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January 22, 1849, The Republican Compiler
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
More Gold News.
It is stated that Lt. Frisley, of the New York Volunteers, has written home from California, that he has accumulated $200,000 in gold dust! The N. Y. Post puts the following question to the Washington Union: Has any member of the Government heard that Lt. Warner was sent out by Gov. Mason to the mining region, with 17 men, provided with mules and equipments, to explore the Sacramento river, and that, at the end of two days, the party returned and handed over to Gov, Mason, as the fruit of the expedition, $880,000?" This exceeds all the gold stories yet; nearly a million of dollars of gold, after nearly two days' hunt; or nearly $50,000 to each man of the party!
Letters have been received in New York from Chagres and Panama as late as Jan, I.— The passengers by the John Benson and the Falcon, about 300, all went safely over the Isthmus. The California was expected about Jan. 10. There was no crowd at Panama.
A letter has been received from one of the crew of the whale ship Washington, which ship was deserted by hew crew at Monterey, stating that the "shabbiest sheep" of the crew had $150,000 adn many of them more.
In 1850, Sacramento was a city of 10,000 men with almost no women or children, a transient population going to and from the gold mines in the Sierra Nevada. The waterfront on the Sacramento River was a chaotic scene of oxen and mule teams, piles of supplies on the wharf, and abandoned ships whose crews had jumped ship for the goldfields.
September 20, 1851, New York Daily News
New York, New York
The steamboat Benecia, bound up the Sacramento to Colusa, on the 13th, struck a snag when eight miles above the mouth of the Feather river adn sunk in about three quarters of an hour.
The city also became a major railroad junction and agricultural hub in the 1800s before it became the center of state government, and much of the bustling city's early life was captured on picture postcards. Sacramento photographer Tom Myers, a collector of vintage postcards, presents here California''s capital city as it used to be, complete with railroads, farming, a busy downtown, government buildings, riverboats, public barhs, the early Yolo Causeway, and even an ostrich farm or two.
