Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1857-10-23
THE GOLDEN STATE.
Rrom onr CnIifor,rin -.

FROM our tdftfOTtid Fiiea
SALMON FIsHERT.-The salmon fishery slys the S,c,,
mento Uuion commenced in this vicinity on the Lar
inst At first they finely Welding rich retu,, 20
our fishermen but dropped on aud for week so SEEM
ed shy OF the nets. Within day they have run
more freely, and yesterday 6ne hauls were made For
the several days during thelu only between 10 aud 20
fish were caught in each boat Monday however the
number was swollen to between forty and seventy There
about fifty boats engaged in the business in hi,
immediate vicinity TO supply this Market and about "A
msnv more near the mouth Of "Od River" The 6.h IA
ken by the latter put up for the San Francisco mar
ket The demand from the interior ia steadily
and from FIVE hundred to thousand are daily sbpned
from here TO the bay.
SAN FRASoIsoo TEAcr SouErT.-The Board Of Direc
tors OF the San Francisco City Tract Society made their
fourth annual report at Rev Dr. SCOTS Church las
ming. They represent highly gng State of tbng
connected with their labos Tho city Is divided into
twenty districts each Of phom director ia annotated
From Of these dtrcts full reports have Rec,
received The number Of vsters engaged in the wotk
OF distributing the tracts s shout fifty 1--WE These have
20O750 pages Ut Englsh trscts, aud 200 10 foreign
languages There have been taken from the Directory
100000 pages which IL is air to be presumed have I'll
been distributed either in the city or State The increase
OF pages distributed the number of Last wear IA 6
oO0.-California Chronicle.
ISTERNAL MIGRATIoS TO TIE CoAsT RaNeK V.tI.vs
The Sonoma County JouTnsl remarks that j. b. Kern ar
rived IN Penalums Valley, September 7th f,ou, Pitt
iVer Shasta county bringing with him head Of Amer
ican cows and eight head OF and mules The mi
grafton from the valleys in the northern portion Of the
State 10 those the coast bee
unuauaIy heaYy the present season. Many parties
settled in that region early 1853 and 1885, having
become disguised with the climate have removed 10 The
Coast Range valleys
IyDIAN DIFFICULTIES At PCGEr SoUSp-By the Knitted
states reveDuecutter Jefferson Davis which arrived hero
last night from Puget Sound Learned Of continued In
dian difficulties In that quarter On September an gb,
tok place among the SDOponish Tribe Of Indians Five
men and six we're killed aud several -oupded =
Cause-Wbiskey. -Four Indians Who had e.e,ped 60,
Fort Townsend killed San Juan island h. The pm
get Sound Indians They had on AZ the time ,bcv
were killed Ga the och September large bodv M Knits
knats from Vancouver leland landed nj Calam B,, ,nd
killed eighteen Indians belonging the Clalam tribe
These we're all warriors, and were killed while asleep
"QUAErz MoUNTAIS" ~ M,Rfrosa Couxrr.-A comp,,v
was recently established ~ COuerve TO prospect rbat
Is called Quartz hounia lying to the northwest Of that
town, upon the border Of aud partly in Tuounne county
This mountain says the Msdposa Gazette is little else
Than mss Of quartz and incosc sifte tho sD vein of
which, running through the mounain Is fifty feet vide
BESIDES this irregular veins sppearn every direction The
company, consisting OF ten persons who sro men s
was iormed ~ PROJECT thoroughly and prospoos shoud
DC satisfactory 70 erect works drift has been run into
the northern end Of tho mountain considerable di.
lance aEd quartz Of an excellent quality has been struc
and W. ineHhau1tblo qnanttes. This company are pow
commencing dft at tho soathern end Of the mountains
and should prospects prove good those obtained in
Tue hrst dl works extensive than any nos existing
W hanPosa county or perhaps in the State will
" be erected There i etcelent site for mills near the
mountain, With wood and uaior IN abundance The com
pany i known ai the "PinO BIhnco Quartz Mining Com
pany."