The New York herald., 1849-11-13

rival San Francisco. Only three months ago
there but two houses, and now the streets are
well laid out, and buildings going up very fast A
bowling alley here rents for 81 900 a month, and
theatre Is just completed. The weather here now
is comparatively pleasant mornings and evenings
cool, and mid day tolerabiy hot. | lately made
slight trip to the mnes but the niodms opeyandl
did not please "thls hombre," as they say here;
and after losing my horse and things | made for
the embarcadero, covered with dust, (not gold)
having walkedthe whole distance.
SAN FRANcIsco, Sept. q, 1919.
This is not the place it is thought to be in the
United States. There is neither dishonesty, dis
sipatOn, nor idleness here; all Is business, hustle,
and confusion; no quarrelng or drunkenness, but
plenty OF gambling Every one with business tact
Is engaged In something, and is seen running to
and fro upon some speculation, from morning till
night. Our houses are put up without regard to
comfort; some are made of canvass, some rough
frame, and others mud.
The weather Is fine, cool, and bracng, and all
appear TO know each other intimately as old
friends. The streets crowded with all kinds
OF characters, and every description of merchan-
disc. never saw so much business or such
brisk and lively place, all my lite. The levee at
New Orleans is no comparison. The ships are all
lying of the town, In the beautiful and spacious
harbor, like an immense forest. There are at least
three hundred, half of which will go down at their
anchors, there being not the falntest hope of ever
getting them out. With all the advantages of
making money, don't let any of your frends come
here The dust is flying now mountains high, and
/ could not get a bed or place TO sleep for three
nights, every hole and corner being pre-occupied.
have now dirty corner in the loft of store
where lay my bed, for which privilege have to
pay the sum OF $50 per month; and 81 per meal for
board. SO you see II costs something to live here
$40 per week is the hotel price.
met Jim Grant yesterday. He has just return
ed from the mines, and intends stirlng public
There le ppra
In this city. J. c. and L. L. were at Suffers Fort
or Sacramento City, doing well. ]. g. is engaged
IN store or some place at Sl6 per day. L. F. has
also the same pay. J. NJ has not yet arrived. The
vessels from Panama have all been making long
passages, and the arrival of the bark is not sur
prising.
! never saw such rush for papers as there is
here when the steamers arrive. Il is little New
York-in speculatlons, crowds, and dust. Almost
every face is familiar. Sandy M. is here with a
very tine eating house, making his eternal fortune
SAN FRAScIsco, Sept "a, Is49
Iget my washing done at the Sandwich Islands
81 so cheaper than here. The way we. do il is ths
Get all the clothes we can together, take memo.
randum of them, and give them to the captain of
the schooner, who has them done In fine style by
the natives Of the islands, and returns with them
in less than sixty days. Washing costs, IN thus
way, including everything, 81 so per dozen, while
here they are miseraby done at s6 per dozen.
Jim Grant Is building little house, which he
intends dedicstng TO Bacchus. He will not go TO
the mines. tallon, who used TO be keeper OF the
city prison, Is chief Of the police.
+. T, once clerk in the post-olfice, New
York, Is here distinguished lawyer.
All bucks making money, and spending il equally
fast.
The weather is fine, resembling our own but
the heat and cold do not TO that extreme
here. The people are doing but little at the mines.
The work is too hard. One seldom, if ever, re-
turns to the dIggIngs who has been there once
You are compelled 10 work awfully hard, and risk
sickness, for about Sl2 per day, which sum Is COM
puted to be the general average dug by each indi-
vidual Living is beyond conception. You cannot
begin TO exist here short of 81 per day. Dave and
myself pay for little room IN the loft of stops
Zen by twelve, without furniture, the sum OF
$50 per month, or Sl,SO0 per annum We then
pay 81 meal each at the restaurant. So, you see,
one must make money fast To pay these enormous
pnces.
There mus, be a smash here in less than six
months. Think of wreiched shanty, not two
stories high, or as large a common dwelling
house in New York, bringing $4,000 per aanun;
aud some, a hue Larger, bringing $4,000, and
The largest fleet Of vessels ever saw ~ now in
this barbor, numbering over 300 sail. They are
selling Tor oDethlrd OF their real value. Every day
see chapct5 in this line. Vessels, worth 900
in the United States, go for $1,000, as.i on. If
you can: scnd me anything in my llne-ihat is,
from selling needle upto frlgate. There is no
limit 10 mans business here
Drinking is all the go here. New Orleans is no
comparison. The water being very bad, every
person deems 1t necessary TO use liquor
Saw FRANcrsco, September %, 1919.
got here on the 18th inst in the steamer Oregon,
after hard time in the way Of sickness. My
Panama fever returned soon after leaving, and up
20 the time OF reaching the coast of California
suffered greatly; but since my arrival here, | am
now. and have!bsen, as well as | ever felt. The
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standing the privations and inconveniences IN
living, feel IN manner az oif I were in the neigh
borhood of New York and though the greatest
features of the attractions Of the old homestead are
not IN view, they are swectly remembered. For
more than week, have been knocking around
among the bulls and bears, and have been Iostled
and Joltcd through the dusty crowd of lucre hunt
ers, as though was one of the million of worth
less old shirts that kicked through the streets
of this busting. rough and tumble city. One
might just as well 90 into New York or New Or
leans aud expect to learn the customs ia one day,
as TO become familiar with the ussges of san Fran
cisco in month II is nothing, after ell, but a
canvass town, reg town; but oh the business
and the money New Orleans falls Ear short in n
business poInt of view, and for gambling and
dissipation, II is not circumstance, as the bhoys
say.
/ have secn thousand familiar faces, and dozens
Of my old and esteemed acquainiances, all appa-
reniy doing well. From all ] can see about this
place, would say that II is destined 10 be the New
York or the Liverpool Of the Pacific, and that in a
very few years. Already, the amount of business
transactions and the number OF ships in port, fall
but little short Of the above places. With the ex-
certion Of few hours in the afternoon, the wea-
fher is delicious. We have plenty Of fruit-grapes,
spples and pears in abundance; vegetables are
also plenty but iew, however, give any attention
20 cultivation, and hesce the high puces. | am
living rs cheap ne | can possibly, and yet 1t costs
me s2s and $50 per week. One must make money
~ ray such srces Clothing of every description,
"a az cheap end chssper than IN New York. The
neople here are all reading people. The Herald
Syour city) cells for e2 per copy. We have week
ly and almost daily communication with the Sand.
wich Islands and Oregon, and even Asia. This is
a large place, containing at least 5O,OC0 people, TO
ssv nothing Of the imm. nse number through the
mines and scattered about in little towns and VIII
lages on the numerous rivers IN this district.
moysments OF individuals.
NJ, van Alep. u. s. Minister to Eucador, had not,
ID In raanhirn Qnito. the