The Empire County argus., 1855-03-03
.CoIOma: Saturday. March 3, 1855.
NIOONSIIINE.


ments about the productiveness of our gold mines
wanting in reliability. Every man in community
should know that the amount of gold taken from
the earth for several months past has been unusu-
ally small Nevertheless, parties have been manu-
featuring and circulatir encouraging reports. The
pross has copied, pufed and blown the encouraging
statements abroad over the country and beyond the
sea. Business men have thereby been deceived in
San Francisco and elsewhere, and business men
have been disappointed by the lying reports Peo-
ole in the Atlantic States have been deceived about
the productiveness of "the mines" Miners, emf
Grants and everybody else have been misled by the
falsely colored statements, and all have now found
1t out and their confidence has been overturned.
The press has retailed moonshine so long about
rich diggings, big strikes and Jumps, that the con
ductors of the journals themselves have come to
elieve the lies of each other about the mines as
they see them printed Hence every whiskey shop
misrepresentation is published, and quoted by the
city press with great gusto and circulated without
single word of explanation as SO much truth,
when the stories too often point blanck false
hoods In this manner many men have been in
duced to visit California and finding the state
ments they had read untrue, have been sorey
disappointed.
Read file of California newspapers and you will
find big strikes every day. rich diggngs by the
square mile, hens, chickens, turkeys ducks and
birds picking up and filling their crops with gold,
and even the fish about Shasta, as they swim along
the streams, have gold Aoated down their throats
Lumps innumerable, from an ounce to an hundred
,Je bod nd
for stranger to believe that California is nearly
all gold Not word about the toll and sweat in
digging after one of these Jumps. The fact that
the Jumps when found and sold will not pay the
miners board for the time he has been digging
after it in nine cases out of ten, is carefully
cealed
With this kind of moonshne employed to induce
a rapid emigration, we have cheated ourselves.
Business men have been humbugged by the stereo-
typed lies, and large shipments of goods have come
forward instead of emgrants, overstocking the mar
kets and running the shipper, importer and resi-
dent merchant. Merchants now call upon the
Bankers for loans at ruinous rates of interest The
Banker yields to temptation. Meantime the mis-
representations about shipments are continued, big
strikes innumerable are made, and enormous Jumps
are found, and as consequence we have an uneasy
and discontented population running from pillar to
post instead of engaging in steady employment, and
constantly disappointed and disheartened because
it is not their fortune to find of the rich places
they read about, not stopping to think that such
places are in almost all instances found only in
newspaper or in the brain of retailer of bad
whiskey.
The gold of miners finds its way into the vaults
Of Bankers in deposits and otherwise Moon
shine humbug reigns supreme; the banker assists
the speeulating merchant, and himself buys canals,
coaches boats ranches, fast horses and fast women,
in short as much of creation as possible. The
moonshine diggings do not pay. The moonshne
Jumps are never seen. The moonshne strikes are
not often made The moonshine ten dollars day
on an average is-nowhere, and nearly all hands
''cave in" Bankers smash What is the matter
Nothing only 1--WE out of coin" The moon
shine mint is all right and turn out millions of
coin, but they have silver no nitre, and when
these articles supplied then the institution has
no glass; and to cap the climax has no gold dust
Hear I. c. Woods resident partner of Adams &
Co.. let the truth out of the bag about shipments
of gold dust Mr. Woods is brought on the stand
tout of coin," hear him.
cit is well known that the demand of gold for
shipment has for many months far exceeded the
supply of dust from the mines to meet this def
ciency coin has been withdrawn from the circula-
ton of the country at about the rate of one million
dollars per month"; leaving scarcely sufficient for the
most ordinary wants of business, and producing an
unparalleled and increasing pressure.
In Ell Dorado depositors have been told that the
shipments this year, of gold dust, nearly equal
those of last year. l. C. Woods now tells another
story and no doubt speaks from the record. The
truth is, Bankers dead broke; they have invest
ed the gold dust of their depositors in canals
docks ranches, Spanish grants, stage companies
quartz mills, and moonshine speculations of all
kinds. The money is gone irretrievably gone and
no newspaper galvanism this side of eternity car
breathe life into the rotten concerns. Every mer
chant in the State who owes more money than he
can pay may endorse and a trucking press may
brag. The response from the hills will be, dowr
with your dust, never mind the coin
San Francisco has been doing business on moon
shine for long time; the whole State has beer
humbugged, and now is the proper time to return
to the region of common sense and to perform
works meet for repentance, acknowledge the nu
merous and manifold lies which have been tolC
about the mines forsake the error of our ways, bt
economical and prudent of the advantages within
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