| Show 1 GOLD MINING III illy thai tl e business of gold mining in wis inaugurated i der circumstances especially to tho e uly perfection of in it industry this is tl e theory held by most early residents of alie sute and tl 1 istone il view tikon of att event J suggest iry would be I 1 eld by alic gioi a grievous 1 u it hi bien hie v out of ir i aoi it to on tl con 11 alloi s in ur acl gold gill wis liere 1 carried on nd yet 11 Is lew of tho is 0 ir gic it industry M 11 at its inception tian dica ped bv alib boist possible soundings so bid tl it it as idly s stunted in its alie effects of dwarf ire and mt to tl is day gold during the first decide wis to plentiful and easily andy right here liy the trouble lie birly miner because lie could earn big age little exertion soon became improvident and careless ahls stage reached in his course it was but a step aarti er idleness and adissi calion the end of was early an absolute it is bf course abnot ahe fate of all or even of n majority jut it was of a great many s icci condi lion of bilings having proun generally hurtful aid demoralizing 11 abit of this kind contracted lining 11 e asli times adhered to alie after these were over lemvig 1 im oril ind a physical wieck but the facility with alich gold could at first be obtained while it so ended to demoralize alie miner worked to the detriment of mining as veil hen the quartz veins and the deep came to be tie shallow diggings channg bein exhaust ed our miners biad as little stomach for this more aid ions kind of work as they had money to pay for its t leuce tt is class of deposits was bieg eclea or attacked in only a f lini litant ed sort of way lucli of aliese men as had means eitl er leaving tl e mines or emigrating to other countries n search of virgin placers how different would all his have been 1 id tl ere been found in california only vein mines or deep placers at the start ich such depos ts only to deil willi would have been little to induce dissipation idle ness and 11 air development requiring capital baill id good man tl e malign influence and con that so obtained in the early dais would have been largely if not absent 1 lie bulk of laborers considered would have fared equally as well is 11 ey did wl ile llie b iciness of mining would leave been immeasurably furt lier advanced than ve bow find it 0 o far as solid progress is concerned fully a third of the time II 11 at has since the discovery et gold in california 1 is been virtually ost can lever make abid progress in nor are hey apt to attain a 1 igli morality they must become perma pent before they can establish perma lent institutions ai d industries intelligence must be combined with aber bains w illi brawn beaole useful callings n or oti er d vai cernei t be made to p ick ins blankets and scurry uway in of new diggings on tl e slice test anti inti that lucli I 1 ad been found in some distant locality lie enly miner would never have done lucli tow aids III aking Cili furin i wh it she is touy to uy 11 e 1 of alio miner is alien moie tl an amisy camp 1 is hold on society as is ali it of of the desert lie digging of gold in ho tino liere to billed for lindly gioie baill 01 laboi tl an tl e digging of i ot not h alf as much of billier is is leq arel for tl e 1 l of tl t useful tucci lie cinci was i man of many good q i beave generous haidy and it dust enough alien there was big i ly in sigl t not often ise lie w is i ath tinder and an explorer exi lorer lie was a man to discover good places for diomes but not to make a home for himself llie country and the world ow is much to 1 im and we would be tl e last to disparage 1 is vir bues tues or dei alie v alue of ills ser vices aut it stems to us tl e day lias come when we may properly cease to deplore the passing away of hush times about w e 1 ear so much and which so many in their ignorance would gladly see restored ad vantages such as they ivere leave been greatly overrated partly because they have been sung so much and partly be cause they leave been so widely la dented let tl en the present generation be advised tl at tl ey have lost but little in not I 1 abing lived in alie wild and waste ful period liere commented upon and let atie california of to day be advised that it gained less tl e exist ence of that i briod than t as generally been sui i ased M 5 sic i fr press |
