Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1885-04-04
GOLD CANYON.
Cinnamon Thrive While White
Men 90 Hungry.

which poured down into Gold Canyon
this week from the slopes Of Mount
Davidson made many persons happy;
the valley rancher grinned to his bux-
ON frow and remarked; al tell you,
Jerusha, We'll have crap yet. This
ere rain is playin' hell with things,
and all I'm afraid of is that it it'll bust
US to harvest the plumber" But the
rancho ris by no means the only one ben.
Gifted by the late watery dispensation.
The industrious Chinaman in Gold
Canyon smiled widely as he saw the
young deluge tearing down the hill,
and resolved to "heep kletchum glound
sluce alice time" These hard work
ing nuisances are good examples for
thriftless white men to follow. They
delve and dig and prod and jah in all
sorts Of places. Where dirty SHIRT or
a spec of gold is to be found, the Mon.
golian turns up, like a buzzard over a
defunct squaw. If he don't make
much he makes something, He lives
on nothing and "sinks" the balance.
In fact, an ordinary Chinaman can keep
lat on the smell of a northwest wind,
and work like an ambitious politician
all the time. In this respect he is far
ahead Of the lazy, worthless Caucasian
bum who poses as a standee in saloons,
waiting for somebody TO ask him TO bel
ly up to the bar and partake of tenn
perance emetic. We may curse him
and perplex him with all the meanness
that Christianity can invent, but the
fact remains that he is the boss toiler,
the indefatigable worker, who sue
sumbs to no obstacle that can be sur
mounted by balloon or snowshoes.
We digress. The Cinnamon in Gold
Canyon was the topic. They are in
dustriously pegging away at gound that
was abandoned years ago by white men
who by intermittent spasms of labor
could not keep even with their whisky
bills, and they are making good wages
all the time. 1t is next to impossible
to tell what they do make, but the big
wads of amalgam they accumulate now
and then are positive evidence that Gold
Canyon has not petered out. With free
water and willing muscle they become
quite thrifty in a year or two. If the
noble white man would SO diligently
sacrifice himself to manual labor, and
bring his superior intelligence to bear
upon the pick and shovel, he would
make a good deal more than the China
man. But many lofty white man is
now torturing himself with the conun-
| drum, "Where's the hash secreted ?"
while the little man with the pigtail
has a fat sack tucked away as the nu-
cleus OF fortune that will make him
an opulent person in the Flowery King
dom by and by.
There are many acres Of good ground
in Gold Canyon that will pay good
wages to men who are willing to work
for living. Though it has been work.
ed over several times, there is good pay
left. A great portion of the gold is in
hard and tenacious clay, which should
be thoroughly dried before it is thrown
into the sluices. There are mounds Of
this clay along the canyon that have
never been disturbed, which Cinnamon
shun. having learned 10y experience that
| it is chief in a sluice box; but they
have not as yet dropped upon the plan
Of drying it, Yesterday a TINES re-
porter dried a lump Of this clay on a
stove, and on panning it he got string
of gold halfway around the pan--a big
prospect for any place. And there are
thousands of tons of this stuff. II it
were properly handled it would yield
the biggest kind of wages Now here
is chance for enterprising men who
want work. There is room for whole
regiment, and clay enough for all. The
TINES makes no charge Tor these hints
and suggestions, but If there are men
inclined to work, let them so and see
| for themselves.