Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-03-14
CALIFORNIA AGAIN.

The papers from California, and all parts Of
the country, are commencing again their annual
trumpeting of "GREATER Discoveries THAN
EvER''-"SIx DOLLARS OF GOLD TO Pound
OF SAND &C., &c. The spectators in Cali
florida are perfectly aware that laziness is nine
tenths of original sin-and they think if they can
start any story that will make honest men believe
they can realize wealth without labor they will
still have an opportunity to fatten upon the mis-
cries, and appropriate the plumber of another
horde of adventurous from the States who be-
come impressed with the idea that these stories
are true, and that there is chance for wealth
without hard work. These wonderful discove-
ries always happen about this time of the year,
and get well flying upon the wings of the
wind, and the sheets of the newspaper, just be-
fore spring opens, so as to get the "grcenics
excited, and their farms mortgaged at fifty per
cent. per onnum, and themselves mounted on
wagons and waiting at the bluffs tor the grass,
which is not half so green as themselves.
Well, we have no doubt but that few will be
found in these parts to start upon the wild goose
chase in the hopes of amassing wealth without
labor. Well, all we have to say about it is, don't
blame US for not telling you what we think off
when you forfeit your farms, then remember
that no business, least of all, gold hunting can
afford to pay 25 per cent. for money-when you
are scaling the Sierra Nevada and lowering and
hosting your wagon by the strength of your mus
| ces, you will need no one to remind you that it
is harder work than hoeing corn, and not half so
sure pay-when you are furnishing for want of
food on the road. you will remember that at
home you might have had plenty. Our advice
to all who begin to be excited or believe one of
these new stories about the "Gold Bluffs is to
mortgage your farm and star, right off; no mat
ter if money is SO per cent, pay it and go, and
establish your claim to the title of an enterpri-
sing man-if you don't deserve it now, you will
have earned it by the time you get back We
say don't be "blufied'
Read the following glowing account of new
discoveries, endorsed by Gen. Wilson, of New
Hampshire, and senatorial notoriety,) and tinker
up your cart and start
Twenty-seven miles beyond the Trinity. there
is beach several miles in extent, aud bounded
by high bluff The sands of this beach are
mixed with gold to an extent almost beyond be-
lief. The sand is OF two kinds-a fine black
sand and grey sand. The grey sand can be Sc
parated very easily from the black sand, and this
seems to be desirable object. The gold is
mixed with the black sand in proportions offrom
ten cents to ten dollars the pound. At times
when the surf is high, the gold is not easily dis
covered, but i'll the spring of the year, after a
succession of Gains, the entire beach is covered
with bright and yellow gold. Mr.. Collins. the
Secretary of the Pacific Mining Company, meas
| ured patch of gold and sand, and estimates il
will yield to each member of the COMPANY the
| snug little sum of $4,000, O0O-and this est
mate is formed upon calculation that the sand
| holds ont to be one-tenth as rich as observation
warrants them in supposing.
| The Pacific Mining Company (the adven,ur-
| of the Chesapeake have banded themselves to-
| gether under this titlc) found some 8 men at
| these diggings. The men had no disposition
to dig, for the gold was all ready for them when
ever they felt disposed to take it, Besides, such
is the character of the roads that they coald not
take away more than rs or 100 pounds apiece
an amount too trifiing for their consi ierariop.-
! They had erected comfortable log cabin and
designed watching this claim until spring, and
then taking ship load of the gold and travel to
some country where the metal was not so abund.
! ant. Rr. Collins saw a man who had accumu-
lated fifty thousand pounds, or fifty thousand tuns
he did not recollect whch--of the richest kind
Of black sand.
! Gen. Wilson says that thousands Of men can
not exhaust this gold in thosands of years, and
he gives all who doubt his statements the liberty
of going and uscertaining these facts for them
selves.