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Oirainia 9ree llress
SATURDAY MORNING, MlRCH n.
ASTOUNDING QUANTITIES or GOLD

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The New York Tribune publishes the following
extracts from letters received Gom San Francisco
BY one Of thelnost respectable houses in Pearl ST.
Il viii Be seen thar they fully confirm the most ex
citing accounts TO the richness Of the mines and
the qiastities IN which the sod has BEEN procured
BY indiE iduais. The writer has been for eight or
ten years thecalHornia correspondent Of the house
10 question se
SAN Francisco, Dec 1, 1873
The prices obtained for goods here are E.
normous We're ! to quote, it would not be
credited.
You win undoubtedly have heard of the
great discovery Of gold in this country-a
discovery which, is destined to produce
greater excitement throughout the United
States If not throughout Europe also, than
any event which has happened for century.
The amounts Of gold obtained are truly
astonishing. and the quantities every day
brought to tllis place equally so
Every article Of food aud necessity is of
course very high, at the mines Flour has
been sold at s2l thelb; four quarts Of wheat
for horse have brought So; boots, S75 per
pair; pork; $3.50 per barrel af
The wages of carpenters are $40 per day /;
common laborers earn IS day or 81 an
hour; aeook, S60ito SIo0 per month.
Brandy fetches 4 OF. gold for bottle
bread is - per lb blankets, $50 per pair
washing is worth SSa dozen clerks, IS, 900
per annum and found mrs
Emigration is pouring in from all quarters
of the Pacific, and it is quite impossible to
find a place to put ones head in
A room alta hotelren for $500 per month.
The commoncst howell or shanty you can i'm
agine brings $50 to $50 per month 4
The gold is ihexhanstable, and for years
to come Immense quantities must continue to
be got out, and great trade must be carried
on between this and all parts of the world.
The cargo | brought from ------ cost
$4,000. The gross amount Of sales from it
has been s3l 600 My partner came with
two cargoes, and VIC have cleared over l0o,.
000
@ SAX FRAYe;sco, Dec %, 1919
q Real estate has gone up here. IS well as
everything else. A store aud lot paid s'l7, :.
800 for yesterday.
Lumber is worth $50 per VI, and the
carpenter can earn SO per day.
The entire population Of Greg haye a.
bandoned their crops and homes. and are
coming here The Sandwish Islands are
deprived of all their foreign populatiop-.
Every vessel from any port on this coast is
filling with passengers for this place.
Mr.. --- formerly Consul at ---
informs me that two of his servants left him
when the news first came. They have Just
returned with $4,000
Captain Of the navy, who returned
last evening from the mines, informs me Of
one locality which has been found where
gold bNaoidat that there is no necessity
tors 81 Hessarih; 500 per day is Tic
etnao1sis' ldfnel By each man
Sheath knives are used to dig the gold,
aud have sold at the mines for $50 each.
| have convcrsed with many old friends of
mine who have been at the mines, and gath
cred large quantities; they all say that they
only want two months more the next summer;
and they shall have enough.
Although this country and town arc filed
with gold no vegetables can be had We
eat but little else than beef and bread all
agricultural operations have ceased entirely.