PLACER DIGGINGS. 



13 



i 



md a lialf off, or to a stamp-mill thrice tliat distancG. Yet 

 he ore vas wonderfully rich, a specimen examined for onr 

 geologist yielding 7 38 "8 6 dollars gold and 7 '50 dollars silver 



t 



a the ton, while a cartload which we saw ourselves passed 

 L'ough the mill yielded GO dollars, the average of the whole 

 ^eld heing 45 dollars per ton. This was from the Candalaria 



me. 



Then 



we 



ipected the pi 



dig 



whence the 



istrict takes its name. Here acres upon acres of earth 

 lave heen tnmcd over and washed in the rough IV: 

 shion. "We were told that in most nlaces* where th 



cxican 



Mexican miner 



pan out 



?j 



om 



Y 



■vni.T-^W 



Amei 



ightest activity. We expected to find a bu 



. miners, but there was not a sound to raise the echo 

 mountains. "Where the siiins of former industrv h 



ound 



B 



was sol 

 around 



lay a lar 



machinery 



ito rust. "W 



asked why, we were told, fii' 



that 



and 



le Mexicans had no ambition to better themselves, 

 referred idleness to wealth; and secondly, that as yet 

 either capital nor energy had entered the country, for the 

 Ittention of the public had not yet been directed to it. 



'here is, however, un 

 ^areity of water. Wh^ 



ioubtcdly one 



great 



drawback 



i-e it is most wanted it is either 

 absent, or the supply is very insufficient. There are, 



many places some good perenn 



ri 



sufficient capital is brouiiht to beai 



o 



them 



By 



boi 



be obtained sufficient for 



30, a supply may some 

 necessity. But should 



