The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-10

to VICTORIA. June 90, 1853
CIV arrived here safely last Friday per steame
4 Panama. Had most pleasant trip, as YOU ma,
. Imagine whs you think OF the number of pas
~ sengers cror led together on SO small boat
ic This town Is rather a pretty little place o
to aoout 100 houses and some 1000 inhabitants
- The country about here is very beautiful. FLIED
" with farms. great abundance Of stock of al
kinds Butter. eggs, &C., are about the same
price as Wit you. The only thing wanted here
re is houses. We all sleep in tents in the open
= air. ssw
o As regards gold mines, that is all humbug
/. lou can get Indians TO work for fifty cents
% per day, and plenty OF white men for sl5 per
., month. You may thank your stars that you
+ did not come TO this d country.
e shall return by the next steamer. You NAV
u expect to see me in about ten days.
K 1t any OF your friends think of coming
i here, tell them they had better stay where they
!. are.
Employment Of any kind is not TO be had
]. here, and 1t is all nonsense to think Of trading
here, as the Hudson's Bay Company claim the
8 exclusive right to trade with the miners, and
i have sufficient fcrce to drive off any American
E | that would try trading.
really believe the gold mines grand hum
r oug never was in a country where money
was so scarce, and as regards "gold DUST that
is an nonsense-you never see particle,
Thank God, | have money enough to get
back.
COOLER TO TIE FRAZER RIVER "MAp."
Mons. Dubroca, merchant of this city, pro-
ceeded recently to Victoria, and returned this
morning by The Panama He pronounces the
whoie affair "a grand humbug," and says that
thousands oi persons are at Victoria doing
nothing. Oa bis arrival at Victoria he was sur
rounded by hundreds Of spectators, who offer
ed him lots. supposing he had plenty of money.
-lSan francisco Bulletin, July 9TH
=, THE WASHING DIDN'T PAY.
Mr.. EDWARD ). Mclntre, who was a workman
10 the Sacramento Iron Works, lett this city on
the third of May last for the Frazer River mines
returned on the Coyes, and arrived in Sacra,
mento ON the 2Sth of June, aud gives the fol-
lowing information:
landed at Victoria on the l4th of Nav. and
stayed at that place for two days. Myself and
eleven others then started in a schooner for F. |
Langley, distance Of about 1870 miles. Il |
| TOOK US us seven days 10 make the VOYAGE We !
| stayed at Fort Langley one day, and then |
started IN a large whale-buat for Fort Hone |
distant about so miles, at which place we land. |
ed IN eleven days, our whale-boat having cap.
sized, and thereby being compelled to procure
canoe. We remained At Port Hope one day
and then started for Fort Yale, distant about 20
miles, in canoe, where we arrived in one dav.
spending twelve hours in prospecting on the
way. then went down to Hills Bar, which
Is three miles below Fort Yale, and went to
work. The first day we went to mining. we
took out S5 to the hand. We continued to
wash for about nine days at an average of about
SS per day to the hand. The river then com
menced rising at the rate of eight inches in |
"a hours, when we were obliged to quit work
We then started down the river and landed
again at Fort Langley, stayed there two days.
ana went to Fort Gamble, and from thence 10
Fort Townsend; stopped there one day, took
the steamer and landed at San Francisco. We
prospected the river from Fort Langley up-at
that place we found about three 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 l24 cents to
the pan, and fifteen miles above that point we
found from % to 80 cents to the pan We
prospected all the ravines, gulches and banks
very thoroughly, and could not find the "colorn
anywhere except in the bars on the river. The
bars are generally very large, but lie low. All ,,
the gold discovered so far is drift gold, and no
one can tell the extent of it. !
An UNMITrGATED HUMBUG.
An old resident of MarysvilIe a Portuguese :
packer named Martin, we'll known to all the
Marysville mechants. returned on Thursday,
saws the Marysve Express from Frazer River !
