Show A LOCAL correspondence san pete nominations at a meeting of a goodly number of the citizens of san ban pete county at the abe fort in manti city in convention ven tion john lowry was called to the chair and R wilson glun re requested to act as secretary ecret ary A L siler filer esq was called upon to explain the object of the meeting which he be did in a brief beef manner the following persons persona we rethen nominated for candidates to fill the various various offices in said county for representative levi W hancock sheriff maj nelson higgie Hi gins tor for county recorder and L I 1 8 ler esq for county surveyor albert petty for selectmen P W cook G snow show and jos jog richey tr for assessor and collector jno lowry jr jr for couii county treasurer Treasur tr geo for referees or selectmen titus bill billines edwin whiting W chapman A millet killet jas ime case steph taylor orvil S cox W W potter potier john lawson albert smith isaac Behun nm nin and wm win luke for precinct officers E averett J P D B funk L C J C sly pound keeper fence viewers J 1 S allen alien A N billings A wilkenson Wi ikenson upon i motion of A L siler esq it was solved resolved re that the m notes of this meeting be forwarded to the editor of the news with arth a request that they be published in the next issue of said paper manti july 3 1852 JOHN LOWRY sen aen chan it GLUN sec 11 interesting from iron co CEDAR IRON co june 27 1852 EITOR EDITOR OF THE NEWS sir we have been very very busily enga engaged ans in preparing to make iron for fin thelast the last month considerable demable de rable wo wok k has been done the fire brick for the furnace are read ready for laving up and prove to be of the very best fuyii quality Y the timber which we needed for the th e framing fraro ng odthe of the machinery we hauled hom h om a kanyon 5 miles south of coal creek where there is of nf beautiful pine timber and any quantity of potes poles for fencing A few hands went with teams and worked the road one day and hauled toads loads back to the iron works the following day there is a a good axtens ve blackin blacken tvs a shop erected and the iron wok for the machinery is progressing randly rap alv it re requires a deal of iron iron tw for the woi ks k which we principally obtain off our wagon take the tire off and lay ay the wood one side until we can replace the iron iron from the works our faith is that in a very few weeks we shall see iron of our own manufacture A number of the brethren from parowan carowan and this place have been working wit out their taxes in in making a load up coal creek kanyon during the past week tiie tae road is made within one ale m le of the coal 9 the distance from the iron works to the coal iq ii supposed to be about 8 miles the coal that was discovered in the mountain east of the fort during dur in the time bro brigham bigham B was here has been elamin examined aritt and proves to be of no benefit the waler ditch that supplies the upper part of our u field haa been very troublesome owing to it washing in som places so tremendously and aga agan n filling other places pi ces up with sand that it washed ove a great amount of labor has been spent over it and it is is now doing much better the crops in in general look first rate I 1 have a piece of barley barlev nearly ready to harvest tae anc following persons are leaving this place con tiara to 10 counsel daniel and alexander rosseman Ros sEvan evan evans and tamly the first name only belongs bongs to the church there is is a good spirit in our suds no sickness and at IM peace ace with the Lama x ars in the gospel covenant HENRY LUNT the Ana australian ralian gold mines migues ingrem ed Yield New annu at al product of the mines advices advises from adelaide to the port fort phillip to the melbourne to the and sydney to the of december have been received via england they confirm all previous accounts of the richness of the gold mines in new south wales no discoveries have yet been made in either west weal or donth sonth Ar nording ng to a careful return compiled by one of the gelboin ne tapers papers it appears that t from rui the atah of 0 september when the new of the disc discovery very of i the he wold gold fild wa announced up to the november there had ben obtained from the diggings ounces osgold of gold which with the subsequent receipts by government escort to the december amounting to ounces and that estimated to have been brought by private hands ounces added to that in the he posses possession of the diggers on 01 the gold fields field SU 1104 ounces male made a toul total ut f ounces equal to fihs ihs fo 10 oz or cwt cat 2 ells 10 02 10 tons 2 ewt 26 lbs ibs 10 oz valued at or three million and five rd thousand dI dollars lars there were supposed to be about it it to to persons at the ballarat ballaran Ball arat and mount alexander diggings the melbourne A argus agus of the of december 1 say the field is reported to be illimitable the indic eions osgold of gold extending over scores of 0 miles arid and each each new found digging apparently eclipsing all previous discoveries all A 11 accounts agnf aarre e that the auriferous grounds which can be profitably worked will never be dug for years to come by any number of people that can by possibility reach there was a report that a new and equally rich field vo bohose dv se oi of ballarat ballaran Ball arat and lodden had hd been di discovered 45 wiles miles 8 several ev e ra I 1 ships tit hild bid rifled from melbourne melbour and geelong el 9 for london with large amounts of gold in n hoard board but great difficulty was experienced in obtaining hands and many vessels had been obliged to lay up in consequence seamen see men were offered for the run home and many wanted X and labor and many odthe of the necessaries ol of life were rising to exorbitant prices r ces i the fil following lowing is a table of the rates of wages current in the colony PER ANNUM married couples without family and rations 45 to 50 ditto with family and rRt rations inns 40 to 45 I 1 laborers to aus per week shepherds 28 to 30 30 general useful servants 36 to 40 gardeners 33 cooks cook 35 fat 40 grooms 34 to 40 40 carpenters 50 to 60 haymakers Hay makers 20 to per week the following is an extract from D hill young s lef le ter dated albourne Ml bourne dee 21 lat 1 you yon will see by the newspapers the extraordinary success orthe of the miners in this district I 1 enclose jw ou a memorandum of the quantities and value received here 9 nee the arh govern vrn v rn ment escort began to the present time by