The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-03-17

On she 18TH day OF January, 1883, Z
man named W Marshall, eogAgod IN
the eoestructioo Il . savnill ior 0su.
John A Ssttsr. q . point o. the Amer
ican river, in the then wilderness. fifty
miles east Of New Helvetia (pov Sacrs.
ments). diaoevsesa in shs Ailesdsaa
yellow Substances about the si1s OF Z
comoen hsa., which proved 70 b. gold.
The 6na -Isdr - - sxplorstion OF the
river bars aod nei9hboring galchss and
'cfcsks. and wherever they dog and
washed gold WAS found in the sand,
gravel and be,kock. Poe . osoth ~
secrst w,s bepe snong thsfbv hae1s
smpiuyed st tie mill sud ID the iamify
Of &C.. .sral Suttsr. After that il leaked
ost and the nsws rapidly spread AZ
6rst il was not credited. because placer
COLE mines Of suoh cxtsae aad H(heo
had never before been heard OF. o.
ths 18th OF April. 1S46. the Cal.tsva;sa
. weekly paper published .se Ysehe
Buens. . snaii villags, built ,ahsnk
what 10 new aksovn - PWeoo0utk
Square Gin this cityl printed the fol-
loving item:
1t 10 stated thas new RuidA mine
has been diseoveesd 90 tho American
Fork OF the Sacramento, supposed 70 b.
on the lasd Of w A +Leidesdor6, Req. y,
of this city. A specimen, of 4AA ,oe6
hss Lsss -sxhibitsa snt;is nia.6tA
very pure"
% the 81 Of Nay th. sans paper
eontsiued the follovipe:r "a .saI
"GoLD HIxxs os.1HE SAosAxss1o.
Prom gentleman Just fsom The sold
region. We learn that many new dis
coveries have very rees0tay been nsde !:
and it " folly asosstGis.d sbat . 1srr..
extent Il country .absunds with. the.
precious metal. Seven men With picks
and spades gathered $l60o xoeth 10 Is
days Msny persons srs s6ttling upon
the lands with tho view Of holding
pre.emptions. but - yet every person
takes the right to gather al they can
without any regard to elaine. Tho
largest piece yet found 10 worth 46."
On .h. gath "f Nay the paper cnn-
tainSd this advertisement: -.
ooID! 0oIp! GOLD! ?
Ca.h will lie paid fos Cslif1rnia cold.
by b K Bocksirw. wstchmak kor Ind
jeweler. San Francisco.
On the Goth of May the Californian.
having lost all its printers. who vent
up to the mines. issued . slip stating
that it, publication ''for the present"
wou:d cease; and the editor himsslf
followed the printsss 70 she mines. In
fact. everybody went there. T1cropa
were abandoned 1t Snnoma. Napa,
Monterey. and New Helvetia. for want
Of men to cultivate the land. BY July
the Oregonians began to arrive. and 10
September and October tho Sonorians
and Hawaiian Islanders. Az tha. num-
bsr Of miners increased Aeas1 plokae
tions were extended 40 the Hoflh and
Middle Forks Of the Americas, u
Weber Creek. to Bear River. the LAS
Usss." or Yuba. to the Feather. the
Cosumnes. the Mokelumus. Tuolun,ns,
Stanislaus. Msriposas. and ell their
tributary streams and gulches. Where.
ever they dug and washed they found
gold in paying quantities-sn ounce or
two ounces per day. In July. lSloSkhe
grand migration q s'ArtcpanDa" nom
the States began - STRIVE. ead raPal1
spread them Osslves al over tt mi(frst
belt which By the spsiAg os 1850 hsd'
extended irsm Shasta. --oe Rsadi6E'S'
Syringe, to MAriposs. and from the
foothills to far up in the timber belt
and region Of deep snow. The migra.
tions Of 1649. 1850. 1851 and 1859 added
about 300. 900 yeang men to the popu.
lation Of California; and for sbeat tsa
years. dating frsu 1880. ~ guA pse-
duct (rsportsd) averaged nearly ESQ.,
OOO. 900 years. r. Chronicle.