The North-Carolina standard., 1849-02-07
FOR CALIFORNIA, HO.
North Carolina Enligratihs Company


A North Carolina Company of one hundred persons
is now being formed IN this City, for gathering gold and
perhaps for settlement in the fine climate and unsupass
ed advantages of Californa-upon the following plan
Fhe Company to be composed of sober, moral ana res
pectabe citizens each member pays two hundred dollars
into the common fund by the first of March, and 10 oe
ready to embark at Wilmington about the middle
month, upon the voyage around the cape. With sad
fund purchase and fit good vessel with stores and pro-
visions for the voyage including three month extra
visions and shuck mattresses, bedding and gold mining
and washing tools and implements, for each member
Every member to procure and carry his or her own
olothes sufficient for twelve months wear.
ANY member besides carrying his own tools OF trade
viii be permitted to carry his wife and children, by pay
Ing the above for each carried and respeca
HE single ladies will be admitted into the Company on
the same terms. Separate accommodations will be alot
ted to the females and every attention given Tor then
security and comfort during the voyage and afterwards
Inv their male escorts And tUtUes far scarcer and
in ronch greater demand than gold In California, lew
If the stout hearted and lovely girls and widows, OF the
old North State, would assuredfy find the enterprise
nrncev speculation-in Immediately getting rich has-
bands in that fine country.
late writer from California says: "The persons most
needed here are wives sempstrcsses hUusekeepers mil
liners aiIors carpenters blacksmihs masons shoemak
a and tinnersa of whom would receive here the most
gratifying remuneration. mechanic hardly be had
for twenty-five dollars per day. common abouref for
one hundred and fifty per day, even cook for one
hundred and fifty dollars per month" Large fortunes
therefore certainly await the prudent who now go there
q
lust think of that! Why the quick sales of the ship
loads of English for tobacco in Virginia. In the
olden times, would be fool to the active matrimonial
market of California. Our Carolina girls and widows,
old and young, ugly and pretty, would go off like hot
cakes-not for husbands and tobacco but for husbands
and gold. Think of that and be ye glad
On reaching California, sell the vessel and divide the
sales among the Company which would more than repay
to each member the $500 paid the fund.- aforesaid
besides passage and extra provisions free Of expense
And while every member will be bound to stand by,
assist and defend each other all will be left free to work
upon his own hook, California. And although thou
sands arc rushing there there will he enough for
ALL and enough for each since is known that the gold
deposits extend over space of thousand miles long,
by hundreds of miles in width and rich that 100000
IN gold lately taken out of one place OF three hun
dred yards square! - s1
But should hundred persons not be enrolled by the
lst of March, then the voyage will be given up and
the Company then formed take the overland Journey
from this City early in April and have the pleasant
and plentiful months in which to make the trip. Suita-
BILE covered Wagons and harness. and two strong work
horses for each wagon and the bedding aforesaid and
the mining implements to be purchased by the fund.- and
provision as needed by the way Each member carrying
his own clothing and arms and ammunition aforesaid
and the light tools of his trade Four persons to each
waggon-the ladies have separate wagons and every
care and attention Thus in four months the Company
might by easy stages reach their destinaton then sell
the horses and keep the wagons movable houses
themselves at the mines - I
Application for admission into the Company, to be
made, for the present. to personally or by letter.
postpaid. JOSEPH b. HINTON,
President of the Company.
RALEIGH Ian 90 ls49, 743-