The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-27
INTERESTING FROM CUR NEW TERRITORY
IN TaE PACIFIC.
continuance of the Gold Excitement
Extraordinary Condition of Affairs.

San FRANCISCO, June l. 1913.
The whole OF this part of California is IN the
highest state OF excitement (and the southern part
will soon become SOY relative to the Piacera. or
gold regions, recei ty discovered on The branches
OF the Sacramento rver. Three-fourths of the
houses IN San Francisco actually vac ated ;
even lawyers have closed their books, and taken
passage, with spade and wooden dish, to make
fortunes by washing out gold from the sands on
the Sacramento. Cooks and stewards have
fused fifty dollars month to remain under their
former employers. Clerks wages have risen TO a
thousand year. Carpenters, blacksmiths, and
teamsters, who IN April received three dollars a
day, now refuse ten a few still remain, making
shoyels, spades and pick-axes, and turning wooden
bowls, who are making upwards OF twenty dollars
day.
am informed that one blacksmith makes ten
TO fifteen small picks and sells them as favor at
So each. English spades and snovels will com,
mand $40 each, and by taking them to the gold
regions, yield a heavy profit by selling again.
There is not IN town one new shovel Tor sale,
perhaps not Tin cup orp pan. boat requires four
days TO 90 tom here TO Suffers Fort. The fare
has risen from 81 TO l2 each passenger carrying
his own provisions Wooden bowls, worth IN
New York 10 to 10 cents, would sell here now
for So
The gold dggers find the ore on the banks of
the river deep as IL inches; but 1t is supposed
to be deeper, and to extend from river to river
over a large tract OF country. They are obliged
10 stand In the river to wash out the sand the
gold remaining In the bottom OF the vessels-the
particles are very small, though some few weigh
one fourth of an ounce, and 1t IS more pure than
The doubloon. The Operatives" are now leaving
the Placera, TO seek for other spades and bowls,
and also TO construct some more machinery, that
they may work out OF the water.
Report says that the gold coast" is very eX-
tenslve, and can be worked by thousands for years
TO come. For this cannot vouch but thai they
haVt but kan and VCht
to ten dollars per day, and that twenty thousand
dollars worth of pure gold has reached the mer-
chants OF this port, in exchange for merchandise,
am very confident. Vessels are losing their crews,
and masters their servants, by desertion to gather
in the golden plunder-for such is the land be-
longing TO the public.
The quicksilver mines now in operation, has, as
| vet, used only Whaer's Try pots, and has made
enc Shipment to Mazatlan and has now eight
thousand pounds of quicksilver on hand the works
have, however, ceased, the mines have all gone to
the "PiaceIa" where every one works tor himself;
there pure repubhcanism is carried out In practice,
no masters, no servants-al men are ''free and
equal" club Of ten TO twenty men have, in
few instances, offered one Of their number $50 per
shed. We now fear the fever and ague may pre-
vail among these people, if so, they must suspend
operations until October. am afraid the knife
and pistol will also be in free and common use
The "Placera" sand Is rich that if exported to
England or the States, it would be as valuable as
tea, certainly more so than the best Coffee.
To me II seems this state OF things cannot exist
long, yet those who return from the golden river
say II will endure for years; should this be the
fact, imagination cannot predict the result; but
one consequence must follow-all provisions,
clothing, &c. &C., must be imported, and also
ready made houses, for no one can afford to pay
ten dollars day for mechanics labor.
SU PA1sANo.
BY the following extracts from the California
papers, it will be seen that the gold fever ispaying
havoc with the newspapers. The following Is the
LII, 8 q h. r1c~ H. E-I:c
the 2slh OF May, which speaks for ITSELF
To Our REApERs;-With this slip ceases for the
present, the publication of the Californian
"o.hellos occupation 9 gomez
The reasons which have led to this step are many
and cogent. We shall, however, only state few Of
them merely to satisfy those whose curiosity may be
aroused sufhc ienty to gain for US perusa and to
show the expediency of the measure.
The majority Of our subscribers and many Of our
advertising patrons have closed their doors and places
Of business and lett town, and we have received
order after another conveying the pleasant request
that the printer will please stop my paper my
advertisement as am about leaving for the Sacra-
mento" Wehave also received information that very
of in various parts of the country
have left their usual places Of abode gone to the
cholera If mere gler in the way of depopulatng
towns) is not confined to San Francisco alone. We
really do not believe that for the last ten days any
thing in the shape OF newspaper has received Ave
minutes attention from any of our citizens. This,
be whole country frsm San Francisco to Los Angeles
and from the he base of the Sierra Nevada
While the field s0i lett hs psnsd the house
half built, and everything neglected but the
acture OF shovsls and picksxes and the means
obtained $l2s worth of the real in wash-
ing, and the average for all concerned !. $40 per
diem for such in fact are the reports which have
reach. d us, and fiom apparently reliable sources,
In consideration of this state Of affairs the de
generscy of the taste for reading so naturally
queIt upon the rush for gold where the word every
man for himself and total disregard for his neigh
bor it would be useless expe nditure of labor and ma
| longer al N mana
Had We large amount Of capital to expend in the in
tervsl Of dull times which must result from
total abandonment of all mechanical pursuits, we
ould still continue to print and publish paper
neither it was read or not At the time when took
charge OF 1t, the receipts were not only amply su-
Gle Mt for its own support but allowed Of handsome
profit, but
THE hest laid schemes men Aft gang agles
Az Burns once remarked; and 80 in this instance
the gold fever" steppsd in and changed the aspect
Of things insts inter- upsetting ali and
reducing us TO the necessity Of suspendng paper pay
meDts.
The Cal1srnion however may by no means be con-
sidered as extinct, though for . time disco utinued
their reading faculties shall be ready to serve them
with newspaper according to the best of our abilities
After this date and until the publication Of pa.
Per resumed or other notice given, the public
formed that DO business whatever win be in
the name Of d. Hoppe Co.; those interested will
govern hemselves accordingly.
The editor of the California Star however. in
bis valedIctOry does not seem to acknowledge the
"gold fever" as the cause of his stoppage though
the total breaking up If the usual routine of bust
ness and the removal Of such crowds to the Sacra-
meito must have had lis effect.
The following advertisements show that all this
cry about gold has some solid foundation -
GoLp Conf! COLD !! !-Msssrs. Dickson & Hay
ore purchasers CT Sacramento gold liberal price
given. BEE HIVE.
COLD ScAIEs AND WEIGHTs-Accurate gold scales
ana weights made to order by the subscriber at short
notice. Many persons appear not to know that gold
weight s diee mt from that which ordi nary
Ii the TACT. and 1t would BIZ
tsne TO be extensively known the gold prospect ID
good Tor great number Of years working with force
oi tevera, thou and men Troy weight Ia that which
IL altogether weighing the precious metals and
graduated in this wire "a grans, pen nywe,gnt;
20 peDbyweiehts i ounce; IL ounces, pound This
pound II not II the weight that ordi narilv
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