Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 September 1897 — Page 3

NUGGETS NEAR HOME

NO NEED OF GOING TO THE FROZEN KLONDIKE FOR GOLD.

Mining Along the Trinity and Salmon River* In California,—Men Are Piling Up Fortune# In Veins That Have Beet.

Worked Fifty Year*.

[Special Correspondence.]

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thought as I passed through this place on my way north that within two weeks there would be a gold excitement in this section second only to that which is now sending hundreds to Alaska, but such is the case, and having a few days of leisure I retraced my steps to find out the truth.

It is now no longer a matter of news that a few miners have found nuggets aggregating over $100,000 across the mountains from here on various creeks leading into the Trinity river, particularly Morrison gulch and Coffee creek. The gravel beds of these gulches and creeks are full of gold, some in "cucumber seed" flakes, or nuggets, and flour gold, or dust, not to speak of the gold bearing ledges which have been mined for many years.

Now, I find on inquiry that this region is no new field for the miner. Over

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teyond the mountains along the Trinity and Salmon rivers the small miners have been quietly working for nearly 40 years, but their section is so isolated, lying off the railroad and with hardly any good wngou roads to and through it, that very littlo has been known of their operations. Only now and then some lucky man would corno out with a sackful of nuggets, as the Graves brothers did the other day with their $40,000, to deposit them with some bank and then go baek to get sonio more.

Hut this Klondike business has set the country all aflame, and while gold has been found in this state right along, ever since the first discovery, 50 years ago next January, the fact is now made public. Why, 25 years ago Charles Nordhoff said in his book on California, published iu 1872: "If any one tells you that the mines of California are worked out, ho knows nothing ubout it.

No year passes without the discovery of new and important. veins of the precious metal in California. We shall hear less of brilliant discoveries or of great and sudden fortunes, but I believe Iho gold crop will be greater year after year."

I met Mr. Nordhoff a few months ago in San Diego county, and so presume he is still alive to rejoice at the verification of his prediction. Iu fact, having traversed the state of California from the Mexican lino to Oregon and skirted the Pacific const from San Diego to Seattle this summer past, I have not failed to note the evidences of mining still carried on in a small way by solitary individuals and in a large way with stamps and vast capital by corporations. As a writer in one of the southern papers said last May, "There is no boom on, but the burning of powder and the breaking of ground arc going on from tho Sonora line northward by a working, not jawboue, fraternity." When I was in the San Jacinto mountains Inst May, I heard of at least one mine that was cleaning up $ 1,000 a week, but it was not for sale. Its owner was after a good living only, and was satisfied with what he got.

The working of old mines and tailings and washing placer deposits are going on all over the world, not merely in California. When I was in Santo Domingo iu 1891, I became possessed of a half ounce nugget of fine gold and saw several others—a wholeliaudful, in fact—one of which weighed five ounces. Still there was no excitement there. The poor people in the mountains, when they were in need of a little money, merely weut^dowu to the river and washed out what they needed. The river gravel was their baukof deposit, and it never went dry.

And so iu California and along this coast generally, only the people here are not satisfied with such slovenly methods as the Dominicans. Our mint authorities at the close of 1891 estimated the output of this state at $757,?18,800, and since that time it had been placed at $1,000,000,000, though this may bo an exaggeration. But it is undeniable that California has gone on steadily adding to her pile, and, according to appearances, will still keep on doing so. As in olden times JWre, the beet returns are from sluggish riven or the beds of buried streams below the level of tho others and in the shape of coarse gold aud nuggets.

Although the exntemeut over the recent finds promises to recall the great Lendviile craxe, yet, as I have said, the finding of gold here has been predicted ami the predictions verified. The region where even greeuhorus are washing out $40 per pan aud More liea westerly from the rail mid at tins point, toward the coaM in Trinity county. North of it is Siskyou county, having the game surface naiformattoiis and draincli

by the same rivers, and of this county a state mining expert last year said: "That portion of the county from a little east of Mount Shasta to its western and northwestern boundaries is composed of a series of high, precipitous mountains and intervening valleys. The mountain chains hate not a general course, but trend in all directions, inclining more particularly to the north and eas&g The water courses flowing westerly through these intervening valleys huve tbttir main outlet to the ocean through the Klamath river. The canyons and mesas along the watersheds are filled with the detritus from the denudations of the mountains, and the gravels resulting from the vast erosions contain immense values of the precious metals."

