Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-25

Having seen many Roman workings and
remains during professional visits to Eu-
ropean mining districts, says Philip Argall,
| was very much interested in the descrip-
ton of the old Roman wheel of the Rio
Unto mines, in a recent issue of The En-
cheering and Mining Journal, of 31st De
cember, 1887.
Last spring visited some of the princi-
pal silver lead mines of central France.
Tradition stated many of them had been
worked by the Romans, and some by the
English of the 18th century.
About eighty kilometers from Abby, the
capital of beautiful and romantic Tarn, a
mine has recently been opened, now called
Dadaw mine. One of the lodes was dis
covered to have been worked extensively
by the Romans The management had all
the finds of TOOLS pottery, etc, carefully
preserved, while the coins were sent to
Paris and examined by experts, who re-
ported them to belong to the following
reigns: Augustus, B. c. "a; Nero, A. D..
"a to IS; Domitian, A. d. 81 to 90; Anto-
minus Plus, A. d. 13S to 161; Gordian, A.
ID. 23S to pa Maximian, A. d. 80; Gal
lienus, 253 to 26S Constantine, 500 to 361.
From the foregoing it would appear that
the Dadaw mines were worked by the Ro-
mans 1900 years ago, and they conducted
mining there for nearly 400 years At the
time of my visit three large blocks of ar
gentiferous galena had Just been extracted
from recent strike on the :" old Roman
Lode" they were intended for display at
the Toulouse Exposition. | had some of
the more interesting Roman remains
grouped on these stones and took a photo
graph of them. There was an oak shovel
almost perfect, the handles and part of the
blades of two other oak shovels; coins
fixed in board; a vase, gourd-shaped
piece of oak used for bailing water, and
two other pieces of decayed oak. The
iron pick surmounting the whole was
found with some of the remains, but is
evidently of more recent date. The oak
tools were mostly decayed on the outside !;
the hearts, however, were in every case
perfectly sound.
INCOMING SETTLERS w. c. Land who
for six years past has been interested, in
Arizona, with DR.. Perrin, Hugh Tevis and
other San Francisco men in the cattle BUSH
ness returned yesterday from the south.
Their ranches lie near Benson, in Cochise
county, on the San Pedro river and its trib-
utary, Babaeomore. 81 was interested in
noticing said he, that there is no cessa-
ZION in the emigration to California. Both
the Atlantic and Pacific and Atchison and
Topeka cars are crowded to their utmost.
could hardly get seat on the train l came
on. and there were people from everywhere.
One thing about the emigration now, how
ever, is that fully half is coming to points
north of Los Angeles. Santa Barbara, San
Luis 0bispo and Fresno are catching most
of them, and they are gradually spreading
farther north. This boom viii not stop, L
am satisfied, till it reaches clear to the Ore
gon line, and there it will take a second
move and go clear through to the Puget
sound. AS soon as they found | was an
old Californian l was piled with ali sorts of
questions about the State. talked to men
from at least ten different States east of the
Rocky Mountains. Many of these con-
cluded to stop about Fresno, while others
came farther north"