Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-10-19


trinity river was found to possess aurlferous
aonds, and as the party followed up the stream,
9ho ore was found in greater abundance
Thew averaged for the few days remaining
there about $40 each per diem. We shall pub
lish more detailed account of this expedltlon
in few days.
Successful Gold Diggimg.-Dr. 81. Van
DYKE. a member of the North Fork Dam and
Mining Association, which company has re-
GENTLY completed lateral canal at Beal's Bar,
a little above the iuncture of the North Fork
with the Rio Americana, has just returned
from their scene of operations The work OF
drainage had been completed only three days
before he left, and though the company labor
ed under many disadvantages. they had raised
in this short time over $4,000.
This association is composed of about thlr.
ty hard working men, and from the results OF
the few days labor since drainage, and the me
prospects of continued success, they conhdent-
iy coun! upon a yield of about about ten Gun,
ces per diem, each man, during the next anu
succeeding month.
Our advices from the Middle and North
Forks are very favorable. One party OF TWEEN
ty on the North Fork, within some twenty
miles of the snow, were averaging $40 per
day each, and gentleman direct from the
Middle Fork informs us that many OF the old
miners are doing better this year than last
Yet many are returning, who have either no
luck or no energy; we think it want OF the
latter commodity. Young gentlemen who
come across the Isthmus should get berths as
fireman on board the steamer, and on arriving
at the bay, "ship on launch" and after
wrapping her up, take some seventy-fve
pounds of &c traps on their backs and travel
for the mines. On their arrival at the Ell Do
RADIO, they would come down 10 the "pork
and beans" of the business with much better
grace.
party of seven arrived at dry diggings on
the 14th, having left Missouri on the 5th OF
May. Among them are Dr. ]. H. Dixon, of
Pennsylvania, and E. Green, Michigan.
Placer Times, July IS.
The Mines-We have seen several who
have returned from the placer within the past
few days, but they bring no news of interest.
They present things favorably, as all do who
have been successful. but agree in the opinion
that man has to &c suffer some' in this branch
of productive industry. We learn that par
tv are opening in the Middle Fork with a
submarine armor, by which arrangement they
take out many thousands daily of the dust
They think, when they get their apparatus
fairly at work, they will average $40, 900 per
day. w make d lew EXTRACTS lIOH1 d lGueI
OF friend on the Middle Fork:
"The extreme heat we heard so much
about has been much exaggerated. We have
suffered nothing by it as yet. AS regards
the healthiness of this locality, see nothing to
prevent it from being one of the most healthy
places in the world-much more than Sacra-
mento City. There is a constant stream of pure
water, both for bathing and drinking, running
past our encampment.
l" We are told by people who mined it here last
season, that it will be better a month hence than
it is now. The water is falling and when it gets
down so that we can work on the bed of the riv-
err the dust will be found more plentifully, and in
larger pieces. Mining is hard work but there is
nothing unpleasant about it. 1t gives you good
appetite, and sound sleep at night.
The miners here average about an ounce per
day."
We have advices from the North Fork of a
very fattering nature. Companies that have
turned The current of the river are now taking
out from three TO five thousand dollars pei
day.-Pldcer TIMES, dug. 18.
California Religious Intelligence.-The
following Churches have been organized in
San Francisco:
2. First Baptist, Rev. o. c. Wheeler, pas.
Tor.
3. First Presbyterian, Rev. Albert Williams
pastor service every Sabbath.
4. Protestant Episcopal, Rev. F. Mines
rector-service every Sunday.
5. Methodist Weunderstand that this de-
nomination has commenced the erection of {
church at the head of Washington street.
6. Congregational. The Rev. T. D. Hun
has consented to officiate occasionally for thi:
church until the 1st of November next.
In addition to the above, the Rev. T. D
Hunt, chaplain, breaches each Sabbath at the
Public Institute.
In connexion with the above, it is proper
we should state that Sabbath schools are es
tablished in the Baptist, Presbyterian. ant
Episcopal churches, and there is also one at
tached 10 the Chapiaincy.
Two small steamers are plying on the wa
tPrs of the Sacramento.