Both hydraulic and deep mining have been pursued here for many years, the amounts taken out steadily increasing until last year they aggregated over $1,000,000. Four hundred stamps are at work crushing out the gold of the quartz ledges, and 2,COO men are employed in the mines, of whom only about one-fourth are Chinese. There are probably hundreds of mines iu this rugged regicn, most of them owned ai.d worked by individuals who earn enough from moderate labor in the summer to last them through the year.

Is not this a great deal better than to hie to a country where the winter is nine months long, provisions dear, every expense beyend the calculation of ordinary man? Here in northern California there is the perfection of climates. Snow does not fly till about the last of October. Provisions of all sorts are cheap and fruits and vegetables abundant, while the miner is never mauj days distant from civilization and the railroad. The average fare over the railroad from San Francisco to this section is from $8 to $10, to which add the cost of horse or wagon transport to the placer region.

As an old miner up in Oregon, where gold is being found galore, says: "The same energy and money and time expended in this gold belt of southern Oregon would undoubtedly produce greater results than in the Klondike and with no privations whatever. Suppose, for instance, that when the millions were taken from the two gulches within gunshot of Jacksonville it had been impossible to get away with the gold until some certain season of the year, and all that was transported in a lump sum, as was the Klondike's, what would have been the result: Why, a genuine Klondike rush. And you will not have to wait much longer to see a great mining boom here in fcpite of the fact that one can come here in a palace car and instead of snow and ice find the finest climate iu the world. The vast placer fields here are rich in gold, and they have been scarcely touched. From a single eminence here or.e may have a birdseye view of 100,000 acres of placer ground which will average 80 feet in depth and 25 cents per cubio yard from grass roots to bedrock.,r

And this is not an isolated instance of hitherto neglected gold regions coming to the front. Great discoveries, like misfortunes, never come singly. We are learning of gold finds all along that great mountain chain which rims from Patagoniu to Alaska. The auriferous wave is upon us. We have only to hold our hats and let the nuggets drop into thenf. We may chooso between Alaska and Bolivia, the frozen north aud the historic south, but I believe the golden mean lies somcwhero in this region, where one may get a satisfactory amount of gold with the least attendant discomfort.

FUED

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The Black Maria.

In Boston's early days a negress named Maria Lee kept a sailors,' boarding house near tho water front. She was a woman of gigantic size aud prodigious strength and was of great assistance to the authorities in keeping the pence When an unusually troublesome fellow was on. tho way to the lockup. Black Maria, as Maria Lee was called, would come to the assistance of the policetpan, and her services were in such requisition for this purpose that her name was associated with almost every arrest made.

Black Maria often carried a prisoner to the lockup on her shoulder, and when the prison van was instituted for the purpose of carrying prisouers it naturally enough was styled the Black Maria.—Jourual of Education

Foond Repose Behind the Pulpit.

Seth Payne, a newspaper character of Denver in other times, was a victim of insomnia to a distressing degree. He finally obtained permission of Tom Uzaell to sleep in the Methodist church, and during the summer of 1879, wrapped in an ordinary blanket and stowed away behind the pulpit of the parish church, he found repose which he declared was deuied him elsewhere. —Denver Times.

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Chivalrous and Merciful, bat Severe Immoral Women. [Special Correspondence.!

SAN DIEGO,

This mode of punishment may appear rather barbarous in this age, and, being so near the border line of the home of the new woman, it is like a page from the dark ages. Though the Spaniards and Mexicans have always been considered to be the most chivalrous of all people and merciful to the female sex, they are nevertheless very severe in their punishment of what they consider a very great crime.

