Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-03-11
The Gold Bluff Excitement.

The Pacific News says in relation to ihis dis coveFy:
 That on the line of the coast from twenty five miles north of Trinidad 10 t.gbt miles South 0f the Klamath riyer there IS d very r.ch deposit of gold m scales, lntegnixed wlth l,,sck sand, K beyond dispute. The gold bearing range of the inferior here strikes the ocean, and r0nning down to l,ne of bluffs from l00 10 6U0 feet high, meor or less preemtous, skirts the coast for nearly ten m,Ies. These are the celebrated Gold Bluffs. Cid Father Neptune here carries gold washing operation OF his own account precisely on the principle of the miners gold washing, but on q colossal scale As the wayts eb5 and flow, they wash 0ui the blpn, carryiag back into the sea of all the lighter sand, gravel &c., and leaving behind on the beach the heavy black sand, eoatahng $hc gold.
 Occasionally, after storm. the black sand is buried under a sort of top dressing ot grey sand thrown up by the seq; on removing which, 10 slight depth, the black, gold bearing sand IS shown as before
 The very richest portion of tIls deposit IS con fined in slpp of coaSt nearly two miles; although for about seven mIlys more, the sand IS all more or less aboundng in sotd. We have been shown one sample, which we are assured has yielded, upon analysis, al the rate ot dollars Ike t5; winch we presume, oi course. Co be a very favor able specimen The more SaBguine members of .he Pacific Mining Company are confident that the poorest sand will yield from $ cents to sl 25 10. For all which estimates wish to be in no way responsible, although the company IS gying the best evidence of its faith ln them by Iis ex- pendturcs in the euterpnsc-the purchase ef tle steamer Chesapeake
 That ihe gold exists all along the coast at the foot of the Bluffs and ti great abundance, seems to hc indisputsbe.
 How to get | in any available shape, is another affair entirely. The ordinary methods by washing, winnowing, Sc.,1 of separating the gold from she sand in which # IS found, fail in this case. the black sand being nearly 0r Quite as heavy, as the scales of gold which Il contains. We presume that there Is within the resources of modern sci ence mode of obtaining the geld by solution or otherwise and we iS-tn that Prof spicker. Of this city, has tie secret and has had t in successful operation. We believe IL IS now n the elusive possession of the Pacific Mining Company.
 The San Francisco Herald says.
 That very large quantities o( the pfecioas rae- tai are 10 he foBud ca "G0d BiuH" can, we tAffk. scarcely be doubted--bat from the fact that no landing for passengers or soDds can be ohiainesi within 27 miles of thc scene of operations, ihe immediate road heing of the most rugged and iIn- pasSable nature. very serious doubts afise as to whether il vii bc st present aa available dscas cry.
 The excitement produced by the reported dis coyeFies oi gold in the Klamath ryer, IS very con siderable. Eight vessels were aayetlised or the 18th ult., as San Francisco to sail io1 the "tiold 8ulis' in the e0arSe of few days. These yes Sels the EIHpiEe Capacity. Lsdia, Snsan VI afd- well, Fsyawsy, 0dd Fellow. Eagle, and Vesia. The explanation Of the whole matter may pso- bahly he found ID the following extracts ffon the Callfegnia CplGicr. 1.-the oEzinsi company real ISe on hundred thousand dollars cash in hand aa The result of thelr enterprise. in our opln!on they wiA have brought then golden stores 10 a ss;hel profitable market:
 "A company, consisting of sonne thirty persons was immediately ionsed, books opened and few shares only, all the stockholders you'd eoasen 10 dispose ot, were put n Ike market. aud up thel went, like naioIaoih balloon. inflated with gas I The eondeseenslon of the shafeh9ldefs. n peunst iiBg few others to pay iher hundred dollars sael for sH interest lR the treasures which were to maxi them q Rothsch childs sad baslags--oa papet--wa
 highly ensnsBeHdakIe.
 .'The stock wss divided iato i2,O00 shares q
 sihU each. and 1 .fu0 shares were thrown into tis market, for which the original koisleFx expect ,
 realise $io0. .n0C--a very small compensation ssf GiyjSloa of thetr prospective wealth. The san
 was dispsyed throughout yesterday in ell i,s tlel