Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1850-10-10
From the Neio Orleans BailetiR
The California HmTnbUg.

We would call attention TO the follow
ing letter, received by a commercial
house in the city from gentleman whose
observations and opinions are entitled to
the most unlimited lfdence.
We have always been convinced that
there was vast deal of humbug and abb
solute deception connected with the ac-
counts from California, and every day
convinces us more and more of the fact.
We have no doubt that this letter gives
a correct and faithful view of the case,
and the time is not distant when the
great flow of emigration will be from
and not to California
CALIroRsIA, near Stockton,
July 81, 1850.
have deferred writing you for some
time as disliked to give you my views
of the quartz rock in this country, when
it was likely to conflict so essentially
with Mr.. King, Wright and others, who
have by their reports excited the Amer
lean people so much. have been over
two months devoting myself to the in
vestigation of the subject, and am pre-
pared now to say that there is little or
no foundation in the reports made on
this subject. There are many interests
here which are supported by the most
INSCRIPTIONS agencies the various
steamboat interests on the rivers, those
engaged in building up towns, but above
all the Atlantic and Pacific lines-all of
these have active agents, and the rich
specimens of quartz rock exhibited in
the States have been bolders, which
have been thrown up by volcanic action
and found in the gulches SIC. | have
Travelled with test mortice, and found
none that had any gold in it, except a
vein at Mariposa. This vein is about
IL feet wide, and has streak in it about
A inches wide that will average about
one dollar pound. To get one hundred
pounds of this, you must remove by
blasting tons of the mass of rubbish that
is worthless it could not be worked
by the best machinery in the United
States at the present price Of labor here.
Col. Jackson, Of Virginia, and some
New Workers, have taken possession of
the richest part of this vein; with a
view to sell to some of the large COM
panies that are on the way with machin-
cry.
This delusioh was kept up until / got
into the mines. The steamboat men on
the river to Stockton spoke in the high
est terms of the rich veins, and had
their specimens but as soon as got
into the mining region, was laughed at
by every miner, for supposing there was
any gold in the quartz. 1t is a great
pity that the immigration to this country
could not be stopped. These false rep
reservations wiH cause the american poo
pie more suffering, priration and money,
than the revolutionary acar did. Ninety
nine in hundred are dissatisfied and
regret exceedingly having left their COM
Portable homes for so much privation and
pain to so little purpose. There are
thousands and tens of thousands who
have been here twelve months and have
not the means to get back. The whole
country has been pretty much worked
over. A place will be discovered where
half an ounce or an ounce can be made.
In twcnty-four hours there will be hun
dreds on the spot, and the discoverer
fares no better than the rest, each man
being entitled to only sixteen feet Of
ground. The place, of course, is soon
worked out, and picks and spades are
shouldered,an the parties range perhaps
for weeks before they get another place
where they can make wages. There are
some rich deposits in this country which
are about twenty five feet deep, but the
gold lays in pockets, and where one will
be successful in sinking a pit, twenty
will fail. 1t is not safe to calculate on
more than So per day; expenses are
very high. 1t requires the most hardy
constitution, and men accustomed TO Ia
Dor to stand the hardships we have to en-
dure. intend to return in the spring
or winter.
T7@Rev. Mr.. Unonius, of the Scan
danavian Church, at Chicago, has receiv-
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