New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-01
had nd those Who believed him up TO where the lake
0uRht 10 haya been.

bso 90 snoeo vno eehevoo I'm up 70 where the lake
The seeond big gold humb1g, and perhsp, the
greatest Of AL the Gold Bluff affair IN the b4Rin
mn & Of 1851. At Gold Biu6 the gold was not TO be
found in large lumps bat the beach was yellow v Ii
IT, and every pe'son who should 20 there was to make
million Of dollars IN few months without difficulty
The following editorial article from The Aa Cailtor-
n.a Of January > 1851, sample OF the placements
putlished about tbe wonderful Golden Bluff
"1wsDty.eeven miles beyond the Trinity there is a
beach several miles 10 extent, and bounded by high
bluff. The sands Of this beach are mixed with gold
20 an extent almost beyond belief. The gold
10 miAtd with the blsck sand in proportions Of from
ten ceLis 10 $40 Jer pound. Mr.. lJohn Al
Collins lex.world reiorner well kbos in New.Yo K,
PERSONALITY sDd by repu'atiopI the Secretary OF the
Pacific Mining Company, measured patch Of gold
and ssId ard estimates 1t viii yield to each member
OF the Company the snug little rum Of $4,000 900
l. aud thls es'lmse is formed upon calcusti ~
thai the sand holds TO be one-tenta az rch OBJ
servatioD warrants Them in supporting. Gen.
lJohn] WitCn says that thous ,nds Of men csnno:
hsust the gold in thousands Of years"
in Trinity County on the let January, and addressed
30 Mr.. John A. Collins, by Mr.. NJ. C. Thompson, Who
ssys:
Some sa months since saw large patches, the
entire length Of the beach, covered With black sand,
literally yellow with email, thin flakes of gold
This letter sworn to before l.. p Giky, Justice
Of the Peace, and C. w. Kiusey added an affidavit
that he knew the contents OF the letter 70 Do true.
Mr.. T.. A. Rowe, then constable In Trinidad, since
head Of the Pacific Express Company member Of the
Legislature, &c. Mr.. Rowe wrote:
"Fbave teen enough in one plot Of black sand, con-
tanning enough of gold TO yield from s. TO $40 per
pound to load chip Of the largest csss.
am now however, confident that, with the proper
arrangements for matchmaking the gold on q scale
az extensive as your Company is capable of doing,
millions upon millions of dollars could be easily OBJ
tanned every year for than century to come"
Mr. Rowe made sfiidavit to tue truth OF this letter,
before the Justice Of the Peace These reports
caused an intense excitement. Eight vessels put
up for Gold Bluff the day of the publication, and
eral thousand men went to the New ri Dorado. The
rumored richness Of the beach proved to be grand
le and the members of the Pacific Mining Company,
instead of realizing Sf3 600 200 each and every year
since that time from their Gold Bluff claims, never
got CENT except by selling shares at the high pre-
miums to which they were raissd during the excite
ment-
This humbug made profound impression upon the
public mind and whether for that reason or by
accident there wss no great rush to fabulous dggngs
for several years.
In August, 1853, there was come excitement about
mines in Santa Cruz County on the ranch of Don
Pedro Ssnsevain and great many persons went
thther but they found tie gold, and the place was
room deserted again.
In February, 1854, great excitement arose about
gold mines in Peru. The newspapers at Panama pub
shed q number Of articles and letters to the effect
that gold mines of unparalleled richness had been
OF ened on the head waters of the Amszon. II was
they could dig f25 day to the without difficulty.
Such statements repeated time after time, purpOrtDg
TO from number of different sources, and re-
published in the Californian and Australian papers,
Induced about , 600 miners TO go from Caorni: and
Australia to Peru where they found that nobody knew
Of sny such COLO mines in the country as had been
spoken Of by the Panama papers. Some of the adj
venturers went over to the head waters OF the ANA
Zon, and they found the =" color but that was all.
About the time with the excitement in regard
10 the gold mines 10 Peru there was report OF rich
diggpgs at Saut8 Anita, In Los Angeles County.
Many persons went there, but room left III disgust.
In April 1854, there q rush to new mines on
Russian River, in SOnOma County. About a thousand
persons were April fooled into visit to that place.
In May of the same year there was ri nor of q
gold discovery on the side Of Mount Dablo in
Contra Costa County, and many went TO see.
The Kern River humbug came in February 3D.
Los Angeles and Stockton were both interested IN this
swiIdle, and prominent men OF both places were en-
gagged in the fraud of deceiviDg the public: state
mepts repeated time after time, and vouched Tor by
persoIs claiming the potit tns of gentlemen, were
published to the effect that very rch and extern
five digeinRs had been found in Kern River valley,
and that many miners there were making from 500 to
500 per day. In far the reports are concerned,
think Kern River was nearly as well Vouched Tor a.
the Frazer River mines are youched for now but we
knew that no Kern River gold dus. had been brought
to the market; whereas we know that considerable
quantity of gold dust from Frazer River has come to
market. Well four or five thousand miners were In
duced to 60 to the Kern River dggings, and they
found nothing to pay them for going. They returned
highly indignant and since then Kern River has been
ass ociated with Gold Bluff as synonymous with big
hunbug.
In June, 1885, some gold was found on the bank of
the Sacramento River few miles below Sacramento
City, ard some 500 were washed out in a couple of
days by four or five men. There was great rush to
stake off claims; but the excitement died out In few
DAYS more in consequence of the discovery that ell
the gold in these diggings had come from pair Of
trousers belonging to mirer who had lived there II
lS49.
In January, 1856, there wss rumOr Of rich dggings
in the plain of Oakland, and multitude of clss
were staked off and few holes dug, but little no
gold was found and the claims we're soon deserted.
We ahsl know in two three months whether
Frazer River deserves 10 be added to this list.