The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-15
MINING-CAMP RUsHEs.
Excitement Caused by "A New Gold
StriISe-some western Experiences.

Strike-Some Western Experiences.
California Letter IN New York Post
Miners of gold and silver in The West
have settled belief that the year 1899 will
be very notable one in their annals be-
cause of discoveries of precious ores to he
made in 3aris of the Western country
where the existence of lodges has never
been suspected The opinion obtains also
among miners on the Pacific that thia
year IS yet to be famous for a general
rush of excited men to new fields ANY
one who visits the mining camps of The
racine S.Ope, Colorado and Montana now
adays VIII hear almost nightly the old
time go.d-seekers telling, while they
smoke and phitosophize about their camp
fires, how any year that has a figure nine
a. the end OF 1t is certain 10 be famous In
the gold and silver-mjning world. The
miners argue that the greatest gold STAN
pede ever known began in California in
1919 In 1853 god discoveries were made
IN Australia and British Columbia, and
the stamDedes that year were memorable.
In 1863 The richest lower lodges in the
Comstock mines a Virginia --iy were
found, and the first silver ores in Utah
Oregon were uncovered. In 1879 the Lead
vile, Col, and the Tombstone, Ariz .
mines of Idaho. Emily 100000 men rushed
70 one OF these new mining districts in
1879 and 1850. Some tried their luck" at
each Of the three dggings. In 1889 the
Earqua Hala, the Glover Creek, the Low
err California god and silver finds set
thousands Of miners wild with anxiety
to got to the scenes of the discoveries
while the richness of the South African
gold fields astonished the world that year
The restlessness OF a gold miner when
he hears Of a rich find of precious ore
in some other locality Is proverbial A
host Of men in the West, even though
they may have quit active mining ana
prospecting years ago, and have settled
down in regular business pursuits. thrill
with the news Of a gold or silver discov-
cry and find the new camp an almost ir-
reslstble attraction. There are hundreds
of white barred, tattered and homeless
miners and prospectors in this region who
have Joined stamDedes to newly found
gold fields time andsagain. Their old age
aud their countless disapDointmentS ana
Inflated turns Of luck have not even yet
discouraged Them and should the news
come to-day of the finding Of ore In album
dance on some lonely mountain side, across
burning desert, or over rocky. bleak and
barren mountain ranges, almost every
one Of them would join In the rush to Sc
cure Il
OF the great number of wild stampedes
to new mining fields in the Southwest.
that TO San Felipe Creek In Northern
New Mexico sixty miles south Of the
Colorado state line). In the winter Of 1876
n, Is memorable for the death and suf-
fering IL cost. The altitude of The south
ern spur OF the Rocky Mountains, where
San Felipe Creek rises, is some 5000 feet.
In midwinter il is bitterly cold up there,
and the thin ais makes a man from lower
attitudes an easy prey to pneumonia and
other lung diseases In December, 1876,
the news went abroad that widely known
miner named Doherty had found quartz
that yielded $3.50 ton right from the sur