After leaving Sha-vang we daily scores of men washing the sand for in the most primitive manner. choose places where the rapidity of the stream has washed away thes and left a pelbly bottom; here they wash the gravel through a flat wicker basket, and allow the filtrate to run down an inclined frame something like a large door, the flat surface of whi transverse grooves about an inch apart for the pur-30 of catching the heavier particles of the filtrate as. it is washed down the board. After about a dozen baskets-full of gravel have gone over the board the contents of the grooves are washed into bucket and again subjected to the same process, until nothing but particles of Fold dust and hard rock are left. One of the gold diggers told me what I already Imew, that each man is able usually to make from 150 to 200 cash a day. "This is just abore the average of a good mason, or a. common carpenter. Sometimes, however, they light upon a spot where each of the sis men who work together make as much, or more than 1000 cash a day. (Just. over a Mexican dollar.) There is nothing here to tempt the cupidity of the gold loving foreigner. Further north above Lao-ho-K'ou, where the river is hounded by hills and mountains, the prospects are better.
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