The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-10-21
The Kansas Gold Mines.

The gold mines at Pixies Peak, soue
700 miles west of Leavenworth City, are
drawing scores from Kansas and Nebras-
ka. The Florence (Nebrasks) Courier
says good many are going from that vi
cinity. On the Goth, the following com-
pany left for the diggings A. j. Smith,
j. H. Dudley, James Cumpton, Henry
Springer, Haman Chapman, aud A. Gr@-
ter. They have two wagons. three yoke
of oxen aad span of horses They 60
well prepared with provisions to last them
from six to eight months. arms and am
munition, picks, pans shovels and other
tools necessary to 60 into the mining bus
mess.
The above are all good citizens, the
Courier says. 1t also says that S. d.
Kasseruan, in company with two other
persons, whose names it did not learn,
also started the same morning (the 23d,)
a company from Crescent City passed
through Florence en- route for the gold
region. This company is composed of A.
j. Williams, Charles Blake. I. McGlash-
en-, NJ. A. Avery. E. A. Willougbby, w.
Smith, aud - Wetzell. They are all
young men. The Courier also says that
another party came down from some of
the towns above, few days since, for the
purpose of getting an outfit They will
leave in few days. From Council Bluffs
and Omaha large parties have already
gone, and others are preparing to follow
Immediately. There is scarcely town
in Nebraska that will not have its repre-
sentatives at the mines this winter. The
news from the gold region still comes in
cheering, and the widest excitement pre-
walls all along the river.
DIRECT ROUTE TO THE GOLD DIG
GINGs.-The gold fever is raging here,
on accent of the recent discoveries of gold
deposits at Pixies Peak, near Cherry
Greek, in Nebraska. One party leaves
to-day, with six months provisions, for
that point, and from what | Gao learn,
several more will soon follow. From re-
liable reports, gold has been found there
quite abundant, and persons with axes
and tin pans alone have been able to re-
alize on an average from FIVE to eight dol
lars per day, and Jumps have this early
been found weighing from twelve to TWEEN
ty dollars. The opening of these gold
mines will be of vast benefit to the early
settlement of Nebraska south OF the Plat
te River. The location of the mines from
Plattsmouth, at the mouth of the Platte,
is abont rs much south of west as Fort
Laramie is north of west, and distance
about FIVE hundred and fifty miles, accor-
ding to Stanbury'S Report. Taking Chi
cago as a central point, the shortest and
quickest route is By railroad to Burling-
ton, in this State, thence by railroad to
Fairfield, which is twenty-five miles fur
ther west than any other railroad is now
constructed in Iowa; then BY the West
eru Stage Cowpany's coaches, which run
only on this line daily across the State
to Pacific City and Plattsmouth. Time
from Chicago to the Missouri river four
days. From the Missouri river, at Platts.
mouth'take the Emigrant Road to Salt
Greek Ford, thence to Fort Kearney, 200
miles; thence following up the valley Of
the Platte and its South Fork $50 miles,
we cone to Cherry Creek, and short dis
tance up the valley of this stream will
bring US to Pixies Peak. and the "gold
diggings.' Teams can be fitted out from
Pacific City aud Plattsm outh, containing
supplies, that can average thirty miles
travel per day, SO thatthe time from Pa
cifc City to the "diggings" cannot be more
than eighteen or twenty days, or about
twenty five daysfrom Chicago, 1850 miles
of 27O is by railroad. 23O by stage, and
$50 by wagoDs.-Pacifc CITY Herald.