Baltimore commercial journal, and Lyford's price-current. [volume] (Baltimore, Md) 1840-1849, 1849-06-02

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CALFORNIA-LATE AND INTERESTING.
The Boston Journal published two letters Satur.
day Of 5th and 9th March, containing facts which! We
had not previously We give the following
extracts; and another Of March I, from the New
York Express.
lound Mr.. Robert A. Parker, son of the wharf
iHger Of city wharf, the richest here, worth over
three hundred thousand dollars, which he has made
in three years.
Take all the persons who go to the mines and they
average about s 10 per day. Every man you meet
has his bag OF gold his pocket and every store has
its scales for weighing it. When it taken in trade
it passes for Is 10 per ounce; in exchange for coin
from Sl4 TO $50 1t has been bought for s |
have seen pieces weighing from one-cighth of an
ounce TO fifteen pounds Of pure gold.
There are now four U. s. vessels here, under COM
mand OF Commodore Jones, and about thirty other
vessels, mostly American. Sailors wages are S 100
per month. Pork $36 per bril-; flour $50; saeratus
+ per Ib.; tobacco Il per lib. Land in this town
is selling for more than $50 per foot; lumber 500
per VI, and little to be had at that; common aborers
$F6 to i 10 per day; board from $I2 TO $50 per
week, and hundreds of persons in tents campcd out
out in every direction. All hands, except the cap
tain and first officer, have left the steamer, and it is
impossible TO tell when she will leave here. She
cannot go at present, she has no coal. If had a
small steamboat here, could make $4,000 per
month.
| would not allow my wife and children to come to
this country on any account whatever. If ii was not
for the gold, no one could live here. Those who
have cracked it up being such fine country,
a set OF rascay liars.
AS regards the quantity of gold yet to be dug it is
estimated that five hundred thousand men could not
dig the extent of the gold region in ten years!
small room, ten by fourteen feet, rents for s 100
per month. About onc-half Of the people live in
tents, being unable TO obtain other shelter. And
now, if yon wish TO see California, and make hand
some fortune in the meantime, load either the c.
or B. possible with six or eight light
frame houses with sufficient quantities Of lime,
bricks, laths, clapboards and lumber for the compile
ton of the whole. The doors and windows should
all be made aud packed in Boston, aud every thing
that is required for building the houses should
with them.
The ship Chill is here, abandoned by all but the
captain. The bark Olga, Captain Bull, is also here,
bound home. Captain Crosby is here from Oregon,
and has made a fortune.
SAN FRANcIsco Cal, March I, 1910.
Dear Sir-l embrace the opportunity of dropping
you few lines, there is vessel about TO proceed
down the Coast as far Mazatlan Mr.. Gibson and
m, self arrived here safe in the from Pana
in y days, after touching at several different
places on the Mexican coast.
We found every thing fiattering as represented
in the States, and gold abundant.
DR.. Bates, young man from Suffers fort, says he
asccrtancd there gold above the fort, February
1873, and spent two months exploring the mountains
before il became generally known it existed there;
and in three months he dug thirteen thousand dol
lars WORTH and has now got by trading, Sc, about
fifty thousand dollars worth. He showed me three
Thousand dollars worth in fine gold; he says there
are large quantities OF ii, and that he Can go where
people dug last year and average three per day,
aud all that have been to the mines give glowing
counts Of them.
| have seen no one that was at the mines but what
brought down two thousand dollars If there
one two months; and those that were longer
time brought down greater quantity. DR.. Bates
saws that when he landed here three years ago. he
had barely As in his pockets, and now suppose he
h or m hundred thousand dollars,
Yesterday he gave titles to thirty thousand dollars
worth of lots III village site up the Sacramento,
which he called Webster.
Lots that sold in this place and a half years
ago for S 50. are worth fifteen thousand Gold
dust is used for coin much coined gold. \ man
purchases his articles, pulls out his buckSkn bag and
with his teaspoon puts ii into the gold scales which
is weighed with about the same precision as we
weigh tea There have been pieces picked up weigh
Ing several pounds; the largest one have seen
weighed ] ) pounds. Every one anticipates getting
a large amount this season. nearly every is bent
on going the mines; about 40 vessels here are de-
serted of their crews.
have advised - to come out here as soon as
possible, and do you write him the subject. One
coming here wants principally wooilen clothes,
the climate is different from what is represented in
the States. II Twas coming would come the quick
est route via Panama. A man by the name of Crosby
came in the steamer with us and is now stopping at
the Alcalde's He takes in $50 or = 100 per day
aud is the only lawyer / know of in the place.
sold my revolver for $50; acquaintance of
mine sold his medicine chest to-day, which cost
sy25 in New York, for $40 Powder is worth IS
per lb; boots S IL per pair; hams 6s per h.; butter
l2s; cheese SIS; beef is cheap. Flour in proportion
to other articles Only one baker in the place
Laborcrs wages are e to SIS per day-carpenters
the same, and are independent at thar. Nearly all
are going TO the mines. w have rented room at
! $50 per week for lodging.
| Forty tons Of Specie.-The Mobile Herald and
Tribune of the I9th publishes the following extract
of letter received in that city, dated
PANAMA, April %, 1919.
/ The British mail steamer arrived here yesterday
from Callao She has on board forty tons of specie
About two hundred mules have been loaded with
her freight to be taken to Chagres. Several ships
have arrived within a few days-enough to take all
the Americans that the lsthmus 10 California
The price of passage has consequently fallen fifty
dollars. On Sunday night some of our rowdies
tered by force a room where fandango going
on. Two men of each side were wounded, so
severely that he died next day. | am sorry TO say
that our couutrymen do not behave very dscreetly.
There is, in consequences of it, an increase of bad
| feeling among the natives