Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-12-29
FROM CALIFORNfA

ROGERS and GKo. E. GaYMEs to w. Ao1p
Esq, al Fort Gibson, will be corna ~ D. Shy
our readers' living in this section of n.
Mr. Rogersis mixed blooded Cheroka."suan't ,vun't
ligence and gleat scru,inzng obsorv,;;o. 'nl' "
remarks on rnds and the agricultural -. ha
raising resources Of the country a. soca
the greatest re,pect. 0'''led %
IopVATLEME RIVER, CALvo,,
september II, 1897 4
| My Dear Si':-You no doubt will bo
letter from MP long before this reaches PcIing
| think rather hard of me for nv lo'Ur aud
You know that when we left For GS G;S Silence.
expected to reath our destination in o;v, we
seventy days. do not now recoec, wha;yiNe Or
we had for making such calculations bn rooands
ih's, we were upst sadly disappointed in Know
here as soon as We anticipated. We weras 'ea'Alng
iour months AM twelve days in ge,tinr 1euy
digg'ngs. We Gme through without any 49,, ~ hs
or 'rouo!e' out itwas laborious tosome h.''n' h.sn'
all the time. We came through anon, :. Oushes'
any parties that came the overland ron,o soon 90 rs
that came The ntrhern route are nov ~. iboe
| have been informed, that their proy;1o1 9,,.ng H.
out before theygot in, and that thew sns, gave
good deal-in fat, some of them coma ''u ~
starving. The titizens of San Pronc,sco neoi
buted twelve thd,sand dollars worth md s""' our
them PersonsItha come any of the ovo,s-@ D,a' .
routes viii earnh the gold they make. ''u
| have not heard any thing of Rober, -,
presume that he somewhere on the river S,.'s WI
mento. Since BUR arrival here we b,vo la ~
busily preparing 10 dig gold. Some oS ne a
been al II seVer5 days. They average sorneLias
over an ounce per day 10 the hand. This w.
wsl think a pHty fair business but we ,L;1s
that we deserve more gold per day than wo o,a
now making. Where we now are the ,old !.
very fine, and 1 is perhaps little of the 6oriA,
workl ever doB. But shall not reo,,I i.
work, if can make money by il.
There are god many persons at work on III, T
river, and the Sneral average is somebing IS,
an ounce per ty to the man. speak oflb0s
who use machins for getting gold-,hose who uS =
pans do not male so much. These work Al \,
place longer thana day; they search the creyes
and cracks in rotks. Sometimes they End vars
rich places, and make good deal of money: m,
they loose grea, deal OF time in looking up bso
places.
| am not as wei pleased with this ccun,rym
expected to be before | go, here. There is vrv
little timber and still less water. The couary
that we travelled over can never be ihickly sesj
the timber and water will not admi, of H. An
m.
gated. This will de,ract from its value as
farming country; q speak of the southern poria
of California; but is the finest grazing counirs
now under the sun. In one day have seen mors
fat cattle and horses than | ever saw in all nv +
life.
Oats and clover grow here spontaneously ibe
hills and mountains covered with this growth.
The cattle and horses get so fat they can hardly
walk. The beof here is the mos, delicoDs mea
ever eat; IL is much superior 10 your b. es d
the fattest kind of venison or mutton is.
Myself and J. N NA-~--s.Us Enu ShHw and IN
, oung men from Georgia, are working ,ogeth,
We shall not retum to Gibson until wa m,La
twenty thousand apiece. A man ca n make money
here at nay thing except doing nothing. b,y.
never seen such place to make money in nv
HE. There is any amount Of provisions at San
Francisco and Stockton. First ru,e flour can
got there a! ten dollars per hundred, pork at fifteen
cents per pound, sugar and coffee ai twelye cents
From Stockton TO where we are a, work i
noout sixty miles: everything brought from Stock
ION has TO be packed on mules. II is impossb
10 get wagons up 10 the mines on account oflbe
Ii docs only cost twenty dollars per
hundred pounds o pack from Stoclton to Ihs
place. Here pork is worth seyenty-fpe cents pe1
pound, flour fifty, sugar and coffee siMy-two, an
fresh beef at twenty-five. Good mules are vert
any price you put on them. There is lothing lk
house at these diggings. The peopls use tent
or store houses. We have no, supplied ourseSe
With tents yet.
You must extuse this very imperfect letter, 70
have 10 write bn my knees. Please write 10 nj
oon. should ike to have the Cherokee Advocl
ent 10 me. Drect your letters to Stockton.
Yours, truly, LOVELY ROiERS.