The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-09-07

1t is expected that very large amount oil business
will be transacted during the coming season, and
the preparations for it on scale propotionate
to its anticipated extent"
New gOd-washngs Of great richness have been
found on Yuba River, near Marysville.
The Sacramento Transcript mentions great GU
riosity in the shape of gold tree. 1t is a small
piece of the metal in the shape of perfect tree
growing from piece of quartz.
Mr.. VIM. Satterfeld, of NewJersey, picked up
near Nevada City, lump of gold weighing Sli
ounces. 1t was reported that another man had
found lump weighing upwards of so pounds.
This was not believed.
Other mineral specimens have been found, which
are thus described in the Transcript:
Mr.. Leander Benham handed us a mongrel
specimen of mineral yesterday, for which we can
find no name. 1t is of great beauty, resists all
acids, and is so hard that it will cut glass like
diamond We feel assured that this land is rich
in other minerals besides gold.
"A quartz crystal, from the Auburn dry dig
gings, about three inches long and five inches In
Circumference-clear amber In the centre ap-
pears the most beautiful variety of forms and
shapes ever presented to the eve. A cluster of
green metallic moss-an enclosed formation like an
amethys-streaks of variegated hues and cOlOrs
perfectly transparent, and from the centre to the
circumference of the crystal, innumerable shoots
jut out from metallic substance bearing an ex-
act resemblance to the shining blue hair spring OF
a watch"
The Oregon Bar, on the North Fork of Yuba
River, is said TO be extremely rich. An attempt
made to turn the river last Winter, but failed
Some leads yielded as high as $4,000, and some
$4,000 S. 900, and $4,000. A slight vein of gold
coursed through nearly every lead, which, although
but two inches wide, and of some considerable
! depth, yielded $50 to the bucket.
Accounts from all quarters continue favorable
! At Murphy's diggings company of seven men had
taken out in one spot at the above named location,
in less than seven weeks, $4,000 in gold dust.
| This was their net proceeds, clear of expenses.
| They had bored the earth in their hole, fory-six
feet Deep distance of thirty feet further to sound
for rock, but had not touched it at that depth,
man at these dggings had in his possession
lump weighing SO pounds, of which one.half is
pure gold, In all the Southern Mining districts the
yield is said to be greater than last year
In order to give some idea of the richness of the
soil of California in the precious metal, we extract
from letter dated at Oregon bar:
Yesterday | weighed the proceeds of the morn
ing's work of three men the soil a stiff clay,
and they were unable to wash out but 25 buck
cts but those yielded the enormous amount of $780,
over SIS to bucket Their claim is held at S5000
As the water recedes other leads perhaps as valua-
BILE will be discovered The experience acquired
last season has enabled miners to obtain far more
gold from the same earth than formerly. You
would be astonished to know the amount lost by
persons ignorant of the mode Of rocking machine
or by the machine itself being defective. Many on
this bar have been making their three and four
ounces daily by washing the tailings" of Other
rockers, and one chap, who has a poor machine
re-washes his dirt of the preceding day. Bars, also
which were supposed to be thoroughly dug out the
last season, are now yielding more than they did
| and the richest dOUIuug found often md
dirt which has been thrown upon unwashed ground
The water in all rivers of California was very
low. The San Francisco papers give accounts 0
the sinking, by being snagged, of four steamboats,
on Sacramento, and the tributary rivers, to-wit
the Martha, the Phoenix, the Sacramento and thu
Star. The schooner Water Witch was sunk OF
the Sacramento by coming in collision with thu
steamship Senator.
From an interesting letter from a gentleman a
Trinidad, dated July 7, to friend in San Fran
cisco, we learn that some serious difficulties have
recently occurred between the Indians and the mi
ners, in which the Indians come out second best
Explorations have been made on Klamath Shasta
and Trinity rivers on all of which there is gold
The writer thinks klamath is far the richest OF The
three and superior to any dggngs in California
One thing is certain, viz that gold exists through
out this newly discovered and unexplored region
which will inevitably send that way many of GU
en'erPrsing men, ana open a new market lor on
merchants anu traoerS. regret mat SO nttle
gbould throw mist over the possibility of aettin
at the TRUTH in reference to the nearest point upo
. the coast for supplies
a The Stockton Times, of July %, contains Ii
!. following items
f1orF'ote n"lder'-Oh SaIufday' tle i5jh oil 1T
~ ls' 9,ooIS a,ufu S was cEinneu' ps'wee
ar,sJ Strot;nerro ,35oar DiSs,55' I "a nI
u no. f lie ,Ii No. G,,d - ~ ,h ~ VI;
dsen 90 sh across bs fncs and sopersi ofbe, bn
= ia y,,p,Snds n,ade bW rnacbe,e NV sbs 7,
9 snnnossd he was Killed bv Mexicane He had bee
n in a tont the night nrevi0pa ana tbsra eybil,ited
we'll filed nurse, which. probably eYcited The p,
pidity of the murderers.
. Tgr;,o pob6er,, IF n 1E,,te PooLo, C,oo,,
q ycoL no the eI,ariinT Of he ian of Ill, NH
II roonte hank was in oIar,ti1 with at, 800,
. aronnd H. n man cached over The sbdrldars Of n
t. crowd and took nurse from off The table contah
n inc sixty ounces. and although Immediate SCARF
+ was made, no trace ofthe thiefcould be found
+ We are informed that the four Mexicans, appr
Oh INC bias u , ll'brueisu W
ocouited, It being evident, from the stale of f6e
mains of the bodies, that death had occurred u
wards OF eight days prior to the time at which The
- had been u.scoyereG we are happy 10 Sa,I tn
sl rsat i on the decIina and in tbs ohssnra
If flesh causes OF stimulus, will soon subsde. Lar
t. bodies OF men are under arms, and IN nearly alI
re camps highl'"atches are hepl'
b The editors of the San Francisco Courier a
d knowledge the receipt of a veFy interesting lett
y r, q ,oI tle,,sr or biob st,rJirr ed ,,rir,,ooo
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+ %"'o l','SI1S' ~ 's' 80 me-