. California; an intimate history. FROM LONDON PUNCH, 1860. THE EL DORADO GAMBLING SALOON GOLD camps, had recognized the significance of the placer-mines; and Mexicans, Peruvians, ChiHans, as well assettlers in Oregon, had begun to pour into Mr. Larkin wrote twice to the Secretary of State,Mr. Buchanan, giving a circumstantial account of thediscovery. Before writing the second time he visitedthe mines and satisfied himself that they were of enor-mous richness and extent. It was already known thatthe placers extended for miles; and some men were takingout from one thousand to fiv
. California; an intimate history. FROM LONDON PUNCH, 1860. THE EL DORADO GAMBLING SALOON GOLD camps, had recognized the significance of the placer-mines; and Mexicans, Peruvians, ChiHans, as well assettlers in Oregon, had begun to pour into Mr. Larkin wrote twice to the Secretary of State,Mr. Buchanan, giving a circumstantial account of thediscovery. Before writing the second time he visitedthe mines and satisfied himself that they were of enor-mous richness and extent. It was already known thatthe placers extended for miles; and some men were takingout from one thousand to five thousand dollars worth ofgold a day. Mexicans told him that there was nothingso rich in Mexico. Governor Mason also paid a visitto the mines, and estimated that the gold yield was fromtwenty to thirty thousand dollars a day. The metal wasso abundant that many men found their pickaxes, shovels,pans, and cradles superfluous, and pried it out from thecrevices of the rocks with their jack-knives. These re-ports, when given to the public, banished any doubts
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