The Land of Gold Reality Versus Fiction
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We shall here find a great^ many Mexican miners, who make deep pits and excavations in the hills, and who are generally very successful in their operations.
These delving countrymen of Santa Anna seem to have a peculiar tact for discovering the veins of gold. But they do not confine themselves much to surface diggings. They have a greater 1-80 STOCKTON AND SONOKA.
propensity for holes. Sometimes they will go forty or fifty feet into the earth without finding an atom of the precious metal ; but ...it is very seldom that they mistake their ground ; they keep going, either in a perpendicular, horizontal ori meandering direction, until they strike the ore. Except in working quartz veins, machinery has heen hut little employed, as yet, in develop- ing the mineral resources of the State ; but I am inclined to the opinion that it might be advan- tageously applied in gathering the' gold in what- ever form it may exist.
A part of the preceding chapter was devoted to observations upon the habits of life and per- sonal appearance of the miner ; but I neglected to mention his peculiar characteristic or append- age : this is the long hair upon his head and face.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
We shall here find a great^ many Mexican miners, who make deep pits and excavations in the hills, and who are generally very successful in their operations.
These delving countrymen of Santa Anna seem to have a peculiar tact for discovering the veins of gold. But they do not confine themselves much to surface diggings. They have a greater 1-80 STOCKTON AND SONOKA.
propensity for holes. Sometimes they will go forty or fifty feet into the earth without finding an atom of the precious metal ; but ...it is very seldom that they mistake their ground ; they keep going, either in a perpendicular, horizontal ori meandering direction, until they strike the ore. Except in working quartz veins, machinery has heen hut little employed, as yet, in develop- ing the mineral resources of the State ; but I am inclined to the opinion that it might be advan- tageously applied in gathering the' gold in what- ever form it may exist.
A part of the preceding chapter was devoted to observations upon the habits of life and per- sonal appearance of the miner ; but I neglected to mention his peculiar characteristic or append- age : this is the long hair upon his head and face.
What to read after The Land of Gold Reality Versus Fiction?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Hinton Rowan Helper to read onlineMoreLess
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