Grass Valley telegraph., 1858-06-05
Frazer River Rgfnes.

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| mia are doing quite as we'll as they have ever
heretofore done at the corresponding season
of the year. We allude to these evidences OF
mining prosperity as aa- a-sfsett to the peri
odical cFoakings which$ $dissatisfed and un-
easy persons give, year or two, for run
niHg after phantom fortunes, which inter
ested speculators ever~-aud anon hold up
before their excited imaginations with a
view to their own profit.
It would appear from the present excited
state Of the pubic mind with regard to GER
tain reports from the North, that the expe-
rience OF those who were carried away with
the stories of Gold Lake. Gold Bluff. Kern
River, and other humbugs of less note, has
had but little effect in restraining many from
that spirit of reckless adventure which is so
peculiarly, characteristic of California miners.
We would not be understood as doubling
the existence of gold in considerable and re-
muneratiVe quantities in all that region of
country, commencing some one hundred
miles or more South of the northern limit of
the United States Territory and extending
thence northerly along the base of the Rocky
Mountains for q distance Of some three or
four hundred mileN yet all who recollect
the reports which first feashed this State, in
reference to the Colyille mi1es, will bear
US out in the statement tfSakEe have not yet
anything like the evidence of extensive and
paying mines on Fraz&S River that we then
had from tbs vicinity of Fort Colville.-
There are thoussnd ndNwh6 know by dear
bought experiences what the result of that
excitement was, and$et the Colville mines
are still worked, and With abundant success
by many The Frazer River mines, as all
may readily learn by consulting any authen-
tic map, are but continuation of those at
Fort ColVille. The same system of rivers.
valleys and mountains continue through a
region of country at least five hundred miles
In lehgtA from south to north. The Colyille
mines have decided advantage over those
farther north in the matter of climate: still
1t is well known that the former are almost
unwOrkabIe during .aEgreater part of the
year, while all who have spent the winter in
the vicinity Of the mines on Thompson's riv-
er, until in saying shat during about seven
months Of the year,eboth land and water is
close locked in frost, and fully two months
of summer is of LITTLE value for mining pur.
tRK 5Eeas0Gr 69 h8 ltateRess p il the Is @
time as can we'll be depended upon for &C.
tive mining purposesSand none but the wild
eat enthusiast, or meauest tyro in mining,
can expect that more than one in ten can find
q locality that wilLpry erpenses under such
circumstances. Many other draw backs in
these mines might, be enumerated, such as
the monthly tax which will inevitably be
required Of every adventurer, the we'll known
hostility of Indians to all but the English,
and theQecessary'hi high price which must be
paid for alrkiads of supplies for the next
two years at least, and until wagon roads
can be cut through hundreds of miles of
rough and most unfavorable country.
While we have full knowledge that gold
exists there, and that some have done remar-
kably well, there is no evidence whatever
that remunerative diggings can be found to
any considerahle,extent. News from almost
every County in our own State embrace ac-
counts of disceXsries fully equal, and in ma
ny eases, far superior to anything we hear
from Frazer River. There is scarcely
mining county fifthe State that is an ezcep-
tion to this fact In California the miner
can live with aflAo6 the necessities and most
of the luxuries of life at his command, with
everything atr6omparatively cheap rates
while the vefy extremes of hardships and
suferings are thSlpevitable attendants up-
on the adventarer in the cold and inhospital
regions whittier 50 many are vending their
way.
The excitement in that quarter is nearly
confined to the >neighborhood of Victoria
very little being feltin our own neighboring
possessions The inhabitantq Of Washington
Territory have not yet forgotten the Colville
excitement and have too recently felt the
prickings ofEthe concealed hook to manifest
much readiness to snap at the newly gilded
bait which'is Second time presented to them.
Those whe,are out Of employment at the
mines here, Sndhhe thousands who are loung-
ing about eur towns and cities, may better
their condition by going to the new Ell Do
radO-they>will do SO indeed, if they secure
the bare means of an honest lively hood
No man who hswaking average wages here
should tblnlRof changing his location. Fully
one-half aFho have thus far returned from
these min&g delounce them as stupendous
humbugsse for as the idea Of the acquire
ment of speedy fortune isconcerned. Not
one in ffty6ewhO go thither with such hopes
will realise sany thing like their anticipa-
tions. Sill. Us we have already said, those
who go thither with moderate ideas, and
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