Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1894-09-14

der that the prospectors try agail
and again in spite of the fair eel
tainty of death as a reward, instea'
of fortune.
The pay streak at Sloggett Ba
lies under water, as it does else
where throughout the Cape Horl
region, but it is harder to get here
because it can hardly be SAID Il
crop out at all. One riust stril
off about six feet OF sand and gray
81 at low tide, and then shovel ou
the pay streak, carry it up clear o
high tide, and then wash out th,
gold. OF course when the tide
comes in again the space stripped
of the covering is recovered, anc
the stripping must all be done over
again at the next low tide. That il
very discouraging work, but nc
form of Golfer dam yet devised by
the miners has saved it.
They all agree that there is only
one way in which the Sloggett Bay
field can be worked, and they
think that that way would proba-
bly, fail, too. The ideal Sloggetl
Bay outfit would be a big steam
dEedge, fitted to scoop mp sand and
gravel and paystreak all together
and after running the stuff over the
sluices and copper plates to gel
out all the gold, there to discharge
the debris in a lighter, that could
be towed away and emptied II
water too deep to work, Ii such
an outfit could hold on for q week
they say it would pay for itself
II it could hold on for month i
would make its owners rich beyond
wishing. That it might hold or
for a week or two is reasonably
probable, but the chances are i
would become a mass OF wreckagt
even before 1t reached the bay
The prospectors say that nc dredg'
ever built for harbor work coulC
stand southwest gale there foi
an hour, and yet the sailors among
them say that dredge built espe
cially Tor that work on the light
ship model. with proper groun'
tackle for mooring fore and aft
could stand the gales there as wei
as those on the Georges Bank o.
Massachusetts, are weathered b.
lightship.
1t is a remarkable fact that II
spite of all the prospecting done
no gold quartz veins have yet beeI
found. The only bit of good ore
saw or heard of was a small piece q
free milling stuff belonging t
Bruno Ansorge OF Paramo. 1t wa
rich, but where the vein was non
could tell, for it was from a bit o
drift rock called float by the miner
and had been picked up betwee
Useless and San Sebastian bayi
No doubt the placer gold foun'
in all the streams of TERRA de
Fuego and along the Straits c
Magellan comes from veins mp !
the mountains where the stream
rise. Very likely Systematic wor
would discover the veins. But th
search would have to be mad
under circumstances that woul
make the fair weather prospector
of Colorado and the grubstake ca
ers of the Mojave desert gasp. Tn
mountains Of Cape Horn regio
are snow topped the year roun'
The cold is not so intense rs It
early travellers would make one b.
lieve, but there is a strength aud
twist to tho gales-especially
twist that is beyond description
And the gales come every day
summer and every week IN winte
Expeditions have traversUd Tier
del Fuego with horses, but IL
cheapest. and most comfortable wi
lin spite of the danger) to pro
pect the region is from a we
} found boat. Moreover every iar
expedition must contain enoug
! men to keep up a military guar
) because OF the hostility OF the /