The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-03-05

mouth, yet were sage enough forsooth to pro.
noupce tho whole affair (" perfect humbug."
Thus these cities Of Humboldt Bay, and the
Toadstead Trinidad, Of few hundred or so houses
and tents, are now left standing in their solitary
grandeur, the deserted monuments of Yankee en-
terpnse and mpetu0sity. Since the discovery OF
the rich mines on the klamath river, the Trinity
mines, and their connection with those mushroom
cities, are comparatively forgotten, from the fact
that easy water route, such as is afforded by
the klamath river to the best mines in the country,
is preferable to a mule and mountain route, at the
risk Of life and limb. But as the rejuvenating in
fuence of humbugging is again agitating the mul-
titu0es who are floating up and down here in San
Francisco and Sacramento and as the gold bluff
is bluffpg every fourth man out of his Senses pre-
sentlng to his dreams by day and visions by night
a mine of wealth, such as the NEST unbounded ex-
travagance can never exhaust-that can be pro-
cured by shiploads from the banks of the Pacific,
where it is piled up in mountains, slightly mingled
to be sure with black sand. 1t would not be
strange to these cities paper yet attain with
California despatch solidity of brick and mortar
of undoubted tangibility, while the surrounding
forests and all echo to the sound of rafting wheels
and the busy hum Of commerce.
Humboldt bay does possess some real merit and
attractions in its large and beautiful shset Of wa
ter, though a dangerous entrance from the sea,
surrounded by rolling plains Of excellent soil, and
forests Of noble growth, Unlontown is LAID out
at the head of the bay, containing some eighty
houses, or more, skirted on one side by heavy
wood lands, and on the other by beautiful plain,
stretching away In the distance. It's tuVlIOHS
abound in grizzly bear, deer, elk, and Indians, and
abundance of game, both of the flying andfunning
sort. will close this prosy epistle after saying
word or two Of the town of klamath, situated at
the entrance of the klamath river 10 the sea- 10 lat
III 30, distant from San Francisco some $50 miles.
The Trinity river is branch of the klamath, at q
a distance OF fifty miles from its mouth disco
very made in April last, by the returning fragments
of q party who were wrecked in the Paragon, at
Port st. George But, as at that crisis the glores
ofHumboldt and Trinidai eclpsed everything elae,
and entirely absorbed the rays of all secondary
planets, klamath was thrown in the back ground
and entirely unnoticed, until quite lately,
when, for certain golden considerations. it is
becoming the theme of excitement. and the
great point of attraction on the northwest
coast. Presenting, as it does, large and mag
nifcent river, on whose bosom, from the en-.
trance to the Pacific, may be borne freight and
passengers, by cheap and rapid steam navg alton
direct to the mines, about one hundred miles up
the river; and the fact that those mines are now
affOrding to some two thousand men an average OF
one ounce OF gold day, and sufficiently extensive
to afford room for one hundred thousand men, at
the same rates, while hundreds are making fifty
and one hundred dollars day, by which develope-
ments the incompatible mineral wealth of this re.
gion has been established beyond the shade of a
doubt, form basis which must insure to the town
of Klamath a speedy and permanent prosperity,
and to its hardy pioneers and projectors, reward
for their toll and prvations in exploring and settling
this untrodden wild, which, like all the rest OF
Yankeedom, Is about to be reduced to the power
of steam, the axe, and the plough. Yours, &c.
j. p. c..