. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. - in the springreturned to the Trinity, now locating on Readings 1 Reproduced from Roosevelts The Wilderness Hunter, by permission ofG. P. Putnams Sons, publishers, New York and London. 2 Goods firm also located on this bar where they kept a trading-post andcarried on mining, and where Good, in a letter, now before me, dated Sacramen-to, June 1, 1851, writes that he had the bigpest hick mining he had had inCalifornia. His partner, Joseph H. Brown, took out near $5,0()0 in twodays, this including a nvigget, clear
. The argonauts of 'forty-nine, some recollections of the plains and the diggings. - in the springreturned to the Trinity, now locating on Readings 1 Reproduced from Roosevelts The Wilderness Hunter, by permission ofG. P. Putnams Sons, publishers, New York and London. 2 Goods firm also located on this bar where they kept a trading-post andcarried on mining, and where Good, in a letter, now before me, dated Sacramen-to, June 1, 1851, writes that he had the bigpest hick mining he had had inCalifornia. His partner, Joseph H. Brown, took out near $5,0()0 in twodays, this including a nvigget, clear of quartz—nothing but virgin gold, andworth $16 per og. $3, HEAD OF A CALIFORNIA LION.—1 A BRILLIANT VENTURE. 117 Bar, where 1 found the digginf^^s pretty uniform andfairly good. One miner, a Missourian, assured me asto liis claim here, that he could make an ounce a day d d easy by working d d hard. Some claims paid much better than this, but the average per day tothe man was perhaps not far from ten dollars. Thepay-dirt was borne by hand to the river, where it waswashed in cradles, or rockers. With the exception ofone or two wheel-barrow^s, the Holland yoke, withbuckets made of ten-gallon casks sawed in two, wasthe contrivance used for this purpose. This processwas slow and laborious, and became more and moreso as the claims were worked back from the , the carrying of the heavy buck-ets produced physical distortion, mak-ing one r o u n d -s h o u 1 d e r e d in a shorttime. In view of this unsatisfactorystate of things, a party of us conceivedthe project of carrying the water to thedirt, instead of the dirt to the water, aswas
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