Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-08-31
Correspondence of the y. Y. Tribune.
The Immigration to Fraser River.

wecAs ago. there are now only two and tbes
carry no miners bound for Fraser River. W,
can now look back upon Of the most sineuIa
excitcments which ever seized the people Of nn,
Sta;e--an excitement which is not to be measu
re. by the mi grafton Of one tenth Of our whit.
male popuaiun-ior more than twice AZ man,
more you'd have gone if they had had the meant
or had not been tied down by their business. -
| As il WAS, tho whole State was turned topsy
turyy; trade was dull in tho interior NJ if ",
had been stricken by n destructive pcsilencc
or bloody civil war. And it was not until with,
in the last three weeks that the general publ,
feeling could he re-assured, and say to Itself -
| "Wcll, California will not go ia this year"
We have no news and no reports from the Fra.
Ger mines, Nobody can get 10 them and il any
body be in them, he does not or cannot get out
| There are about 900 miners waiting in Idlcnes~
AT Fort Yale and vicinity until the water falls 81
that they may go up the river. Until it does fall
they will not be able to reach the mines. During
| high water the stream is II continuous torrent,
which no canoe could safely venture in The
| river bank is almost a. forbdding the river
| itself. For so miles above Fort Yale, the stream
runs through u canon, whose sides rise at an
| gc varying from .5' 10 450 from tho W.T.
| ter's edge, to near the limit of perpetual snow;
aud these steep sides are again cut by deep
transverse gulies, with still deeper sides
There is trail leading eastward across the noun
| tans from Fort Y ale, but it is extremely rugged
and passes through the snow; the miners can
procure horses for travelling il, if they were 80
di'PoSod me h"'co,h ,r,i' ~ failure TINS Is
doned point of trade for tho gold mlIlss, A..
49, I,.''''' b.. m. .,raan ,,h''.' -
i 80, :; ,,,.I, nth .na .o,,h ,,;S;
=, r.. p;,an -, ,ho ,ar,h I'D a., fn ..,;,"
cr,m ;,s ,,nntl Ths r;yer md hrnnch caIloJ
tho Lillooet or l. Aouctte, the French for Lark
can be assembled nearly in due north direction II
distance of about ono hundred miles; and then the
traveller has To cross "A chain of mountains over "A
trail about thirty miles long, when he comes To IA
tributary of the Fraser which he can descend by
canoe to the diggings.
The stcrn-whcel steamer umatla has assembled
Harrison river to Harrison Lake, and crossed the
lake to the mouth OF the Lillooet Il use the
mon spelllng), whence Il party Of adyenturers were
to try the ascent in canoes aud on foot The whole
aiair ~ VIA adventure; we mere cannot look al II
!" an! o''lcr ,'R"''
>, mere are 'housahos ol men AZ victoria ana on
ri"s'' n,e' ""o "ou'a w eisu " re.urh I" Na''-
III" II my "ni Wv ne"s' ''' "' 'h's h"'e not
''ey n,"s' s.aS "noio 'h's a'e'
"h ''.e i''h ""v Wv Do"S'uss oeh''rod "a
'p','" !" u "'''''S VI "''',''' u" ''''pr'a' re
,lr,nIs 1884,, 1,, ir. w. $50, l., ~ n' ''
Il, l;,,.;, I,,-U.
-, w.t.,
r. ~, 80 - i'' VIZ" ~" "SP'" 70" "oo''
,," I 49, H.! -,
toll Won NIL nIainIy I'm, viii mot ,at. ,ln
s,h,j,ry If yy;n, ,,nv advice on tho sn,;e.t Sru
h,x, nh hsnrJ ub,t has Lcen s.;J or Era..r H;,,r
and know nothing more about the gold than has
already been told you by others Had Won sent
to ask my opinion about Fraser River before YOU
left California, | would have told you, one nndal,
not To leave your quiet homes; not to give mp the
substance for n shadow and to wait patiently un-
til something more definite WAS known about the
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