The Empire County argus., 1855-04-21
WOODS & FORBES, Publishers.
Colonaa: Saturday, April 81, 1866.


=, DHucuLrY IN SELLING GOLD DusT. For some
time past, we have noticed in the city papers a
continual whining about the scarcity Of coin;
evidently intended to deprocate the price of gold
dust. or to furnish to their Atlantic readers an
apology for small shipments pc. steamers. At the
same time continued and united effort is made
by the city journals to discourage the shipment of
goods from Atlantic ports to San Francisco. Why
is thisl TO promote tho interest of commercial
spectators, and to enable San Francisco dealers
to rob aad plunder the mining community. Who
does not know, that when the markets abun-
dainty supplied with goods miners can obtain their
supplies correspondingly cheap! Every sane man
knows this. How long will the city press continue
this war upon the laboring thousands! Is that
press owned, body and soul, by sharpers? Will
they forever preach folly to advance the interests of
bankers, merchants and swindlers? Hear the
Times g. Transcript in its financial article Of Tues
day last. 1t says
"The miners can not sell their dust, since there
is no coin with which to purchase and they can
not get it coined on their account, as the pres
ent is the annual period of suspension of such la
Dor on the part Of the mint
Il Now look on this picture:
EEIGHEST PRICE PAID GoLp Dusr-s174o to
n $3.50 paid for Gold Dust, at my office, on Mama
luke Hi Always plenty Of coin on hand
Mamauke Hill, March %. W. II. PRATT.
The foregoing advertisement we clip from the
Georgetown News, and we can vouch for its truth.
We hope the Transcript man will read this adver-
tisement and discontinue its croaking about coin.
True enough, miners can not get their god coined
at the mint the San Francisco branch mint.
That institution we believe genuine humbug, Of
the first water Hear the Transcript again it
tells great story, thus;
But notwithstanding that the amount of gold
recently taken out has been perhaps as great as
during any corresponding period since the com
mencement of mining in California, the means Of
transferring the product to the hands OF dealers,
has never been so inadequate as at present.
Now, pray tell what is the matter with the
means of transferring the product to the hands of
dealers? Nothing in the wide world, only this
dealers have nothing with which to buy the pro-
duct Have we not Wells, Fargo & Co., and the
Pacific Express Co., ready and anxious to transport
millions of dust daily to the hands Of dealers I!
The means of transferring the product of the mines
to Dealers were never better, than at this moment.
The himsy statements we have quoted from the
Transcript, are nothing more than stereoyped clap
trap contrived to throw dust in the eyes of Allan
tic readers, the main tendency and object being to
reduce the price of gold dust and thus enable a
host of banking swindlers to live in luxury from
the hard earnings of miners. Not satisfied with
this the Transcript concludes its article by telling
the Atlantic shippers that
e cat the present time, we verify believe we have
a suficiency of almost every article of trade to
supply our wants for two years to come
similar story we have frequently read i'll other
city papers Why all this anxious care, so oft re-
peated, for our Atlantic spectators? Most likely,
the speculating projects of San Franciscans
dangered Having lost much of their credit here,
and the moonshine banks having smashed, perhaps
they are unable to meet their liabilities. Hence
these fine yarns about scarcity of coin and the
superabundance of goods,--the darling object al
ways in sight, Of reducing the price of dust, and
raising the Irce Of goods now in hand, ,--and then
the agreeable spectacle Of seeing miners foot the
bill.
San Francisco is not the whole of California, by
long distance neither are the speculators of AT
lantic cities the only people worthy Of attention
little zeal in behalf of the toiling thousands ir
the mountains, would meet with appreciation. TX
this end let arrant humbugs about gold dust ant
goods, cease. Let thousand tlorns be planted II
the side of the San Francisco mint, to goad it intt
life and continued activity. Meantime miners will
do well to receive the stuff of city journals, abou
gold and coin, with many grains of allowance, B
economical, and never part with dollar without
.qnid pro quo, and dealers will soon howl wors
than ever.
We will add that Mr.. P Of Mamaluke Hill,
not the only gentleman in FL Dorado prepared
pay the highest prico for gold dust We have 9th
ers who ready to do So and who have plenty q
coin with which to do it.
OFFICIAL RETURNS. Below we give the vote, b