Four Months Among the Gold-finders in Alta California: Being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold DistrictsD. Bogue, 1849 - 207 strani |
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American American Fork appearance arrived Bear River Bear Valley Bradley and Don Bradley's breakfast brought Californian camp Captain Fulsom Captain Sutter carried CHAPTER Colonel Mason couple course cradle crowded deserted determined digging and washing dollars Don Luis Don Luis's El Capitan encamped fandango felt fired Fork gings gold dust GOLD-FINDERS hard heard hills Horry horses hundred Indians José journey labor Lacosse Larkin looking lump M'Phail Malcolm miles miners mines Monterey Mormon diggings morning mountain nearly night oaks old trapper ourselves party passed pine pisco poor pounds weight ravines reached ride rifle rode round Sacramento Valley saddle San Francisco seems shanty ships shot shovels Sierra Nevada soon Spanish spot started stock of gold stock of provisions stream sufficient Sunday sundown Sutter's Fort tent thing thought to-day toil told took trail trees turned wagon Weber's Creek week
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Stran 32 - I positively debated within myself two or three times whether I should take the trouble to bend my back to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when further on, another glittering morsel caught my eye — the largest of the pieces now before you. I condescended to pick it up, and to my astonishment found that it was a thin scale of what appears to be pure gold.
Stran 32 - ... torrent. Early in the morning after this took place, he (Mr. Marshall) was walking -along the left bank of the stream, when he perceived something which he at first took for a piece of opal— a clear transparent stone, very common here — glittering on one of the spots laid bare by the sudden crumbling away of the bank. He paid no attention to this ; but while he was giving directions to the workmen, having observed several similar glittering fragments, his curiosity was so far excited, that...
Stran 33 - We agreed," said the Captain, smiling, " not to mention the circumstance to any one, and arranged to set off early the next day for the mill. On our arrival, just before sundown, we poked the sand about in various places, and before long succeeded in collecting between us more than an ounce of gold, mixed up with a good deal of sand.
Stran 32 - I had frequent business transactions — bursting hurriedly into the room. From the unusual agitation in his manner I imagined that something serious had occurred, and, as we involuntarily do in this part of the world, I at once glanced to see if my rifle was in its proper place. You should know that .the mere appearance of Mr. Marshall at that moment in the Fort was quite enough to surprise me, as he had but two days before left the place to make some alterations in a mill for sawing pine planks,...
Stran 48 - I was present at a fandango a few nights ago, when a couple of performers were dancing ' el jarabe,' which seemed to consist chiefly of a series of monotonous toe and heel movements .on the ground. The motions of the foot were, however, wonderfully rapid, and always in exact time to the music. But at these entertainments the waltz seems to be the standing dish. It is danced with numerous very intricate figures, to which however, all the Californians appear quite au fait. Men and women alike waltz...
Stran 33 - The next day I rode back to the Fort, organized a laboring party, set the carpenters to work on a few necessary matters, and the next day, accompanied them to a point of the Fork, where they encamped for the night. By the following morning I had a party of fifty Indians fairly at work. The way we first managed was to shovel the soil into small buckets, or into some of our famous Indian baskets ; then wash all the light earth out, and pick away the stones ; after this, we dried the sand on pieces...
Stran 32 - He then gathered some twenty or thirty similar pieces, which on examination convinced him that his suppositions were right. His first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe — perhaps...
Stran 32 - I was fairly thunderstruck, and asked him to explain what all this meant, when he went on to say, that, according to my instructions, he had thrown the mill-wheel out of gear, to let the whole body of the water in the dam find a passage through the tail-race, which was previously too narrow to allow the water to run off in sufficient quantity, whereby the wheel was prevented from efficiently performing its work. By this alteration the narrow channel was considerably enlarged, and a mass of sand and...
Stran 33 - not to mention the circumstance to any one, and arranged to set off early the next day for the mill. On our arrival, just before sundown, we poked the sand about; in various places, and before long succeeded in collecting between us more than an ounce of gold, mixed up with a good deal of sand. I stayed at Mr. Marshall's that night, and the next day we proceeded some little distance up the South Fork, and found that gold existed along the whole course, not only in the bed of the main stream, where...
Stran 31 - I was sitting one afternoon, said the captain, just after my siesta, engaged by-the-by, in writing a letter to a relation of mine at Lucerne, when I was interrupted by Mr Marshall — a gentleman with whom I had frequent business transactions — bursting hurriedly into the room. From the unusual agitation in his manner I imagined that something serious had occurred, and, as...
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