Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-07-14
Tho Gold Mines

Editor lille Rock True Democrats Permit mt
10 place IN your columns iIn4 and correct Stale
ment " The new gold MineS OIL tlv Red Fork VI
The Arkansas tIvcF.
H'rhree others uud myself Slated fTom Green co. il
Missouri, IN The ISlI day VI April, 1885, an
reached the gold dIesingS on The 4th Of May
Out fist business wsS 10 hnd II he gold was there
as hut been represented. On The first day nIle
our aIIivai, we caIne 10 branch and found, Oh
examining the bed, llnl il contained vast Qnan
lily Of the pEeoiUus metal. We hal 0roughl 10th
ing with US but Trying pans; bul even with these,
Oh washing out the first Ian full, we obtained
81. IS worth Of the gold dust We SluppeL here
several days, avetoSing from SIS 10 ljD per day.
We could have male more than We did, Lut wt
had nothing 10 dig with. We then proceeded ia
Spting, which is The pluce where lllr gold l.
said 10 have been fist discovered. Here we found
that lie wotet, boiling up out Of the GROUND, Cou
tanned some small lumPSOf gold, aaIa large quau
lily Of the dust.
went oul 10 California IN 1910, al The timt
lie gold was found in llG greatest abundance, out
this beats California long ways. have no doubt
that II InaH had the right kind VI gold rocker
lie could gel gold here as past u.s. lie could count H.
tome $500 each. There ale about Tires tInuS.
lllutC Eutll'
lug il, every day. Them are so many here that
provisions ate high; heel eight 10 ten cUuts lleI
IT,, flour $50 per LaEftI.
Some have returned home for the purpose o
selling ont and bringing lleir families lleIr. III,
soil is good. l'hegteattSl difficulty IS The want y
water. iii was not G0s that, this would lie goo,
farming county. The valleys ate lOIetably ex'
lensive, and good land.
| 1'LiS. | bRlIEYk. IL correct Statement q
can give about The mines, and have lten an eye
witness to The facts, anu give them that The peO
pie may get the straight oft,
YUuls, etc., joins HARRISON.
Red Fork, June 1855.
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4 WoSnERrVL REAT.-A strange md most re
matkable Performance took place in this city th,
morning. A man employed in the livery stables o
G, ", WaIbEI1Ge tOQk pair Of horses 10 the live
10 wash. The recent taiMS had swollen The Gene
SEQ 10 llool, and the water Iushes though liz
city, along its channel, CONTACTED Ivy stone walls
10 the Great Falls with lhn speed OF IaCe horse
There is place open 10 WuiCf sheet, OH The paS
side, few tolls ftOM the EailtOaG Orllet, 10 wLcl
the hVs;ets resort for washing horses. 1t was hrr
that Mr.. WalbEtdge'S man went witll o pair .
horses, rdnS one and leading nnotlIer. lie todI
into the water as FAT us il was prudent II 20
when The hutse lie was leading gol beyond il
depth, and drew The man OF The other hUlse. Al
weEc drifting tapIdly towards the dam just above
the Great Falls. Tho nlAI pulled OIL The halter
IL hold The animals. bnI III vain; ami just belof,
they came 10 The liam released them, aud spring
ing to the wall lie saved himself iEom DEATH ia,
HOSES plunged over The dam, and were swift!
bOfue over The great prrcipice int The voitex be
low. The perpendicular descent is ninety.si,
feel, and The river below iSbiOAl, swifl. and deer
while such ffeshet prevails nS al present. Those
who saw tlle horse so over wtte hardly Inclined Il
look below Ihe Falls, as all supposed they wUult
never Ue seen again. So, however, Il did moi Turn
out. 4 short time afler the accident O:cuued one
Of the horses was discovered feeding on The flats
Oh ihe east side Of lie tlveI. lie was seen bs
some petsORs below The Fails 10 swim ashore, and
without even stopping 10 shake The water ifJn his
InaIr, he commenced eating gTOSS upon The slOp.
lug banks. Mt WaIbtdEe sent nIalI and brought
hun up 10 the stables, followed by hundreds OIL
people, oil eagcE 10 get sight al lIe ndventuter
which had, as the boys sail, "dlStanted Sam
Patch" The animal uppeSEvd 10 Ie entirely un'
harmed, aud no scratch was found Hpon i'll and
when we saw hin half an hOni after HE aIven.
tute he was ealing Oals, quite uncoucemel. We
teste' 10 add that The other horse was !Ost.-RO'
chester Union.