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" It appeared to be filled with a hard, bluish clay and gravel, which I took out with my knife; and there at the bottom, strewn along the whole length of the rock, was bright, yellow gold, in little pieces about the size and shape of a grain of barley. "
Six Months in the Gold Mines: From a Journal of Three Years Residence in ... - Stran 74
avtor: Edward Gould Buffum - 1850 - 244 strani
Celotni ogled - O knjigi

Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Količina 23

1850 - 720 strani
...called " prospecting." or searching for the' most favorable place at which to commence operations 1 had slung pick, shovel, and bar upon my shoulder,...was bright, yellow gold, in little pieces about the ?ize and shape of a grain of barley. Eureka ! Oh how my heart beat ! I sat still and looked at it some...
Celotni ogled - O knjigi

Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Količina 23

1850 - 724 strani
...one extending longitudinally along the rock. It appeared to be filled with a hard, bluish clay ami gravel, which I took out with my knife, and there...was bright, yellow gold, in little pieces about the «ize and shape of a grain of barley. Eureka ! Oh how my heart beat ! I sat still and looted at it...
Celotni ogled - O knjigi

CALIFORNIA ITS HISTORY AND ROMANCE

JOHN S. MCGROARTY - 1911 - 580 strani
...searching for the most favorable place in which to commence operations. I had slung pick, shovel and bar on my shoulder and trudged merrily away to a ravine about...of a grain of barley. Eureka! Oh, how my heart beat II sat still and looked at it some minutes before I touched it, greedily drinking in the pleasure of...
Celotni ogled - O knjigi

California the Golden

Rockwell D. Hunt - 1911 - 388 strani
...prospecting, he tells us, a large rock was brought to view around which a crevice extended. In his own words: "It appeared to be filled with a hard, bluish clay...bright, yellow gold in little pieces about the size of a grain of barley. Eureka! oh, how my heart beat! I sat still and looked at it some minutes before...
Celotni ogled - O knjigi

Material resources and labor-saving machines

Waldemar Kaempffert - 1924 - 484 strani
...in the sieve are picked over by hand, in case a nugget be present, before being thrown aside. peared to be filled with a hard, bluish clay and gravel,...there at the bottom, strewn along the whole length of this rock, was bright, yellow gold in little pieces about the size and shape of a grain of barley....
Celotni ogled - O knjigi

Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West

Vardis Fisher, Opal Laurel Holmes, Opal Laurel Fisher - 1968 - 492 strani
...how, having dug down to bedrock, he scraped with a knife over the stone until he found a crevice that "appeared to be filled with a hard bluish clay and...pieces about the size and shape of a grain of barley. Eurekal Oh, how my heart beat! I sat still and looked at it some minutes before I touched it, greedily...
Omejen predogled - O knjigi

Roughing it in Gold Country: Tales from the Mother Lode

William S. Pierson - 1999 - 208 strani
...forget the delight with which I struck and worked out a crevice. It appeared to be filled with hard gravel, which I took out with my knife, and there at the bottom, strewn along the whole length of rock, was bright yellow gold." But his delight in the humors of the time quickly changed to sorrow....
Omejen predogled - O knjigi

Eye of the Blackbird: A Story of Gold in the American West

Holly L. Skinner - 2001 - 308 strani
...hillsides. In the bedrock of one such ravine, Buffum found a long crevice. "It appeared to be f1lled with a hard, bluish clay and gravel, which I took...pieces about the size and shape of a grain of barley. ... I sat still and looked at it some minutes before I touched it, greedily drinking in the pleasure...
Omejen predogled - O knjigi




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