New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-25
More of the III Dorado.

The following extract Of letter b a gentemsN
10 Washngton, is kindly furnished us Tor pubhca-
tion. Il confirms all that We have said about the
gold discovered ia California and IS struck 81 10
very spirited style We know not which most g.
admire the curious facts which the writer states,
or the charming manner IN which they are pre-
.ented Washington I nion
MONTEREY. UPPER CALrToaNiA July 3 l-is.
DEAR SIR: gave you in my last letter some &C.
count Of the mineral wealth II California silver.
quicksilver lead and zinc, have been found in our
mountains and now i has been discovered that the
sands which e along Feather river on the American
fork branches Of the Sacramento are richly impreg
mated with gold. 10 y found m shape rcscmpllhs
snow fakes and is washed from the ana with great
ease 4 person with basin or bowl VII wash OUT
from one 10 two ounces 4 day. some VINO have been
fortunate in the selection Of their spots nave
than quadrup!ed this amount There 5 man IN
Monterey who washed ont FIVE hundred dollars
worth in six dave Everybody IS now going or gone 70
this gold region. Some thousands are on the spot ani
more on the way. All Oregon as soon az the news
reaches there, viii be down upon us. You can hardly
hire ls5orer here for tel dollars day, and on me
gold river he charges nlty. Mechanics, lawyers ana
doctors have al left for Tie gold region Soders run
from their csmps sailors from their decks and women
from their nurseries their cradles answer Tor machines
20 wash out gold.
san Francisco sonoma santa Cruz, and San jose.
are deserted Of their inhabitants and the mass j. begin
ning - move from Monterey. ] shall soon be in the
condition Of Colonel wiki bis cglnent iis1anded-
The tract Of country in which the gold b. found eN'
tends Irri miles IN one uile'l' nA 7N'i+.
forty in the other II il supposed that ten thousand
persons might work for years and not exhaust H. Iney
have worked yet only on the margin OF the stream
on account Of Us convenience 10 the water but gud
mas been found leagues distant and even on the noun
tans Bowls and basins have been IN great demand
among the g0ldwashers. Tin pans have found ready
sale al eight dollars each shOves 10 ten dollars
trough scOoped cut Of log. with willow sieve on o.
one hundred dollars and boards al the rate OF i've
hundred dollars for a thousand feet. The price OF
board on the gold streams is three dollars day. For
this the boarder gets bread beef and beans,
tree 10 sleep under and owl % boot in bis ear az
night The gold Is sold here for fourteen dollars the
ounce and il worth eighteen Al any mint. know
little boy only twelve years Of who washes out bis
ounce Of gold day. while hs mother makes root beer
and sells IL Il dollar bottle.
The fighting is al over with us here people have no
time 10 pick their hints they are too much engrossed
i'm picking for gold This Placer was discovered some
time since by a Mormon, but Kept secret u May
last when the golden chicken burstits shell and Is nov
a flllerown cock whose Growing has woke up al
California and will yet disturb the slumbers Of other
lands he FL Dorado of hciiOn never prompted dreams
that revealed in gold ike the streams which shoat their
way from the mountains Of California They roll with
An cxuuns bound il conscious that their pathway
was paved with gold