Instances are known in California, when under Mexican rule, where women were sentenced to the chain gang and to imprisonment in irons for infidelity. A woman once served in the chain gang at "Old San Diego" for betraying her hushand, and when ho condoned her offense by living with her afterward he was given six months in jail for "violating the canons of good society and causing much scandal thereby," but in most cases the offending women were imprisoned at a friend's house, who vouched for their good behavior until the alcalde saw fit to release them. In the case of a man the punishment was imprisonment or flogging, but he usually got %much longer term and was beaten with more stripes than the women received These cases were merely "local" and were considered as cases of the "first instance," and from the alcalde's decision there was no appeal. Separation followed, but no divorce.

Reflection of Sound.

In some of the large cities of Europe the principle of the reflection of sound is tery ingeniously employed in locating the position of inaccessible obstructions in the pipes of the pneumatic tube service. Thus, when a pipe is constricted a diaphragm that is so thin as to vibrate instantly under the force of a sound wave is attached to the end of the pipe and connected electrically with a chronograph in such a manner that when the diaphragm vibrates it will close the electrio circuit and register on the chronograph. A pistol loaded with a blank cartridge is then fired into the tube through an opening just below where the diaphragm is placed. When, theft fore, the shot is fired, the sound wave causes the diaphragm to vibrate and registers the exact time on the chronograph. The sound wave will travel along the tube until it meets the obstruction and will then be reflected back. On this reflected sound or echo returning to the end of the tube it causes the diaphragm to vibrate again and make another registration on the chronograph, which by this simple operation will correctly indicate the exact interval of time required for the sound to travel from the end of the tube and back. —Exchange.

Publicity.

Merely to stock a store and open it is not sufficient in these days of keen business rivalry. The merchant, in order to succeed, must make known his advantages through tba newspapers that reach the people not only of this city, but of the surrounding towns as well This is now called "publicity," but it can be quite as well recognised tinder the good old name of advertising.— Scran too Truth.

Loof and th« Short of It.

According to an old French saying, "A man's character is like his shadow, which sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, and which is occasionally longer, occasionally shorter than boia." —Kansas City Star.

"The Year Book of Jews," published in London, estimates that there are is

stomach receives it the world about 11,000,000 of that race,

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TERBE HAUTE SATUKDAY EVENING- MAIL., SEPTEMBER 18,1897.

MEXICAN MORALS.

Cal., Sept. 8.—The

Mexican village of Tia Juana, jest across the line, is excited over the recent arrest of a married woman of that village on the charge of immorality. She is imprisoned iu the calaboose to await judicial investigation. This mode of procedure struck some of the tqnrists with surprise, and even indignation, that a woman should be imprisoned tor such an offense. The tourists seem to be more excited about the matter than the local gossips, who comment only on the escapade itself, looking upon the imprisonment as a matter of no special interest. The case will be investigated by the alcalde, and if the charges are sustained he will inflict what punishment he may see proper upon the offending woman, such as imprisonment with irons or merely a term in the chain gang, or, if it is an aggravated case, he may sentence her to be flogged.

J. M. SCANLAND.

He Played What He Saw.

An itinerant musician who played the trombone in a little German band haled the leader of that organization to a London court and demanded that a week's'wages which he claimed were due him should be paid. The leader declared that he had discharged the man for incompetency and that he had been paid in full. The plaintiff insisted that he was a skilled performer, and in explaining the incident that had resulted in his ejection from the band charged that the discordant noises which be admitted he was guilty of making on one occasion were the fault not of himself, but of his employer. In elucidation of this mystery the aggrieved musiciau said that the leader, as usual, had distributed the different parts to the players and had been careless enough to pass over the trombone part upside down. Being nearsighted, the player did not notice the mistake, but proceeded to sound tho notes as he read them from the reversed score. "I blay vot I see," he declared in court, "aud dere vas a noise." The leader said the "noise" was dreadfuirVis may well have been the case, and that the plaintiff had refused to stop playing when ordered to do so. Ingenious as was the attempted explanation, it did not convince the judge, and a verdict for the defendant was given.—Berlin Correspondence.

Weighing an Elephant.

