The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-24

has to go over high mountain nasses
10 be carried along the edges of preci
pieces.ln some PLACES llamas wi trans
port 1t and at others men will have
" oo the work This machine has a
capacity of 200 yards of gravel a dav,
IL VIII be put in the river and will ex
caVase pits TO bed ok, the gravel com
ing up being washed upon the dredge
The bed rock will be swept and scraned
by men in diving suits, and the pros
pects are that a vast amount of gold
will be secured
The Tipuani river is one of tbe n,os+
famous of the Bolivian gold streams
IL was worked in the days of the Incas.
ana the Spaniards have had larga
amounts from it. The Tipuani is a
rushing stream 300 feet wide, lying IN
the eastern side of the Cordilleras.
lMo weeks travel from La Paz. The
river flows into the Maperi and thence
lEto the Benz, in which it's waters find
thelr way to the Amazon. In the rainy
season 1t is rushing t1rran. and the
IL dlans cannot work in it. It is 50 dear
tcat with their crude methods of nan
mig with wooden bowls they have nor
pee u able 70 get to the be rock Of tho
T ,'.aah OF tne river, altaou5h they still
WASH along the edges of the stream
every year with profit. They stand in
the water up to their sts and sc.ra,,a
the gravel toge, her with their fe-t nm
III they nave made a lit.le pile. They
len len owe down and gather a painful
often getting 25 or 30 cents out of a
Painful Of gravel. Just the otne. ,i,v a
nugget of the shape of a mar wa;eh'
ing two and one-half ounces, was taSan
OUT. Ihere was Spaniard who work.
ed TIE bed of the river to O. slio.ht ax-
u mt years ago
he had bucket br' gale Of Indians.
, Mho, EQUIPPED with rude cowskin
,pGchets ana standing or no-ched poles
that served as ladders, passed Tho
gravel and water from one to the other
Cntil they reached the top. 1t took two
years such work to get to bed rock
and 1t is said that the man tool. ont
during four years S140,0 900 in gold. An
other story, which is quas lionel. is that
ne look out 900 pounds Of gold in a
n n.lgle year ana another is that he
canned out 1853 pounds in five hours
ne pit where this Spau;ard worked
was about seven miles from the claims
owned by the Denver men. It was If
Is sad. only twenty fees square. Geld
Is also found upon the Yani river
which is not far from the Tlpuani and
in Southern Bolivia.
PERUVIAN GOLD REGIONS.
The Peruvian gold field that is now
attracting the most attention "a the
Cara baya district. This is not a graat
distance from Cuzco, aid can be reach
ed by five days travel on mules and on
foot from the branch Of the Areouipa
Puno railroad, which is extended
toward that city. You leave the railroad
for the Carabaya on mule and go two
days down hill, then two days up Hill
and during the last day you go down
again for distance Of about IL. 900 feet
Ihis last journey Is made on foot. and
1t takes about eight hours. You then
lind yourself in region that is COW
cred with trees and one where the veg
citation is almost tropical A river runs
through 1T, and in this the Indians have
been washing gold for centuries. These
Indians are the descendants. 1t is sum
posed, Of the Incas. They are semi
civilized, and can be gotten to work
for you for 20 cents a day, Up until
recently all Of the gold from this part
OF Peru was from placer washings.
/ The chief work today is in the quartz
| mines Of Santo Domingo Out of this
| mine 10000 ounces Of gold were taken
In eighteen months, and 1t was later on
sold to an American syndicate for $685.
600. Whether the mine is only a pock-
ct or not is notayet known. The ore. I
am told, runs very pockety, though
some Of the quartz has run as high
as 100000 to the ton. The ore that Is
now being worked turns out about $500
to the ton. This Is being put through
a ten-stamp milfN This mine was
bought for the syndicate by Califor-
MIA man named Hardison, who came
to South America to investigate the