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Jones' Pantoscope of California - Part 3 (1927) (28 pages)
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238 CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
JONES’ PANTOSCOPE OF CALIFORNIA
(CONCLUDED)
Section Third
A short time before the Emigrant arrives at Hangtown he finds the
road branching: The left hand road, brings him to Weberville, a rival
of Hangtown. In the Public Plaza, a portion of the emigration have
arrived, and an auction is being held to dispose of the remnant of their
teams, Withe the scanty pittance thus obtained, for his worn out team
and broken wagons, — The Emigrant provides himself with tools and
commences digging, or prospecting for gold in the Mountain side.
Buoyant with hope, he expects every shovel full of Earth he turns up,
to sparkle with the shiney Aura, But he learns to work hard and
patiently, and wait for the “Good time Coming.”
Where ever Gold is found, the streams are deeply imbeded, it is
frequently three thousand feet from these Mountain Summits down to
the water. The chilians have thrown a dam over the stream, to turn its
waters through a channel which they have blasted through the rocks.
Thus leaving them the bed of the river for Gold working, Our own
Party purchased a claim on the upper bar, and worked for some time
among the rocks. We cooked, and slept under the tall pine trees, having
all out doors, for our bedroom and Kitchen — There is no dew falls on
these mountains in the summer season, and the nights are delightful.
“Cold spring” is a fine Specimen of a Californian valley quite a
little village is here, and the miners tents are found thickly scattered
around the base of the mountains
A Circus Company travelled at an early period through the Diggings, and were crowded from night to night, at from $2 to $3 per
seat. Their tent is seen in the center of the Valley. Here and there, on
these ranges are found live oak trees, of large size, and peculiar form, as
though they had been bound in their growth by immense vines, and
their trunks forced into a spiral, or screw form. [Illustration missing. .
Miners are washing Gold in a “long Tom” this, is a box or trough
from 20 to thirty feet in length, with a riddle at the lower extremity,
placed at a sufficiant angle to give the water great power as it rushes
down it. The miners on either side are shoveling in the Earth and
stones. Another stirs up the Mass with a long shovel. The gold by its
great weight sinks amid the softened mud and sliding along the bottom
of the cradle is intercepted by cleets, which are nailed at intervals of
from twelve to Eighteen inches, in the riffle box below.
Wherever gold is found, this red, Brick dust-looking soil obtains.
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