Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1848-12-29
THE GOLDEN REGION.

x. II.
The Washington correspondent of the Her
aid furnishes an extract from a letter received
by the Secretary of the Navy from an official
source In California, dated Monterey, Sept.
16, 104S. 1t says :-"When the wealth of
those golden mines are really known and be-
LEVIED in the United States, there will not be
wagons and steamers enough that can be
spared to bring the emigrants here. You are
now all incredulous; you regard our state
ments as the dreams of an excited magma
ton, but what seems to be mere fiction is d
stern reality. 1t is not gold in the clouds-in
the sea, or in the centre of a rock-ribed noun
tain, but IN the soil or California, sparkling in
the sun and glittering in the streams. 1t lies
on its open plains-in the shadow Of the deep
ravines, and CLOVIS on the SUBMITS of the
mountains which have lifted for ages their
golden coronets to Heaven. Every sailor that
ships from the port of California gets $50 per
month, and but very few can be procured at
those wages. An offer of 500 per month
would be rejected by nine-tenths of those now
engaged in the mines They consider their
labor good for $50 per day, and it often rea-
Lies them even more. The Writer urges the
necessity of U. S. Mint in California.
The New Orleans Mercury of the Esd Nov.
says We to-day had the pleasure of a per-
sonal interview with Lieut.. Loeser, just arri-
we'd from California, which land of gold he
left on the first of September. He fully con-
firms the most glowing accounts heretofore re-
ceived of the richness and extent Of the gold
region. He says the whole truth cannot be
told with any prospect of being believed, that
the gold is found from the highest mountain
to the bottom the rivers. Files of the Cal
lfornlan brought by him confirms it ALL
Flour was selling at the mines at 564 per bar
rel, spades Sl4 piece, pork 81 per 10. Lieut..
L.. showed US specimens of the gold. 1t is
found pure OF mixed from the size ofwheat to
a mans fist All other business is neglected.
Wheat is left standing in the fields, houses
and firms deserted, &c. Lieut. L. has seen
the mines and knows what he SAYS t. be
fact. He came by the way of Panama and
Jamaica. We learn from the Californian of
the 18th Of August, that the sickly season
has set In at the gold region, and the treasure
hunters were leaving.
THE OTHER SIDE OFTHE QUESTION.
The following is from the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Journal of Com
merce:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2Sth.
The production of gold in California is so
abundant, 1t is said here, that it will affect the
market value of that mineral. Such an idea
is, however, very idle. Ii appears from all
accounts, that it costs nearly as much to pro-
duce the gold in California, at present as it is
worth-labor, provisions, and utensils b,eino
extravagantly dear. Labor is from ten to
twenty dollars per day, according to some of
the accounts. Gold is no doubt produced
much cheaper in the Ulra mountains than it
ever will be in California. The richness of
the surface indications affords no test of the
value of the mines. Where gold is found in
boulders there is generally little below the
surface. A lump of gold was found in North
Carolina, some years ago, that was worth S2O,-
600. New ork company bought the land
where it was found at high price They
spent S40,0 900 In sinking a shaft, and never
obtained but three pennyweights of gold
The place was abandoned, and has never been
worked since.
The tract Of country which forms the gold
region IN California, is said to be so 900 miles
in extent. Most of the land was public. and
of course, now belongs to the United States. |
w hat the Government will do with it remains /
to be seen. presume they will order it TO |
be sold at minimum price of 8 SO an acre. /
as they did the coal and copper lands of the
n orthwest.
Speculation will be very active in these |
lands, when they shall be brought into mar
ket, and most of the buyers will burn their
fingers. Perhaps the Government will grant
leases 10 individuals of tracts Of this gold re-
glon, at rent of ten per cent, of the amount OF
gold obtained, as they did with the copper
region. But they never got any copper rents
and would not receive any gold rents Thew
must sell the lands, and as soon as possible.
learn that company has been formed for
the purchase of San Diego, with a view to
build upa great commercial town there 1t is /
a New ork speculation. Townlots viii soon
be sold there at high price
COMMUNAL BLIss-Col. Bliss was united 1
in the bonds of matrimony to Miss BETTY /
TAYLOR, daughter to the President elect. on