Chap. X. RETURN TO SAN JOSE. 585 
think so. According to their skill and application they 
are paid (or were then paid) from four to eight dollars a 
day, and thus, oven in California, could well afford to look 
respectable. The mine itself, though but of a recent date, 
has a number of shafts and tunnels extending to a consider- 
able distance into the interior of the mountain. How I 
attended the morning prayer of the miners in a subter- 
ranean chapel in the interior of the mine, before an altar 
of the Virgin cut out of the solid rock, I have described in 
an early part of this work. 
According to the remarks of Mr. C. Heusch, a German 
geologist and mining engineer, published in the Monterey 
Sentinel, the cinnabar, here as in other localities of this 
region, occurs in the veins of a quartzous conglomerate 
either in the porphyry or on the line of contact between 
eruptive and sedimentary rocks. 
When I returned to San Jose, I was astonished to see a 
stream of water rush through one of the streets, which had 
not existed two days before. The operation of boring an 
artesian well for the public use of the town had been suc- 
cessfully terminated in the mean time, and had produced 
the rivulet. 
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