Show FROM SAN JUAN the NEWS has been permitted to inspect a letter from hon HOD francis A hammond of bluff city san juan county in which he gives give the information that thirty to fifty people a day pass paea there all bound for the gold fields he says bays there la Is gold there beyond a doubt but where accessible la is not in sufficient quantities to dav except with the employment of ms ma chinery chi obi nerv nery and there is none of this at tiny any place yet those who are equipped for a stay and can live jive within themselves 1 9 so to speak way may be able to get along very well wel but the poor man who relies on getting work will be disappointed and had better stay away this applying more particularly to those who nave employment brother hammond makes the suggestion that those who have staked off claims for clity miles or more from the junction of the san juan with the colorado work there till spring by which time some so maides idea may be of what the country amounts to but at the present time he to Is disposed to speak rather disparagingly of it especially as a field for those who cannot sustain themselves for the time being it was high time that such information was received for the he reason that reports of the other kind have flooded the country to such an extent that the rush long continued would have made it well wall nigh impossible for anyone to got get along there even if there Is a reasonable amount of gold this proposition seems 8 to be conceded the whole country skirting the henry mountains and either shore of the san juan river for miles to is undoubtedly a placer field fro which golden be taken more or less jes readily but as suggested unless union the searcher is well equipped for a stay or is prepared to take expensive machinery to the ground worked he is not likely to accomplish much meantime we reiterate the advice of brother hammond that poor men for had better bear the ills they have than fly to others which they know not opa ot and only hear of as am a rule from interested parties |