He states-and Van Muller l. Co. are our as-
thority he left here two months age. with :
-
good prospect for packing on Frazer River, he !
sold his mules at Sl25 to the United States
Government at Fort Vancouver. He tried TO
buy gold dust at Frazer river, and offered &lS .
per ounce without success. He represents the I
Frazer River gold region as an unmtiga.ed h
humbug. :,
NEVER BACK OUT. 6,
7. D. Woodward, late clerk with p H. Rus =
sell and j. r. Figg, writes from Whatcom thus :,
letters n hn |
Union. Woodward saws: =
We do not know what to do. After getting p
ap to the mines, there are ten chances to one Il;
bat we cannot do anything at least it is repre-. hi
ented SO to Us here. have satisfied nv mind
1f but one single thing, and that is. if was in n
Sacramento, and knew much | do now a | l..
tx mule team could not get me away, at least :,
or two months to come, and | do sincerely hs
,ope that none OF my friends will think of CON- :,
ng here until they know for "a certainty that -
hey can do better. Do not think am discour- 4,
ged. am in for il, and am bound to see il wl
through if any one else does, but am fully sa- ~
isfed that we are all sold, to = great extent, r.
nd the best evidence oil it in the world is, that ri
here is very little gold coming here. l sar =
teen ounces yesterday sold at sl6 per ounce.
mother man somebody that said he saw a M,
lan have seven and half pounds, which he he
lade IN six week You can hear anything you ba
ish to, by standing around "kinder loose" DC
STAY AT HOME. TO
Figg says: In conclusion, | would say to mi. tn
ers and traders, if they would he wise and of
ave their money, to hold on a while, for il wi
ey come they will get themselves in very m.
lcomfortabl- climate, be skinned by the steam by
hip companies out OF few hundred dollars, m,
eside being treated by them as though they on
ere parcel of dogs, and with but little pros or.
ect Of doing any ching whatever. In few as
ays i will start for the mines and will test ca,
my satisfaction at least. So far there sa,
a great humbug about these Frazer River yir
zines. at
NOTES BY An EYE-wlTNEss. me
From the San Francisco News Letter, July 9Th. In
The proprietor of the San Francisco News viz
etter having determined to The elephant ma
} be at the centre Of the present excitement OF it
ne Dorado and to judge for hiInsel% or rather piI
, solve the problem Ut how much gold, how usi
lany Indians. and how much humbug, went on int
oard the Pacific mail steamship Cortes, Capt. tht
orner, and the passage to Victoria, $40 miles,
T. five days. Although 900 persons we're on
GARD, yet no actual inconvenience was felt by ma
&c high pressure packng the greatest good de'
nmor and accommodating spirit prevailing, ~
onrolled by the geatlemanly conduct of Capt. iof
b. Horner and his officers. On the day OF pa
rival the operation of the Government Land eu
lice at the fort in Victoria, was $4,000 The tina
aportance of the amount can best be realized me
y comparing it with the prices, viz: $lO0 go
er lot 60 l20 feet, unsurveyed. Some OF eA
!ese lots have been sold S2o0alo0o. Lots
FIRST sale, surveyed price, $50; lots, second ~
nd last sale, 500 each, are now being sold ~
ON $500 to $1,000 each. Six lots together in ~
ie principal street valued at $4,000. The 81
cures at Esquimat Harbor and lots in that vi r., ~
~. ,h.. g., H., 49, - sns.:s - ~ sae pa!
o.s y. s"s saSs s.As s s'aa'ee oounu be
ow wide and deep enough TO admit the Leyia- MI
IAN. Victoria has bar which plust be dred. iaa
ID, dug or blown away. We noted at Victo- ~.
\ that the most valuable lot, with fat gran. "a.
. levee, with 80 feet Of water, sufficient for ~
~ ship to unload without jetty. is now cover
! BY large building constructed OF logs, be- +,
nging 10 samuel Price 4 Co. ship vas un- res
aiding lumber at this wharf 1t $35 per ~, paI
hsen "as s0s runn9 Pfice. A victoria, on the uni
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