The above gentleman gives his ex
perience in gold mining in the follow
ing article to the Now York Evening
Eos'. We have many gold mines in
this section of the country, and we
have no doubt they could be made
profitable to the stockholders and
speculators if they could get Mark's
extra uncle to spend a portion of his
time in the Middle States;
“I have just seen your dispatch
from San Francisco, in Saturday’s
Evening Post, about gold in solution
in the Callistoga Springs and about
prospectors having extracted $1,160
in gold of utmost fineness from ten
barrels of water, during the past fort
night, by a process known only to
himself. This will surprise your
readers, hut it does not surprise me,
for I once owned these springs my
self. What does surprise me, howev
er, is the falling off in the richness of
the water. In my time the yield was
one dollar a pailful.
“I am not writing this to injure the
property in case a sale is contem
plated ; I am only saying it in the in
terest of history. It may be that
this proprietor's process is an inferior
one. Yes, that may be his fault.
Mine was to take my uncle —I had
an extra uncle at that time, on ac
count of his parents dying and leav
ing him on my hands —to fill him up,
and let him stand fifteen minutes to
give the water a chance to settle well,
and then insert him in an exhausted
receiver, which had the effect of suck
ing gold out through his pores. I
have taken more than SII,OOO out of
that old man in a day and a half.