Ah Indian writer relates an interesting antedate concerning Shabjee, the father cf the first ruling prince of Mabrattas oi Hindustan, who lived at about the beginning of the seventeenth century. On one occasion a certain high official made a vow that be would district® to the poor the weight of his own elephant in silver money, but the great difficulty that at first presented itself was the mode of ascertaining what this weight really was, and all the learned and clever men of the court seem to have endeavored in vain to construct a machine of sufficient power to weigh the elephant At length it is said that Shahjee came forward and suggested a plan which was simple and yet ingenious in the highest degree. He caused the unwieldy animal to be conducted along a stage, specially made for the purpose by the water side, into a flat bottomed boat and then having marked on the boat the height to which the water reached after the elephant had weighed it down the latter was taken out and 6tones substituted in sufficient quantity to load the boat to the same line. The stones were then taken to the scales, and thus, to the amazementof the court, was ascertained the true weight of the elephant.—Animal Friends.

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According to the statement of Professor Lewes, a London fog deprives coal gas of 11.1 per cent of its illuminating power, but this is not so astonishing as is the fact that, under similar circumstances, the searching light of an incandescent burner loses as much as 20.8 of its efficacy. The reason given by Professor Lewes for this phenomenon is that the spectrum of both the incandescent aud the electric light approaches very nearly that of the solar spectrnm, being very rich in the violet and ultraviolet rays. It is precisely these rays which cannot make their way through a London fog. To this is attributed the fact that the sun looks red on a foggy day. The violet $pys are absorbed by the solid particles floating in the aqueous vapor of the atmosphere, and only the red portions of the spectrum get through. The interesting additional statement is made in this connection that the old argand burner is much more successful in resisting a London fog than any of its later rivals. *,•

Rack from the Grave

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Bat Little Dancer From Lightning.

Writing on "The Needless Fear of Lightning," Edward W. Bok, in The Ladies' Home Journal, says that "it will doubtless surprise the timid to know that only 200 deaths a year occnr on an average throughout this entire country from lightniug, or one person in every 850,000 people. Now, in comparison, 15 times as many people are killed each year by falling out of windows, over twice as many from being bitten by rattlesnakes, while 85 per cent more are killed with 'unloaded' pistols. More people are drowned around New York city alone every year than there are deaths from lightning all over the country. In fact, more people by 50 per cent are killed by beiug kicked by horses in New York city than die from lightuiug thoughouttbe whole of the United States. The casualties of the south show the dangers of beiug lynched and of being killed by lightning are about the same. The trolley cars of our cities kill afar greater number of people than do the lightning storms. Now, these are facts. They are strictly accurate aud carefully computed."

The Boss.

In a harsh, resonant voice the boss was shouting his orders over our heads to the furthermost- portion of the works. His shcrt, thickset, muscular figure seemed rcoted to the masonry on which he stood. The mingled shrewdness and brute strength of his hard face marked him as a product of natural selection for the placi\ that he filled. His restless gray eyes were everywhere at once, and his whole personality was tense with a compelling physical energy. If the work slackened in any portion of the ruins, his voice took on a vibrant quality as he raised it to tho shout of "Now, boys, at it there!" And theu a lash of stinging oaths. You could feel a quickeniug of muscular force among the men, like the show of eager industry in a section of a schoolroom that hgs fallen suddenly under the master's questioning eye. —rf'The Workers," by Walter A. Wyckoff, in Scribner's.

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FIBROID TUMOR

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Interview With Mrs. B. A. Ixmb»rd.

I have reason to think that I would not be here now if it had not been for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It cured me of a fibroid tumor in my womb.

Doctors could do nothing for me, and they could not cure me at the hospital. I will tell you about it:

I had betn in my usual health, but had worked quite hard. When my monthly period came on, I flowed very badly. The doctor gave me medicine, but it did me no good. He said the flow must be stopped if possible, and he must find the cause of my trouble.

Upon examination, he found there was a Fibroid Tumor in my womb, and gave me treatment without any benefit whatever. About that time a lady called on me, and recommended Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, said she owed her life to it. I said I would try it, and did. Soon after the flow became more natural and regular. I still continued taking the Compound for some time. Then the doctor made an examination again, and found everything all right. The tumor had passed away and that dull ache was gone.—MRS.

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