THE ISOLDES YUUA. m
cess, and were glad to go to work with exerting themaelve only to make the
Mr. Spect These three men then did final " clean up," and pocke t the result,
the first regular mining on Yuba river, Thia addition of affair waa tranaitory,
6n a 6pot within sight of the immense for the Indiana quickly learned that thy
hyilraulic mines of Smartaville, whose could buy thing with thia yellow stuff
tailings have long since coveted the the white men were looking for to re
place and hidden it forever from the gerly, and tagan operationa on their own
sight of man. In a few days, Clamlo account, though, owing to their inherent
Chana arrived on the scene, and went to laziness, their effort were of an inter,
work on the lower end of Rose bar. mittont and spasmodio nature. The
Intelligence that gold had been found miners had little to wl), Uide food
on the Yuba, soon reached American and tobacco, and the Digger, improvi.
river, and quite a number of men came dent by nature and education, worked
over and took up claims. Among these only long enough to waah out sufficient
were Roue k Reynolds, a firm of ship- dust to buy something to fill hi atom
carpenters, who had leen conducting a ach and hia pipe. He then reatcd from
mill for General Vallejo, and who had his labor nntil Uth were empty again,
gone to the mines with their workmen. At find they receive! but little for their
The whole party came over to tho Yu- gold, but, aa time pajw, they became
ba, and took up claims on the bar where better aware of ita value, and drove lt
had stood the rancherin, whose hospital, ter bargain. Row A Royuol.U opened
ities Spect had denied himself. This a trailing post on Itoao bar, and coined
place waa christened Rose bar, and was money by wiling trinket to the In
for years one of the liveliest and most diana-th ignorant nativea i-agrrly ei
important on the Yuba. Smartsville, ita changing gr Id worth a hundred dollars
lineal descendent, is still one of tho lead- for valueless articles that happened to
ing mining points in California. John tickle their fancy. In thia way, many
Rose now lives on a small patch of of the minera became wealthy in a f
ground, a few miles from the sceno of montha, and left the minoa fcr gd.
his early mining exploit, the thousands The most notable cae of this kind waa
of dollars, which he then made, having David Parka, who heated on Parks' bar,
long since slipped from his grasp. few mile llow IU bar, and almost
Mining waa conducted, in Hl upon opposite where Kpect find M struck it
an entirely different principle from that rich." Newa of Marshall a discovery lad
of the following year, when the inrlnxof reached Parka on the plaina, while on
thousands of eager gold hunters worked bi y to Oregon, with hia wifa and
a Budden and wonderful transformation, family of children, of graduated ail.
These pioneer minera were scattered for He at once changed hia destination from
some distance up and down the stream, the Willamette to the Sacramento, and.
and, in the main, labored vicariously, early in the summer, reachM the Yuba,
liy the sweat of the guileless Diggers' and located on the bar which afterward
brows, gained they their daily bread, bore hia name. He waa well supplied
The Indians were docile and tractable, with provi.iona, and, when he learned
and, for the slight reward of a gotl meal the way a of the unaophiaticaU-d Digger,
of white man's foal, would labor dili. it took him but a abort time U, Ur
gently in the broiling sun. while the convinced that hta hotu-dM could d.a
white proprietor, of the tools they ul. loiury of augar io tW
smoked their pipea serenely in the shade, coffer, aa long aa the lndtana were w,L