The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-10-10


40 dollars each per diem. We shall publish
detailed account of this expedition in few days.
SUCCESSFUL GOLD DIGGING.
Dr. Van Dyke. member of the North Fork Dam
and Mining Association which pany has recently
com peted lateral canal 1t Besls Bar little above
the jupcture Of the North Fork with the Rio Amer-
eeno has just returned from their VI
The work Of drainage had been completed only three
days before he LETT and though the company labored
under many disadvantages they had raised, in this
short time, over $l5 eco
This association is composed of about thirty hard
working mep and from the result of the days labor
since drainage. aud tho tine prospects Of continued
success, they confidently count upon . yield about
tan ounces per di,m each man, during the aud
succeeding month. In confirm alton OF these state
ments NJ liberty to refer the reader to Mr. Van
Dyke of house OF BECKER Van Dy Ike Bslden
place, where specimens OF the gold got may
TIKI PLACER.
From the Placer Times, Aug 49,
We suppose We must say something shout the mines,
nslens roLens. The Peruvians and Cheans have been
pretty thoroughly routed in every section OF the Mid
die and Nerth Forks and the disposition toexpe them
seems to be extending throughout the whole mining
community. Our sdvices from the Middle and North
Forks very favorable One party of twenty tho
were averaging forty five dollars per day each and
q gentleman direct from the Middle Fork informs
us US udt many Oh h ,nS Gsu miners arc a0,Ss bet
turning, who either have no luck energy; we
think IL want Of the latter commodity. Young gen.
temep no the lsthmus should get berths
fremen board the steamer and arriving the
bay, ship on launch; and after "wsrping her up
here, take Ave pounds Of traps their
backs travel for the mnej their arrival al the
FL Dorado. they would come down TO the pork and
bespsp of the business with a IN uch better grace
party of seven arrived ut the Dry Digsags on the
1tth, having left Missouri the 9Th Of May. Among
them DR.. J. H. Dickson, OF Pa, aud f. Green, Of
Michigan.
THE MINES.
From the Placer Times July 25
We have several who have returned FROM ths
Placer within the past few day but they bring
Of interest They represent things fsvorsby a. all do
who have been successful but agree in the opinion
that has TO safer some In this branch Of pro-
ductive industry We learn that party operating
on the Middle Fork with scbnsrine amor, by which
arrangement they take out many Thousands daily OF
the dust They ,hink. when they get their apparatus
fairly at work, they will average $40 600 per day We
make few extracts from letter Of friend on the
"Ths extreme heat we heard much about
has been much exaggerated We have suffered nothing
by 1t as yet As regards the healthiness of this
LEGALITY Dee nothing to prevent IT from being of
the most healthy places in the world, much more so
than sacramento city. There il constant stream Of
pure water, both for bathing and drinking running
past our encaDpment. We are told by people
who mined 1t here last season that IL will DO better
q month hence than IL Is nov. The water is falling
al d when II gets down that work the bed
Of The river the dust will bs found pentifuly
and in larger peces Minog 10 hard work but there
nothing ant about IT. 1t gives good appe-
tite. and scuDc sleep at night The miasrs here
AVERAGE about 81 ounce per day
We have advices from tho North Fork OF very fat
teing nature. that have turned the
OF the river taking out from three to i've thou
tand dollars per day.
The California Gold Region.
From the Alta California, Aug. 81
1t now nearly two since the discovery Of the
gold mines In the country and yet It Is for the first
time, say that able to give correct
count Of tben-sn account that eau be relied upon.
Heretofore have heard nothing but Arabian Nights
stories about the gold region drawn possible with
more vivid colors than the -isstic fancy could
coDjure up. The whole civilized world became cleo
tred With these surprising Stories and set In motion
spd day brings strangers to our shores from the
most distant regions u the earth 10 far good but
1t may not be 40 much longer, when crosd' feom Eu;
rope will begin to pour upon these shores. We feel
1t duty, In vieV Of the bad that all
exaggerations do produce, to contribute our share
towsIts rectifyng the impressions that went abroad
upon the subject Of the mines in this country
Even our government at home had not received an
official account from it, subordinstss here that repre-
sented the truth ia its simple gArb. In word there
has been thu rough Of the but
people On all sde., simple citizens we'll govern
officers content to seize upon few
able that sde more By passing through
many lips, and represent them abroad ~ II common
occurrence. Hence, much dsappOiut mt followed to
huLdrd who here to shovel Ia - they thought
the precious dust aud be oil to thsr respective homes
Its not TO be understood that going to dssry
the mines far from ~ Wa mean TO divest them Of
the mantle vhiSh heated fancy has cast about them,
aud represent the simple truth, without any Poste
nanebt.
