The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-05-05

n3- Letters from the gold regions, and from
points along the route, continue TO appear. One
from the pen of Dr. Cory, dated at farm near
the gold diggings, says that at first he charged
eight dollars visit to his patients, and a very
high mileage if he had TO travel any great dis.
tance. He had seen flour sold in the mountains
as high as two dollars per pound tea, four dol
lars sugar, -four dollars; and candles at a dollar
az He says;
is the richest gold country on the
face o. the globe gold aim osr looks TO me
like worthless toy, have such vast guam
titles of it. A man here in the mountains
who has not ten or twenty pounds of it,
is looked upon as poverty stricken man.
think the gold here is puite dure it must
be worth at the mint some $lS or $l9 per
ounce the lowest value of washed gold
here, on account of the scarcity Of coin,
and the rireness of speculation, is selling
at from So to Sl9 per ounce. fl had So
600, ofcoin, could convert it to $50, 900
in two months The first month was in
the mines, myself and partner dug but three
thousand dollars piece, calling each onuce
only SIG: the digging then became poor: a
man had to work hard all day for only an
ounce or two, so hundreds of people left
and went to exploring, and | among the
rest spent about two months exploring
the mountains, found gold every where
but we did not stop TO work, we wanted
to find places where we could pick up
without much labor two three hundred dol
ars per dav, but we were not fortunate en-
ough to find such place: but such places
have been found and are still to be found.
Several men got into a ravine, where
they gotfrom $l5 COO to 100000 in two or
three weeks: most beautiful gold, in round
and flat masses weighing 81 to 50 each
piece | have seen several pieces weighing
2, 3 and pounds. The gold in the rivers
is very fine, like small fish scales. ! have
never worked on river, like to see the
gold as | dig, and have worked in dry gull
lies or rayines. The first month worked,
my partner and myself hauled our dirt three
miles to water, where we washed it in a
trough made ofbOards we could wash out
five wagon loads in day. The dirt of
course varies much in richness we washed
one load, in which we got 81 pounds, and
in other loads we would only get 5 or &
ounces, but it was quite common to get a
pound in wagon load. If we had dug
and hauled dirt the month we dug, we would
have had much more gold, but we did not
load our wagon half Of the time, on account
of our oxen sraying, &c: : as it is, | have
only cleared in the mines about go OF Of
gold. Nv expense have been great horses
from 500 to 200 each, and every thing
else up to the ultlmatum."
le adds, that he will not leave the country
with less than $lOO hich he expects to re-
alize before three years The Doctor has slept
in the open air every night for five months.
GIVE THEN FARM.-The wife of a
Mr.. Miller residing near Harrisburg, gave
birth on Monday last to only .fUe boys, all
of them "alive and kicking" What makes
this case singular is, that at her first con-
finement she gave birth to tOo, at her Sc
cond to three, and at this, her third-t0
fue making in all, ten children in four
years, and living, We move for a dona.
ton to Mr.. and Mrs. Miller and all the lit
lie Mller'S, of slice of the public do
MAN.