New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-31
CALIFORNIA.
Los ApgeIos-GoId Mlnes ut the Amorgesa
Sprfngs-settement- on the Rio Colorado
New Town at san ro-ImproveEuents.
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Sprfngs-settlemenG- on the Rio Colorado
New Town at san Pedro Impro veruents.
Correspondence Of The frDune
Los AsGELos. November, 1854
Among the movements in progress in this
quarter may be mentioned the Gold Mines on toe
Amorgosa Springs These were discovered last
Spring, bu. the company who went out TO work
them got discouraged and came back. Within
acouple OF months two parties have come down
from the North 10 make another. sstenRt: One
of them has lately sent into this place Tor pro
visions, &c, and learn that their promises of sue
cess are most fattering. They bring spe. imens
of the most gorgeous character. The yein they
say, occurs in a trap rock, and Is about feet IN
width. Some of the party have gone to the North
to get machinery. The Amorgosa, it should be
remarked is on the road from the salt Lake TO
this place
Another enterprise is also on foot having IN
view the settlement Of the lands on the Rio
Colorado A company is no here, just from the
North, comprising Is men, who are en- roHte for
the Colorado. They have purchased, it appears
81 leagues OF land from the Mexican Govern
ment, lying upon both sides Of the Colorado and
lust below where the American line crosses that
river They say they have discovered al ex-
tensive placer in the neighborhood. One OF the
stockholders in the Company is the present Gov
ernor of Sonora. They have a steamboat tthe
ella row on the way from San Francisco to the
Gulf of California, and thence up to the Rio
Colorado
A movement is likewise projected to found
Town at San Pedro. 1t has been satisfactorily
ascertained that with moderate expenditure,
good harbor can be formed at that point and
land has been procured and arrangements have
been made that will ensure ere long, the building
up Of a Hourishing commercial place One part
Of the proposed plan is to bring the waters of the
San Gabriel by means Of an aqueduct into the
proposed town. This can readily be done and,
at the same time the water be made avail
able in iTigating large amount Of the most
cellent land. The enterprise, on the whole, is
very important and perfectly feasible.
There is also plan to bring water into this
city By means of an aqueduct. We have large
stream that runs through the eastern edge of the
town that, with a moderate expenditure, can be
carried directly through its center, aud NOT only
furnish water to all its inhabitants but afterward
carried below the town, andrendered servceabe
by irrigating several thousands OF acres of the
best of land that is now perfectly vaIaeless for
want of water,
Last out not least of the new enterprises of the
dav, may be mentioned the establishment OF q
weekly paper in this city. Mr. Theodore Foster
will leave here for San Francisco next week, to
obtain an establishment with which he intends to
issue weekly journal at this place, and for which
he has already received ample encouragement
You will thus see that we in this region are
going ahead. Rents very high and a large
number OF new buildings are up. The emil
grafton from the South is alrea eat aud must
continue to increase rapidly aft re rainy season
commences. Yours, T.