New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-26
From Our Own Correspondent.

WashOR continues 10 De Lne main topic VI
1t fills the papers, heard in all collections OF men, Is
apparent in the street signs. The stream OF population
has already commenced to pour over the Sierra. The
stages across the mountain loaded With advenuers
II may safely be said that five thousand persons are
now preparing to start for Washoe within two months
and it ia we'll understood that those who wish to make
money by mere hand work should not go before the
fret of May, when the seas for labor will properly
open Until that time the ground will be frozen and
covered with n ew there will be no grass for horses
and there canDo. be much travel, or prospecting OF
| new ground There is nothing to Justify the present
excitement, but thee people do not want Jnstlnca-
ton IN sncb case They have come here 10 make their
fortunes aud they ready TO take their chances AZ
evsry huubug They willing to risk few hundred
dollars for the fun Of an adventure, ana toe nope OF
making great fortune. Ii OF no use 10 TAX 70 such
! persons. The warnings against Wsshoe WIN 90 no
more good than did those against Fraser, Kern RIVER
Gold Bluff, and forth; and, besides every excite
ment of this kind brings profit TO considerable case
who know how to profit by the consequent fluctuations
| in the prices of merchandise land, and stocks. we
are all spectators, and the struggles OF buinese are
the source OF large part OF the pleasures oil hVey
| existerce in California.
Wells, Fargo g. Co. have established an express Of
| fee in CaIson City, and have given notice that they
will send an express messenger acroes the mountains
| in every stage.
coda water man has started from San Francisco to
| establish himself and his business in Carson City.
w. b. Farwell, one of the editors of The Alta, had
leg broken Folsom on Tuesday last, while on his
Way 10 Washoe. he supposed the stsge-was about to
upset and jumped off, whereby he received the injury
TIE PlaeerUMe Democrat Of the 18th February says:
stages arrive in PIscevis from sscia@enO loaded with
passengers all TO co:s the mountains at ne earliest mo
daily line Of slsqes city and Genoa gentleman
just returned Virginia City informs that the road Is
lined with peres going and that building in the small
MIXING camps going rapidly The demand for lumber is
70 pP G: IL T. Seems s be on the
increase in Car Valley new and ch discoveries are oeins
great number of Gales Of stock In sivereads in the
Washoe country have been reported during the last
few weeks, and some Of them at terrible prices.
Thus ninety sixth interest in the Comstock lead has
| been cold for $4,000 last week, by peraon who
| bought about two months for $2900. A share in
be Olhir lead sold for S35 OO0-$20 600 being paid
| down in cssh. Most of the sales aud purchases are
made by men who crossed tho Sierra Nevada,
| ano never silver mire.
The Mercantile Gazette says:
requirements Of steamer day. than we have noticed
periods time pss Capitalist. generally find ready
loans good coa,era at rates all the
from 2dJ cent and nothing being dene under the
former ngu Tbs hghness in financial sals may measura3y
ons Of merchandise but mainly to the disposition manifested
wade The business community to remarkable extent Large
purchases being made md unfrequenty by
and hope o the basis Of their operations: Nothng
Known before the setting in Of Winter Though this Wa'hoe
business may not prove dangerous tn experiment as the
obtain ias,s Of experience At COS, that rsy emSsm rs
u sps , S1nasS, fS "
the line OF march in that direction"
The Treasurer of the Mint makes the following re-
port for February:
During this month, 5l5 deposits of gold baOn for coinage
received amounting TO S6soS ounces gross
and OO.ol ounces standard silver, worth 1865 50
Total value gold bars a848 50
containing ounces standard silver worth lO 10
snd 800, sl5 ounces standard gold, worth 1911 IL
Total value silver $40 l72 "a
coISAGE-GoLD.
Half eagles 5SS1
Quarter eagles $4,000
$''@oN
nan plV
Total sGo7 900
All these SILVER deposits are from Washoe, and
amount 10 more than a tun and half, containing
about $4,000 OF gold TO tun OF siiyer Standard sil
slver alleged 10 tle standard OF coin; that
s, it il silver alloyed With ninth of IFS weight of
copper This furnishes the explanation of the fact that
1896 Of Washoe silver contained Al $50 ounces
of standard silver.
ReHydrdahc Press published at San Juan, Nevada
County not far from Wssboe publishes the folio wing
article on the present excitement:
1--WE informed tha Orlando and Alyira Evans Clifford
and several other citizens Of Sweetaud nave going
Western Utah. where othe party have secured inter
oSer citizen Of sssstiond r Cait.-wIo /. now represent
hs as StI res and has realized roS fe.n
,aes only portion Of bic shares Whether this be
Gouny /. sill in %es over there 4 would ,ss@ Tie NesaGG
Ndoad suding 10 the newspaper assertion th certain resi-
dn Of The county seat bad received $50 100 partial sale Of
interests which cost them only $4,000 altogether Remarks that
according recent IePo hs citizens Of Grass Valley 90 an
nyeueDt ofess than R20C0 have received $50 COO AMI
out the balance any time for than five times
that smomp-or $4,000 Whsw protest against their
selling OUT for eveE BODY becomes wealthy who to NIL he
ohcss
We quote the above a sample Of thu unreliable
which more than positive facts naung tie pucc mind
with regard to tho Washoe region, and wi
prod ous rush tbhewsTd by the opening Of Spring We
-aI bis because know that the majority who 70 the
eastern toIe will be Of nothing but disappointment with
cha for dssprreabe contiDgen its beside.
we made trip to the silver mines last Fall after the rch
OF the ledge hT struck had been demonstrated and
abundant In the geological features OF the country
be discovered But also that the mines not of
character to shord immediate support TO large population o.
lacked the indispensable requisites OF money courage strength
nd determination 10 stay home Subsequent events have
rmed first estimate OF the mineral Of the
aite slope while at the time they have .epened
fiction that poor should prefer comfortable ceIanes
California "a all the brilliant talnes Of Utah II
has bunercd dsrs that he lose not
rrohtsby employed here or II he has plenty of and
does need but wants wealth, him 20
will gain wledge nothing else and afford pay
round price o II. But the poo cannot orudenty sk his
time slender purse silver hunting He should reflect
epynz Of rock accessible only costly outlay
labSI money by such outlay they found In time
He should remember slso, that the
country TO which he would hasten contains limited placer
dgps winch chiefly occupied and almost entirely
without Until capital bG opened many paying veins
machinery has been erected canals constructed
icpy IN. sub,dence Of the first grand rush henre
ay.s number those who fail In their will have
than to hurry bach TO discarded 90. nc'
not probably be Needed, but II i duty present
then. sna their viii be Bdosed by every sensible per
visited the really wonderful land that may rival
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