New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-09-01
WHOLE No. 36fS.
Things In California.

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Ir.ooHe- san FEAscIsco. May 81. 1873
have nov been n Csli.ornla nearly two months
have seen the horns OF the elephant and am now
preparing myself 70 mount upon his back. We
remsned in San Francisco four DAYS. and took
pa.ssse % Satters Fort on board Of small vessel
FOR s3s each passage. aud IS per hundred for
--eisht-everything bat What you eat on the pas.
sace. and Your blanket considered freight We
eff with about 80 passengers, ate 10 the after
noon. with a favorable tide, and resched before
IL chance. Benicis, On the STRAIT We anchored
Tor change ot tide The steam propeller Edith.
from New-lork, a Government ship. took from Us
here man VINO agreed - pilot her through the
Saisun. blt before he mad gone halfway. ran her
aground high and dry Perhaps he did n get his
sd broken Passing through the Susun, We
entered the Sacramento. al the mouth of which Is
e. City OF Montezaus. with one unoccupied house.
The river 3 beautiful snd excellent tor steamboat,
ing. The banks are not low, but owing 20 the
hlsh waters are msrshy. There are plenty OF
crooked sycamOres aud scruo-osks but not one
scre did see that | would own.
The first nisht we passed Suffers ForL two
miles from the river, and stopped staranch0 sleep
ing upon the foor and as we could beat manage.
TINS had become used TO- as ca the steamer
slept on deck from choice, and on the river nom
necessity. We made our own tea, snd tued
little salt pork. which, with a little hard bread.
went very well. Suffers Fort Is an enclosure
about "a lsrge as Washington Parade Ground.
butt OF uabarued brick; around the walls inside
stores aud gambling houses, while IN The cen
ter IS iarge building used as q tavern. We
bought small molases cakes here for 2s and large
ones, about the size OF a 81. pie, tor 81.
TIE country through which we passed was for
the most pat, 8 bouudiess vslley-sometimes
without tree. and sometimes covered with OAK.
and always covered with great growth OF Wild
COVERS As approached the Mills, the huge
snow topped mountains OF the Gold Region stood
up against the sun aud down IN little basin,
hedgcd by tie highest hills, We found Suffers
Nils or It Is called. Culloma on the south fork
oi the American branch OF the Sacramento-s
small stream, nox swelled into a torrent by the
melting SHOWS above. IL was Sunday, April 10,
when We arrived. Although Il wss Lords Day,
which We have tried thus tar not to transgress--
" pitched our tent, and cooking some ties, rested
for day Or two. There the gold was sad 70 have
oeen first found. Within mule of the mill, down
the river IS a bar, which AZ low water has been
dug. There made our hrst essay. Tee bar is
Hat of sand. stone, and high rocks, lying by the
side of the river, where the water has al some
time run aud deposited the sand and gold We
threw Oh the top dirt 10 about the depth OF one
not or more aud the sand below We pat int one
basin and sitting BY the SHE OF the river, with the
pan held In both hands. under the water, shaking,
a. rs 10 have the gold settle 10 the bottom then
carefully washing OF the sand by shaking and
washing, un I'll the asst handful, which we ~ashed
carefully down 70 blsck sand, almost AZ heavy
gold, and difficult 10 separate this We hnslly
washed, and iOund shout two shliiings worth of
,old AZ the bottom. We worked then with but
little success tor several days, aud then made
machine. rhs machine 10 nothing more than
cradle and all the inventors OF New York cannot
begin 20 get up anything better The cradle 10
open At the foot. and across the bottom are two
elects one At the foot aud one Just above the mid
lie over the head 10 ssced sieve; upon the
sieve the sand Is placed aud water being poured
on. the finer parts fail down, and, as the machine
ncIiues ttle 20 the foot It goes out AZ that end,
Nhile the gold, y nth some OF the sand settles be
hind the cieets-tre rocking motion causing the
gold 20 settle lowest After washing a large quan
tity of sand the collections behind the elects are
taken our, and further cieansed In tin pan. BY
washing this way, we managed 10 meet oar ex-
penses and q trih8 more Meeting expenses here
10 no ioke-Flour Is. per TO- Pork l2s. Sugar IL.
Nolssses 60 per gallon. Rice 80 cts. per pound
and So on
We remained here although the diggings were
poor in consequence Of the Indians having killed
several whites IA other places There are here
great many people from Oregon, who have dug
The most gold and killed the most lndisns Of any
others. The IDdisns hate them, and the only per
sons killed by them have been from Oregon. A
party OF those Oregonisns brought into the mill
one afternoon since arrived, some sixty lndl-
ans aud squsxs prisoners; all were discharged
but seven. Two days after they took these out
under a tree for trial, when az a sigma given by
the chief they all ran two OF them were instant
y shot: one was pursued up the hill and dispatch
Ell with a knife, while two others who took % the
river were shot after swimming some distance.
Since this they have been quiet. save that one OF
their chiefs has Killed about forty Of the young
women % his tribe D. save them from the whites
Toward the lst OF May a party OF about thirty,
all from New-YOrk, formed association, Of
which had the hosOr % be Secretary, tor the
purpose OF turning the Middle Fork from us bed
about 300 yards by digging canal some Ia feet
wide and six feet deep, and turning the water By
dan into the canal From the bottom OF the
river We hoped TO get stores Of gold. The 1850
ci alton being formed and provisions bought we
moved on the lst OF May with our blankets and
guns on our backs the river, over hills and
mountains some IS miles 10 the Middle Fork, at a
place called the spanish bar. When We arrived
We found the whole thing mpracticable 10 c0nse-
quence Of the nigh water. The fact 10 we came
here four months too the rivers are not ht 20
work prottably until the Let OF August or Sep
TENDER.