Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1849-01-04
More news from the Gold Mines
Tntaresting Official Document.


office, san Francisco, Sept. 18Th, from j. :.
.s5in. Esq. which throws some new hgh'
.c,n nc extraordinary doings in and about
IL Cold Region there We have previously
n,l he'd olvices from San Francisco and
Mo Grey rs late as the llih October hrough'
1y l.r. Cutting overland via Vera Cruz, hu'
+, sre Is much contained in Mr. Fosom's de-
$ .tch tia, has not yet met our eye a'oei'
,h.,,; ;s n sreat deal that has been over and
over azain .peated Avoiding 'hls' we sha'
give the reader what has no, been embodied
before in our "scraplngs
Nh. Folsom begins with a concise narr'nVe
NJ events which first led 10 the discovery 81
the mines, and then goes on to desenoc 'he
general hegira which FOLLOWED san f'ah
csco. which. we are told, NJ 10 that lline' ha'
been one of the busiest tow1S on the whole
Pacific coast, ia now nearly desarioi, 'hongh
here were signs OF reaction beginning 10 ap'
,ear. Thus
Sickness had broken ont among the M
ners, and many have returned pro''Fa''u WIZ"
so There is now large number ol i'bore!'
here. bu, many OF them reflse to work on ally
terms. while those who labor do 20 al eNoT'
bitant prices The ordinary compensation 'oI
white hborers is from Sc TO slO per day
am now paying these prices tor men "'
forced 10 employ for repair u5 Tie So'e'"'hc'
lighter, AMI for discharging the ship HuAFeSS
now IN this port. At the same time every
thing 10 high in proportion. Batter le.s oS
tie barrel at 81 per h., ana hams Ut the sam
price; -four is S25 per barrel, aaI p1'o' ofe'
forty cents per pound, FoI the last TIRE
BAR @! boots have had, have pad, fesp.c
tysly. Sl8. Sl4 and Sl2 per pair Guns
,h.n.s are al corresponding prices N Ia
place. but at the mines every thing Is huc
higher. Flour and pork vary IN the mine
,rDla 300 to 500 per barrel ConNo
SHOES, worth in Boston about - cents p
p.t. ssil at IS, or even 81 l! per pair. ne
>. Kind of recklessne.s about these iH''
s8ch would be sought a,ter IN VAIN ia 81
o.le. part of the world"
ghe climate of Caliornla, about We go
rcaions Nj Folsom says, lsin-ui.eTably warn
in the summer time. WI he w.s there,
the beginning OF July eyt .thng Was LIieFaiI
parcheI up. alter drought which had 'h'
continued ior near three months, AMI wLIS
baI FIVE months more 10 Iun to The rainy o.
son.
As no one, as yet, has found the gold IN
native matrix. Il question often suggests list
a. to It's origin. | belieye the coarse SohH
found near the spots where II ouSln@iy LAY
lis native bed and that much oi he me s.
has been swept down fro the mountains
torrents of water. Almost all the ROCKS
Upcer California are imperectly organLeI'
ing soit and iriable, and incapable OF resist
the action of the weather. ln tie process
time the mountains have gra uaiy crumb
away into fine dust and the gold has been
eraled. The coarse gold flom ito masSi'
ness and great specific gravity, was not
moved ilom the mountain siies, whereas
fine gold was swept Otto the pans below.
The gold region, the writer sImiy bsI1t'
extends Throughout region o; country
more than SIX hundred miles n extent, an
probably extends into Oregon.
Here are some interesting "!.eto,'
facts no doubt they are, il truth AM char
ter calculated rather to stimulate than TO :.
the excitement, in this ulGidian;-
"On the most southsr'y tributary of
American Fork, sixteen miles from the m
stream. saw where Messrs. Nelly
Crowly got with six men in siI days,
and a hall pounds OF gold, avorluFols wel4
In the bottom OF dry r.vine OF the -
stream, Messrs. DAILY dal McCoons remo'
with party of lnlians and Whit men, =
600 in two days, and VII in $50 hunC
wards Of the main stream From another
rayine, within few ro = OF he last nent
ed, il is said that $4,000 were colecie
three days Mr. c. S. Lyman, clersyH
unaccustomed 10 labor Informs me that he
$50 for about FIVE hours work each day.
Vaca, New MeXlcal, who resides a
thirty miles from Suffers told me he
four other men, got seventeen pounds OF t
avoirlupos weight, in seven days sa"
gold. Major Cooper late OF Missouri.
two men and one boy, got $1,000 IN
DAYS. Mr.. Sinclair had been engaged in
ging gold about five weeAs with pant
Indians, numbering aLout Iorty, sonnet
more AMI sometimes less. lie gave b.,
dians meat, sugar, coT.e, aour and rice
they ate three times lay. They were N,
will Indians, and worked altogether
pans In five weeks, after paying oil Li
dians and the current Expenses OF the par,
had $4,000, or upwards OF ninety poI
Troy weight. Of gold duet. Tie gold
shown. Mr.. Norris .nI one companion
from dry ravine, not lat flom those all
mentioned, s3 900 in tvo days and tn.
was packed on horses more than two hut
yarls TO the water. Mr Aaron AnEl.n
from bis own labor in twenty cone, C
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