San Mateo County Gazette Redwood City, San Mateo County, California Saturday Morning, January 21, 1860, Vol. 1 No.42 DEATH OF MR. LANGAN - Mr. Patrick Langan, aged fifty-three years, died last week on his ranch in Canada Raymundo. He was one of our oldest settlers, having come to the county in 1849, from Chili. DEATH OF MR. DRISCOLL - Mr. Richard Driscoll, well known to the residents of this place as the contractor who built several brick buildings here last summer, died Monday last, in San Francisco, after an illness of about two months. He was much respected by all who made his acquaintance. We regret to state, that it is believed Mr. D.'s sickness and other misfortunes, had so reduced his means as to leave his family, at the time of his death, in very destitute circumstances. THE NEW MILL - Jones & Co., are pushing on their new mill rapidly. Last week the engine and heavy cast-iron bed for its support, were brought up from San Francisco, and on Thursday last the immense weight of metal was placed upon wheels after much labor, and conveyed to its destination. The mill will be in operation in a short time. HAWES' RANCH - Redwood Farm, more commonly known as "Hawes' Ranch," has been leased for three years, from the 1st February next, by Capt. E. Beale. The lessee has already commenced breaking up a portion of the farm, and purposes putting in about two hundred acres in wheat and barley. The ranch contains two thousand and twenty acres, no portion of which has, we are informed, been put in gain until the present season, the land having been used exclusively for raising hay and for grazing purposes. We congratulate Mr. Hawes on having secured a good tenant, and it is also a source of congratulation to the farmers in this vicinity, that the farm has fallen into the hands of a good citizen and neighbor, and one of experience and enterprise. NEW WAREHOUSE - We are informed that the firm of Fonda & Grey, of San Francisco, have purchased land upon and in the neighborhood of the beautiful hill to the east of the county road, near Belmont, including an eligible site near the embarcadero, upon which they intend to erect a warehouse and other buildings for future use in business - with perhaps, the addition of country residences. THE NAPA SILVER MINE - The vein of ore recently discovered, containing traces of silver, is at the base of Mount St. Helens, standing at the head of Napa valley. Only a small specimen has been assayed, sufficient only to determine the fact that the ore in question does contain silver, in the proportion of 8 to 10 ounces to the ton. WRECK OF THE STEAMSHIP NORTHERNER The bark VICKERY, which reached San Francisco on Saturday, from Humboldt Bay, was the bearer of the very painful news of the wreck of the steamer Northerner. She was lost near Cape Mendocino, on the afternoon of Thursday, Jan. 5th, the next day after leaving San Francisco. Nearly forty lives were lost. We make a synopsis of the news from the Humboldt Times: The Northerner, Capt. W.L. Dall, struck a sunken rock, about five o'clock, on Thursday, 5th January, about two miles below Blunt's Reef. Capt. Dall was on deck when she struck, and immediately ordered the pumps set in motion. The ship swung off the rock instantly after she had struck, but it was soon ascertained that the pumps, which were all in good working order, were wholly incapable of keeping her afloat for any length of time. She was then headed for shore, and run in till she struck, when an anchor was let go. As soon as the steamer struck, a boat was launched, and all the ladies except two got into it. Mr. Birch, the second officer, then got in a boat and succeeded in getting one of the ladies off the other. Miss Gregg positively refusing to leave the wreck unless her brother, in whose charge she was, could go with her. Capt. Dall then tried to swing her into the boat with a line, which he could not do. Mr. French, seeing the young lady still on the wreck, got his boat off from shore, and in going under the stern of the vessel, the boat capsized, and he, it is supposed, was crushed between his boat and the stern of the ship - Miss Gregg and her brother were drowned - It is Capt. Dall's opinion that both could have been saved if she had gone into Mr. French's first boat. Capt. Dall had a favorite cabin boy, to whom he handed $500 in coin after the steamer struck, but when he lowered him to the line he told him to drop his money. The boy, however, hung on to the money, was washed from the line to the stern of the wreck, and was supposed to be lost. Very much to the Captain's surprise, however, when he reached the shore his boy was there, all right, with his $500. Capt. Dall, Mr. Barry and the Purser were the last to leave the ship. Mr. Barry was positive he could not reach the shore, and was carried away by the first sea that struck him, and was seen no more. The Purser reached the shore by the line. He lowered himself, and being washed over by several seas, was thrown from the line, when he swam ashore. The following is a list of the passengers and crew known to be lost and missing: Mr. Bloomfield, bound to Victoria, lost; Del Schnieder, bound to Portland, lost; Switzer, Portland, lost; Mr. Perkins, Steilacoom, lost; Mr. Mecker, Steilacoom, lost; Mr. Kelly, Portland, missing; Farrell, Portland, missing; Samuel Gregg and sister, Portland, lost; Mr. Rainsey, Portland, missing; C. Thomas, Portland, missing; Andrew Hunter, Portland, missing; Mr. Taylor, Puget Sound, missing; Mr. Trefor, Portland, lost; Mr. Daly, Portland, missing; Mr. Greenshield, Portland, missing. Officers and crew known to be lost: - Mr. French, first officer; Mr. Gladwell, river pilot; Mr. Barry, Wells, Fargo & Co's messenger; Mr. Nation, first engineer; Mr. Mayhood, third officer. Nine of the steward's crew, one fireman, one coal-passer, five sailors, the carpenter, and one man working his passage, and fourteen of the ladies had been recovered and buried in separate graves, so as to be known. To see other old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php