which you will see that it is increasing weekly and is likely to mo go on to an extent which no one cart can possibly cal calculate eulaie the price has fallen in albourne Ml mt bourne to per oz ex and I 1 expect it will go sull still lower from the targe large quantity that will be thrown upon the market by hundreds of diggers who are now coming to town to spend their christmas holidays business is in very flat the people are all tin unsettled settled by the gold discovery the working classes are all mad goods are lying on the wharfs and carts cannot be got fat to remove them I 1 fear it will be bleto geathe get the ships away as they are all dee des eted by the crews the banks have been advancing per oz ox on gold but it is expected that they will cesse cease altoe ther to make advances in consequence of the quantities likely to be thrown abrown upon the arket n a exchange has fallen to 8 per cent discount ACCOUNT OF GOLD RECEIVED BY government ENT ESCORT INTO MELBOURNE FROM OCTOBER 8 1851 to DECEMBER I 1 front flow mount T horlor ibi of vallis amount date ballau alx alex ounces per r aate oe manre le own ec ounces bunc so so oft 60 9 IS 1487 1127 1431 u alt 0 iam ia 18 i 1 a 8 iw i 9 M a 10 99 29 1334 1334 66 38 0 nw nov S it 0 12 2 M 0 8 0 19 10 2117 I 1 1 25 0 4 36 96 17 bawl M 0 dr der 3 2550 16 1 u 48 0 10 sim a edoo ym 1 7 a 17 1018 1 af WW 9 0 total 2 2 nm to itt if you take into consideration the quantity received by private hand also that received at geelong Ge elong the weekly gatherings may now be probably put down at for the victoria district which gives an aggregate for the year of from the e evidence afforded by these statements ta and those previously received it may be fairly boti mated that at the present rate of production the aggregate yearly value of the gold geld found in the A au us gutlian colonies will probably amount to from 27 7 to or thirty y five to j forty brt y mi bullions of delars the th alices from adelaide south sooth an australia sarali st rali tale state that the harvest proved favorable and although labor was scarce owing to the thee migration emigration to the gold regions in victoria and new south wales the whole prop crop would be got in in one or two vessels had been detained for want of hands the sea queen which had commenced loading for london had subsequently discharged and was about to take passengers to the mines the departures to which both by land and water are said to have increased A report had been current that gold had bad beep been found at mount Gain bier but it was not confirmed by the latest accounts A reward of 1000 has been offered by bythe the government for the discovery of a profitable gold field within the territory of australia in reference to the victoria gold fields the melbourne herald of dee dec I 1 10 0 says ya letters were received in in town yesterday from the police mag strafe at gipps land stating that the whole dividing range between sydney and victoria and known as the snowy mountains for miles in extent is one vast gold field there was upwards u of a ton and a half of gold in ia mr commis comets lioner Pow lets tent waiting for the escort up to saturday day list last and it is is expected that to days escort from firmi the mount will not be able to bring down one hythe quantity offered it is intended to increase the military force here hereto to IN men the original discoverer ef f the mines mr hargreaves had returned ed to sydney oh the december alter after an absence of six months on a tour of exploration during which he had gone over about or mile L his report was in in the hands bands of the governor but its nature had not transpired it will be recollected that the mines were discovered in in january 18 1850 1851 51 but the fact was not made known to the public till september of that year why are so many going to california when they might do so much better at australia surely the door is is open for a little yankee enter enterprise prize australia is is the place to get gold by the ton and not dig all day for for the deseret news emigrants emigrant statement being an emigrant from guernsey county ohio and having oft heard the cormons mormons Muri nony represented as I 1 an almost cannibal race I 1 would hereby say to the traveling public pu that a more inore humane honest and chivalrous people I 1 never saw and that they ire are bably misrepresented there remains not the least shadow of a doubt I 1 have not the pleasure of an I 1 acquaintance with mr mi young but suffice it to 4 eay the people under his administration are happy I 1 proud I 1 and humane and I 1 might add brave RIENZI otherwise NEWTON M CURTIS statement of an emigrant migrant JB mn EDITOR by inserting the following you will confer a dav favor or on a friend and a well wish er of bour your cause I 1 arrived in your beautiful valley on the of july in good health in 0 opt browns company from fulton ohio we had good luek luck on the road I 1 can say to ill all ray my old fi lends friends on big sandy va that the stories storied in circulation about th the mormons cormons Mor mons are false I 1 was never in ft a better coun among a better people in in my life every kind of grain and vegetables grow in abundance and not noc to be surpassed in quantity or quality qun utility lity in any part of the U S dr childs child billy gilly williams quit drinking liquor quor come out litre here and you you will both get rich neb lot let that old wharf doat boat go down stream bill wilson keep away from ur dr modinnia Mo innia JOHN WILSON 19 lt it wig big sandy va cholera on the she plains G S L cm CITY july 1852 to the editor of the news SIRI lar arrived rived at st joseph mo may eth where I 1 attended 42 cases of what was c died called cholera ch crossed mo river on and proceeded on my my way to this place where I 1 arrived on the having attended cases of the I 1 cholera on my own responsibility I 1 have not heard of one case of which has died lattene I 1 attended d other cases who had taken calomel ac before be fore I 1 saw them mot of whom so far as I 1 I 1 have heard beard have recovered those who made common use of calo calomel atel died so far as I 1 have heard beard on the route I 1 I 1 will w ill here st state tte that what has been called I 1 cholera both at st joseph and on the route is not the cholera I 1 h ive not seea one case of the cholera this seison se tion many have died on the route coutey but from bilious diarrhoea I 1 leave tomorrow to morrow for sacramento city yours respectfully dr PETER HUMPHREY of east rolland lebowe co michigan |