The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-04-07

SAN FaArcrsco, Feb /. is4s.
Our gold region or placer is sctusy the only thing
or circumstance that knew not exaggerated
Law, Goepe and politcs becoming obsoete in the
great ~sgsrnets TO obtain share Of the placer Last
three our Of gold per day they throw up the
spade ana picAa1e II they don't I'D chunk" every
siDsls lump am informed there IL 10 thi. TOW. .
piece weighing thirty pounds have heard Of several
pieces Weighing each Ave pounds there Is in town
piece Of stone weighing seven psuadA containing
alb Mt three poupds Of gold It looks the stone
and gold had been halt melted up together
From November TO March, tho San Joaquin and
Sacramento valleys too cold for gold digging,
although the people have built from four six hun.
dtsd houses, and are busy engaged In finding gold.
turned cut Of the banks and rivers Elk to eight
sand Troy ounces gold, 81 to 2iit carats fns which
cash. After August, thousands viii leave the pisosrs
one fourth Of those who reman In August and Sep
TENDER viii be s,oh With fever that holds them from
thirty TO . hu hdrsd days.
Some twenty csrgses Of mercha ndise ding In
this port at this date. From hence greater part
joaquin Rivers l2O miles up, ran Of two or thrss
days. Freight 1t the rate Of So per Dbl; passengers
SO, each ono feeding himself common board So psr
DAY; stabiDg 81 rooms BY TO IA by l6 feet each,
$40 to sl00 per month. hotel Is next month t. b
opened here. The building cot $50 900, and has 80
The owner calculates with the mostly Of Yankee,
thus :-Should the building burn dow in six months
viii Pay cost and the bar and table pay $4,000 or
$3CC0 per month. Should it last that time, It
pays 10 per cent per mouth In rents only. There
are email houses paying the same rates. Freight to
Monterey lone tsl) s4o per ton; brigs char
month; mstes' $3.50 to $500 per month"; pork, $50
per bb.; -four, $40 one week, the next $25; fowls,
washing Of slothsr $l2 TO s24 per dossn Some mer.
chants send their washing to the Sand ~ich Islands
Only, 81, 500 miles. House lots Of IS feet front,
are bought up At $1,000 to S. 600, the purchasers
sending TO Boston or New Yoik for their houses.
We have NO vorkmen, nor time to do anything but
dig or pocket gold. No one has much time to dan Q
debtor and no debtor has any time to listen
happy state Of affairs this least one
party. Even our government at Washington appears
In the same way "a far ats nding to California
which, with New Mexico, cost Uncle Sam SIS 900 900
the interest Of which H. cay S76 600 per month which
the duties collected In this port aene will oover and
the placer Will distribute one million per month"; and
NO mistake Any man, woman, child. who nay
need thousand doars has only to 70 to the Cslifor
mia Placer BANK and take it, and hs nnds himself I'm
mediatsy ready made stoc kholder and director All
are on the go ahead get gold principle DOCTORS
yers traders bostmsD, carriers, digsers thieves and
Up to this date the murdered bodies have been re-
cognsed At least could be counted This year. fear
they cannot be counted. Goid real pure gold Is 80
plenty you may see II piled counters tables
Ike so many bags Of shot three on oes
In Bag Nothing 10 more comu for person ira vel
ling another on hor, back, TO refuse
to carry gold FOR friend account ofits weight it
equivalent to ashtDg your friend TO carry q bsgo
corn to mill in any other country We have become
IL sshsd with covering the valleys Of the Sacrs
mento and San JoI qun with gold but, to please US
fhe has this winter covered the earth with snow to call
up old associations We have for the frat time snow
Thoussnds of applicants in Washington City vii,
gladly here for 50 COO per annum but when they
arrive here cooks nd stewards ask 5000 s,oh
they Will % gladly resign and take to digging
salary Of $4,000 per snnum FOR Governor won't
awaiting TO be relieved, pay their way hardly know
The temptation to Dig or speculate Is great-yet from
selely to hri duty In respective oces
men were never 30 tempted before: