Hotel he
knows nothing. vandam was one Of the pio-
neer seven who FIRST settled tue bdr. Not ten
yard. Few lying iu that little plat died u natural
death, aud NandaIn helped 10 bury must Of
;hen. Ministers not being ace, ssiUie, no has IN
some cases read the burii service. As ho eA.
pressed II, ~ W bound to see then burned
decentiy" vandam is one VI the curosities %
To- "stIike il rich" once In three years.
Between ;hese intervals I've grubs on tne desert
eu v ~, n nrt cnnSnV ihe d,ssnIy
ing agency Is whiskey. He saw Hawkins's Bar Ia
its golden infancy; again. In us zenith u pros
uerty he Nil nOt desert II in It's decay. lie
has seen It dwindle from hundreds OF hou.es 10
a hundred, from hundred 90 nifty, from ufty TO
ten. liz has seen store liter store smut up, the
Post Once deliver its last letter, the last ri !
before he last Iawkns's Bar magistra e; lie
| mas beneld the stock Of the only remaining
stOiekeeper Uwindle down TO u lew sacks OF
DOR aud barrel Of whiskoy. Then The last
m re ant OF IInwkinss Bar has folded ny ms
casn BOOK. big with unpaid charges, and stolen
mourniuiY away. Inen Tue iast store was tom
down.
WILLARD TABLE WAS LETT.
II was too heavy to be dragged up the hill. II
stoou for years out ~ doors. The cushions rot
ted. the bed warped, rank weeds sprsDg w
around it, la tue winter ~ 1sG there came
great flood. Every cabin save Nanddms was
sweet Oh. The oar was covered tw1 feet deep
IN sand. Then everybody lett save Nandam and
That exposed und cucles- billiard table. Ia two
years the qui ky springinx vegetation hid GOV
cred the soil deposited by tue river with Jingit
OF chduparal. No mark now II N ans prcsencJ
lsit save Napdam, his chOin the gray yud ana
tue blizzard table. The mountains as ever look
grindly, sterniy down, as they dtd before the
or Wi Of men mites struggled, worried, and
fought at their base for the bits OF shining
metal. What was IL all 10 themr Ihe IuUlum-
ne runs to the sea. signing, murmurlng, CON.
planning, and telling some strange story all 10
Itsef, wnie etIli IN the long quiet summer after
moons, Nanuan, VINO once scofnod aught save
dirt at "A uit bucket, now trundles barrOwfuls
of gravel yielding n penny the psful, aud awaits
oOntentedIy his next s.rike. lie wi,I 1le AT Haw
kinss Bas, and no one wil tuen DO lett who car
| tell Its history.