Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-11-08
TERNIs OF ADvERTIsrNGs
Mining In Eastern CaItfornia--Ttse Gold
Mountain.


from California who has personally visited
the so-called Gold Mountain which has
been quite commonly considered fabulous.
1t lies in about lat. 33 deg. North, two
hundred and fifty miles east of Los Ange-
los in Southern California, and perhaps one
hundred West of the Colorado. The re-
gion is as forbidding as can be, without in
habitants, even Aboriginal, though there
is sparse population of savages on the
Mahave River say fifty miles East. To
approach it, you pass over the Sierra Ne
vada, near Mount San Bernardino, across
two sand deserts of sixty to eighty miles,
and thence to a region of deep canons and
rugged mountains, sterile, almost destitute
of grass, and with no timber except the
musquit, Something like our alder, which
rarely grows to the size of mans arm
The region is infested with rattlesnakes in
incredible numbers, and the earth so full
of minerals Especially sal eratus) that the
water is absolutely poisonous. There is
no water fit to drink within sixteen miles
of the Gold Mountain so called, which
rises about $50 feet rather steeply from
canon, which has an elevation of some
one hundred and fifty feet on the other side
of it. The canon is about one-fourth of a
mile long, and the two hills are surrounded
by sand deserts. The hills are composed
of dark hornblende rock, with perhaps
tenth of white .fcldspar intermixed with it;
and the Gold is found in both, generally
running in streaks OF strings, though some
times showing bulbs or Jumps like butts
ton. 1t has been found by analysis to
yield an average of about $3.50 per pound
of the rock
Eight miles north of this mountain
our informant tried his luck at digging in
the usual California misunderstanding off
the surface earth which lies Immediately
above the rock. He dug thus with two In
dams for four hours, obtained about ten
ounces of pure gold, taking only the Jumps,
having nothing to wash the earth with
Probably as much was thus left as takeIi.
He did not try in any other spot, but has
no doubt that the gold extends all the way
from Sonora in Northern Mexico to the
upper Sacramento and Oregon distance
of full eight hundred miles. The region
here described is about five hundred miles
from the nearest diggings in California, but
cannot be approached by less than thou
sand miles of actual travel 1t is very
near the boundary line just established by
Congress between California and Utah.
"A company has been formed in San
Francisco expressly to mine this Gold
Mountain and vicinity. 1t is entitled the
Los Angeles Gold Mining Company and
has or is to have capital of $750,000.--
1t has already sent forward pioneer party
of one hundred miners, with implements,
provisions, sc.
We have thus given, on indubitable
testimony, a succinct account of the Gold
Mountain, of whose existence we have his
therto avowed skepticismif not incredulity.
1t will be seen that it is not mountain OF
gold but only mountain containing gold
Yet we doubt whether its
like is known elsewhere in the world
The men sent out to work it are well pro-
vided and armed, and are to be paid So per
dav 'and found, which is consideration
in a region where it is so easy and SO peril
GUS to get lost. The mules Gall but four
constantly employed in carrying water for
drinking) have been brought away, so that
the miners (Sonorians mainly could not
run off if they would.
Now don't pick up your traps and
rush off post-haste for this new Gold Re-
zion. Remember that it is some hundred
miles from any where, in foodless, al
most CRASHES, woodless, waterless region
whose chief denizens are rattle-snakes,
and where the thermometer frequently
shows $50 to $50 degrees of Fahrenheit,
with the first drop of drinkable water six
teen miles away. Our friend who visited
it met on the way thither scores fimmi-
grant men, women and children, tottering
California-ward, on foot, furnishing, and
nearly Invested of clothing by the briers
and thorns, through which they had scram-
bled since their animals starved or sank to
die by the way. The hollow and wasting
survivors were frantic for bread-they had
no longer an appetite for gold. Only by
captilists or large associations can the Gold
of Eastern California be proitably dug
now; it will soon be so in the valley Of the
Sacramento and its tributaries as WE'LL
The day of individual scrambling for Jumps
and grains in the 'gulches' or beds of rivers
is already nearly over.-N. Z. Tribune.
A shock Of an earthquake was felt
at Farmville, Va, on the 18th inst