Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-05-19
California Correupondence.

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FRIEND REEoRR--After many thanks for
your kindness in sending me complete files
of the Empire, containing much interesting
local matter will proceed to give you a
few items pertaining to this State
During the past few weeks we have had
several severe frosts, iniuring, in some lo-
calities the peach and apricot crops; other,
wise everything is favorable for a plentiful
supply Of luxuriani fruit, such as can only
be produced in a climate similar to ours.
The Legislature closes its session this
month. Among the most important objects
discussed during the term, is q Pacific Rail-
road bill, Our legislators as well as the
people, see the necessity of such desidera-
tum, and as the u. $, Congress have amply
discussed the subject, and neglected to make
any provision for carrying out any of the
proposed routes, we must do IL ourselves
and the means we can afford will prove of
effective service to the enterprise of those
western States whose capitalists are gradual.
ly advancing their railroads to Pacific ter
minus. ....
The mines are yielding we'll as may be
inferred from the numerous rich records in
local.papers. At several points on the STAN
islaus river, miners are realizing from s. to
$lS per day to the hand. At Scorpion
Gulch, Six.mile Bar, Ramsays Flat and vi.
cinity, in Calveras county, they are washing
from quarter of an ounce to an ounce per
day to the hand In Mariposa county, sew.
eral nice little nuggets were found last week,
one weighing II ounces and another 45
ounces, nearly all pure gold. The quartz
leads in this county are the most extensive
and numerous of any in the State One re.
Gently discovered of partially decomposed
quartz, prospected as high as S33 from a
single pan. Another vein has as the result
of thirty~one days run of an old crazy water
mill, carrying four stamps the snug little
sum Of 630 ounces of gold. There are many
more instances of the success Of miners both
in the north and south but It would occupy
too much space to particularize Enough
to say that this season will prove one of the
richest of late years, in the yield of gold.
While on this all,absorbing toric, will
here add that Frazier river sends us eyi,
dence that she is no humbug in the shape Of
$4,000 in gold dust, by the steamer which
arrived at San Francisco on the 4th April,
from Victoria, The mining news is quite
encouraging from the different bars on the
river
Mining is not the only attractive object to
q settler in this State. as is witnessed by the
lu1uriant fields Of grain, now rearing up
their full heads; and the fattened herds.
which are fed without the labor of man, hay
and grain being nsed for stock that is kept
from pasture. The grass is unusually abun,
dant this year, aud with the growing grain,
affords rich treat to the vision at this time,
made more pleasant by the variety of beau
tiful wild flowers which grow so spontaneous
ly in California soil
The following paragraph appears in a
leader Of the Marysville Democrat, and is no,
altogether uninteresting to Daytonians. "Be
that as il may, the next Governor of this
State will be Hon. j. WIN cCorkle or some
other anti Lecompton Democrat And he
will be elected on the straight out Douglas
platform" ..... --...
7 The first female passenger through from
St Louis to San Francisco, arrived at the
latter place on the 18th April The trip was
conducive to her health She came to meet
her husband.
DIR WozencroGt, gentleman of some note
has created quite an interest by making an
assertion that volcano is now in existence
in a secluded part of Shasta county, and as
closing item for the curious, | give you
the following published state nent, elected
by the Doctors assertion, from gentleman
who, in 1851, discovered a volcano in that
region: "His attention was drawn to it BY
observing iUr three successive nights, what
first appeared to be dim light, but as they
neared it, itassumed more the appearance Of
a column of fire, about one hundred feet in
height Upon reaching the base of the
mountain, numerous hot springs were dis
covered, so hot that the party boiled coffee
by immersing their kettles in them. On the
summit Of the mountain, the party discover
ed an opening, forty to fly feet in dame
ter, from which issued an immense column
7 of what appeared to be intensely heated air,
With such force was this emitted, that Mr..
}. says stones weighing fifteen and twenty
pounds, upon being thrown into the chasm,
we're hurled upwards into the air to con-
siderable height 0f the depth of the crater
Mr.. Jackson could form no just conception,
as the intense heat of the escaping gas ut
terly prohibited approach nearer than Rfteen
or twenty feet The sides Of the mountain,
coated in some places to considerable
depth with Law gave unmisiakable evidence
that this volcano had at some day presented
a more active and terrific appearance
I Yours, 40, PERRY