The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-21
GOLD FROM WATER,
,,o,l twain Oh the Merits of The CAT
tstOga Springs.

Nav York, Sept 2O.-The Evening News
Uublishes the following'
PPsrdieor Evening Posts
1bave lust seen Jour d spatch from San
p1.ncisco in Saturday evenings Post about
In"1 in Solution" in Calistoga Springs,
~. shont the proprietor having extracted
saI a. in COL. of the utmost fin ness
,S ,nm ten barrels OF water, during tAe psst
Iv,nicbt, by process known only 70
I S;msaIf This will surprise many OF your
i..ders but it does not surprise me- tor l
i NH"a o,yned those springs myself. What
S So onrnr,e me, however, is the falling OIL
aos .5a ar rahness Of the water. In my time the
u iI tIO was n dollar dippsr full. | am not
yieiu tSis to iniure the property in case a
ssS,us contemplated. am only saying it
MS .ha interest of history. 1t may be that
II VA, sT botd nroorietor's process is an inferior
lnIs Wa Va. that may be the fault. Nine was
VuV' Aba nv uncle-I had An extra uncle at
70 ."N ma on account of his parents dying
tunI ,oaging him on my hands-and fill him
anu ,o' ,st him stand fifteen minutes 10
we water chance to settle; Well'
Kan Inserted him in an exhausted receiver,
Which oJ had the effect of sucking the gold out
tbrouph his pores. | have taken more Than
e shi thousand dollars out of that old man
" v,V . Jav and a half. l should have held on
~ tbnse springs, but for the badness of the
III and the difficulty Of getting the gold
.O"T roSrket. | consider the gold yielding
water in many respects remarkable, and yet
0 "n', more remarkable than the gold bearing
w. ~ C.trnt canon, up there toward the
saad of the auriferous range. This AIR OF
Az wind, for it is a kind Of trade wind which
| yows steadily down through six
S mar miles of rich quartz crop
ing, during an hour anu !, .
!aarter every day, except sundays
,eAvlly charged with exquisitely. iine and i'm
mlpa6le gold. Nothing prrecipitates and
olididates this gold s. rapidly AS contac'
with human flesh, heated by passion. The
fine that Will am Abrshams was dissnppo,,nt'
I'd in love, ne used to step out doors, when
that wind was blowing, and come in again
and begin to sigh ami would extract over q
dollar and half out of every sigh he sighed
rieht along' and the time that John Hnrbi'
son and Aleck Morton quarreled ABOUT mar
hsop's dog, they stood there swearing at eacn
Nther nil thev knew how-and what they
didn't know about swearing they could not
learn from you and me, not by good deal
and at the end of every three or four MN
utes thew had TO stop and make dividend
If they didn't their Jaws. would cog
up SO that they couldn't get big mac y Ia
bed ones out ut all; and when the wind was
done blowing they cleaned up just. little
over sixteen hundred dollars apiece.
know these facts to be absolutely true De-
cause got them from man whose mother
knew personally. / do not suppose per
son could buy the water privilege at Catlst:og'
now at any price, but several good iocaIi91'
along the course Of the Cstgut canon golu
going to be stocked for the New York market
They will sell, too. People will swarm fol
them as thick MS Hancock veterans IN th'
south MARK TWAIN.
HARTFoRp, Conn, Sept. IA, 1880.