Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1848-10-05
MORE OF THE Ell DORADO.

The following extract Of letter to gentle
man in Washington, is kindly furnished US for
publication. 1t confirms all that we have said
about the gold discovery in California, and is
struck off in a very spirited style. We know
not which most 10 admire, the curious facts which
the writer states, or the charming manner in
which they are presented.-.' Washington Union.
MONTEREY, UPPER CALIFoRNIA, July 3. AS.
DEAR SIR: gave you in my last letter some
account OF the mineral wealth OF California.
Silver, quicksilver, lead, and zinc, have been
found in our mountains, and now il, has been dis
covered that the sands which lie along Feather
river on the American fork, branches Of the Sa
cramento, are richly impregnated with gold. 1t
is found ir shape resembling snow flakes, and
is washed from the sand with great ease. A per
son with basin or bowl, will wash out from
one TO two ounces day. Some, who have been
more fortunate in the selection OF their spots,
have more than quadrupled this amount. There
is man in Monterey who washed out five hum
bred dollars in six days. Every body is now,
going or gone to this gold region. Some thou>S
sands are on the spot and more on the way. All
Oregon, as soon as the news reaches there, will
be down upon US. You can hardly hire a la
borer here for ten dollars day, and on the gold
river he charges fifty. Mechanics lawyers and
doctors, have all left for the gold region. Sold
rrs run from their camps; sailors from their
decks and women from their nurseries; their era
dies answer for machines TO wash out gold.
San Francisco. Sonoma, Santa Cruz, add San
Jose. are deserted Of their inhabitants, and the
mass is beginning to move from Monterey. |
shall soon be in the condition OF colonel with
his regiment disbanded. The tract of country
in which the gold is found, extends over humid
red miles in one direction, and some forty 10 the
other. 1t is supposed that ten thousand persons
might work for years and not exhaust il. They
have worked as yet only on the margin Of the
streams, on account OF lis convenience to the wa
tel; but gold has been found leagues distant, and
even on the mountains. Bowls and basins have
been in great demand among the gold washers.
Tin pans have found ready sale at eight dollars
each; shovels al ten dollars; trough scooped out
Of log, with willow seVe in it, one hundred
dollars; and boards, at the rate OF five hundred
dollars for thousand feet. The price OF board
on The gold streams is three dollars day. For
this the boarder gets coarse bread, beef beans.
a tree 10 sleep under, and an owl to hoo, in his
ear at night. The gold is sold here for fourteen
dollars the ounce, and is worth eighteen at any
mint. know little boy only twelve years OF
age, who washes out his ounce OF gold day,
while his mother makes root bear and sells it at
dollar bottle.
The fighting is all over with us here; people
have no time to pick their hints; they are too much
engrossed in picking gold. The Placer was dis
covered some time since by Mormon. but kept
il a secret ill May last, when the golden chicken
burst its SHE'LL and is now full grown cock
whose growing has woke up all California, and
will yet disturb the slumbers OF other lads. The
FL Dorado Of fiction never prompted dreams tina
revellcd in gold like the streams which shoo
their way Gom the mountains OF Calforns. They
roll with on exultng bound, as If conscious lha
heir pa,hwsy was paved with gold.