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iaiassSflois OF s5s.s pup.iS WING ssss Il,
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have ssisen curfcscsto the hnssse at
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paved VI gold ishen slftea dosn it ve
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yields vi be foallI eslhei IN Ale de- I
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ity, or at he base NJ Slight ELEVATIONS is w
+he1lss l5oli WHICH prevented the sdid =
from gong fratasf' aAsIt- stfealn =
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s.swaft yazs about fa,ree ,a,oiths IN !" Y
all took ont betxsslr $500 and $3.50, :. s,
'gs!s IS not an t,aaoatlinii59 yield, 8
less than 81 q dayip a country where y
the wages ares .ssiore than double 'ilat :.
anopus. Nc tl,sliss The -foiiifo Of the =
country depends very largett upon the y
what is found higher up tbs rivers .iitI : '
sections yet uncxpiored hg white =
men, whore viii I.6- doubt be = i
found rich gravel deposits. AI, u.
readys finds are rspSs siiAnte 53
creek near Torts nai}, al h M snss h
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Wi 7dodCtiHs5 faflaVc tas szsin On Kishs
dyke. and other places have been heardi
of and will doubtless be explored dnf- to
inglthe coming season, =
The incidents Of stovelfnis and pau ~
tuis Of nuggets axe but rspititiops Of IA
stories told Of every new discovery Of q
riai placer gold. In the Dardanelles n
mius III Placer Co, Cal, a single pan Ia
yielded Sl,so0 Many others taken cut n
of creYices Produced nearly as much in q,
other. mines Of Forest Hill district. But d
in the shallow placers of earlier days, ID
it was nouncommon thing to ind from 4,
500 to s5oo. IN pan OF tlirt. IA
a present resident OF nevada City, ii,
a fsoard d--gat soi2 from one painful, p
on Sept. IS, 1850. He aud his partners "a
that fall took $4,000 from a piece o. K,
ground 80 feet square in their clam il,
Only few years AGO a miner in Alder ii
Gulch, Mont, took nearly 200 pounds +,
of nuggets from oae hole in tbe bedrock .
of the stream II which he was worjzing. .,
The hole was covered with a large
bowlder except for q narrow cre*asse
around the edges, wtiich permitted the Il
water and small gravel TO pass in and
created a natural concenTator, washing !.
cat the sand and light gravel and leav- \,
ing q flepositof pure gold worth nearly .
$40, ,0o1. In California g,IIch one claim 4
of 100 feet long along the guloh, and ex-, e
tending from oauk to bank, netted rhe Z
owner mere than slo0,oeO III ths r.
Printer Boz mine it was not uncommea 70
for one man TO take o,it Sl,0o0 In II =
single day. nearly all i'll nugget form. =
Within the past six months a lessee Of q
an abandoned mine at breckenridge y
Colo, in examining the property, mar r
rowly escaped being caught in a cave. ],
aud on returning, subsequently, TO learn Y
the extent Of the damage, found that he !