New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-01

The reports fIOm most of these machines are very
The ACCOUNTS from the American River arc equal
" good. On the North Fork some very extensive
operations aIe going on, with every prospect OF sue
cess. bitches are being dug In many places, dams
constructed strengthened, and where the beds Of
the IlYer have been already exposed, pumps are
being worked, ght and day, forlne purpose OF keep
ing deep holes dry the earth removed from when Is
beng piled up, until the ram renders further eX-
cavalion impossible. Ii must be remembered THAI
the parties employed in such works as these are, at
present, adding nothing to the quota OF gold winch
l. Low coming INTO market the results OF their Ia
bors VIII be manifested at later period, when those
Of many engaged N other branches OF mining VIII
% .uspnccc. This viii have tendency TO equal
ne the amount Of gold produced and to engender
confidence IN tie regularity Of the product, which
otherwise would not be felt.
Ia the middle and southern sections Of the state
the miners are dong equally well. In the vicinity Of
MokeunIe HILL v bich Is at present the great point
Of attraction, the most extensive dl5gngs nave Deen
struck Sections which were Abandoned eighteen
months ago as beng too unProdIcuye for prohlaOie
labor, arc beng taken up, aud, VITA The improve
ments introduced Of late IA washing, are paying al
mirably IN this and the southern section o! the
Mining district. fIom Tie talayeFas 10 the Mdip0Sd,
there probably more dirt beng thrown up than IN
all the rest OF the State besides. The dry dlggmss
abound throughout all this portion OF he auIlierous
IegiOn and there be 10 doub. TIA, II even mo-
straie supply Of water IL furnished - the comllg
season the weld OF gold from the middle and south.
ern sections Of The State viii be Immense. Pile u
dit have been stirclDg iar months pass, THROWN up
By palt6s WHO calculate Oh 4caiiul hlfFcsi 0Ofiii
The wet weather. and here IS 40 circulating the
amount VIII b VII be extracted ir0mtncm as soon as
he ralny season sets III.
The most mOmeLtCus question "ul'h sgitaie' tle
lubic mind 1t present, IL the gold ragon, b, Inc
probability OF a heavy rain falling during The taree
months now approaching. should the season prove
as boieTons as that OF the yedr before last or even
one half - much so, there can 1s no doubt tina, the
amount Of gold extracted from he nth III De e1l-
mou. The most Il the tlr. &c thrown u "A cllshcs
and laVincs through which steady streams ali, flo"
IL tie event Of q vet winter, out which ~!A oe as
dry as Al present, case the season prove as ma =
TIE las oLC.
What The probability of e We, W G-y season may
be- We confess We aTc unable % determine. The
Indians we undcrS, aad, prog osticaie, or one
auait j. certain hat a. me WIC 'o|l have made
Their sppearauce Yefv late ~ TIC season, The prOol
blHties inclne toproye them co~oct Our hOpe> can
only go with the miners and although ~ IN ran
CISCO the rain renders the condition u the town I'LL
pleas nt there could not, We arc sure, be found
single one OF IT'S citizens VINO would not submit 10
almost any Inconvenience. sooner than the miners
should lOse the rewdrd which their hDors so fcnly
merit.
The lo nth OF the miners has been generally good,
although. IN the northern mines cry sipeias has PEE
Vol ed to some extent. We hear, no sever. Of very
few cases which pro.,e fatal, and there can DC 80
doubt that the mineral region Is full A. healthy
any other paE cf the remarkably healthy state OF
California.