The daily Butte record., 1858-04-27
I'm. pira.ss River s1ines.

Everybody 10 agog about the Frazer River
Mines. Every. Oregon steamer that has /
lately come into San Francisco has been |
freighted with statements Of the wonderful |
richness Of this new Fl Dorado. People who |
have but little to do, people who have done Q
good deal and accomplished little, and peo-l
pie who are always ready to be carried
away by every new excitement have gone,
or are talking Of going to the new diggings.
Even some people as far away from the whirl,
6utter and generally contaminating inAuen.
ces Of the new gold fever have become affec.
ted by il and are seriously rejecting wheth-
er or no they had not better 60 to this won.
derful Frazer River and stake themselves of
q claim before all the best ground 10 taken
up.
Well; let us "look this property over" as
old Doc England used to say. Let us look
before We leap. Regard California as fry.
ing pan il you will. but before you leap out
Of 1t be sure you will not land in the FIRE.
Let rs see. There was "Gold Lake." Ev.
erybody remembers or has heard Of the Gold
Lake excitement, and everybody remembers
what long searches and what fruitless ones
we're made for that chimercal sheet Of wa.
ter; and all must recollect how all the par.
ticipators swore that they would never be
caught in such snap again. Then, on the
year following the "Gold Lake" humbug.
came the Gold Bluff humbugger. Some four
years after that Kern River fooled the dear
people again.
Now, nobody in his senses would have the
efrontery, or rather inconsiderateness Il
hold that oil these humbugs had not been
gotten up by somebody and to accomplish a
certain object The Gold Lake business was
the most complete wild goose chase of either;
perhaps it originated iunocently, for tho vie.
Tins of it followed a crazy man, and in their
wrath, came near hanging him. But Gold
Bluff and Kern Kiver we're humbugs delib.
erately conceived to deceive the people and
to get them to travel to and buy goods and
town lots Of the very scoundrels who first
caused the excitement. Nobody will pretend
to deny this now.
We may be warped and blinded in our
views, but we really think that Frazer River
is just as much "steamboat" as either Of
these others. We think it is q double
"steamboat;" that is to say, a steamboa,
Steamboat" We think that Frazer River
has been misrepresented as rich by the
owners and agents of steamboats, now float.
ing Idly in San Francisco Bay. We have nc
doubt there is more or less gold to be found
on Frazer River, but we do not believe tha,
the mines of that locality are half as rich or
extensive as they are represented to be. The
discovery Of gold in their vicinity even in
small quantities, would naturally excite the
people Of Oregon, as it would any other peo-
pie living in u country hitherto unknown to
be auriferous. aud this excitement is once
seized upon by the steamship owners and
agents rs chance to set the citizens Of Cal.
ifornia by the ears and send them posting
off in crowds to the new land of promise.-
We will give more reasons for thinking so,
when we have more room, but will herewith
say most unhesitatingly, that we think that
Frazer River Is rs much humbug as Gold
Lake, Gold Bluff, or Kern River.