New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-19


T. Butler King, the new Collector OF the Port, has
arrived and entered upon the duties Of his odicel
The Assessors for the City and County have
Just completed their labors and made their returns.
They put down the value OF real estate in the
CITY at sl6,95O9i5, and in the county outside Of
the city, at a little less than half million dol
lars. The aggregate of tax in the city and coun.
ty, S224,3ss Al.
The Indian difficulties and depredations which
have been perpetrAted in the upper counties Of
the State have subsidized, and the tribes general.
-ly seem now to be quiet Much is anticipated
from the labors Of the newly appointed Indian
Agents, in securing permanent friendly relations
with the Indians.
Gold BInG-Tbe Discovery and Excitement
Immense Reports.
All California is excited with the rumor Of
new discovery, far surprising anything yet heard
Of The Alta California has the following &C
count:
1t is well known that the steamer Chesapeake,
with about thirty adventures, left this port ca
the 2lst ult, for the Klamath, and in Yesterdays
paper we gave some account Of her progress
Scarcely was our paper issued when the Chesa
peake came into port bringing back FIVE or six Of
the "prospecters," Gen John Wilson and John
A. C llins, Esq among the number. A meeting
of the stockholders was called to hear the result
Of the expedition which meeting we attended
like reason, after hearing these wonderful details,
we will let the public into the secret
Twenty seven miles beyond the Trinity, there
is beach several miles in extent, and bounded
by a high bluff The sands Of this beach are mixed
with gold to an extent almost beyond belief. The
sand is Of two kinds-a fine black sand and a
grey sand. The grey sand can be separated very
easily from the black sand, and this seems to be
desirable object. The gold is mixed with the
black sand in proportions OF from ten cents to ten
dollars the pound. At times when the surf is
high the gold is not easily discovered but in the
spring OF the year, after a succession OF calms
the entire beach is covered with bright and yell
low gold. Mr. Collins, the Secretary OF the Pacific
Mining Company, measured a patch of gold and
sand, and estimates it will yield ~ each member
of the Company the snug little sum OF SAB 100000
and this estimate is formed upon a calculation
that the sand holds ont 20 be Onetenth as rich as
observation warrants them in supposing
The Pacific Mining Company the adventurous
Of the Chesapeake have banded themselves TO-
gether under this title found some nineteen men
&C these diggings. The men had no dlsposltlont TO
dig forthe gold was all ready for them whenever
they felt disposed TO take IT, Beside. such is the
character Of the roads that they could not take
away more than IS or 100 pounds aplece-an
amount too triling for their consideration. They
had erected comfortable log cabin and designed
watching this claim until Spring, and then take
chip load OF the gold and travel 10 some country
where the metal was not so abundant. Mr. Col
Inns saw man who had accumulated fifty thou
sand pounds, or fifty thousand tuns-he did not
recOllect which-of the richest kind OF black sand
Gen Wilson says that thousands Of men can
not exhaust this gold in thousands Of years, and
be gives all who doubt his statements the liberty
of going and ascertaining these facts for them
selves.
The company will send up 100 additional labor
ers 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 We await with anxiety
further reports. Numerous specimens of the
saDd and gold were exhibited to the stockholders
at the meeting last evening.
The Pacific NeCs says, in relation to this dis
covery:
That on the line of the cosstfrom 25 miles North
of Trinidad to miles South Of the klamath
River there is a very rich deposit of gold in
scales, intermixed with black sand, is beyond dis
pute The gold bearing range of the interior here
strikes the ocean, and running down to line OF
bluffs from 100 TO 600 feet high, more or less pre-
cipituous skirts the coast for nearly ten miles.
These are the celebrated Gold Blutts. Old
Father Neptune here carries on gold-washlng
operation on his own account, precisely on the
principle of the miners gold washing bat on
colossal scale. As the waves ebb and flow they
wssh the Bluff, carrying back into the sea, all
the lighter sand, gravel, &c and leaving behind
on the beach the heavy black sand, containing the
gold.
occasionally, after storm, the black sand is
buried under a sort of top dressing OF grey sand
thrown up by the sea removing which, to a
slight depth, the black gold bearing sand sshown
as before.
The very richest portion OF this deposit Is con-
fined to a strip Of coast nearly two miles long
although for about seven miles more, the sand Is
all more or less Astounding in gold We have
been shown one sample, which we are assured
has Welded upon analysis az the rate OF str d0E
las 10 The round which we presume OF course,
70 be A very favorable specimen. The more san
euine members Of the Psclhc Mining Company
are confident that the poorest sand will yield from
s. cents to ! 25 pound. For all which estl
mates we wish to be in 70 way responsible, al
dough the Company is giving the best evidence
OF its faith in them by its expenditures In the en-
terprze the purchase of the steamer Chesa-
peake, &c.
That the gold exists all along the coast at the
foot of the Bluffs and in great abundance, seems
10 be indsputable.
How to get at it in any available shape, is
another affair entirely. The ordinary methods 10y
washing wnnowing, &c.) of separating the gold
from the sand in which it is found, fail in this
case, the black sand being nearly or quite as
heavy as the scales Of gold which It contains -
We presume that there is within the resources
of modern science q mode OF obtaining the gold
by solution or otherwise and we learn that Prof.
Soicker, Of this city, has the secret, and has had
it in successful operation. We believe 1t is now
in the exclusive possession OF the Pacific Mining
Company
The Gan Francisco Herald says:
Thatvery large quantities of the precious metal
are to be found on "Gold Bluff can, we think,
scarcely be doubted-but from the fact that no
landing for passengers or goods can be obtained
within q miles Of the scene OF operations, the I'm
mediate road being OF the most rugged and impas'
sable nature very serious doubts arise as to
whether il will be at present an available dis
cOvery.
The Pacific Nees thus describes the organiza'
ton Of joint stock Company for washing the
sand
The Stock was divided into $4,000 shares, Of