The weekly Placer herald., 1854-07-22
q From Oregon. f
Discovery Of Rich Gold Lrggngs- Great
So H,cc1teaneyat Mt Port OrfnrH


val of the Columbia at Port Oxford, on
the 7th of .JuIy, the town was found to be
completely deserted, every person having
gone to the new diggings which had been
discovered some twenty five mi es distant
The character of the gold is much the
same as the coarse gold of California, and
is said to assay equally as we'll One
party of four men are said to have taken
out some $4,000 in the short space of two
weeks.
The CROPS. s.-The Orcgonian says, the
recent warm weather has produced won
derful change in the appearance Of the
growing crops. Wheat is ripening fast
and will soon he ready for the sickle
The Statesman adds-"many of our far
mers, like those of California, are com
planning of the appearance Of smut in the
incoming crop of wheat.''
AGITATION FOR THE MAINE LlQuoR
LAw.-The Temperance Party in Oregon
nothing daunted by their failure to elect
any Of their candidates at the last cleo
ton, have held Convention at Albany,
and resolved to unite in Temperance
League Cor society organization,) in order
to obtain the passage by the Legislature
of prohibitory law for the suppression
of inte,nperance
The IMMIGRATION TO OREGoN-The
Statesm an, Of July 4th, Says:-"A gentle
man, lust from Salt Lake, arrived in
SaIen, last Saturday. He reports forty
wagons Oh the road between this place
and Salt lake; some coming over the
Cascade Mountains. All in good health,
grass plenty, parties getting on well
Discovery OF VALUABLE LEAD MINES.
cred near St Helens The specimens
shown us have every appearance Of yield
ing a, least IS per cent. pure lead.
1t is said that negotiations are now
gong on for the purchase of ali the inter
ests of the Hudson's Bay Company in
Oregon.
The Oregonian says-"We hear conf
dent opinions expressed daily of the ex-
istence Of gold in the Cascade range.
From Crescent City.
We have the Crescent City Herald to
July Sth 1t says, from ali parts of the
Klamath country, we tearn that the mi
ners are doing exceedingly well.
BY the arrival of the Peytona, we hear
of new, rich and extensive diggings on
the CoquiIe. The god shown US by one
of the party discovering the mines is
heavy and coarse.
THE SURVEY OF THE NORTHERN BoUN
DAIRY LINE. = The party sent out to survey
the line between California and Oregon,
have returned to Crescent City without
completing their labors. They say the
Legislature did not appropriate enough
money by eight or ten thousand dollars.
DlscovERY OF Coal ON ROGUE RIVER.
The Crescent City Herald says, the
article of Coal, so long needed, has at
length been found in inexhaustible guam
titles on the Pacific coast. A rich vein of
the bitunnous nature has been discovered
on the coast near Rogue River 1t has
been thoroughly tested in this place, and
pronounced by competent Judges to he
superior article for Welding and steam
purposes.
MARINE LoCOMoTIvE.- E.-S'everaI AmerI-
can papers have lately contained articles
in regard to the invention of a Marine
Locomotive The Civilization, of Paris,
contains an article on the same invention,
claiming it as of French origin, and Civ
ing the details of it's construction. The
Civilization says:
'ln the present system of navigation
an immense amount of water must be
moved and disturbed by small vessel,
and great deal OF power is lost The
labor of engineers and inventors has been
heretofore to protect the old system Of
boats by improving their models, and in
creasIng their power of propulsion. But
here is man who begins by doubling all
that has been considered us decided. He
asks whether ships night not move other
wise than in the water, and he answers
by offering vehicle mounted on great
cylinders rolling on the surface of the
water He compares our present vessels
to large sleds, and his own to the inn
provement made in land carriage when
some unknown genius invented wheels.
The author of this new system of naval
architecture, is Mr.. PIanaverque, a math-
ematician of great Distinction, and Pro-
fessor of Mathematics in the Lyceurn Of
Cahors." asa...
His dro-locomotive" may be com
pared to an immense coach on wayslde
wheels, and those wheels are made with
f1uted surface, so that the wheels do not
rest entirely on the water, but on air
which is caught in the futsd compart-
ments. The greater the speed the less it
sinks in the water, and the inventor thinks
that 40 miles an hour may be attained
without any difficulty. The locomotive
will I've peculiarly fitted for river naviga-
ton. After this invention shall have been
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