| Show GOLDEN SAND THE tur newly discovered gold oid old placer mines in southern california must bo be a good thing J B R jacobs I 1 writes tes to his son in law at san jose under date of fl F l hopa or tres pinos lower california nov 20 P according ge cording 0 to the san joso jose mercury as Ls follows hate hare heen been in this mining camp four weeks the placer mines aro the best I 1 ever saw it IL la Is mues from sar san diego I 1 presume yon haye baye seen been some tome accounts of it in the tho papers there thero are eans cans and loj Amer americans americana ieans itans hero here doing W well weil e 11 I 1 saw a man get 10 in one pan of dirt yesterday of nourse conree it was a packet pocket there Is no eoln eoin coin coln used need here nothing but gold dust and that is plenty wood Is P plenty I 1 enty anty but water Is one ono to three miles distant the dirt hauled balled yields from irom 5 to 25 there Is 13 a lack of 0 wa wagons fo haul the dirt in digging a bf hole hoie for a cellar to my house thi the dirt yielded eight cents to the pan I 1 bend send roa yoa yon a earn sain pie of gold cold dust aiso also some small email stones atones called bemo hero rabies tha the mines hoyer boyer cotar a seabe et of 15 miles wide by miles rulles long iong ion lon the whole face of the earth hereabouts ts a covered with broker brower quartz we are tha tho first white men ever here the indians hayo havo sold eold gold in san sin diego and the mission for the last list 75 pears peara the weather Is delightful mild and cool uko ulm san joso jaso in may |
