Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-13
A COMPLETE FRAUD.
Disguised Miners Arriving
On Every Train
SANTA CLARA EXPERIENCES
No One Down There Earning More
Than 81 Day-The Majority
Set Nothing.

Disguised fortune seekers from, the
Santa Clara, could be met all about town
yesterday, for every train that pulls in
from the south brings up a contingent of
those who have managed to hold on TO
enough money to ride home with. ''I
only stayed in the place three hours, -
said one individual to a HERALD man,
last night at the depot, "for things are
beginning to look mighty tough down
there. Those who went down with only
little money are fiat broke, and as to
washing out gold dust at the
rate of $40 worth an hour, why many of
them would be glad enough to make
hundreth part Of that amount. Gold
pans are not very much in demand
down there now, for the idea of getting
rich by means of the placers has been
abandoned, and those who have any
means are out prospecting for paying
quartz which no doubt exists throughout
that eection OF the country.
There will be hungry crowd
pouring over the line in the course of
few days / can tell you, ''said the speaker
as he shouldered his blankets ard made
for the street car which had just come
around the bend.
The idea Of turning the excitement for
placers into a search for quartz is evil
IDENTIFY the proposition now, for yesterday
afternoon the following dispatch was re-
ceived at the Santa Fe office here from
the Southern agent of the company:
"The mining expert employed by the
International Company has prospected
the Santa Clara country and reports to-
day that the quartz ledges are rich in
gold. His report generally is very favor
able"
Will Carlson, the real estate
man, is doing his best to keep
up the excitement and has evidently
been interviewing the California
subject, for dispatch was received from
there yesterday reading as follows: ''W.
H. Carlson just returned from the mines,
where he spent three days. Says that
all men working are obtaining gold, and
that the prospect is fine. The Americans
who went down, expecting picnic, are
not getting anything"
1t must be remembered, as stated in
yesterdays HERALD, that Mr.. Carlson
admits that he is not a miner and proba-
bly, would not know gold from pyrites of
iron unless some one told him.
NEWS FROM THE MINES.
Advices from the mines show that
three groceries, three saloons and
three butcher shops are in operation
there to supply the wants of the $500
men on the ground. Bacon is selling at
75 cents pound and barley costs So
sack. The road between Tia Juana and
the mines is said to be still lined with
teams, but nowadays the majority are
coming away from, instead of going to,
the gold fields. An arrival yesterday
states that he passed number OF wagons
OF discouraged prospectors and a number
who were camping packs. They all said
that the plscers did not amount to any
thing, but that there were quartz
veins, if one could afford to
denounce and work them. Two of the
pedestrians were Colorado miners who
had been in all the excitments on the
coast. They said that they had walked
out from National City. 1t was their in
tention to remain a year, bnt after hard
work they were unable to get even a
color. Ii it had been possible to get even
as much as 81 day they would have
stayed at the camp.
A 49'er, writing from what he calls the
new Ell Dorado, under date of March 9TH,
save that only about fifty men are ac-
tually at work and they are mostly Mexi-
cans and Indians. "We are in the original
camp of the district" says the writer.
''It is known as the Mexican camp. Four
or five of our party have been prospecting
for two half days, but fail to find any
thing more than color of gold. There
is doubtless an extensive mining district
here, but the very limited supply Of
water will render the placers compare
lively useless"
AS to what Cap. Friend, the San Diego
Union's agent at the place, is doing, the
statement of Mike Wallace, an expert
made to the Sun, will show. He said
"Just before left the gulch Twas speak
ing with Cap. Friend. He told me
that his party bad bottomed
a hole from which they had
taken s12 worth of gold. He said
he had just sent a dispatch to the Union
and had given the place a good send-otf
giving the result of bis work at 5000 in
stead of $12."
Another reliable statement received
during the course of the evening stateI
that in the entire camp no one is pan
ming out higher than q day, and som'
ONLY 50 or 25 cents, while the majorit,