Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-19
OLD Ell Do2ADo.

a correspondent at Grizzly Flat, Ell Dorado
county, under date of January 18th, writes as
follows:
Your postal card informing me of my sub.
scription to the WEEKLY UNION expiring on
the Dist Of January has been received, and in
answer l will say l must renew my subscrip.
ton, for | have been constant reader and
subscriber since 1851 have always looked
on your paper as one of the best in the State.
and now as the miners have become lot Of
outlaws. and the good people of the valleys
do not want any more miliug done OF gold
taken out, and as you, as s journalist have
treated the debris question in "a fair and
honest manner, l nope yol will now
try to convince your readers that
quartz mining and deep gravel are
not played out = that stock gambling
and mining ars entirely separate, and that,
like all other money-msking business, it
" takes money to make money, and, az in sill
other business, it takes skilled labor. But Of
late it has seemed as if the first thing to be
done sitter forming company was TO find
some one who could write good report Of
mine, and mining expert more properly
speaking, "mine killer" This camp is a
fair sample. Take, for instance, the Mount
Pleasant mine. If you will look over the files
Of the UNION, you will find that this mine
and $50, 600 worth Of machinery. were offered
for only $40. 900 eight years ago, During
tina. time two or three miuiDg experts exam
med it and condemned it-th1se wise-looking
fellows that con tell you by looking at the
surface of toe earth what Is beneath it for
10, 200 feet in depth; and now, after old min
ers have opened the mine and found it one OF
the best, they al say " told You So One
very wise man left hsre and said, Gel Dorado
J., t, Il i
have, but tine has proven this one great
mining ma1 TO be mistaken. Nov and FOX
four years past the old camp Of Grizzly has
heard the cheerful sound OF 2O.stamp mill
running day and night, besides they are
working many other qIsr'z snd gravel mines.
| mean d.itJ gravel, for aoDe psopie seem to
think all gravel mines are the same. With
your permission l will send YOU q few letters
from this caDu, trying TO show you the
" downfall Of this and some Of the sdjoin-
irg camps. and the recent boom :" and a.
low me TO say thai this psrt OF " old Ell Do
.adon has the foundation for one Of the best
mining camps in the State. Al that is
needed is money and brains. and what we
used in esrly days-muscle /; aud now, as the
farmers nave won the victory, Will they look
at il Ia this light: If portion of the young
men that are now passing through our State,
bound for Oregon and the northern Terrific
rias, could be Induced 20 stop in Ell Dorado
county and make homes in the foothills, one
of the healthiest places ia the world, and
portion take hold and open hundreds of quartz
iodes that are now idle, we are sure Of
one thing-a gold-besring quartz lode that
has not been worked has just as much gold in
in it as it had in 40 If this course is taken
by the victors, in five years from to-day the
business men of Sacramento will see, some
have seen ali the time, that the miners buy
more merchandise and machinery than any
other class of men. hope you will continue
as you have in the past, Help those who
try to help themselves"