Baltimore commercial journal, and Lyford's price-current. [volume] (Baltimore, Md) 1840-1849, 1849-02-24

ton fpvrcntnc among the land hOldcrS) TO cNa%%cr-
ate, and this was mentioned To Lieut. human ~
Gov. Il. b. Mason a singular circumstance
For year past, Lieut.. Ianman has occn perform
ing the duties of collector at the port OF MohttlS!
and having seen every man who had returned from "
visit TO the mines, his opportunities Tor op'"h'i5 |
thentic information were better than he had visited
the mines III person. He informs us uh"' Il" 'N >
amounts of gold dust ore were selling at a sacIi
flee; he does believe that one hundred ounces Vi
the gold dust could have been purchased at the re-
ported rate of eight dollars per ounce. Inc Me'kIE
receipts Of gold at San Francisco were estimated
at from thirty 10 fifty thousand dollars ana ilen'Gh
ant Lannlan knew of one individual who had III ms
possession Thirty thousand dollars worth ct pure ore
and dust.
The current value of gold in trade was sixteen
dollars ucr ounce. There was q scarcity OF com
throughout the country; but when Lieut.. h. arrived
at Panama he informed that SbnlOOo had Just
been shipped for California by certain Mexican gen
tlcnrn and that the American consul at Pata I Mr.
RUcnl had in charge coin TO the value Of SIlN,VVV'
which he intended to exchange for ore and dust.
Peru aud Chill are not behind the |. States IN re-
gard II the gold excitement, no less thah twenty
vessels having sailed from these two couatrieS W''h-
4 in Snort time, bound 10 san Francisco. They were
all well laden with provisions and other ntceSNArtS
Of iia aud their arrival would probably reduce the
prices, which have been heretofore so eNorolt"nt.
Grqgc, in Cdlifornia.-It appears in addition 70
gold. quicksilver, and other prcConS ores, California
produces fine prapes An old resident Of the country
writing TO the san Francisco Journal says:
81 possess small vineyard Of 900 vines, occupy
< 900. The produce Of last season, however
(Isl7) exceeded s 200. l sold grapes TO the
amount of 900 pounds al cents per pound, amount
ing TO 1920: manufactured 50 barrels Of wine at
SOS per barrel, amounting TO $500. The vines
commence bearing on the third year and perfect on
the fourth vineyard does not require more labor
than common corniicld, and one man IS capable oil
attending 500 vines, merely laboring three hours
daily, for eight months during the year
Earthquakes in Calitornia-An article in the
Philadelphia North American, speaking OF California
says
After the gold mania shall have abatcd little,
our ringrant friends viii discover another peculiar
quality in California. which will, probably, not be
much to their Iiking-nam@iy, that II IS great con-
try for earthquakes. At Ncat.rcv. according 10 sir
George Simpson, less than hundred and twenty
shakes we're noticed during two successive months in
the summer Of 81. Most Of thcs., as may be sup
posed, were slight ones; but in proof that they
are not always 80. Sir George speaks as having seen
near the town. besides shattered churches, rent
IN the earth mile in length, aud thirty or forty
feet in depth the result Of a recent earthquake
California; liarhct.-The following is an extract
Of letter published in the New York Home Journal
. dltcd sAN EBANclsco, (Calif9nia,) Dec p, isiS
: ,hal enclose in this letter small specimen o.
the black sand containing gold which Is dug from the
poor places the bars and rejected as worthless
and no here would BE- working it. 1t will
b. curiosity III the Home JOu,Ha! Office. The gold
is in sucn tine Particles that the rude process used
here viii not save halt OF it. Had the apparatus
for working with ''quck,ilvcr,' and saving it by
"subming,' could make, ont of this rejected sand,
at least : 900 per day anncX list Of prices,
which will give your commercial friends some idea
Of what things bringing here: Brandy, | am
sorry say, from IL 10 IA per gallon champagne
: . per DOZEN other wines in proportion; -four at
the fort. SIS per barrel; salt pork, 500 barrel;
blankets, - to : 10 pair; common boots, g TO SIS
pair: SHOES, . to : II par; WOODEN socks, Ia
: pair: butter 81 pound Uyercoats, 10 10 ssh
ri C.; common summer sacks, paid : D for be-
fore leaving New York, sold here in San Francisco
for % each, auction by the case, but at Suffers
they are worth much more. Everything, except
prints and common donrsticS, are high in proportion
L.gg.ns sell al any price! The prices have quoted
or what j. called the Mormon Dggings, only 40 miles
from the fort the prices are POO per cent higher
The price for hauling anything from the fort to the
mil is ;s2j per 100 pounds.