Arkansas intelligencer., 1848-10-14

Y : , f-7u .hiF. D6dies dud tOF winch we are
,si'eg - .o' the courtesy of the Secretary.
Q. S. NAVY AGENCY.e
.,-...-sv. California, July l, 1913.
A'' See nv last letter 10 you. written in
81 -.i.r,. have visited the SO PIacer,'' OF gold
FIat'C ~ California, and found it all it had been
% ID - 10 me. My aniici pations were fully
''.r' The part visited was the south fork of
s.- American, which joins the Sacramento
! .,f,rt, or two miles from il. This river
-,,ib and south forks. branching more than
niles from Fort Suter. On these two
...ro are over 1000 people digging and
q, go'd. On Bear creek and HuIo creek
~ y, Of Feather river. many are now begin
- york. Ii IS supposed the banks and bot
all these small streams contain vast guam
y add. and that the valleys between them
" with the same metal. The people are
King at many places; some are eighty
E,r, others. The place | visited was about
20 in extent on this were about fifty tents.
lave not even this covering. AT one tent.
-,r to eight single men, remained two or
a1s. These men had two machines made
IT, from so to 100 feet, inch boards. and
,,n,bTv but together. Their form was
5og ike a chiid's cradle, without the ends:
oT3 there was movable seive or rack to
1y, the dirt and shake off the stones.-
.rsre made in the bottom of the machine TO
he gold this wash stopped, and this was
~siort hourly. These two machines gather
q dav was present three-fourths 10 one
-e,rI. being three or four ounces of gold per
These men had worked one week with tin
.,sa tas: week with The machine. | saw the
of the first days work of two brothers.
.,i,s1s.l one had seven dollars, the other
r.wo, they worked on the same FIVE yards
| me. however, worked less the whole day.
.ogp. Ike hundreds o. others. was first with
and shovel, clear off two feet OF the ton
then 1qt in lin pan or wooden bowl 4 sho-
fFrt. 90 in.O running water, witbe hand stir
Ert and hecve out the stones. until they
rnain:1g 4 spoonful of emery or black
e,rral1r Cue 10 five dollars. This can be
uce Or twice day.
.l iav IS causing some saving Of labor by
movements in the rough machines now in
The d7v left, some small companies of
efrbt ui-n hgd machines from which thew
nle FIVE or SIX hundred dollars a day.
certainly must this day be at work on the
g1t P5acers several hundreds of Americans
a5ers, who are cleaning one ounce of gold a /
| have this week seen in Monterey a Gait |
a.. who shows four hundred dollars of gold /
hs labor of one week: much of it was the I.
of wheat. myself weighed one piece from /,
ag and found the weight an even ounce
Ike many others. only wen! up to the gold |
ls to see The place, borrowed tools. worked 1
tays. aud cams home to show his labor. /
take up brothers. cousins and proyisions.-I
II, at the Placer, Is scarce n Sl6 per hundred .
nds. At ainos. this price It must continue. as /
e are torsIkiEg their fields. | do not think .
eIaEgerating IN estimating the amount Of
o5taili on the rivers : have mentioned, at /
a9lSlud dollars day for the last few days. /
eIs every reason 10 believe the amount wiil /
lis season. unless tho washers are driven /
ls.f EorS BY sicaHess.} be any less. In /
ls .la addition Of sorkmen now Joining the I
3lss. aat me ealleraHJs from rIe Atlantic /
We sdIIi have IN October and December, !
sou swell the ya.ue Of California 60 id that
e Egs-ei OIL: 10 an uuhegrd Of value. Many /
llTe sen tho Placer thini, it viii las. thirty
.7 years. should think That it would az
Elri TO CE three years 70 many thousands F.
9 and msy for very mlny years. as | can |
a,1il;e the extent Of country having gold. /
working Of quicksilver mines, Ike every
asa Is S0Pysd three fourlhs Of the houses (
FfaH;-sco, are shgt up. Houses in Mon |
are beng closed this week the volunteer
mes Ct Soloml and San Francisco have /
5faI H9n By uosartion. Under the present (
2lt' siipof war or any other vessel Iy- /
,2,aor IN San Francisco. would lose many |
Ia that town there IS hardly a mechanic
lezPect Tbs samo in Monterey in two
Both newspapers have stopped. AL or /
Ill Inc bo!e's are shut up. One Of my
'ao received $500 and board, new receives /
sore near HaiVela. (Suter's Fort.) 500 F..
la; M Others are fast closing their books /
ga. Ia fact, fnd myself, or shall this /
sA-ol- c.erky carpenter or servant, and I
@iss, Formerly rented, given up to me. /
SsA Monterey will be nearly without in
Ia, with much respect.
THOMAS O. LARKiN.
e. hos ZIP c. JONES.
Glowing is extracted from letter from
lotion, L. S. Navy:
.eIy large company left Monterey to-day
'Nd scene-some on horses and soma in
~ne 10 carts, some on foot, aud some on
lie tract Of land where the gold is
"es hundred miles iu one direction and
-a'ner. Ii is said that ten thousand men
@N could not exhaust il. AS soon as the
t'aes Oregon we shall have a large omi-
'on that quar,er. Nobody thinks of fight
aAy ionger-the natives have gone for
@Hors have run from tho ships, and the
''a their camps. for the same purpose.
'sssei that left the coast was obliged 90
.aife new crew. and pay each fifty dol
Gla. No one can bo hired to dig gold
s2Ieen or twenty dollars q day--he pre-
,aS on his own hook-he may make less
0l' he has chance Of making much