The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-07-06
FORTUNES GOING BEGGING.
Hordes of Treasure Stored Where
summer Rcigns Supreme.

80 frost ever reaches the latitude Of
the Cape region. Gold is everywhere
and quartz mines only await the dis
coycrer At santa Kosalla, on The Gulf
Coast there are mines rich in "copper"
silver and gold. There was also smell
ter owned by q French company which
employed one thousand men. every one
0f whom has deserted and led 90 the new
placers an Sierra Pintada, which is about
one hundred miles east.
The usual route 90 the uew placers IS
hy steaemr from san Diego to Euseuada,
and thence by occasional scho0rers ga
line of steamers Will soon Doe placed upon
the routc) either TO Assumption Bay Of
Bay ST. Rogue. From these points ON
the coast the Sierra p.ntadl placefs age
about TWENTY-FIVE miles over sandy
and ascending trail, Waterlcs5 and OBJ
structcd by dense grow'hs Of cha9paraL
The mines cover "a territory OF twenty
five by fifteen miles. Water, D. IS said,
can Doe found az "a moderate depth. tut
not boo sufficient quantity for mining.
Drinking water is hr0uelt from the
mountains. distant twenty mues. and
sells for TWO aud half 10 five dollars
gallon. The gold is almost nure, and is
worth twenty dollars au ounce lt Us
mined ly taking n painful and blowing
away thc saud "a idb0ri1us ANA wdsietul
process. blt. Notwithstanding. miners are
reported as maHing from ten TO forty
dollars a day Two nuggets worth two
thousand dollars. % was reported. had
been found by two Mexican miners and
one hundred and hfty-eIsht thousand
dollars was the amount received Do one
shipment az Ensenada in tho latter part
of May. the first shipment in bulk That
has been reported. The mines. OF course.
1Ie on Mexican soil. and are operated
under Mexican laws. which are eftreme-
ly liberal TO the miner. About i've hum
bred people have up 10 June /, left San
Diego for the new placers. Many of the
earlier explorers have returned for ma
chucry and provisions. ana have greatly
stimulated the excitement by their Ia
vorabie reports.
These reports have been penetrated so
far as Alaska. and have had the effect u
a counter-.rrltant. as 10 We're. on some
Of the foriOrn people who have been
stranded there as victims Of the Klon-
dixie gold fever The contrast is too
great between the icy rig0rs Of Alaska.
with its interminable winter night, and
the sunny climate of California. whore "A
miner hard pressed for luck can always
fail back on the b0unties Of the country
side All around him Whereas. gold min
Ing I'm the kiOndike. as in some parts Of
the eastern ridge OF the Rocky Noun
tsins. simply resolves i,seif into "a long
drawn struggle ~ mans endurance
against hunger. cold and maddenins soli-
tude. The present lie cf a placer miner
i'm california, as IN the days of a.. diners
but slightly from that ~ any en.erpris-
lng pioneer who has pushed forward IN.
10 the untrodden wilds Of primeval ma
ture where all is veriure and sunshine.
In California al man has 20 10, after
NJ has graked ont hi. atm - % chop
down some OF the trees growing thckiy
all around him and 10 build his rude log
cabin in the clearing thus created. Cn-
ike pioneer lie on the plains. no pre-
cautions need be taken against sudden