Show californian CALIFORNI CALI FORNIAS AIS A son of mr A G pa paddock addock writes candidly af pf of the camp icv II 11 paddock a eon con of mr air A G paddock of this city to ills his father a very interesting letter from Cali fornias non newest cat bonanza camp Rands brandsburg randsburg burg I 1 in n kern c county P parts arts of it follow As you have rid no As many plowing accounts counts of Randa burg lit in tile tho papers I 1 m will III awo kivo 1 ou a few notes about the camp as it stands blands today I 1 have now boon been term fo four ur man ni p an und what ahat I 1 write I 1 have I 1 learned eifried by observation and experience the town lonn line grown ra rapidly pidy and ad con at the iho n L lima of 01 about live five hundred b uila n 8 ft and rat tents with mith to variety theaters theater heading the list hat gamblers and members of 0 tho the deml mondo monde aro arm in abundance tho the saloons do most mol ot of tile tho business gambling in t carl can I 1 led I 1 on in III enory oil all of them and boys as aay well all as aa older men buck tho the alff r anil and danco dance 11 and drink with will the he fays and nd aarlea 0 1 Rand brandburg burg there aro are but few men comparatively ively that aro are working work lne tile the camp b eing hold held up tip mostly by the coming and going of traus transients i mining men comin here front from all parts pana of the country express themselves as aa having little faith lit in the iho ell cump P and leave all disappoint wl after a L stay of a few ow days the nearest railroad at station too 1 Is kramer I 1 tamly enty eight miles mile ditan distant t from thin point most moat of the sup supplies pIlLs are hauled at the rate of xa cents per hundred tho the greatest tire drawback w back to the camp in the scarcity of water matel johannesburg onn one mile distant from iland sil ties liua tile tho water from tile the RISKS 1 I 1 well ell iourtc d c li into inlo the town the water berf for r burK la hauled in barrels from springs and wells wella six mix and ten miles distant nod costs 11 1 lid 60 per barrel or it W conta cents per cr bucket deneu we no many dirty shirts aetna lit in V tit tho general formation tor million of tho the camp Is IR granito 7 anti ami fohler cut up tip fly by hundreds hund redi or oc bull quarta f ir dhea and porphyry all delfs e running in all 11 directions most moat of the iho veins are small a rood good many of 1 them hem being worked by leaders leasers some oi of tile lle claims hae hac fren free mil millibar lInAr ore ere running oil all t tho tio A vay a y from 1110 up to SW wr per ton lon but I 1 alio a v e in aro are bat liat we call arbing in A width edth from one inch to twelve inches HANDS tito best claims in tile camp or some of them at least leant aro are owned by men who have had no exper lonco nhat whatever ever in mining and tills at becomes a evident ident from tho ahe way may thy they butcher their claims I 1 m will ill give five you one or tuo samples thero was uns a certain party who she tied had un co covered cover cl a I affe ago fifteen inches ald wide an and I 1 VS per ton tho the ledge hod had a pitch at 0 about 25 degrees and the iho owner sank bank a two luo compartment perpendicular shaft behind the ledge to 10 a depth of thirty feet then drifted sixty foot to cut ilia iho ledge when lie ho struck the nein jt it vas mas silly only four inches thick another trials had a threefoot three foot vein of 15 15 ore on the ridge of a small email knoll starting lii at tho the base of at the iho knoll he ran a tunnel in ono one hundred feet to tap the iho vill ln at a depth of twenty inanity feet herr here 1 Is tt a satorv told lold nio me by the hi foremen foreman of a mine working at a depth of feet ile he sent seat in an order to the company for candles candice alicy sent bent two boxes and d as a only lasted ladled a few days daya lie ho rop repeated ed the 0 order er after the fourth or n noih fill 0 order rd er hai been sent in ho he rec elvedi a loiter letter from tho the company telling him lie ho must do 10 more mok in tho the day datomo time and burn fewer candles cand lea t THE MILLS of the iho camp are arc situated on noma moms ary ary lake ten and twelve melvo miles distant the ali oro ore la Is hauled and milled for 10 per ton tho the we walca tee used ii od in fix mallin milling is IH pumped from m bellfl e the ore Is cry free milling and ca carreca r