The daily Butte record., 1858-06-29
Proof Wanting.

Ihe Frazer gold stories still need
confirmation. Elsewhere we publish
an extract from the Express of yester-
day which mentions the arrival of the
Steamer Cortes, bringing twelve thou
sand dollars in dust, and the news Of
the discovery ofdry diggings near Fort
Yale. The twelve thousand dollars
worth of dust is but paltry sum to re-
turn to San Francisco in place Of the
many cargoes Of goods shipped to the
new diggings from that port, and is by
no means an evidence of the richness oI
Frazer River when we take into consid.
GRAFTON that with no better facilities
for transshipping gold, California SENDS
away, scmi-monthly, her two millions
or more. California in its early days
was unprovided with facilities for send
ing her gold away, and if the occulaI
proofs was wanting of the actual exist
tence Of gold here, it was from the fac,
that no means were Immediately Al
hand to send the gold out Of the State
so soon as communication was estab
lishcd with the East, millions attcstet
the wealth Of our placcrs and rivers
Three months and more have passe(
since the Frazer fever broke out, ant
as yet VIC have heard of but filtccr
thousand dollars in gold from that re.
gion reaching San Francisco, and since
the excitement, tho arrivals Of steam
crs from Bellingham Bay have averaged
at least one week. IF the "ricl
strikes" that have been chroniclcd arc
true, enough gold has already been OBJ
taincd to furnish unmistakablc evidence
of that truth aud why, We may reason
ably ask has it not come to light |
men made hundreds of dollars per day
before tho river rose and drove then
from their claims, what has become o
their gold II it had been washeC
from the earth in such generous quan.
titles would it not found the nearest
and best market
AS yet, we have received no reliable
proofs of the alledgcd richness. The
mass of encouraging letters, those thai
speak of the ounces and pounds per lay
TO the man, are none of them from per,
sons known TO the public as reliable
while the letters Of persons who have
yet failed to reach the river are either
reports Of hoarsay evidence, the off
spring Of sanguinc cxpectants or par.
ties interested in keeping up tho excite
mcnt. Among the letters from those
whom We best indeed the major.
ity of them speak dscouragingly of the
prospects. Our friend Lance Nighting.
gill's letter, every word of which We
would bc willing to swear to as true
is but series of conjectures as far as
the truth of the many gold stories i,
concerned.
Now We may safely calculate that a
least fifteen thousand men have lcf
California for Frazer river, and as man,
thousand dollars having found thei
way back, makes a showing of one dol
lar each for every advcnturcr--so far
We believe that in the next thre
months, the quota per man will be grea
ter, but il will be brought back by un
lucky, disappointed adventurers, pro
nouncing Flazer River the most exter
sivc and complete humbug of the age,
As to the report OF the discovery {
dry diggings, it may or il may not b
true. The report comes from an inter
ested party--thc Victoria Gazette, an
II Just the kind of report needed to con
firm the other gold stories. We mus
be allowed to think it confoundc
lie.
4 p. s. Since the above was write
} we see by the Union that the twelS
, thousand dollars was in coin--not dus