The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-17
Interesting from Callfornia-Thc Discovery
OF Gold Mines.

Int resting from CallforDia-Thc Discovery
OF Gold Mines.
CALIFORNIA, July 1, 1913.
Ny last to you was one month since In that gave
you facts stonger than fiction, with the ntimstion
that you and your thousands Of Herald readers would
not believe the statement. Were New Yorker, in
stead of Californian, would throw aside your paper
and exclsim, Bennett had better I'LL his paper WITH at
least probable tales and stories and not such outrage
Gus fctions Of rivers flowing with gold However for
my satisfaction, will fall back upon the fact that
the writer knows all he writes to be very the truth
and the many who know his signature, in particular
the officers Of the navy will not doubt his statements Of
California Oh this California TO what will 1t come
at ast Revolution after revolution for years. have
vacated your houses and caused your fields to be de-
serted; and now, when supposed that both houses
and fields occupied by another class Of men,
whom nothing could remove-Presto gold fever
arIses-strkes every one, and drives every from
his home This writer among Others has visited the
golden country this Placer" in comparison to
which the famous Ell Dorado is but a sand bank The
Arabian Nights tales of simplicity ut only for chill
dren the walks Of gold hunters are now brought
great writer could never have dreampt Of Our terrific
~ IL turned upside down-peope are leaving their
wives and children, and laughing at offer of ten dol
lars per day to finish q contract. mechanic says
politely to his employer; "Sir your wages were high,
your conduct just and correct but am doing myself
injustice in remaining any longer hammerng lea
ther or jointing boards at four five dollars day,
when weeks ride brings me to the Placer" where
an ounce and more Of gold awaits each days digging"
The forge stops the boards remain implanted, houses
closed dinners uncooked, the sick recover, the
plaintiff leaves his untried the defend is gone,
the Alcade going, stores and hotels closed-our
newspapers stop editors clerks lawyers devils clergy
mep brickmakers acaldes, constables soldiers, and
sailors some with spade or pckaxe, others with tin
pan wooden bowl, paid for at thousand per cent
on the former price, forming partnerships, all
bound to the American Fork aud Feather River,
branches Of the Sacramento Rivers whose banks and
n gOld-Where n bingham
bucket of Dirt with half hours washing in running
water, produces spoonful Of black sand, containing
from to ten dollars worth of gold At this
mute, in front Of our hotel, the boarders
their last blow, the house closes to morrow) playing
picks, erowbars and spades-dieging gold with the
highest gee their hands and legs, heels and heads,
moving in every known mode Of gold digger The
writer of this has seen, the past month at these dig
ginsn fifty dollars demanded by a carpenter to leave
his spade and take his plane and chse per day, and
over hundred dollars refused for a rough made ma
chine Ito wash gold in) that made by one man
in day spade shovel sells for ten dollars tin
pans for the same and flour at the rate Of thrtysx
out from five to thirty dollars hundred dollars
has been obtained in one day. machine put to-
gether, of hundred feet of boards in a day; and
worked by company Of five men, some days yielded
pound of gold dustthe size of the grains differ
ing from the point of pin to piece worth six dol.
beer bottle will contain from fifteen t. eighteen
pounds, the filing of which small as its compass is
occupied several weeks of the labor of one man
Where one pound is saved, many pounds go down
stream, from the imperfect mode of washing.
Tools, among the workmen, will soon be of less price
Clothing and provisions will continue high Ten dol
lars for horse to 60 to the nearest store
twenty five miles, fifty dollars fer wagon, and this
remarkably good road. The whole country is on
hardly time to speak eat while some have washed
cut only three four dollars in day, there
Of hundred dollars being obtained in a day
workman takes any spot OF ground, or bank be fan
cie; sticks in his pick or shovel at random fills his
hactt oEncf
results Of his labor Where, and how, all this is to
end is beyond my comprehension. Sufficient for
Califol MA will bring into the country thousands and
Thousands of emigrants, is clear Many believe the
peace only requisite TO do this not the gold fever
Many believe the digging for gold the branches of
the Sacramento. will continue for age how it can,
by any possibility, and in few years, do not know.
We already aware Of its being found over q space
of hundred miles in length and but little Of the
SacamentoValley has been explored for anything but
elk and deer The gold limits cannot this year be de-
fined That the space Is immense the quality of the
root Of all evil beyond all calculation, is certain
would. blythe by, advise all debtors having money in
gold to pay il off before the article is under par
country pays Mexico o certain sum for the newly
acquired tcrrtory 2'he men under this year,
and sent to Mexico, could all have found for
spade ard pick AXIS on our golden banks. Thirty
thousand of this army would have required but fe
month"; to pay this sum, and oil the expenses of the
had they had the opportunity have been placed
in the gold diggings of California
AS it lie, the "PiGcG,' pronounced pldcera is fast
having its thousands Of laborcrs Horse keepers and
farmers have shut up, and left their business filed
their wagons, made tents, laid in provisions, aud
gone with their families Almost every clerk mechanic
laborer, Is gone preparing GO Ships
their crews and volunteer companies their
for the "Piacern Grass will soon grow in the streets
Those who lived by house rents seek another
occupation. The Cafornians have not yet as a peo-
pie caught the gold fever and should they wish to
volt again. their task would be essy they would
encounter not only empty houses but empty towns
All that these towns experience in California the
towns in Oregon soon will Who will remain there to
fight the Indians at best raise wheat that he
not SELL when the borders Of the Sacramento river
he can obtain pound Of gold q month, and pay his
expenses besides! Hoping this fever will not affect
your affairs as much as it does mine remain,
PAISANO