Banner Of Liberty (Newspaper) - January 5, 1859, Middletown, New York Mb its VOL. XL N. JANUARY 5, 1859. NO. 1. Dor Gold With the old mines of North lina and and the recent tions of Pike's Oregon and this country is likely to be- come the El Dorado of the The gold products of the world has been mated at ing to 000 to to and to other haps this is somewhat but edly the whole amount is much less than would generally be But it not be doubted that the vast mining dis- in this country west of the Rio are yet to be and it i safely be predicted that ere long the old product of this country will tend to swell the In order get as near as possible at the actual of gold from the mines of the Uni- ted States the subjoined cles on the several gold bearing Selds have been The results of the tics for the last twenty compiled in these are as in Oregon California gold deposited at delphia Mint to 31 at New Orleans to 185T......................... Deposits at S. Georgia Assay K. Y large fortunes have made in sifting and separating gold from ore which has once passed through the hands of the gold Trie great gold diggings are on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and in Klamath Shasta while other portions of the State have contributed their The first discoveries of gold were un- doubtedly but tbe washings from the vast bulk of auriferous quartz in the which serve to keep up the gold product of the The gold region embraces a space on the line of the Sierra Nevada between five hundred miles long and fifty Thu rivers whose copious streams flow from the springs of the Sierra were found to contain in their bars and shoals collections of the precious the amount varying with the velocity of the The dry diggings are places where gold is found mingled or dis- integrated from or in ding to the of the atmosphere or first discovery was 1348, and in the ten years since that time a new state is formed the stimulus taking a leading position in the I Total product of 1349 Union as the pioneer 15 01 SO 01 Total deposits at other Add deposits at California Mint 04 Total deposit of California gold at United States Mint since 1S54.. Average deposits per Thus with no record but that of the sums deposited in the Mint we have the round sum of millions per aside from this we have to consider the vast which have been shipped to other countries in and the large amounts expended in jewelry and souvenirs of the as well as the re- fining of private assay and another eleven millions per annum may be added with when the record will stand Official record of California gold I Mint and T i Estimated California gold carried made in out of the refined by private or used in elry and 00 3, the idea held oa Gold product of South Alabama and other sources Grand This is probably a fair estimate of the actual so far as any statistics can be obtained from the Mint ments and other Bat if the re- ports concerning Pike's Cherry Creek and the Gila prove we shall have our present product Since the close of 1848, the new gold mines have presented themselves Fraser Pike's Cherry and the Gila River reports have followed one another in quick until we bid among other evidences of our to be the great gold producing country of the At f any such of our readers as da not agree with the -as well as those who do agree with will be interested in the concise record which we present THE CALIFORNIA SOLD t The popular idea of the mineral wealth California is so enlarged that to say a taan has just arrived from that State is to the belief that he has his Nor is this general at resources of that State in wealth are but being afford as regular and an in- as the wheat fields of the West or i crop of the the time I bas gone by for the scooping up of the precious metal by handsful and the sition of fortunes by the picking np oi huge nuggets j but the are there yield up their treasure to industry by the progress in Ifo art of smelting er if nothing would warrant a ful examination of all the facts and figures to which can be brought to bear upon the i Tim to m Total mint These figures are not very but at the same time they show that gold The Richmond of the 20Ux would seem to signify that the supply has not yet been for it testifies to seeing a perfectly pure piece of this weighing ten taken from Mr. Christian's new in Montgomery from which worth of ore has been taken in two He tes just been offered for the so that it is probably safe to say that tbe total gold product of North Carolina since 1838 has been in round GEORGIA GOLD As one story is good until another is told so is one gold mine El Dorado un- til another is The gold mines of Georgia have shared the same fate threatened to those of California by the discovery of Fraser They have ceased to be called El yet their products form an annual item in the re- cord of coinage at the The centre of the gold fields is in Lumpkin at ia which a branch mint has been The following sums of this gold have been actually deposited in the mint and branches for to 185 as i It is by no means easy to arrive at a i acini were j Total M Estimated product of 00 correct esi imate of the actual gold product of California since the first the crude condition of government during the first rush and largest without a mint or proper custom house ind from the natural course of things no ding that by the wa 18W 10 GOLD OREGON The recent discoveries ou Fraser river statistics could be jyo UU Much fold was exported and much carried away never reached the It been estimated that from the ime of the discovery to date of our first returns from the branch mint at San total production and distribution iu all quarters was rate of production below the present estimated The gold deposits of the branch mint at San according to the official reports has as since 1854 1857, 00 M Add to this the estimated deposits last year from of 000 and we have the Reported w 13W recent discoveries oa r raser These figures do not include tne amounts bave directed attention to the general carried by of which no of Oregon and Washington can be or the sums still remaining in Previous to that gold bad been the If we estimate these at near Fort and oa Powder 000 000, which is by no means a heavy and and in Williamette we have the aboat milts above j to 1854 Intimated amounts carried by m the in or still remaining m the since 134S........... Total product of California from 1849 to Total deposits of California gold at San Francisco Branch Mint 04 r Add this again the reports of fornia gold coined at and we have this aboat 100 miles above Oregon I city up to 1854, about had been I deposited in the Mint for coinage from Oregon It has been recently re- ported that gold can be found where above Fort in Washington that gold has been found at the heads of the White and other rise in the springs of the Cascade Miners have also worked on the eastern slope of the on the bat These figures again support the estimate of the California gold product at 000 per week It is said that the total product of the slope of ton crop of the NORTH CAROLINA GOLD Tue North Carolina gold near are worthy of The fresh gold ore it is about to the bushel on the The tics of coinage of North Carolina gold give tbe following the Cascade has yet to be de- We may set down the white product of Oregon and Washington thus at THE KANSAS GOLD Although the of the dil of gold in Western Kansas hare cried down as but a to f
