The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-04-10
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The Washington 'eortes roiid h.3c,l iRs
New York Journal Of Commerce writes1
thatMr. Thomas Butler Kings Report
of California was read 20 The president
and Cabinet on Monday and occupied TWO
hours aud half in reading. twill Of
course be soon presented to Congress.
The topics Of which il treats ere
The population Of the country;
lis agricultural resources;
Extent aud production Of the mineral
region;
The commerce and navigation Of Cali.
fornia;
The legislation necessary for the ter
rilory;
And, especially, in regard to the dis.
position of The gold bearing lands, belong'
Ing to The United States.
- The population Of the country is Gow
about one hundred and twenty thousand
An accession to the population by lmmi-
LratiOn, during The yehr beginning at tho
next dry season,-on The lst day OF May,
is estimated at two hundred thousand.
The agricultural capncilieS Of the State
are vastly greater Than has been hereIo'
fore represented. There is vast extent
of pasture lands, unsurpassed anywhere
in the world, III verdure and richness.
The wild oats grow spontaneously all
over the plains, yielding an annual crop
al the rate of forty bushels per acre.-
Any number Of cattle and sheep may be
raised. Two hundred thousand head O.
cattle must be brought into the eouniFy
during the nsXt two years.
The cattle we're formerly killed fol
there hides, which vas the chef arlic''
OF export; and they were worth bui Iou
dollars head; but now they are worIl
| twenty or thirty dollars a head.
California is especially adapted II
wool growing; n gentleman was about Il
import ten thousand sheep from Mexico
with a view Of going into that business
The future value OF the vineyards Is rep
resented MS very great.
LAS to the commerce OF The country, h
| estimates the value OF imports needed il
California from the Atlantic Staes 10
the next year, al tour millions OF dollar
4 in flour, six millions IN lumber, and Nv
millions in o.her articles.
As to the article OF lumber, lis price
now S75 per thousand, and cannot b
lower, because II is below he cost Of labo
necessary for cutting and saving lumbe
in California. 1t car be carried 10 Chll
iolnia for $24 thousand; and suPposn
i. 10 cost go here, II viii continue
pay
The gold region is described as aXel
ding five or six hundred miles from tb
South to the North, aud from forty I
sixty miles in Width, from East TO IVES
1t rises gradually IN an inclined plain Iros
the Sacramento Valley, TO the elevalio
of 1900 feet, at what are called The Fut
Hills. Between these hills and tll
Sierra Nevada number OF streams hav
their source and take their course lhroUg
the Foot Hills, westward,
Mr.. King examined Twelve Of thes
rivers, and found them all very rich
gold The territory on the North
verv rich in gold; aud the conclusion
inevitable. from all the facts, that u
whole quartz plain, containing three Tho
sand square miles, is fall OF gold beddt
in the quurtz and some Of which, ,dlsIn'
grated from The quartz by the torrent
! may 10 found IN Gust and Jumps IN Y
" beds Of The streams.
5 The whole number OF foreigners in 4
region, who are gold hunters, Is fitte'
thousand There bave been but sew
II ousand American gold hunters. II
Chlians and the Sonora people came
0 crowds, and have carried off twenty fl
) millions. The Americans have procur
fifteen milious. The ChiIians are expe
! diggers.
The amount of gold already procur
} is forty millions. But forty nmlIon! ma
will be procured during The coming d
season-say from May ill November,
The regular mining oPet atoms III /
j solid quartz rock will soon begin, and
be continued during tie wet us wgiI
the dry season,
Mr. King estimates the amount OF e
. which will be procured, from The lsI
4 May l85l.to the l,t ol November, 81
5 at one hundred millions!
8 He recommends that the lands DO
. tanned as public property forever-aI
as perpetual resource for the public
chequer,
To the workers and diggers Of gold
proposes to grant permits, al the rate
an ounce Of gold for each pound.
For tho encouragement ol reeuI
mining operations, he proposes to gra
leases Of n limited number Of ncres
persons or companies, alta small per Gel
, age on the amount OF gold procured.