The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-26
BIG RUSH
TO LOWER
CALIFORNIA
Men in Southern Counties
I Getting Ready to Cross
the Border.
GOLD IS VERY FINE
Diggingo Reported Rich, but There
Are Many Drawbacks to
Be Overcome.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
os ANGELES, May 25.-The
excitement over the San Rogue

Us ANOELES, May So.-1 ue
excitement over the San Rogue
- or Cerro Pinta placer gold
mines in Lower California has reach
ed this city. Many men have already
left for the new Klondike and others
are preparing to go. The Santa Fe
Railroad Company officials say they
have hundreds of inquiries from all
over the country regarding the route
and other facts about the country
where the strike was made.
SAN DIEGO, May 25-The steamer
st. Denis returned this morning from
Fnsenada, and the officers and passen-
gers bring most encoura ging news con-
Cerning the new placer diggings. which
extend along the Sierra Pintada, be-
ginning at which is known as CerrO
Pinta, or Spotted Mountain No fresh
news from the mines was received at
Ensenada yesterday, but much has
been learned from men lately at Cerro
Pinta and in that vicinity. Although
several men Of the greatest reliability
have been at the placers and are now
at Ensenada buying supplies and at
tending 10 other business not one of
teJru has word To say deroga tory 70
the new fields.
Don Ismael Sanchez Federal In
spector Of the Colonies, with head
quarters at Ensenada, is civil engi-
neer by profession and visited the plac-
ers before they began to attract atten-
tIon except in a small way among the
Mexicans living in the immediate sec
tion. He says the rich ground extends
in northwesterly and southeasterly
direction a distance of twenty-elght
miles. and that the placers have a
width of sixteen miles.
The gold is very fine Assayers I,
this city say it is excelled by only tn,
placer gold that comes from Juare.
Camp, about fifty miles south of this
city.
All Cerro Pinta gold received her,
runs over S19 to the ounce. and some
runs $40. When it is known that an
ounce of pure gold is worth 500 67 the
extraordinary fneness of the gold
from the new diggings is appreciated
The Juarez gold runs from $19 % to
$50 45 an ounce.
There was a scene Of great excite
ment when the steamer Pacheco sailed
from Ensenada late yesterday after
noon. She was laden to her full ca
pacity. having forty-seven passengers.
about half of whom were Americans
from Southern California. the remain
der being Mexicans, Americans and
Englishmen from Ensenada. The
steamer will stop at San Quintin and
arrive at Ascension Bay on Saturday
morning. By the evening of that day
l,a
ers. All went in good condition. with
burros, mules, dry washers and plenty
of provisions. Burros are at premium
at Ensenada, but a supply is being
gathered up in the surrounding hills.
They sell at from $40 to SIS gold at En-
senada.
The wholesale hardware and grocery
houses in this city are doing a good
business in selling gold pans and 9th
er necessaries, and one firm is having
made a large number of dry washers
t. meet the demand.
1t IS reported that water is 81 30
(MeXican money! a bucket or about
81 % American money. Emiliano Ibar-
ra and other Mexicans are said to be
devoting their attention to sinking
wells and hope to obtain a good sup
ply not Tar from the placerS.
Governor Martinez of La Paz and
twenty five rurales are reported to be
on their way 10 the camp, the placers
being under the Jurisdiction of the
Governor of the Southern District of
Lower California.
The power schooner Santa Barbara
which took supplies to Ascension for
Emiliano Ibarra, is daily expected to
return with the latest news from the
diggings. The schooner Anita sails
next Monday from here and several
smaller vessels have been chartered by
parties of two or three who will sail
within a day or two.
A Tribune reporter who returned to-
day from Ensenada on the steamer St
Denis confirms the reported large
shipment Of gold from the new plac-
ers stating that the Governor Of Low
er California told him personally that
the first consignment OF S15S 600 in
bullion and dust had been sent 10
Guaymas to be forwarded to the Selbv
Smelling Works at San Francisco. The
gold was taken overland to La Paz
and shipped by the Martinez steamer
line to Guaymas. Two schooners are
fittirg out here to leave in a day or
two for San Pablo Bay, near the mines
and cannot carry the people asking
passage. The large copper mines at
b Santa .Rosaia have almost shut down.
as their force of about a thousand
have stampeded. Gold from these
placers has been quietly received here
for a year past in considerable guam
titles.