The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-02-27

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mate is formed upon calculation that the
sand holds out 10 one-tenth as rich as Oh.
servation warrants them in supposing.
The Pacific Mining Company,
adventurers of the Chesapeake have ban.
ded themselves together under this tile -
found some l9 men at these diggngs.
The men had no disposition 10 dig for
the gold was already for them whenever
they were disposed TO take it.
Besides such is the character OF lie
roads that they could not take away more
than 75 or 100 pounds aPiece-an amount
! too tritiing for their consideration.
They had erected a comfortable ioE
cabin, and designed watching this claim
until the spring, and then take ship load
of The gold. and travel 10 some Country
where The metal was not so abundant.
Mr.. Collins saw man who had accu.
mulated fifty thousand pounds. or fifty
! thousand lons-he did not recolIecl which
/ of The richest kind of black sand.
/ General Wilson says that thousands of
J men cannot exhaust this gold in thousands
of years, and he gives all who doubt his
Statements The liberty of going and ascer.
tanning these facts for themselves.
The company will send up 100 addi-
1 tiOnal laborers as speedily as they can be
embarked. They also design purchasing
a steamer and running her up To The GOLD
! Bluffs" Sixty men are now al The scene
! of operations.
| We await with anxiety further reports
Numerous specimens of lhe sand and gold
were exhibited TO the stockholders al the
ia eeting last evening
4 letter to the New York sun referring
TO the speculation says:-
"a new company of gosiing8, have
chartered the steamer Chesapeake, and
proceeded 10 KLAMATH" some two hun.
dred and fifty miles up the coast, avUwed-
: ly 10 bring back black sand, containing
gold dust, worth all along from two 10 six
/ ,een dollars per pound, which is said TO
! lay on the sea shore in perfect ship loads.
ApropOs, there Is town laid out anu lots
/ Tor safe, IN the immediate y.cnIly, Inc fact
OeIng unknown except 10 j few.
/ .4jaO!her .4ce0u,lt Of the Gold Bluff.
The Pacific News says In relation TO
( this discos ery:-That on the line OF the
coast, from twenty five miles north of
/ Trinidad 10 eight miles south of the kla-
m4Ih river, there Is very rich deposI Of
gold III scales, inIermixed with black sand
Is beyond dispute. The gold bearing
range ul lhe interior here strikes the ocean,
aud running down 10 d line of bluffs from
100 10 6OU teet high, more or less precIpi-
ious, skirts the coast for nearly ten miles.
| These are the celebrated Gold Bluffs Old
Father Neptune here carries Oh gold
washing operation on his own account,
precisely on the principles oi lhe miners
gOld-washlng, but on a colossal scale.
As the waves ebb and dow, they wash Oh.
me Bluff, carry ing back into lhe sea ali
The lighter sand, gravel. &c, aud lea. ing
behind on the beach lhe heavy black sane
containing the gold.
:, The very richest portion of this deposl.
is confined 10 i strip of coast nearly Two
miles long; although, tor about seven mills
more, The sand Is all more Or less abcunL-
Iug IN gold. We have been shown on
sample, which we are asSur has Weld j.
upon analys al The rale OF Si.c dollars %
the pound; which we presume of Course,
10 On d very favorable specimen.
The San Francisco Herald saws:
That very large Quantities of the r-,-
clous metal are 10 be found on Gold B. ..s'
can, we think, scarcely be doubled %
from the fact thai no landing or passen- 5.s
or goods can be Obtained within 27 Il 3
of The scene OF operations, the immel -
road being of the most rugged and imp -ss.
able nature, very serious doubts arise a5 D.
: whether 1t will be at present an ara.--.5
discovery.
The excitement produced by The re7cs.
ted discoveries of gold in the Kiau ia
river, is very considerable. Eight vess IS
were advertised on the 18th uli., al s.1
Francisco. 10 sail for The Gold Bluffs IN
{ the course of u few days.
l The steamer Gold Hunter is up for lI.s
newly discovered gold region. She Is -a,
r verIlsed 10 sail ou Ihe I4ih inst.
The Hartford brought from Sacram.--
20 large load of passengers at SI.50 peg
2 head, one-half of whom, il is said. wers o.
l their way 10 Gold Bluff.
= The explanation of the whole rna.eg
f may probably be found in the fnliovlaz
extracts from the California Colri II. j.
: the original company realise one hun O.
I thousand dollars cash in hand, as tie re-
4 suit OF their enterprise, in our OpiQlon .asy
e will have brought their golden stores ~ e
rather profitable market:
n "A company, consisting of some ihir.r
2 persons, was Immediately formed, BOOKS
n opened, and few shares only. al! a5
D., stockholders would consent To disp0ss g5
were put i'll The market, aud up the. wea
5 like a mammoth balloon, inflated N .as
J.. The coudescenslon of the shareholda rs. IN