Excerpt from The Gold Fields of Lower California: Being a Complete Guide Book With Official Maps, Revenue and Mining Laws, Etc., Etc., For Miners and Settlers These are sample questions that are being asked by thousands of people on hearing the news that gold ls' being found In fabulous quantities in the' gulches and canons of the Mexican territory of Lower California. Such reports have been com-ingin for some three weeks past. A gold mine has a peculiar fascination for the human mind and rouses a strong excitement. The reports have been confirmed by persons returning from the mines with gold dust and nuggets which they themselves dug out. This increased the excitement to such an extent that nearly all the male population of Ensen ada have gone to the mines, something like 3000 people have left San Diego, and on one day (saturday, March fully 600 people left Los Angeles on one train. At present writing, miners, prospectors and tenderfeet are flockin g illi scores and hundreds from all the Pacific States and Terri tories. Large numbers are crossing l y the old route of the Patys, the Ken tucy trappeis, who went from Yuma to Santa Catarina Mission in 1828. Rich and poor, big and little, prominent and obscure people are hastening to the find, and a low estimate will place 5000 Americans now at the Santa Clara gold mines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.