The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-02-27
A NEw Ell DoRADo.-The following

A New Ell DoRADo.-The following
from tho Alta California of January Is,
some what resembles Baron Munchaus,
eu's fables, but is given as trne;
We have been all along prepared to
hear marvellous Of discoveries
Of gold; hat it would be as abu"dant as
lead seemed not altogether %improbablej
and we have looked forward 10 the time
when a man would have to give a cart
load of the precious metal in exchange
for a barrel Of wheat.
II is we'll known that the steamer Ches'
apeake, with about thirty adventure rs
left this port on the 2lst ult., for the fla
math, and in yesterdays paper we gave
some account If her progress.
Scarcely was our paper issued when
the Chesapeake came into port bringing
back five or six of the ~"prospecters,"
Gen. John Wilson and John A. Collins,
Esq among tine number.
A meeting Of the Stockholders was
called to hear the result OF the eXpedl'
lion.
Twenty seven miles beyond the TRIM
" there is a beach several miles in ex'
tent. and bounded by a high bluff. The
sands Of this beach is mixed with gold Il
all extent aim st beyond belief. The
sand is of two kinds-a fine black sane
and a grey sand.
The gley sand can be separated yer!
easily from The black saud. aud this SEEM
to be a desirable object. The gold il
mixed with the black sand in prop"Ilion
Of from ten cents To ten dollars th'
pound.
AT times when the seri is high the gol'
is not easily discovered, bat in the spriut
Of the year, after a succession Of Gains
the entire beach is covered with brigh
aud yellow gold.
Mr.. Collins, the secretary Of the Pa
cifc Mining Company, measured
patch of gold aud sand, aud estimates
will yield to each member of the compa
ny the snug little sum of S4S, 900 900
and this estimate is formed upon a calcu
lation that the sand holds out to be on
tenth as rich as observation warrants then
in supposing.
The Pacific Mining Company-Uh,
a~dvenIurers of the Chesapeake hav'
banded themselves together under thi
tille)-found some nineteen men at thes'
Jiggings. The men had no disposition
to dig, for the gold vas already for then
whenever they were disposed to TAX
it.
Besides, such il the character of tn
roads that they could not take away NOR
than Is or 100 pounds a piece-an a
mount too trifiug for their considera
ton.
They had erected a comfortable 10
cabin, and designed watching this clair
until spring. aud then take n ship load {
the gold, aud travel to some countr
where the precious metal was not SO
bundaDt.
Mr.. Collins saw a man who had CO
lected fifty thousand p~ounds,or fifty tho'
sand tons-be did not recollect whic
of the richest kind of black sand,
General Wilson says that thousands {
mon cannot exhaust this gold in thor
sands Of years, and he gives all VIII
doubt his statements the liberty of goiu
and oscer,4ining these facts for then
selves.
The company will send up 100 add
tional laborers us speedily as they ca
be embarked. They also design Purcl
asing a steamer aud running her up
the "Gold Bluffs" Sixty men are no
at the scene Of operations.
We await with anxiety further report
Numerous specimens Of tho sand an
gold were exhibited to the s~tockholdeI
at the meeting last evening.