New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-29
MINERS LETTERS AND STORIES.
ppTIRyISG PRODnAI.

San Francisco The writer is evidently merchant
ard thIewd business
vIcToRIs, June %, 1853.
1 arrived here safely lat Friday per steamer Pan
ana. Had Most IMP eassnt t1p, as you may IN
seire vhen yen think Of toe number OF passengers
ere ded together on small boat
Tpis town is rather pretty little place Of about lvV
boutes, AID some 1000 inhabitants. Tne ccar:y
about here p very bes1tful, filed with farms, snd
great abundance Of stock OF al kinds. Eggs butter,
&c. sre about the sane price as with you Ine oniy
thing snted houses. We all sleep IN tents % tho
open air.
As regards gold mines, that is all hurbug. You
CAP get Indsns to work for CITY cents per day, snd
plslty Of white men for $l5 per mooth. You may
thank jour stare tina: you did not come to tbs d
couotry.
shall return by the nsxt steamer. You may eIpect
10 see NE in about ten days.
II sDy OF your friends think of coming here, tel
them they had better stay where they are.
Employment of sDy kind is Lot to be had here, snd
il is eli 10 thiIk Of trading here, the HGd
sons Bay Company clsm the exclusive night 70 trade
WI the niLeIe, and have sufficient so:ce 10 drive OIL
any American that would try trsdpg.
really believe the gold mines q grand hurous. l
reveY vas in COUNTRY where money wss 50 scarce,
ard as regards gold dust, that is ell nonsen-e-you
never see particle.
Thatk God, have money enough to get bsck.
ACOoIER TO THE FRASER RIVER MAD
Mons Dubroos, merchant Of this city, proceeds
ntly 10 Victoria aud returned tins mornios by the
Panama BE promo ounces the wiole ahar srana
X,
Victoria doing nothing. On BIS arrival at Nictoria he
was surrounded by Hundreds of specals,ors VINO
offered him lots, ,1pposing hat ne had plenty OF
money. San fraDcisco Bulletin, jay y.
THE WASHING DIDN'T PAY.
Mr.. Edward j. McIrtre, who was workm.n 10 the
Sacramento Iron Works LEFT this city the 81 day Of
May last for the Fraser River Mines returned on the
Cores and arrived in Sacramento the 2sh of JIne,
and gives the following information:
Handed at Victoria the eth of May, and ssyed
at that place for two days Myself ard eleven others
then started in schoo er for Fort Langley distance
the voyage. We stayed at Fort Langley one day,
ard then started in large woaleboat Tor Fort Hope
eleven Gays, our wbaletOat having cspszsi, and
thereby btir compelled to procure a canoe. Were.
NAMED at Fort Hope one day, aud then started for
Fort Yale, distant about twenty miIes, 10 q canoe,
where We arrived In one day, spending twelve hours
in prospecting on the way. l then went down TO
Hils Bar which is three niles below Fo-t Yale, and
went to wc1a The frat Ssy we vent 70 ion we
abe ut about zine days ct average Ct about - per
day to the hard. Tie river then commenced rising ST
the rate Of eight inches in twentyfour hours, when
| we were obliged to quit work. We then started down
the river and landed again at Fort Langley, stayed
there two days, and went to Fort Gamble, and from
thence 10 FTt Townsend stopped there one day, took
| the steamer and landed at San Francisco. We pros
pected the from Fort Langley up-st that place
We found about three cents 70 the PAM five miles
higher up, found seven cents to the pan, and the
whole river averaged about that until we got within
about three miles of Fort Hope at which place It
paid about l2I cents to the pan, and fifteen miles
above at pon, we found from % to 80 to the
pan. We prospected all the ravinea, gnlches and
banks very thoroughly and could not fad the color
anywhere except in the bars on the river The bars
are generally very large, bat lie low. AL the gold
discovered go for drift gold, and yet tell
the extent of it.
AN UNMITIGATED HUMBUG.
An Old resident OF AArysvIls, Portuguese packer
named Marin, well known TO all the Marysvie mer-
chants, returned on Thursday, says The MarysriHs
Express, from Fraser River. He states-ard Van
months ago, with seventy mules, for Fraser River.
Not seeing any good prospect for packiog on Fraser
River be sold his mules at $25 to the Uai.ed States
Government at Fort Vancouver He tried TO buy
without success He represents the Frazer River gold
region a. an unmitigSed humbug.
NEVER BACK OUT.
I'd. Woodward, late . clerk with P. II. Russell
snd j. X. Figg write from Whatcom thas. Their
letters appear in full in Tie Sacramento Uaon.
Woodward says:
We do no. know what to do. AfeY getting up 10
the mines, there ten chances to one that
no. do anything least isrepresented 20 TO here
have satiffe my mind Of but single thing, and
that IL, il was in Sacramento, and knew - much
ss DO now, Q siI mule team could not get me away,
a. least for two months TO come, and do sincerely
hope that none Of my friend. will think Of comi.g
here until they kn0r for certainty that they osn do
better Do not think / am discouraged. j Am 10 for
IT, and sm bourd to see il through if any else Does
but an fully satisfied that We are all sold, to great
extent, and the best evidence Of it in the world is
that there is very little gold coming here. g.
teen ounces yesterday cold at els per ounce Another
man saw some body that said he "a man have
and half pounds, which be made in siI weeks. You
can hear snything you wish 70, by standing around
STAY At HOME.
Figg says:
l.
they would be wise and save their money 70 hold
while, for If they come they will get themselves in
very uncomfortable climate, be skinned BY the
besds being tested by them a. though they were .
parcel Of dogs and win but little prospect Of doing
anything whatever. In few days viii start for the
mines and viii test shem-to my satisfaction, a. least
So fsT, there is great humbug about tbsse Frazer
River mines.
A CALIFORNIA MINERS EXPERIENCE.
F,sa The Ala Ca.le,sia
We have been furnished by Q gentleman Of this
city With the following very interesting extract from
the revenue cutie! Jefferson Days, now Stationed in
Puget SouId;
OS BOARD JrTYERsos Dlvm,1
PoRT TOWNSEND June H. 1855.
Our latest accounts from the mines AZ highly
coortd ss those We have received heretofore. Hee-
terdsy saw man Immediately from The gold regions,
who told ne very straightforward story He hiss
been .: work scme time ana made Is day. but did
rot work mere than four or FIVE hours cut Of tie
:ver,yfour. He u.ed rocker, the god being very
IRE. i cautioned bin 10 give me true statement,
And the following wss % nss,ly a. possible rersa,im,
the reeul Of tie convsrsation:
z. II you were doing 90 well, what Induced you 70
leave A. had 70 come dow for provis.oss or re-
main and fsrve We offered 81 per pound for bacon,
20 cents for coffee and suga and for other articles Of
provisions IN proportion, bat could no: purchase.
Q: Bias the river fallen A. Yes. I, WA falling
It the time let, ard II this weather lasts, i. vii
Dc room low enough for the miners TO work to good
advantage.
- 2. Did ne Indians show signs Of hos,1i.yl A. |
Iesi above where vas working tsey hsd bsen very