New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-10
SANTA CLARA GOLD FIELD.
MINERS GATHERING BY THOUSANDS:
THE IDLE POPULATION GONE FROM THE cAla
svoBSrA CrT1Es-RUMoss or A scHrME

tFoRNIA CTTIEe-HUMoRS OF schhhE
or ANNEXATION.
fpT fgLEonAPa TO THE THiBuaEi
Les Angeles, Cal, March s.--Exeisenens over 500
discoveries ut santa Clara, Lower California harnesses
every day and oil ths neighborns towns arc eassans
The 9old fever. The rush from Southern caforns n
the last three days has been unparalleled Since @s
great Tombstone excitement shout twelve years aso'
Many who have good situations have thrown them ~,
converted all their personal property into money! Ano
started for the new gold fields. OF course ell ts
floating population is headed for the new camp Ihss
weeks ago On advertisement for help wanted wcan
hiring several hundred applicants and the town Wa
oyerr,n with idle men, for whom there was no worE.
and tho sans was true Of San Diego. To-day, oots
her, ard at San Diego II is impossible for agencies
m an the demand for isborcrs, and call mas peon
made on San Francisco for supply IN certain depaf~
ments Of labor. Yesterday and ~aaS
trains for San Diego were ioeded us
steps with men bound for Enscnada, wills
moro than dozen outhB started to make tpe VIZ
overland. There has boon scn ocmsna ~r n" -
pans that the supply is nesrE exhsns'ea1 S4Nt ~
local manufacturer Is running day and night 70 supply
orders All the colonies around Los Angeles ana
Ca perna,,tiuo have caught the gold FEVER IN an
aggravated form. one near San Bernau'no 500
eighty acres of good hand which promised 40 eAoeneh
crop of barley for 300, bought an OUTFIT ana saec
Cor The mines Nearly all the labores IN VINEYARDS
.o. -. .,ov.. have gone and many merchants
Who hare found trade dull have Joined ne army %
gold seokers. San Diego has the fever worse thss
los ANGLES Mexican officials there arc mNs
81 900 a day issuing passports, wfale INC ous s.a
House IS receiving largo sums for ouy % . 49,
implements and supplies Nothing else
sbmt and every train adds to the excitemeh
The new gold field is IN Santa Clara valley tor'ys
,,,o ,r,,es from Ensenada The quickest WY
reach II is By steamer to Ensenada ana tnen o.e1-
land. The gold placcrs have been working LOT oses
oue hundred years, but lack OF wa@r has Po'ee
any largo development Of the region or any "orAs
Of tho rich quartz known to exist thero Ing ssss
Az. now be,pr worked by means of water Thicn COMES
t,om snow melting In the neghborns mountains. pas
this WI soon be exhausted. Reports diner sresuA
a. ,.gaa to the richness OF the piaoens
hut there seems to be no QUESTION
that several gulches arc nch 800
Van a., An tSS e lean WHO VIC have been
longest a. Work IN the diggnss arc 'ssns Sas there
% the extent Of y, slS ,nn. a IMPLEMENTS Many Anen
nsr s ,esa are wofking over ground once woIsfa
Asxea9s ob;as An ten ssssn 1Ss
= Q ne ss! psss &c s.Ens s0I hss While tie
s Sss r s and q Enssnsas went
70 the mpss Govern wees George RysrsGn who Just ~
narncd from Rnsenada, SAID -. 49,, ..ss
70 the santa cara ns9s, exsrS Ss For
,ns,anee the largest nugget found and shown.
wSsasd sSsSs miners ssn oSS aSs Money
scnSeptoot win have . hard time. About 5000 people
aro now at the mines and more than tnat numo e
src an The read II the present rusa continues ios
Jew DAYS longer there VIII be 10000 on the gr9ono
before ths end OF the month. Provisions are aear
affy pounds OF four.S ceiling for 20 Ten pounds q
oafnesl 80 So White whisky is four bits drink.
Much suffering 10 sure TO result a., -.
The suspicion with which reports from me mines
were first received due to the collapse OF me HaQ1
| iiala bonanza IN Arizona. Many prospectors went
Tiers from southern California There IS . runior
about Los Angeles that annexanonss arc st me pos
TOM Of the BOOM which they have engineered 70 ges
possession of lower Califcrnia When they naye
| bOOO or 5000 at tho new camp they VIII arm then
and take possession OF the country.