The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-08
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Tur WEATHER AND THE MINEs.-The rainy |
seq ,nn seems TO have failed altogether Ii il now
within brief ,rod of the time when, IN ordinary |
seasons we might reasonably expect a cessa-
ton of the rains, and yet the commencement |
of the ",vet season" has not made its APPEAR |
apce Old CalifoTnians are hrm In the he. |
lief that we shall have no ram at all, except an |
occpsioual shower in the interior. The streams |
are all drying up, and the op ,rators IN the dry |
degings are without water to wash the dirt which
they dug during the last summer. II was supposed
by MANY that this state of things would produce
universal distress in the country. The hue and
cry wa7 raised that the Bnbbe," of which we
have heard so much, was about TO burst" at last,
and the lively imaginations OF the croakers pictured
San Francisco deserted, excep! ny pennliess iders
who could not get away, her Warehonses closed,
the hustle of business and the ring of the builders
hammer hushed in the slumber OF general prostra
ton. DOleful in the extreme were their anticipa-
iions of the ruin, desolation and suffering which
would sweep away the hopes and fortunes of thou
sands in every class and condition IN California
life A few days has exposed the error, and the
bugbear which had so frightened the faint hearted
has rassed away making even brighter in the
contrast the glittering future. Not day passes
that we do not hear il asserted by persons direct
from the mining regions IN every part OF .he conn
,ry, that more gold will be taken out during the
year to come than has been produced since its ds-
covery in California.
The low stage of the water has enabled the
miners to commence operations IN the very beds of
the streams, where the richest deposits found
Already we hear from every direction that unpre-
cedented amounts of the 0r0 being taken out
from these hitherto inaccessible plaeers and even
those miners who few weeks since turned With
heavy hearts, and doleful countenances from the
niles (of drD which they had spent months in
| accommodating, now blessing the event which
| they then thought curse, and anxiously pray
ing that rain may not interfere with their present
l fhav hen fOrt oft he
| streams. In the mean time the piles al the dry
diggings lose nothing Of their value and when the
approach of winter closes operations in the river
| beds, may be washed and made to give up the
| treasures which they now withhold from theiI
| owners. Instead OF working only Part Of the sea
| son. it will readily be seen that entire year vii
| thus be given mp to the industrious miner, and
| largely accumulated returns may be confidently
| expected Already does the pulse of business be
| gin to throb with the impetus which the dry we
| diggings" have given to trade and each day vii
| add new evidences of the advantages which t,
accrue to the entire State, from the failure Of thu
rainy season-a failure that was not long since
| source of direst dread
The San Francisco Public Balance of March 2
has the following:
From HuMBoLDT.--By the fine propeller Sc
| Gull, which arrived yesterday from Humboldt an
Trinidad, we have received some few items Of news
for which are indebted to Mr.. Stuart the Pui
SER which we give below:
| The Emily Farnham arrived at Humboldt Bay q
the Sea Gull was coming out, crew and passenger
all well. The Susan Ward was lying in the ba,
| where she had been for some time. The Sea Cru
made the down in twenty eight honrs.
The whites at the mouth of the Klamath ha
| killed four lndians in whose possession they ioun
the arms and other property Of some white me
| who had been some time missing, and who we
, supposed to have been killed by the savages.
II At Union Town large party Of men were busi
| employed in cutting road through to the mine
l which it was supposed, when finished, would ma
n the trip to the diggings about four days journe
Il great deal OF rain and some snow had lately +
] len in the mountains, the weather being quite co
The accounts from the diggings in the inter
A | were very favorable, and about hundred III
started for the mines day two before the
II / Gull left the bay.
n A large number of miners had lately come doy
. from Trinidad, to go to the mines by way OF Uni
r Town. that road being considered shorter and bt
e ter than any other
Provisions were very scarce and high, and pE
i pery of every description was improving in Walt
+ | The Sea Gull will return in few days.
# The Gold Bluff excitement seems to have almt
o entirely died away.
u A letter from Los Angeles, dated February 90
IN the San Francisco Courier notices two secl
murders there, one of them being that of you
= man by the name of H. w. Nimmo, late of N,
/ Orleans.