rles very little if any I 1 just over tle tile ridge slid about a mile east of tills camp lie johannesburg tho ilia sister plater city of and built on oil tho the future prospects of the iho camp comi to any one who I 1 la familiar with kith the history of tile tho california boom of ten tell years yeara ago tile ali story of johannesburg la Is not a a n new ow oil anft r sam and saw an opportunity to lay jay out a town toun tito tho selected was on A school section it a portion of which was nearly avel said with an aptitude born of ionic experience the hustlers hust huit lera lem entered into the work of be trailing tile unwary kimary into tho the pur chule of lotin lot low lols atel was waa the ivio subject of conNer sallon all over the nud one who saw only the iho pictorial dl splAy and read of tho the cheap excursions excursion would I 1 lm aganis the th place was as situated in tho the very vt ry heart of paradise As aa a malter maller of fact johann burg iq 14 in tho the midst of a desert rt ert for th that en matter so is ia Rands burc but the th latter a ban ad advant vantie that cannot be farally ally overlooked law in tile tho first place randt bure li Is more nearly tho the geographical center ot of tho ilia mineral hell belt and sec BW andly tile tho earlier settlement of rands burr burg hoa boa given it a blanding which it la Is difficult to undermine but tow few claims can over ever bo be a 0 ing factor to and ihy chev do not amount to much it lb Is truo ruo that tile iho boomers of johann burg have purchased a water supply consisting of ono as well uell and if this supply or of tenter motor aj J ready monopolized la Is to test tent the comparative pAra tive stability of tho the to towns nils then ml ing la Is hut but a secondary consideration and johannesburg in tho the place but this is TIO no summer resort as ilia boomers would have us believe and if it more not for tho the false and reports sont out as aa to tho the large bodies or of rich ore in tho the vicinity johannesburg would be the iho homo home of only a tow few hungry jack rabbits if a town exists in this botlon five years ca from now that town toun will bo be burs arg and water m ster mill hlll lo be 10 brought in when oco cession atlon demands it the two towns coal not live goud TO STAY AWAY it if any ono one aska aka for information as to what may be gained by coming coroleff out here I 1 adase you ou to tell him that 14 1 a good place to stay away amay from dont be misled by the arle plowing ienir accounts account of published in tile iho california papers they aro a the same bort walli ith rel gard aarl to any and every placa the flat papan me e r 1 attempt to boom you may hive have neen n tho the account of Randa burg published in the iho san Frund Exan niner about three thre a mout months heago affo tho the correspondent thoy meni out h hero or 0 did not know a aa quartz quarte ledge ledee from a porphyry dike consequently ho he had to g go 0 to the ali mine owners to got cot lila its informal information aon ond and lie got it there was waa a thrilling account of the iho way ilia first fa anous mines were found tho the samo same old story of the iho prospector traveling all day over tho the burning bands of the lh dc datert rt at most moat exhausted his tongue parched and swollen only ran few drops of water in hla his canteen can toen eto etc As night comes on he sinks dom down it on an Out cropping ledge imia to rest lila its tired limbs and dream of green fields and running streams tr cams notices som ethil t that a it glistens and with a halt half hearted b blow efow 0 of f hl his hummer knocks oft on the cap cai loue of a s ledge that Is fairia ablaze with wilh sold rold now kow it so happens that all the iho mines in the camp were blind veins and it took pores i ery cry careful protecting to find them the newspaper ac have only ono object to bring from near andl afar prospectors pros who spend their time lime and money and surfer suffer thi the agonies of most on the th mojave desert for naught some say ono need never RO go hungry huner Y on the desert tin lie con can always make a meal of ilia sandwiches there send nand which la Is thery for my part i will ill take lake my sand in some other country will Randa burr tho the Is famous 5 m comp camp or of the desert deft ert be only tho the city on the sands fianda before ten years havo have gone bono by that Is in the question QU ailon |