The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-08-19

htro Nf tue FRAZER River Hlanfn.
The depOpulsiion Of Californis. which b..
been going on ever since the beginning of
the Fllser River excitement, wss ,oo v;o.
lent a9d unnatpfal condition OF thins. "a
last. As-was to be expected, it has come
to sudden end. Nearly every city ard
county OF any size In California has suffered
greatly, both from the withdrawal of num-
bersof It's population and from the ruincus
downfall in the prices OF houses and real
estate. Comparatively little was known of
the prospect for miners, the nature Of the
new country or its government, or OF the
means OF access 70 the gold region; but not
withdrawing these drswb1cks which should
have delayed prudent men, California has
for three months been subject to depletion
which has ,drawhioff 10000 her population,
and will leave hundreds of them to perish
from the hardships of travel to the gold re-
gion, the jealousy of the Indian tribes, the
want Of provisions, and the want of money
to by the commonest necessares of life -
One would have supposed the Calfornians
than whom none knew moro intimately
the color and exaggerations that gold dig
glng stories take on--would be the last to
be carried away by such an unreasonable
mania. But they were the first. Happily
they were the first to return to their senses.
There are now in New Caledonia, or
British Columbia, as it will be called, MANY
more mouths than can be fed by the limited
supplies which the exclusive and inadequate
trade OF the Hudson Bay Company furnish,
many more bodies than can be sheltered
from the coming winters cold by the few
houses Of the traders or the huts Of the In
dians. For the present year emigr1ton
thither, is therefore, unwise, not 10 saw wick.
ed. Whoever reaches there before next
spring, willreitherstarvs himself, or make
somebody else starye.
II Is remarkable fact that the sudden
collapse Of the Frazer River mania followed
hard upon news confirming the richness of
the dry dggings. and was not fastened by
any adverse news from the river-bed dig.
gings. 1t il clearly the naturaland healthy
reaction from a very unnatural and unheal-
thy excitement, which,if long continued,
would have retarded the prosperity OF CALI
fornia materially.
The reliable information concerning the
productiveness of the Frazer River mines
still continues somewhat limited, and will
be SO until the subsistence OF ths present
high water. Numerous and very profitable
dry digsings are said to have been discover =
ed.
An important feature of the news by this
arrival is the large discoveries Of gold in
Oregon and Washington Territories. These
discoveries, of course, are merely confirm,-
tory of those made several years ago BY In
dians and the settlers, and only certify the
opinion we have several times expressed.
that the gold producing region would be-
found in a greater, or less d,gree to includ,
the territory between California and British
Coumbia. With the added publicity which
they will receive at this opportune time, and
from their ncarnes1 to the Ftazer River re-
gion, it il more than probable that the mi.
ners who find it impossible to sustain them.
selves in that crowded SECTION, in the lack
of tools and provisions, viii betake them.
selves 10 less occupied territory, where.
they may secure both at low prices, ald aid
in developing the mineral resolrces aud
gold producing ureas of our most northern
Pacific States.--N. Y. Evening Post.