Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-03-22

Los ANGELES CAL, March 1.-THE first
reliable news from the Santa Clara gold
fields reached this city.
The placer mines are much richer than
vas frat reported. Probably $4,000 have
already been taken out. Fifty Mexicans are
at work in the camp, but not one of them
viii tell the truth. caught at least a dozen
natives putting nuggets IN their mouths,
and when asked if they were having any
luck said no. L caught a Mexican woman
putting her hand to her mouth and she took
out nugget worth SO. Two young men
With crude rocker have taken out S65 in
two days. Several placer claims were sold
in camp for $500 and 500 each.
Thirty Mexican soldiers have arrived at
the camp and good order prevails. Thus
far no trouble has occurred. Senior Spacer
threw pistol on rock and it exploded,
sending a ball through his right leg. The
Mexicans and Ind ans have CONNIE need to
gamble for gold dust, and at night the camp
is very lively. SIX mining companies have
been formed at Ensenada and STAN per5 and
quartz mills will be built at once.
Quartz leads of free gold are being found
IN all q reot1On5. Scarcely a prOspectOr re-
turns without a rock of glittering gold.
Water Is not very plenty, but will last for
several months. The MeX1cans and Indians
as a whole do not work in the water, but
scrape around In the crevices between the
rocks. They dig cut a large hole to bed
rock and scratch in the dirt with their
spoons for nuggets. The Americans on the
ground are using the rocker and gold pan
with great success. Provisions are scarce,
and -four sells at $50 barrel. A newspaper
correspondent turned cook for a party of
ten men to enable him to exist. Hundreds
of poor men who have walked to the mines
without any money are stranded, and de-
pend on their nelghbOrs for grub. Thou
-4Gg- -,
way toward camp without money or grub.
Great suffering is sure to follow. Those
who are equipped for mo Ith's work are
doing we'll and taking out plenty of the prec-
iOus metal, and the average value of the
nuggets taken out is about $50.
over 3LO prOspectors are IN the surround
! g hills looking for quartz lodges. GaskelI
and Bennett have located seven lodges and
work Will commence as soon as tools and
machinery can reach the camp. The men
with whom the Republic correspondent is
camping have taken out over 5000 in three
days.
+. s. Babcock, jr.. of Chicago, proprietor
of the Hotel del Coronado, telegraphs from
EnsenGdG as follows:
g There is nothing discoursging whatever.
1t 10 simply immense Edwards, the hotel
mah, left here week ago 10 b9 gone two
days. He has not returned, and his bust
ness of $50 a day Is neglected. The quartz
Lodges are very rich and large enough to
warrant the feeling that the camp will be
permanent one''
Prof. @. E. Anthony, mining expert,
writes as follows from Ensenade: ''I be-
lieve the gold belt to be almost continuous
for 15O miles aud below that copper and iron
| predominant for the next 100 miles. 1 look
on the Santa Clara discovery as somewhat
| similar to the discoveries which led to the
development at DeadwoOd."
''The recent quartz discovered IN the
neighbOrhoO5 of Santa Clara will give per
mRnency to the mining industry there. The
| pIacers will probably be exhausted in a few
months: believe that other gUlches equally
| rich will be opened up; in fact 1 know it, al
| though little is being said OF this. The gold
| Is being brought on into Ensenada and
/ being Ci- trIbuted among the merchants and
Mexicans. The gold is going into FL Real
more than Ensenada. 1 know the PENN
sula to be rich and permanent. The placers
will not la t long but the lodges are to be
/ relied on. The industry will be permanent
! but Santa Clara is limited in extent only, q
| spoonful out OF the bucket"
/ The result of this boom will be beneficial
to the entire peninsula. 1t will build it up
/ and settle it with miners and Rgriculturists.
/ During the past twenty-fOur hours, over
| 1900 men have left San Diego and Los An
/ geles for the mines. The shops and stores
/ in both these cities Rrs running short of
! supplies. Every gold-pan and shovel to be
/ found in San Francisco has been shipped
/ southwark. The excitement shows no signs
/ of abatement.