Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Despatch to London
Douglas, James to Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer 14 May 1859, CO 60:4, no. 6508, 367.
Abstract
Despatch to London.
Minutes (1), Other documents (1), Marginalia (1).
Douglas relates British Columbia's
latest intelligence,which discusses one G. B. Wright’s letter to Victoria’s Collector of Customs. Douglas notes that Wright mentions mining sources and operations, and the
rush forward to the upper Fraser in large numbers.
No. 154
By an unexpected conveyance which is on the eve of departure,
I beg to communicate to you the latest intelligence I have received
from British Columbia.
2. In a letter addressed to the Collector of Customs at
Victoria by
by a Mr G.B. Wright, a respectable Merchant, and dated
at Bridge River, April 2nd, some specimens of native Copper,
quartz and gold are enclosed, and Mr Wright states that the reports
at that time from the upper Country are of very rich, but shallow
diggings; that large quantities of gold were then being taken from
the Wars, and that a great many of the sluicing companies who have
permanent Diggings were commencing work, and also that men were
continuing
continuing to rush forward to the upper Fraser in large numbers.
by a Mr G.B. Wright, a respectable Merchant, and dated
at Bridge River, April 2nd, some specimens of native Copper,
quartz and gold are enclosed, and Mr Wright states that the reports
at that time from the upper Country are of very rich, but shallow
diggings; that large quantities of gold were then being taken from
the Wars, and that a great many of the sluicing companies who have
permanent Diggings were commencing work, and also that men were
continuing
continuing to rush forward to the upper Fraser in large numbers.
3. I forward herewith the latest numbers of the Victoria Gazette.
12 & 14 May.
