New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-28
CALIFORNIA.
Public and other Plumber Mt san Francisco
Things in the Mining Districts.

DAN Il RANClSCO 'pdtuIuhy ocP' ~
To the Editor Of The Tribune
NV endeavor in writing usually is to treat of
such topics as the newspapers here have not SO
fully discussed Business motives exist which
operate to keep the press dumb regarding certain
subjects. The landed interests Of parties here
and in Sacramento is Of those subjects |
have previously referred to it,
Another of these at present existing relates to
passenger swindles Parties here and in Pan
ANA, also, get up vessel for passengers Her
outfit is incomplete. She is loaded down with
attachments, and sent to sea with nothing to Sc
cure the comfort or safety of those on board. Re
peated instances of this kind have occurred, and
will continue The press is benefited by the
advertsing--the only part of the printing business
here which pays-and OF course 1t Will not expose
the fraud
The grading of the streets now going on is also
an instance of individual benefit to the public
detrnent The contractors have made favorable
bargains for themselves, and with labor at siOO
per month they make money, although paid
in scrip worth 80 cents on dollar. This scrip is
bought by tax payers and property holders along
the line OF the improvements, and thus It cur
culotcS.
The portion of the town which is known as the
"trQte7. lots" is really improving astonishingly.
But this is done by private enterprise, the true
method of making substantial improvements, in
my opinion in San Francisco. You will SEQ by
inspection of the Official Map OF San Francisco
by Mr. EDDY City Surveyor, the extent OF that
portion of the town covered by the water lots"
Litigation here is more rife than ever at this
time. Large crowds daily throng the Courts, and
bags OF money go there and change hands as if it
were large banking house. The course of JUS
tce, like that of true love, "never did run
smooth; but believe that for the most part
Off phc yeil tina old oGoOa and ljkn
shears, never cut themselves, but what 8 be-
tween.
The papers willhave informed you of the run
upon the banking houses here They do not, how
ever, tell all the truth. Large amounts of the
money used by the houses OF Barton, Lee, War
bass X Co Naylor x Simmons, Hutchinson 4 Co.
Were deposits OF the hardworklng miner who in
cautiously trusted his funds with them for safe
keeping He now feels what ! have often told
miners, that he had far better have buried his
treasure again in the earth sooner than have
trusted it to dcceittul man
The discovery of the navigable river Umpqua
in Southern Oregon is probably the most impor.
tant announcement which will be brought you by
the present mail. 1t is singular that its mouth
should not have been entered earlier, possessing
as it does, the width Of mile and four tathoms III
depth at mean tide.
The sites Umpqua City, Scottsburg, and Win.
chester, appear to have been well chosen for
towns and must rapidly become centers for q
thriving business population. To insure this, |
need only mention the inexhaustible quaries of
sand stone and forests OF timber both OF the best
quality and situated on each side OF the river,
between the two former sites, no less than the
large valley OF cultlvatable land between the
two latter.
With such advantages it is plain that this por-
ton OF Oregon will soon be filed with large
population And at the present moment it is the
prevailing idea among all who do not intend to
return to the States to seek and find homestead
The presumption laws applied in that Territory
each settler securing 640 acres-will materially
contribute to effect this.
The news from the mines still retains the usual
diversity. ! have myself seen the man and his
gold, who took out $4,000 in three DAYS on the
North Fork OF the Feather River. But this was
bis first luck during period of fourteen months
He goes home in the Tennessee. We do not
publish the accounts of the thousands who "only
pay expenses, and live ike the prodgal son i
when he had spent ALL
Various efforts making by interested parties
to effect the permanent location of the seat of
government at a site to be called Vallejo You
Will also read OF the magnificent offers OF Mr.
Vallejo, &c. &c. should the site he chosen. need
only say that this is all, in the opinion of honest
men, purely speculative. Whatever means Mr.
y. may be possessed: Of, he can never fulfill any
such intentions as these and it is really too much
akin to the passenger swindlers' to be seriously
entertained. He probably hopes to be put in pos
session of the funds necessary to carry into effect
his "princely offers by the rise in property
which viii be consequent upon the adoption of
site on his acres for the future capital San Jose
IS no doubt best suited for this of any location we
have, ndthere, presume, it will be-
large tide or emigration is now flowing from
here showing present balance against US.
c. II. g.