Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-02-01
CALIFORNIA.

The Washington u nlOn mas an extract from a
private letter, dated Topic, 10Th December,
which would seem to confirm a statement be-
fore made, respecting the discovery of new
" placer" North of the former washngs The
report that the U. S. ship Lexington had $780,
600 in gold dust, is also confirmed.
Six hundred thousand dollars was the full val
Tie OF all the California gold received at the U.
S. Mint, up TO Tuesday, 23d inst.
A Now York house received on Wednesday.
from Philadelphia certificate from the u. s.
Mint for thirty Thousand dollars, being the assay
ed value of IA consignment of gold dust arrived
from California.
Three Bars of Gold, weighing over twenty-five
pounds, were deposited in the Bauk of the State
of New York yesterday, by mercantile house
Of this city. This gold is from California, hav-
ing been sent 10 Valparaiso in dust there run
into bars aud sent to Panama, whence il was
brought by the Falcon. 1t is2l 10 carals fine.
W y Courier.
o. There are reports by telegraph that gold
has been found in large quantities ia the Rocky
Mountains. 1t is also said that late intelligence
received at Washington confirms previous re-
pors from California, and that mine more valu-
able than all the others has been discovered.
Gold and Sarer. 1t is a mlsnomer TO speak of
gold nuns. II is silver that generally occurs in
veins and is mined. The shafts of the MEXICAN
mines descend TO great depth. Tho veins
running at an angle of iorly.fve degrees. Gold
Is commonly found in particles, of greater or less
hneness, IN dust, grains and in pieces sometimes
several ounces in weight. 1t is washed from the
sand or earth as i'll the auriferous beds of sands
in Siberia and the Ural mountains, or due from
the earth, or cut from the rock. This difference
was familiar to the author of the Book OF Job
lie says: "surely there is a vein for the silver,
and place for The gold, where they find it,
Oh. xviii, /.
From Ca'Doru;d.-The following is an extract
from letter from an Officer in the Squadron of
Commodore Jones, who gives vivid and life
like picture OF the state of things in California at
the time of his writng
UNITED STATES Sur ONO.
Monterey, California, .Nou. ], 1915. {
We arrived here on the oh of last MONTH
The weather for the last fortnight has been de-
lghlul, very much like our finest October
weather at home The pleasant season has just
commenced.
1t will be impossible for persons at distance to
realize the state Of afllirs here. Gold is the on
y subject Of discussion. II is bought and sold
in grocer's scales 1t is selling for 81 an ounce
here, $40 ut San Francisco, aud So at the mines
1t IS worth over Sis in the United States. At
the mines it Is the only medium of eXchaure-
The price OF glass Of grog is Il pinch OF gold
The Indians had at first no idea, and have scarce-
y any now, Of its relative value They would
offer all they had for anything that pleased them
man from the mines told me that lie had sold
Il blanket for $3.50 in gold, and the hat that he
wore up there IAN Indifferent one) for S6i. Ev-
ry one that can possibly do so, has gone to Il c
mines. There are some fifteen or twenty YES
scis at San Francisco, which cannot leave be-
cause their crews have deserted. They offer
$50 q month, and cannot pet men At that the
usunl wages were about $40. Those who reap
most in this golden harvest are the small traders;
for matter of course the nrcessaries of lie
are scarce. One Of those men Informed me that
he relaied flour at fe0 doArS pound, and said
1t ilad been tour; he also sold sugar at 50 per
pound, brandy $40 a bottle. Crowbnrs, picknx-
es &C., sold at an enormous price.
The mine is now known to be four hundred
miles long aud one hundred broad. II is thought
to be much longer, but it has not been explored
further. A man without much eXertion, can
make $1,000 a month. Some have made it in
few days. saw party that had been in the
mines about two months each one (person) av-
eraged about $500 month"; A piece weigh
ing 70 pounds has been found. The largest
piece that have seen, weighed pound Gun
ces. The most that is found is small and fine
man will leave place at which he does not
find more than an ounce a day. The machines
are very rude in fact, it would be profitable to
work that which escaped them were there not
richer work all around. There arc about ten
thousand persons working. People are flocking
all around The mines are SAID to be inexhaus-
tiblc. The present low price of gold cannot long
last; for suppose mint will soon be establish
ed. Nor can the necossaries Of life long remain
as they are, though they will be high for some
time. Nothing for consumption is made here
hut cargues are OH their way from South Amerl-
ca aud The islands, and no doubt capitalists will
soon have their agents, which alone would bring
gold nearly 10 its proper value | had a revolver,
worth about $l2 IN the United States as a spe-
cia favor parted with it for 81 ounces of gold,
equal to 500 in the United States. Persons are
seen with gold valued at thousands of dollars,
who, few months since, would have considered
themselves fortunate in having twenty dollars in
possession. Doctors are making fortunes fast.
! Their fee at the mines for feeling the pulse is an
ounce of gold u; is said that some of them are
making 500 II day. IL is very sckly now at
the mines.
We expect to sail in few days for San Fran
cisco, where we will probably remain some time.
We are anxious to leave the country, for the men
have SO many temptations TO desert that it is
necessary for the officers to be on tho alert,
which prevents their enjoying themselves.
THE SunDrpssed neaDatchea