Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1849-03-08
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| The following extract Of . letter, from
the Rev. G. s. LYMAN, Of Manchester
| Conn, we find in the Hartford Times.
We are web acquainted with Mr. Lyman
and can vouch for his veracity. He
graduated at Yale College in 1887.
preached for some time in the Congrega-
tiOnal Church in Berlin, and sailed for the
Pacific coast q year or two since for the
benefit of his health, where he wasat the
time gold was first discovered at Suffers
Fort.-Enq.
San Francisco, Nov. l9, 1S4s.
was most happy to meet Mr.. Phelps
of Warehouse Point, q few days since
an old school mate of mine at Ellington.
He left last February. and gave me most
Of the Ellington news to that date. l
1 was panied to hear of Judge Halls death,
and also of Mr.. Crocker's. But Mr.. P.
knew but little Of Manchester, save that
it was in existence.
For myself, June, July and August l
spent chiefly at the gold mines, 200 miles
distant, digging gold. September / was
at Pueblo de San Jose. and in this place.
October made short trading trip to
another part of the gold mines, Zone hun
drsd miles from where / was before, in
company with a man who owned an OK
team. itook up -four. onions. dry goods,
(blankets and calicoes,) &c, for sale
| Flour we sold readily at $3.50 per h.,
and $500 per barrel. 1t cost US four cts
a pound. Onions brought 81 cents a
|, pound, blankets one hundred dollars
each, DC. .......
Flour has been sold OF the mine as
high as $40O per barrel. We sold brown
sugar at s. per pound. Every thing is
as high there in proportion to the plenti-
fulness of gold. / paid fifty cents apiece
for poor tallow candles. But people
were digging gold, some at the rate of
$500 or $1,000 per day. One man got
SIS, 900 in nine days, but he had men to
help him. / have been but moderately
successful, having obtained about $4,000.
Since October l have renewed my sur
veying business for the winter, and am
engaged in a job about twenty miles from
this place, which will occupy me month
or two and net me six or seven hundred
dollars. spend most Of my leisure time
in camp, sleeping under q tent or in the
open air. ! have not lived in house
more than a month since last May. My
health has been very good. In the spring
if Providence permit. | intend to visit the
gold mines again, and see what l can do
; there. l wish it were in my power to
, send in season, SO that MIR. Smith and
: William might get out here in the steam.
ers in time to 90 with me in April, and
dig gold. They would be much strong
o err diggers than myself, and would stand
chance of getting out in two or three
months, two or three thousand dollars IL
pure gold. There will be tremendous
. rush there in the spring, but there il
room enough, the deposits being some
!, or four hundred miles in extent. Pro
/ badly six or eight millions Of dollars have
! ..lte"ly r boo., dug, and tho digging caf
i hardly be said to have begun yet. Ev
, cry thing has been thrown into such {
confused state here by the gold excite
. ment, that l could not predict confident
ly enough what the future will be, to war
aant nae in writing positively tony broth
ers in law to come out here. / wish now
Ihad done so, for they could make TWEEN
ty times as much as at home, and 60
back again in few months. The steam
ers will commence running soon, and will
occupy but one month between here and
Now York. How glorious to get letters
and papers only month old.
But gold does not quite absorb every
thing here. The people of this town have
just employed minister, Rev. Il. D.
Hunt of Rochester, N. Y, graduate Of
Yale, and q fair preacher. They sub
scribed at once a salary of $4,000. l
have been at church to-day, and have
seen nothing that looked SO much like
Christianity and the land Of steady hab-
its. They have also Sabbath and Sing
ing School here. r
The rainy season has not yet common
ced, but fear it will before get the sur
vey done. Ny regular home. if l can be
said to have any, is at Pueblo San Jose,
fifty miles south of this; when there. We
generally have regular exercises on the
Sabbath. I do the main talking, but
nothing has been so delightful to me as
to attend the regular preaching to-day.
l design to write as soon as possible to
the A. H. Missionary Society for more
| ministers; three or four are wanted, and
also school teachers.
Al Me W. lon,,, that an EriAasr nunn;nn