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105 first hole. "I found a man in my hole" said he "twice. I told him not to do so again - as I would shake him right smart." Said he. The fellows in each side of me kept cutting in on my hole right smart. I told them they mus'nt do so - but they told me to go to hell! A man offered me an ounce for my hole. I thought I had better take it - bye and bye I shouldn't have any hole to sell for an ounce!" Spring comes on a pace. The tree toads - the flowers - the winds talk of it more promisingly every day. This past week - has been clear and favorable to mining - it has had but one fellow since the first of November. I look back upon it with great satisfaction. Met at the polls yesterday an old acquaintance - a Morman - Mr Fiefield - He was in this country when the gold was discovered. He put up the gearing on the famous mill of Sutters - the digging the race for which - revealed the gold. He walked from this place - with two companions - along the river hunting for gold - up to the mills - a distance of thirty miles. The Mills is now called Coloma. "I could not find gold" said he - "we did not know how to look for it. We got up to the Mill and saw what the gold was like. We came down again - and at the mouth of that ravine" - pointing to me near us "I found a bits worth (12 1/2 cts). From the discovery of the gold March 1848 - till the ensuing August I worked here in the island. I was the first man who who dug down to the granite - my fellow miners called me a fool - but I took out $37.00 in one panful - and they quickly adopted my mode of mining. They got then from the surface dirt - from 1/2 to and ounce pr day. There was about 100 Indians camped on this hill at that time. They were peaceable and friendly - not having been exasperated." Dom the litter man arrived yesterday to the great surprise of every body. We had given him up for lost - concluding he had sickened of California - and vamosed for the States. He brought me one back letter - dated July - $1.45 charges on it. I have a great desire to go round the world - in my home journey. Only think how pleasant it would be to return via the Sandwich Ishands - China - Singapore - Lisbon - Rome - Marselles - Paris - London - New York. If I could only get that anticipated $500.000. how quickly would I set off.