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Newspaper Notes - 1850s (NN-18.5)(1850s) (336 pages)
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Page: of 336
spot. 6 was afterward called Nevaday and when tho {iret election fox Ioenl officers
wan held we wore importuned at our cradles, by gentecl Incking gamblers, who wore the
"leading ment, to vote for their candidates, ‘The populatden would have seatterud
rapidly bet for the discovery of the famous coyote or drift diggings, whlch wore Lireb
opened by a drift run in fvom Mich Ravine, by panera who cupposed they ware Loliewing
a vavine load for a short distance, I cank a shallow chaft on the slope of American
MIL, toward the ravine, duwing the winter, believing that the gravel bed nicht be
rich, but otrusk water, and wes obliged to desiet, though T got a “good color", all
the way down. ‘You imew Row the ontdre RL2L has since been atedppad to the boderotlt.
Tt was at Nevada that I caw the Siset ground sinfeing in the State, which led by
inseneible degrees to iydraulte mining.
ot being one of tho lucky, T left Deer Crock Just after the birth of Nevada,
end packing my blankets and seme bacon and biecult on my beck, and carrying a pan,
pick and shovel, etarted with two companions for the itiddle Yuba, reaching 1t et a
point aout @fteen miles above Tevada, ‘The snow wae oti2) dovp on the top and
upper flanks of the ridge, and we walked on its tep, the breaking orust making walle
4ngz very hard Labor. ‘She Middle Yuba region waa thon a terra dncomits, Nene of the
bars wore nened, so high up, and wo caw only two onal portdes working, who refused
te give uo ony Information. ‘There was of course no trading post. The deep chase
yas in ite native wildvess, and heard no sound but tho reay ef dts om pines and the
dash of the foaming rapids, Te had to Zell trea to cross ereghss and the feat was
often digcieult and dangerous. ‘Mtureading ow way through the canons was often extrence
ly hasaxioue, ‘The water was too hich to prospeat the bars, but we found gold in
paying avantitdes on the shelving reek, and thought so might go back in the summer.
ch our yotum to Deor creek wo got out of food, traveling hirtyesix houre on empty
gtomachs, mostly over the snow, and without water, being on top of the snow-covered
ridge. Yet i enjoyed with a genee of grandeur th Aretde sconery of those manci fice
pine forests, and the atare at night through the topes of the meaning treea had for
me a thelDiing faseinatden, when I again goachad my tent nesr the Sugar toa’ fT
ale.