epsak soyisedly; have surveyed 80 20 speak, thu
leE 9Th and breadth Of the mines by personal inspsc
ton spd ohservsop, at great expense Of time,
money and labor, and besides claim the right TO
presume ,Ine~hat upon the authority of science.
The region which here IL knosn the Gold Wines,
A. clo,ed on the ,s by the Sierra Nevada or SAowy
Mountains, running peAry north and south. Two
large streams descend from the sierra Neyadaone At
The north called the sacramento River; the other
the south known a. San joaquin. These two streams
II purposely 10 the apex Of the triangle they
oBcloge there 10 meet and make common aud united
Eruption upon the waters Of San Ffaneifco Bay In
this riafgle, thus formed by these two rivers, with
the Snowy Mountains, are numerous streams; but
they all are uibutarie1 either Of one or the Other
river; the largest Of them AZ tue north. sn1
.upty Themselves into the sacremouto. The sur
face of the county, looking we.tesrd from the
ridge Of the snory Mountains, which may be from
Eve 70 sis thousand feet above level OF
broken up into ridges giving direction O. the srs.ms
that some west BY north others By SOUTH
and gradually growing sniaer, they see ccufu into
lla Till they finally soften Into tho Pain enclosed by
th. two above MENTIONED MYERS The plains gepefsy
speaking. covered with luSutiant grAis skirtsd
along the rivers With oas timber A. the hills rise
veRetsiion becomes scspter The range 81 m ,uutins
IN which gold Ia found, Is distinguished by unifor-
nifty Of its Vegetable Kingdom rhirh neither mage
nor very sbundant The oak pr-aomioatss here Only
family. AZ the gold disappears, the rsgu II tue pine
sndi granite extends rhe dspusitsri-s Of gold look
universally more tmng to the behold-r than tnsir
barren nsghb,rs the former says have the nSure de-
toribtd by the line % beauty via the curved ns be
they ever 60 PERCEPTIONS a. they frequently are die
unoon To be lost light 81 The extent Of these
aurf rous hills 10 greater than the public knes or ina
gne, but not in the direction IL L. supposed fbey
tend beyond the sacramepto aud even san Joaquin
northNttt ~ the former aud southwest ~ the lster
bending round torsrds the ses coast Nay, the same
formston with or less difference, ruus atpns too
whole Pacific shores I'LL 70 10 lost In tue southern per-
tipn e the Chilean republics but geld has Hvt been
probably will be. foHnd anywhere ia equal abuodsnee
q in Upper California This abuudsnce, however is
much exaggerated by the heated Imagination Of the
public IL IL not In the nature OF placer gold to be
durable loug very few years when there siil ne
many st work will exhaust IL; its origin IA the
guaranty OF this fact The breadth OF this suriferous
tgion limits itself within the lines running north aud
south rom forty TO sixty miles from the ridge Of the
sierrs Nevsds; and the west, the hills begin to
soften into the plains
At somo remote period in the history OF the globe
the tame internal convulsions that nesrsd no the
Sierra Nevada, have aife uphesved the aurferoas hills
who At fret presented naked surface to ths stmo
Sphere changes by the Influences II which the quarts
constantly breaking up lett free tne precious cal
it, surface In the progress Of time, the stmos
phero influences csustd TO accumulate, ON these nils
soil which per with every decay Of vegesOp
til IL grew strong enough to support tue oak
The freed PARTICLES 81 gold thus became covered b. the
soil end MIXED with H. AID the ptucese Of tue
ration Of the metal from the stone vas arrested How
gold vas I'M cited into the veins OF quartz IL more
than say; but the fact that u IN qud