The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-06-29
Very Late from California,
&C., &C., SC.


and Havana, $500, 900 for Europe. She also brings
intelligence from San Francisco to the 18th ult.,
eighteen days later than that brought by the steam
ship California, at Panama.
This news came overland, via Mazatlan, the
city of Mexico, and Vera Cruz.
1t is of very interesting character. The adj
vices are favorable to the prospects of the gold dig
gers some of the miners were very successful.
Thousands Of persons were daily arriving. 1t
was estimated that about 5000 persons were en-
ployed IN digging for gold.
The Monitor Repubiicano, of the 23d May, states
that according to the latest accounts received from
the land of gold the extraction of the precious ore
from the earth attended with vast difficulties
and dangers /; the SHOWS had been so deep as to
interrupt the operations, to which add the furious
attacks which the Indians had made on those who
were working in the placers; and although they
had been repuIsed, they kept up hostilities
According to letters from San Francisco, dated
May 18th, everything was in a disordered con-
dition.
Additional to the above, we find the following
in the New Orleans Pieayune of the 10Th inst:-
By the arrival here last evening" Galveston of
the steamship Palmetto, Captain Smith, have
ceived files Of the Galveston NeWs to the 10th instant
inclusive We take the following from the Galveston
ks,rs Of the 10th
Mr. James Martin, formerly Of St. Louis Mo-, visit.
ed our tanctum yesterday morning his return fSom
California. Mr Martin came passenger the steam.
er Yacht from Brazos Santiago, and has favored us
with some interesting information in relation to the
gold gon. He left San Francisco ophe I'D OF March
1probably May on the steamer mia al arrived
At kazatian in ii days Thence MIR Martin made the
journey through Mexico, to Roma the Rio Grande In
70 days, on horseback He travelled through Du-
range, Paris Saltillo and Monterey, meeting with
obstacle during the whole journey Mr. Martin saws
he met about tive hundred Americans between Du
appeared we'll pleased with the route Mr. Martha
states that the of the journey from San
cisco to the Rio Grande, including sixty five Dars
passage on the steamer to Mazaan amo ut to about
one hundred and fifty dollars.
Dir. Martin has been eleven months in California,
but brings gold with him. He sick during u
great portion Of the time and advised by his ply
stefan to return to the United States
The miners had gone to work before Mr. Martin left.
and 1t estimated that about hundred thousand
persons were engaged in digging gold AS much MS
of pure gold has been collected
ly, in day by person. while the time any
persons work whole days without making anything
AS estimate OF what labor is worth at the mines Mr.
Martin rays the Mexicans and Mexican poems refuse
fifteen dollars day and found. There three pla-
each divided from the other by sandy ridges,
few miles wide The first placer is five leagues square,
the thirteen leagues and the third
tyseven leagues square. Gold is also found in the
The present population Of San Francisco Is thought
to be about 10000 much larger number than the
buildings can accommodate Many live in tents and
hundreds sleep the contiguous sand hills aud live
rs they best There were five American ladies in
all in San Francisco In the port there twenty
six vessels all abandoned by their hands and unable
to leave The two vessels belonging TO tho navy in
that port were also deserted.
There is Law, either civil military in the whole
country General Smith, the new governor, il without
any force at his command the soldiers having all de-
serted: and has nothing but his TILE to distinguish
him from any other person being altogether powere
Mud, of very common occurrence in the gold
region, but the murderera ethe not detected
perperated in almost every for the gsd
The parties possessed
Two or three vessels from New York and Boston had
arrived at San francisco with cargocs Of
but had not begun to dispose Of them previous to
March I'D (probably May u
MIR. Martin conversed with two of the three men Of
whom the newspapers give accounts returning with
$30000O in gold They stated that they had been
gagged in the mines thirteen months and in other re-
Rpects. Mir Martins statements concerning them
firm the published reports.
Annexed are few particulars of interest from
the Buffalo Courier, Of the 9th inst
We are permitted to make the following extracts
from Letters recently received in this city from Mr.
Erastus Sparrow, an old and well known resident Of
Buffalo, now In the gold regions Of California Mr..
is man Of keen observation, who appreciates the diff
cutes well advanta ages In the way of those who
flock to California in the pursuit of wealth
The gentleman from whom we obtain these extracts
relates to us incitent which though not intended
for publication, and Of itself of iucousiderable i'm
portance nevertheless illustrates we'll the business
habs OF old acq uaintance and the high price OF
the most articles OF traffic in the gold country
that think proper to make it public: When in
York, Mr.. S. bought. in Maiden lane coarse speci-
OF the genuine Yankee * knife, for which IL
paid TWO shilngs and sx-pence On arriving in Cali
fornia the occasional sight of the by digger
excited their desire to become possessed of it,
an active competition commenced for its purchase
The {" views Of the holder for time bove
those of buyers but ut last hardy purse proud
adventurer went up to fourteen dollars, whereupon
Mr.. s. raw him. and special favor pocketed the
money and Transferred the property.
SrocKToy ON THE San Joaquin April /, 1s4o
- | am satisfied there i, more gold in this coun-
try than has been talked of and satisfied
that 1t requires Ich more time and hard labor find
it than has ever been talked OF thought Of man
must labor late and early to find gold to any IT.,
and frequently much tins Is exhau ted without finding
any The digging of gold is much like digging a well
kill can get gold easicr, trading in the mines
aud mountains, which Is now very profitable have
possibly imagin 100 miles in the last ten days aud
have suf,red much.
will here for the mines in the Stanslaus dis.
trct, 80 miles day after tomorrow, ani must 20
1t foot, Jas my pack mules ana horses will be- fully
loaded. We travel in das time mountain and
prairie and camp at night by little fire, tie horses
and mules close by to their being stolen
Iodians and then lie down to rest in blanket waking
often to sc If the rascally fava5s have taken our
horses and mules.
We have pork and biscuit for breakfast, and go
without dinner in order to have appetite for supper
when we have biscuit, pork roasted on a stick and
water They don't talk OF pre- rights in this
country except town plots The whole country, far
as seen perfect waste of barren prairie Ind
mountains. The gold region is large enough for rs
many as are willing t. work It.
WOODS CANT, NEAR SrAwIsLAus RivER,)
April 22d, 1919
am sitting in my tent, 200 miles from
San Francisco in the midst of the gold regions about
which much has been said-many of the statements
being entirely false and much indeed true. There Is
doubt Of the existence of imme of gold
a very large district of country, and supply that
will not be exhausted for years to come but 1t is by the
hard kind of labor that this gold is obtained. aud
then generally in moderate quantities Now and then
lucky strike is made. and few Thousands are picked
UP In short time But 80 far as | informed, the
Is below ounce per day for oil those who
labor faithfully and not half the persons here work
half the time. Money Is very plenty here and drink
Ing aud gambling are carried on to great extent.
Gold dust sells ut twelve to fourteen dollars per
ounce-hour $50 TO 200 dollars per barrel--have
milk butter. and vegetables any kind to be had
any price 1t is the most barren country ever
The SILVER MINIS NEAR LITTLE Rock, ARK
The Little Rock, (Ark democrat, of the 10Th inst
speaking OF the silver mines near that city, saws -
Although we welt aware that the mineral con-
tanned large proportion of silver, have usually
designated them as the sic ad MINES" Late in