The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1849-04-11
San rranesco. Jan. 20. 1919.

San francico, Jan. 20, 1879.
DEAN UNcLE hase just eel down
10 let ,on know that ! am yet in The land
81 The living. aud am enjoying inlrrahsc
good health: bnl while ! was IN Tie ihg.
gings my health was poor Tor mnnih or
"a, Tor there are no hnusrs, and the most
parl 81 he diggers are obliged 10 sleep On
the ground or under a rock, a, they ran
grl place. You talk IL The ARMY: !
never Jaw half Of The hardsliips in the ar.
my ina, have y, the d,ggngs, although
Il we could have houses or good tents. We
wunid he comfortable. A. frr gold, have
gu plenly--l have got abnul seven hun.
bred aud ninely.ihree pounds. !, sells
here from Twelve 10 sixteen dollars The
ounce. was atlhe diseings three months
and half. and il had had something 10
have washed on HE dir rlean. ! should
have got a. much again. for we cannot gel
near III &c IL ON. ! have number Of
pretty large pieces, one Of which weighs
i've pounds. wish you III come ont
Ihere--yon can get as much gold as YOU
want. know where there is ledge thai
is almost solid gold. but shall not tell
ANY body. nor work il until some Of my
inlk com. out. | 70 md i, by an Indian
Chmf. whose life saved when he Was 10
I've Killed.
TEere are 4 great many killed and
nothing said about lhsm. the excitement
j. 50 great. Every holy has been digging
gold. and every nne has found pleniv Of
il. loving is Two dollars pr day. The
gold country is immense. hare been five
hundred nl.cs UP the rountry. and The iur-
,hsf we 20. the thicker we find Tie gold. |
think thai 0l the river where | was, the
fountain hpad y IN the mountains, hn, il
is awful travelling ia get up III the region
where The ledge IL which ! spoke oI. !
know where there is plenty OF silver, in
the mountains over whlril We travelled,
when | was with the Indians. They i,Ds
me prisoner. aud | vas with them nuue
monihs. AT last discovered one Of tho
chiefs 10 be Mason. aud lie set me flee.
| find thai great many ui the chiefs aFe
Masnns. was made a Mason by ihe re.
commentator of an aged friend previous
10 my Leaving Michigan. left there when
the war first hogan. and wenl and joined
Cot. Fremont. | crossed the mountains.
vas taken by the Indians. and III this way
goi released BY henry Mason. | would
aJlsise Ill tha, intend 10 come into this
wild country In join the Masnns. for by
50 doing they will Inn! true friends among
tie Indians. They huld il sacred, which
ii is.
II yon was here Won cnnli make money
al y"nr trade. rs M one viii work black
SMILING here, thinking they can get rich
so much faster. You never saw such Il
set as there Us in hi, place. There arc
Ill nations and all classes. II Congress
don't make some laws. and them strict
ONES. ] don't know what we sliaIl ,Io.
This will soon be The hardest plare in the
world. They are getting TO be awful had
here. and il is caused by thai curse Of the
earth. rum. II they had kept that away
there world never have heen any trouble
here. II is warm weather now, aifi there
is m silnw here.
There was snme snow ri The tiiggifgs
few days since, hut not much II won
come. hiring number unt with YOU. for
the more that GENES ingeiher. the better
thev can do. understand Yesterday.
news had como from Monterey. thai
they had found an inexhanstlhle anld mine.
situate about twenty miles from there. and
snme silver mines: bui we take M notice
al the silver, which can be got Al half the
trotthie Of the gnld. Quicksilver is here in
ahilndsnce in all The hills. Don't delay
in cunning. and fetch good company with
You.
There is a Cruel Wrong somewhere.
ltsti ~ falls s3th ,sn,l,,r ~ amir tl,,nt.