Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-08-16
The Fraser River Mania.
Th- Water sfiH N.Y. Decrea~ Of Emigraiion-
Fan Of Property in i'ciorit-S Statements II M
ners-Richaess Of Me Dtygings Coahrnsed.

| HFTs-HicHHess % Ne DtyJtHys tosyr'"scu.
The steamship Orizala, Capt. W. C. Pense. ar
/ rived Mt San Francisco on the 18th Of July, with
news from Victoria ~ the 9th instant, and from
Whateom To the l0tl. The news. says the HID
CaLfornid, il Of very unsatisfactory character.
| We present the following extracts from the hat
| com Northern Ligh:
| STATEMENT Of Nh JoxEs-Mr Isaac d. Jones,
"A member Of the third legislature Of Washington
territory, and gentleman of veracty. was among
| the very frat miners who went to Fraser river
lie has Just returned from that region, and furnish
e. us with ti;. u wing information
His claim = IN lilP- Bar, two miles below Fort
Yale II has thu. far yielded him about 81 700.
The top sand pays. and isstrippeda short distance
down. whom u vein OF yellow clay is struck, about
eight inches thick. which pays at the rate Of
ounce to the hand.
There are about seventy-fyc claims on Hills
Bar. The claims above and below are also taken.
Mr. Jones exhibited To us forty ounces of dust.
taken from his claim. lie says there il no ones
ton about the digging being rich-"r cher than
ever heard of before few miles below
HIS Bar the first sluices have been put in ope-
ration. in the woods. where the dirt pays from
bit 10 n dollar the pan.
Mr.. Jones is down on business, and will return
to the diggngs in the course Of few days.
ST>rEMENr or Mn. BRowS.--Mr. Chas. Brown.
formerly of Calaveras county. an Iti liam. in com
pany with ten others, returned 10 this plnce ~
canoe, from tnlrty-HYc miles hDONo the junction
Of Fraser and Thompson rivers, Thursday a
ternoon.
They were on prospecting expe dition, but
hausted their provisions before doing much--
Wherever they took out prospects, they found gold;
some places more and some less. They mi
ners who were making from $40 to $50 per day.
in surface diggngs.
Above the forks of the two rivers the gold is
coarse. The Indians exhibited p Gees to them as
large as pigeon eggs, and signicd to them BY signs
that during the diurnal revolution Of the sun they
could take out double handful Of it. They
very numerous and insolent, making their APP
pearance suddenly in great force, when least ex-
pectcd
On their return they fell in with Canadian.
who was building tort at n,,ar the forks,
where they left two their partners. Hehad been
three days without food. and was ,rced to kill
horse, fifteen lbs of the flesh of vii ich Mr. Brown
and party purchased ut fifty cents a pound their
own stock Of provisions having be en- exhausted.
From this point they suffered sever ely from hun
ger, procuring scant supply from time to time
from those they met in the best manner they
could.
There are about u thousand miners at Fort
Yale doing nothing. waiting for tlc river to fall
Provisions are very scarce there al so.
Mr.. Brown was IL miner in Calf ornia nine years
but he says he never saw rich surface dig
eings there rs Fraser and Thol epson rivers
He intends returning with his party to the dig
gings in few days.
STATEMENT OF Mr. RrssELL--Mr.J P. Russell
formerly of Weaverville, Trinity county Califor-
ME returned from Fort Hope OF, Wednesday NOR
ming. by canoe for provisions.
He was Mt Fort Hope ten days, where there are
between three and four hundred miners. Owing
To the high waters Of Fraser river they are all
idle Many have staked off cla ms, to be work ed
when the waters recede.
Ab ut tire" miles above Fort Hope, before the
river rose. several miners raging ounce
a day, hy stripping some five feet depth OF sand
The dust in That region is float gold, and generally
obtanel near the surface
Mr.. Russell saw two from the forks Of Fra
ser and Thomp. - "it""-, who told him that mi
ners there wee maxim, .rm ole 10 four ounces
u day, and that there was plenty Of ground there
for many persons chose to ccupy it.
Mr.. X. brought down eight dissat SIZED persons,
wLo are returning California, ng the mines,
and swearing that the whole country is Il humbug.
But he assures us that neither of tn I'M ever did
days labor Mt Fort Hope. They le the diggins
entirely untred, and Of u conscquer ce, could not
know anything about them. Those that he met
who could and had worked nearly Ill exhibited
more less gold, and expressed the, nselves hope
fully of abundant success when the waters sub
side
Mr.. r. exhibited to US some five or six ounces
of dust, several Of which bes.uti full ngglome-
rated specimens. We obtained iron, him one of
these latter. weighing eight dollars for exhibition
to those who are still incrcluous of the existence
of gold On Fraser and Thompson ri, ers.
the TRAII.-The editor of the l,c rthern Light,
speakingot the Whatcom trail, says: Two weeks
must elapse before the engineer ma ling the work
in charge will be enabled to report i is entire
plction About 100 men had star tc d from What
to go by the trail to the mines"
The RIVER RoUrE.-Mr. Russell eports u large
number ofcanoes returning down Fraser river to
the mouth Of the Sumas which tn y navigate up
to the head of Lake Sunias and ala adon them for
tho Whatcom, trail. The day Def " he left Fort
Hope the Brigade Train of the Had son Bay Com
pany, embracing some 300 we'll ia ded and half
broken down animals, got in. Some Of these
were sold to greedy purchasers at from $3.50 to
$500.
A Frenchman at Fort Hope hail ten animals. on
each Of which he engaged to pack u cargo OF $50
lbs. to Thompson River, for 500.
The Hudson Bay Company did 10 packing
They did not have sufficient nun ibnr Of good ami
animals to meet their own demands.
Mr.. K. says that person hs yet succeeded
in ascending with boat through the Big Canon