The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-06-20
Intelligence from the Gold mines.

We have received large number of letters from
our numerous correspondents in California, which
were conveyed to New Orleans by the steamship
Crescent City, and transmitted from that place to
New York by the steamships Northerner and Fall
con, and by mail. In another part of to-day's
PAPER our readers will find several, which furnish
a vast quantity of interesting reading matter-espe-
eially to those who have friends and relatives in
that distant and celebrated portion OF our territory.
The most exciting point Of this California news
is the fact, now placed beyond even the shadow of
a1loubt that the deposits of gold IN California are
actually inexhaustible, and that new and fresh
discoveries are being made every day. From the
banks of the San Joaquin and Sacramento, the ad-
venturous dIggers have penetrated to Santa Bar
bara, near the line which separates Upper from
Lower California, and have found gold at nearly
every step. Such glowing accounts, and such
wonderful deposites as are found to exist there,
might well be deemed fabulous, but that their au-
thenticity is placed beyond doubt. Wonderful as
these discoveries are, there can now be question
that the wealth of California cannot be exagge-
rated. 1t is but little sver year since the an
nouncement of gold being found near Suffers Fort
was made, and already five millions of dollars
worth of gold dust have been exported from Cali
forna to various parts of the world. When we
take into consideration that hardly any Of this large
amount was gathered by the emigrants who have
flock ed thither from the United States-that not
more than five thousand persons were engaged in
| mining during last summcr-and that in the winter
months operations were suspended, we have at
once satisfactory proof if we had no other that we
possess within our own territorial limits a supply of
the precious ore that cannot be over-estimated.
| The effect which this exciting news from the
gold mines will have on our eastern population is
at once pcrceptble. Emigration to California will
receive a stimulus thousands who are toiling for
scanty living, in our large Atlantic cities, or at
least such of them as can raise sufficient means,
will 60 there, and populous State will be formed
once on the shores of the Pacific. The presence
OF such vast deposits WILL besides those who leave
| the United States, attract the adventures from
every country in the old world, well as from the
South American republics and Mexico In fact,
emigration from Mexico has already commenced
on an extensive scale, thirty thousand, as we
informed, being q, route to the mines. Before the
present year shall have elapsed, is not improbable
| that one hundred thousand will be added to the
population of California, and emigration will con-
tnue as long as the gold lasts, or mining is pro-
ftable Large cities and towns will grow up as it
were in day, commerce will prosper, and rail-
road connecting the two oceans must be construct
ed, no matter what the expense of such gigantic
work may be. Such connection will soon be
imperatvely needed, and the work must soon be
entered upon.