The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1851-01-18
Fran California

The New Orleans papers oil inc io'"s
ce,ved evening before last by the Bostona'
contain California news brought by the fa-
c;6c But is the same news brought to New
York by the Georgia. We clip however
the following additional items, which we
have not seen in the N. York papers:
In rccard TO aold-digsing the Sonora Her
aid says:
Abcut three weeks ago man by the name
of Mcdonald oper ed a hole in the arroyo de
Sonora. in the very town itself, and took there
from about eighteen ounces daily Tor about
t,ro weeks. Other holes were immediately
opened ip the vicinity and have yielded very
Iarge amount of gold. Peter Meheen's com
nanv of six have taken out some 3O0 ounces
ont in TWO weeks. Ford's company oil three
have taken out about s., 900 - the same
time. and others have donll 1Xabiy well
Messrs. RunnelIs aud Davis, on Sullivan
Creek about two miles from here, have taken
ont ab.,ut 100 ounces each within the ias'
siy weeks We stale these facts not TO ex-
ci,e exnec,ations which may be disappointed
bnt oniy to show the FOLLY OF running oil 10
the mountains in the distance, when noun,
tains and valleys around US are SO rlch. ana
when even the diggiDgs which had been
abandoned as already worked out nave
nrove,i more productive than all the iar-of
veins or placrrs. We are In the centre o
the mines. and perhaps it will be diiticult tt
6nd !, heffrr place TO work than just here, al
| round about Sonora. Those who do no
make their ounces uaily, are sure to make
their dollars over and above expenses,
they keep sober and DO moderate share o
work.
The Courier speaks in high terms Of some
specimens of gold bearing quartz from th
vein on Carson's Creek. The Courier says
In this VEN the gold is distributed in i'm
mense masses Of rock, In all degrees OF rich
ness, from minute particles to solid masses U
apparently pure metal and it seems to be il
unaiIing quantities. Where the end will b.
none can tell. The vein Of quartz is repre-
sented to extend through hill some six hun
dred feet high, and cropping out on the sum
NIT in large masses, twenty feet or more il
thickness, and rich with gold. At the has
of the hill, six hundred feet lowerSiIi til
vein. gold is also iound sticking out of tn
rocks.
|. We learn that the company owning tn
mine intend beginning Immediately lie ope
ration OF crushing the rock and extractin
tnc Hbetdi. rCT tnlS purpose the Dest Hid
Ichihcry is to be employed and operated. hot
by steam and water power, Tor which there ar
sbundant facilities IL the immediate vicini.i
Indeed, we begin to lock now for large mil
ing OPERATIONS to be commenced in an c,
tended range of country. The discoverie
J made within the past few months show at
Iconvince US that the gold and other miner
wealth Of Californ are exhaustless. o.
prosperity has juet begun.
A horrible affair took place near Los "A
geles. A company of six men came dow
from the Mariposa diggings, with au inte
{ ton OF exploring TO the east for gold. The
? had got as far as " the Lagoon" about six
miles from Los Angeles, on the road TO Il
Colorado, when they overlook party of S
, norians, who were engaged in watering The
a animals At an opportune moment the lat
turned upon them with their knives, al
killed two of the Americans upon The sp;
: aud horribly wounded another. In their tn
: the Americans killed one Of the Mexicans.
o This is the story told BY the rurvivii
, Americans The name of one OF The M
:, who was killed vas Freeman. He was
u lawyer by profession, and late from Tex
!. bu, formerly of Mississippi. The names
: the others Of the party are not known.