The Rains continue -- Water again Rising.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1. – During the past thirty hours it has
rained hard almost incessantly. The
storm still continues. Yesterday noon
the water at Sacramento commenced rising in, and a complete inundation of that
city is unavoidable. The area of land
now overflowed in the State is 20 miles broad and 250 long, covering upwards of
three millions acres, mostly arable land, a considerable portion being fenced
and tilled.
It is estimated that forty five hundred cattle and sheep
have been drowned since winter commenced.
The unprecedented succession of tremendous storms have
washed the mining regions, where the ground was previously upturned and dug
over, producing great changes, rendering a probable increase of gold product,
from the placer diggings during the ensuing season.
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan 23. – Delegates assembled at Great Salt
Lake City Jan. 22d and drew up a State Constitution, to be submitted to
Congress. Utah demands admission into
the Union.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 4
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