Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-03-11
FReA TIE GOLD REGION.

\ Nxw Fl DoRApo.--We have been ali along prepared to hear marvellous accounts of dssc0ve- res of gnid that t would be as abundant aS lead seemed not altogether improbable; and we have looked forward to the time VI hen maa would have to give cert had of the precious metal in ex- change for a haErel of wheat. But there IS nothing left foF credulty now The world has never heard of such wealth as lses upon the shores of the Pacific,
 lt IS well known that ths steamer Chesapeake. with about thirty adyenturerS, Jeff this port the 2lSt ult, for the Klamath. and in yesterdays pa. per we gave SoRc account ot her progress. Scarcely was oar paper issued when thet tshesa- pcake came into port, egsagins back five SIX of the proSpeetS.' Gen. John Wilson and John A. Collins. Esq, among the number.
 meeting of the stockholders was called, to hear the result Of the expedition whleh meeting we attended: and if we can hrlusprf ideas down to anything like reason, ai;eT hearing these woR- dcrful details, we will let tie public into the sc cfet.
 Twenty seven miles beyond the Trinity there iS 2 beach several mlles in extent, and bounded by high bluff The ssadS oi thls beach are mixed with gold to an extent almost beyond belief The sand IS of two hndS-a fine black sand and a gray sand
 The gray sand can he separated very easily from the black sand, and th.s seems to be desirable object. The gold iS mixed with thc black sand ia proportions of from ten cents to ten dollars the pound.
 At tn.es when the surf is high ies gold is no, easily discovered, but in the spring of the year, after succession of calrls, the entire beach IS covered with brgtt and yellow gold. Mir Collins the Secretary of the Pacific Mining Company, measured patch of gold and sand, and estimates i will yield to each member of the com pany the snug little sum of St3 .Gon. .0fn-and this estimate IS formed upon calculation shat the sand holds ont to be one-tcnth as nCh as obseH aton warrants them in SDpposing The Pacific Mining C@mp0ny-tthe adventur- CTS of the CheSapea&c have banded themselves to- gether under the. ttlc,--found some 10 men a; tkeSe digglHgs. The men had disposition 10 dig, for the gold was already for them whenever they were disposed to take it.
 Besides such is the character of the roads that they coald not take away more than 75 or le0 pounds cach--an amonnt too triimg for their con sideraon.
 watching this claim until the spring, and then take a ship load Of the gold and travel to some country where the metal was not so abundant
 Mr. Collins saw a man who had accumulated fifty thousand pounds or fifty thousand tonS--he did not recoilect which--of the richest kind of black sand.
 General Wilson says that thousands of men cannot exhaust this gold in thousands of yearS, and he gives all who doubt his statements the liberty of gong and ascertaining these facts for themselves.
 The company will send up l00 additional Ia boFers as speedily as they can be embarked. They also design purchasing steamer and running her up to the "Gold Bluffs" Sixty men are now at the scene of operations.
 Three steamers arrived at tLis port yesterday the Antelope and the Tennessee from Panama, and the Chesapeake from Trinidad Bay.
 We await with anxiety further reports. Nume- nous speemienS ot the sand and gold were exhibit ed to the stock kholders at the meeting last evening
 iIs1 Cal. Jun Is