Show WITH THE WIND mexican miners separated th gold from tho sand riding near the little placer mining settlement dolores in new desico said a returned tourist according to the new york sun I 1 saw two mexicans dry washing for gold and their proceeding struck me as novel and interesting te they were at work in a dry gulch without a of water in sight and had brought tho auriferous band in baskets to mouth of the ravine where the wind blew strongly down the valley their washing apparatus consisted of a heavy army blanket in the center of which they placed about a peck of the sand then each mexican taking hold of the blanket uy the corners they tossed the band high aloft again and again the wind blew away the fine sand while the heavier particles with the gold fell straight back into the blanket at last alicy paused there remained in the blanket a double handful of gravel and heavy sand in which glittered a few yellow species of gold As we rode on my mexican driver told me that the two men were probably malting three or four dollars a day during the time they worked but that as boon as they had made their clean up they would go into santa fe or cerrillos sell their gold dust and squander the last nickel they had in abl sky and monte before they would go bade to the gulch to work |