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Ma DIR Sir: a fItle above where 4 Clear
Creek 2enp;ies its watets into the Sacramento
river op fle western fidd, beneath fhc oyeFhang
ina branches Of an old white oak can be fpnndat
present rby locai habitaiion BryaTly, in com.
p8h9 With the Cuniiinehains, 1h6mas.s &c,
reached HIRE tao dayssihce. NIL r*
Just before Is0 Sacramento City, performed
mg lastIottci,4 act as President Of The Charles
tokn WaD Mining Company BY presiding over
their deliberations, as 10 dissolution aud divi-
.s9n o. aP4ils My lrrrctfms, ss wrote 10 you
lrtm FoTt l<earpey, were npon Amy5own motion,
suspended until orr arrival in California, and the
sole command given loIFjS. Smith, Of Missouri,
OFT guide! who proved himself an eiticentofiicer
a1a guia,l Tie result OF the first days telibe-5
rl9iops was a bare nai1rity in avar OF adherHg
toFetheH. On The morrow anothefMaS held and
onEn1ldnthe question was reconsdered, andby
a maolIlyfo aboht Three 10 one itwas determine
edithat khe above named Company should no
lodaer eNiFr as such II would have been mad.
ness in psito have tcuiaiaFd togetlier,as itwould
haze BEEN Inppssible FIR US 10 harefpuud place
worth working, atlJrdrg sufficient space Tor 70
large Cdthpany. F7T
bincefI jeit, there. has been sale or an the
praaerty oil The Company, and theresut was
dividend Of s 10 10 each member exclusive of
did PROVISIONS which we're shipped ABOUND ard
witch are not yet sold. These Will increase it
some s ) nofe, which amounts deducted from
tho S3op oF iuinaly paid, " III make OBJ expenses
from Char Aestown ere, la 4isianceHof upward. Of
1900 miLe4, Sl56, each member, too, over and
above This pyIdeud, has gun, Pairsof wooden
blAketk, GUM blanket. and clothes bag which, as
these aHtices are selling here, would reduce our
expenses $50 more. Tins lar, this is pretty
we'll. Hill
! was induced tocome up here from represen-
tai ions being rife bclewlhaL these wVre Tie rich-
est mines b California and being remote. were
less crowded haye found, Iowt yer, The re-
verse Ia be lie case. and Think can say now
from my own kndwedgf, gathered irom otNerya-
lion mosriys az al4p ronre4bie solitces, Hat tina
idea ot making fortune here by digging gold,
IN week III tnoath, Or year, or,Sii you w, a
hall a dozsn Of them. il one magnificent hum,
bug 'fheIgold speculation has become 10 The
eySs ofmaly poor dslpddd leow, who has sa-
crillred his ail 10 Feach hers, aFpeI'did fraud, a
mokt sttcHpg ele's. Ir
pi tie thirty thousand 6dividuGs who have
come opt here ac{oss the .niaint, To say nalhing
OF ihoSe wip have come by water there will not
be two-lhodsaud yho will ever make more than
enbugfto Dairy them home again, much LEES pay
thdm TOT the sacrifices made at home, the waste
OF lime, and the labors and haFdshiPs Of getting
hete.
have bden in the mines and mingled with the
MIXERS and seen tLem at work Ill number Of
different mibes, and while yPp willEtind here and
lhase few who are doing pretty well, making
tbGir $40 Of SIG per day, or may be sac, you
will find hundreds not making nure than 81 or
50, and huAdrcds more discouraged, going some .
wiffe else in tie vain hope Gl doing better
Nov, SIG DIR $40 day, will doubtless sound ve-
ny well thbme, but YOU must lookat tie accom-
paRFing stale Of things, shon'l ynr prove forth
nate enough 10 fall upon such lead" In the
first place the days you are employed in finding
ths'' ieFd, next the cost IL provisions, in The
neAt place.hat your H ieddf is liable 10 run out
any day, AMI then it may be week or two be-
forsyou find another; and, again, thesliabifty TO
sickness, which IN tie form Of fesers Is very pres
valsut AMONG the cmigran,F, ahd the Doctors
bilik, which are bills indeett+ and then the por-
toHs OF -iheIyear ia which Soa are mot abe to-
woFk, because ofTains and excessive hot wea-
theE--throwIall tlese intolfe opposite scale, 10
your SIG ori$2o per day, and strike yonr average
for tl.e year, I'D you viii Inl resnt Of drie-
rentlpne I'll bk
The spectators and tradefs-and even this is
now becoming orcrdqne-aFe managing TO get
possession 81 most Of the gold here and toearry
out hher seliemex, most splendid system Of ly !.
ingion large scale is resprted to.
+ Upon neaFly all the streams, on the head
braaches, of which gold il found there are one or
more ranchos, Which are converted into trading
pps5 ALSO. tA0W. u Is The interest 0e each one oil
ihese ranch leldefs-in orlel to sell their proyi-
siors, including cattle Tor btef, Of which they
have an immense nuinber-4to induce by some
means as many miners as possible 10 come up
Their respective streams. 4
15d effect lhis tiey send out theirrunners and
adhRfents, uhq put atloatin ihermiines and atthe
cties The fndst cxtravagant falsehoods about Tie
mining pros poets 10 their respective sHdiggings"
II Tne Inexperienced in these niatlerslcatch al The
gitded bait. and after travelling perhaps some two
\ or ihtee hundred miles, (which By The way af-
fufds him fine opportunity Of viewing the agri.
cultural features Of this great Eldorado, and il he
be a Missonfi OF nyother farmer ffointhe States.
4 they must seem To him about as attractive as the
n great Sahara, or some other desen,) and alter
I. working some week or so Just 10 see II lie has
been fooled, for he is not willing 10 take the say
SO o others Tor ii,i equally pnortInate he finds
by ,he result Of his labors, that there is no mis-.
take whatever in The matter
Then lie must 90 back again and % il. blind.
folded 10 some other mine The ideaof getting,
through report Of others, any Satisfactory infor-
matipn relative to mining AZ particular Z dig.
gings" is! 40 absurdity. II Al miner, and espe.
cislly an old one, Is asked what he Is making in
this that place. If il be lilile, ard be thinks If
leaving, he will tell you lie IS doing 4 6rstFaie
buslpess- lid he be doing well be willswear be Is
not clearing expenses. One must eet knowledge
here IN these matters, not merely By seeking af-
ter III bat hs must travel after IL and dig altar Il,
and then zen 10 one If il is The knowledge be
seeks afier All.
NewlloF sbme facts connected Willi these mines
hoa IN m nxj ffla n ts miners