Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-04-28

feel so about A.'s coming out here for if
he does, he has got to 90 through with
the same. Tell him he Is better off with
rs cents day, at home, than he could be
out here.
You speak in your letter about those
who come home, after staying few days,
starting again for California, and YOU
wonder why it is so. will tell you. Az
ter person has been out here year or
two, he becomes untitled to live in civili-
zed society, They say home seems like
Sunday all the time. There is not excite
ment enough. This is true-but we live
in life of toll and hardship; danger and
hardship-and when person has lived in
that way for year or two, it units him
for all good society,
rich discoveries made out here. Some of
them are true, but by testing, nine out of
ten, would not pay man dollar day
At the present time there are some seven
ty miners round my bridge, and they do
not average 81 per day, and it is SO all
over the mines, There are some excep-
tions, but they are taken up as soon as
they are found, and it would be as impos-
sible for an outsider to get a chance at
them as for the sun to shine at night.
Another thing will mention. Six
days week is not enough to work out
here. We have to work ON the Sabbath
to keep along. To-day is Sunday, and
the banks of the river are full of men
washing out gold to pay their expenses for
the day. One half of the Sundays since
l have been in the mountains have been
passed in this way. You think A, could
work at his trade. So he could if there
was work for him to do. In San Fran
cisco and Sacramento, our only cities of
any moment, you can hire the best work
men for $4 per day, and both places are
crowded to overaowing with the best of
mechanics. The calculation is that 1OO,-
600 men will come to this land this Spring.
What they are going to do is moro than l
can imagine. You know that We lean
entirely upon the mines and miners to
live out here. AS soon as they begin to
fail every thing else must fail too, and yet
the high price of provisions must be kept
up. think l can say with truth, that
there are more poor men in California,
than in any other land.
l believe that in less than year, there
will be general blow up in California,
and that there will be general cry of al
most starvation and distress. will tell
you why l think so. Throughout the
Southern mines this winter, they have not
had water enough to wash, ten days, the
dirt that was thrown up last summer
Most of the men at work there got trust
ed for their supplies, promising to pay
when they washed out their dirt. They
have been disappointed and the conse-
quence is that the merchants lose heav-
lily, and will be obliged to stop.
In the Northern mines the men cannot
90 to work till July, on account of the snow
and the high water in the rivers. Then
some Southern miners have got to travelup
North, and lay perhaps weeks and weeks
for the snow and water to go down. In
the meantime, they have got to live the
best way they can-many ofth by beg
ging. You can imagine most distress
ing picture, when tell you that there are
thousands and thousands in this situation.
A man has just come across the bridge
without dime in the world, and has
gone to work for some men who are bull
ding a saw mill near by, for his board
He says he has been prospecting for the
last three months, and has not made $5.
Once more, beseech A. to stay at home.