New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-20
THE Cold Mania In california.

We copy .he following letter from yesterday
UasiugroH Urs7 giving an account OF the gold excite
ment in California r. s NAVY AGENcv,
MONTEREY California July !, l-is
SIR since my lsi letter % you, written 10 an ran
cisco. have visited the "flscer. W -ol region nj tA
iorna and found al i bad been represented 70 ne
Nv anrciparons wee flly realized. TIE part visited
was The south fork Of the river American wnicn Joln'
the Sacramento AZ Suffers 0ri or two miles nom IL
This river has ia North and South forks orancnine
more that ~ miles from Fort Suter. On these two
forks there are over loo people digging and washing
for gold.
on Bear Creek and Hulo Creek. branches Of Feather
River many now beginning % work i q supposed
that the banks and bottoms % AL these sinai streams
contain quantities OF gold and that the valleys BE-
tween them rich with the same metal Inc people
are now working a. many places some are eignty
miles from others The place ] visited was about a
league in extent. cn this we're about nifty tents many
have not even ih1 covering AZ one tent belonging 10
eight snz e men remained two or three days Inese
men had two machines made IN day, from - 70 luu
feet inch boards and very roughly put together nef
form was something Ike chLds cradle without the
ends end there movable sieve or rack 70
wash down the dirt. and shake Oh the stones
Holes were msie IN the bottom q the macnne 70
catch the gold this Eash stopped snd this was scraped
our hourly tn - TWO machines gathered eacn day q
was present three iourths o. pound eech, being
three 20 four ounces Of gold per an these men h'd
worked one week with TN pans the ia-l week VIII u1
machine saw tho result 0f the lrti day Work OF Two
broihrrs Americans one had seven dollars the other
eighty two they worked on the same rye yards OF
land one however worked less insn tue "no.e ahy
Their plan ike hundreds o. others, was hrst win
rrk and shovel clear of feet 90 the top eartu tlfu
r- u I'm nan or wooden bow shovel Of dirt. go into
running wsfe- witt the hand STR up The art and nesVe
ourihe stones unit they have remaining spoonful OF
emery black sand, containing one 70 h'e dol-ai'-
This can be done once or twice cay
Each day causing some saving oil LABOR oy Tue I'm
proyemeuis in the rough machines now In use. Inc
Day loi some small compares oi I'VE ~ 80 ..,
had machines from which they anticipate e3D OF SUI
dav There certainly must THIS DAY % AZ "'lA OF
fhe different piscfrs. several hundreds Of Americans
and others who are cleaning one ounce oi goa Gay
have this week seen In Monterey CaLiornlan. VINO
shows 500 of gold from the labor oil one We lll
of IL was the size OF wheat myself weighed ore piece
from Lis bar and found the we ehf an even ounce he
Ike nany others only went up tO Inc g1d us I'D sec
the place borrowed tools worked o." day ana came
home % show bis labor and take brothers ana cousins
and provisions Jour 10 the fit er u scarce al CIV
uer loo Ihs 80 almost this price IL must continue o.
people are forsakng their fields do not tnnN an
evsggerstn g iu estimating the amount OF gold ooth
on the rivers have mentioned ~ ten thousand dollars
q day for the last !ew days There d every reason %
believe tie amount viii not This season iunlcss INC
washers are driven from their work by sickness hc any
lees ln this the addition of workmen now Joinin-
the fret and the emgrani- from the Aahuo 'tir
,.e shall have in October and December Will soof
swell the value OF California gold that viii be WASHED
our 90 4n unhcari 0i vn.uc.
Many who have seen the Placer. think il will la'
thirty or forty years. should think that II would NJ
ford work two or three years - many Thousands u
people and may i1r very many years, M clnnot c.i
cuiie the extent of country having gold inc "oI
inr of quicksilver mines ike everything else, d
stopped three fourths Of the houses ia the town
San Francisco are shut up. Houses IN Monterey arr
/ being closed ths week. the volunteer companies OF
slnoma and san francisco haze lost several men by
desoriiUn
Under the present excitement ship war or amy
other vessel lying az anchor il San Francisco wou.'
| lase many men. IN hat town there u hardly me
chanic remaining expect the same ~ Monterey %
two weeks Bob newspapers have stopped. Az oil
nearly al The hotels are shut mp. One Of my clerks
who received s-00o and board now receives DOB IN. store
near New ilrvefia lSltegs Fort) 500 per month nay
others are fast closing their books 90 leave me. ln TACT
ind myself ~ shall This month without clerk car
pointer or servant and an my houses formerly rented
gwen up TO me In Two weeks Monterey viii Doe near
Isl without inhabitants am, with much respect -
Cou1 Tuos Ap & JONrg THOS q. LARhlN.