The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-19
we have given. For instance. we make the following
extract from the New York Journal of Commerce:

0Pp'' July 2. isss
Since my last gold mine has been sprung here 1t mas
been discovered that the sands which border the amer
Fork and the Feather river branches Of the
TO- full of particles gold resembling In shape 'ue
shot, hattened out IL is got by washing IN any 10
a tea saucer to a warming pan single P''s " So $50
10y this process. from one 10 two ounces gay % ~
have gone as high hundred dollars worm i"o 'o
sand whites and many Indians are now ens"ke" III
washing the sand All labor OF every o'hef kiho mas oP
ned exceo, Uple farming Mechanics, doctors, lawyers,
sailors soldiers, have all gone in mass TO the
gold region Only The women remain and they VIII, II Is
expected start Their cradles will answer admirably
TO wash OUT gold in, and the litde fellows in the time
must themselves with the ngots which their mothers
dig
is most intense People stop each other the
feel pulse, and how the gold fever, is called,
beats Talk laborer about hiring him for fifty dollars
a month, and he will turn sp his you. Offer him
dollars day, and he will tell you he is bound 10
Feather river. One man, who resides door me.
gathered five hundred dollars worth in six days He has
one lump which weighs trough such as
feed pigs in will bring in the gold region fifty dollars
Put piece OF sheet iron, punched with holes and
will bring hundred My friend j. X. paid sixteen
dollars for little basket and his companion twenty
for chamber po-a to wash out the gold in 1t beats all
the dreams OF romance and all the golden mave OF the
wand of Midas And yet it is rue if there be truth in
where gold is concerned
Sailors all from ships, and soldiers from our
camps, search the gold region. One Yankee captain
he told them he would join them and they would give the
mate the ship,-and enough, when the mate walked
up the morning he found the captain and ships
launch all gone and he himself rch of all he
veyed The last vessel that left the obliged TO
pay her fifty dollars per month each There
in chasing sailor here you might as well hunt hare in
nterminabe forest.
From, another letter, dated
MONTEREY, June y, 1913
You have idea of the excitement in the northern
part of California, in regard the Pacers," lately
discovered Such quantities OF gold i will try give
you account of it. Mr. l.. has just returned from
the gold district, which about thirty five miles
above Suters on the Sacramento (no knows the
tent) The gold found the surface the banks
OF the rivers tributary the Sacramento More than
$4,000 have been collected within the few weeks
it was discovered. The accounts wonderful. Steady
working men average $40 per day, though many times
hundred dollars has been collected in day by
Hundreds of people there Monterey, Santa Cruz San
Jose and San Francisco deserted. 1t about five
days good travel from here the district. There flour is
worth 1872 per barrel Is lbs. of Boston crackers, tin
boxes, $40 box; shirt, So boards $500 per
1000 feet carpenter can get 500 per day. Mr. L.
paid for cradle trough, IL feet by wide,
wash gold earth in, $3.50 Less than days work to make
it, SO things there ten days since. How long the
bubble will last, is impossible say. All that L. says
about is wonderful Governor Mason and aid have gone
the district On their return shall have facts, and
perhaps the other side Of the picture.
lit is, of course, impossible for TO say how long
this gold fever will continue. And it is still doubtful
whether will eventually rebound to the advantage of
California. One effect it may have, viz to invite emf
grants from the United States, Oregon &C., &C., to fill up
the country sooner]