Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-10-26
THE PLATTE GOLD REGIONS.

A Reliable Account of the Gold Country,
and the Prospects for Mining.
The st. Louis Democrat of the 23d publishes
letter from Mr. VIM. B. Parsons, who that paper
vOucbes for as reliable authority in regard to the
gold discoveries in Kansas, from which we make the
following extracts:
LAWRENCE, K T., Oct. 10, 1858
Having just returrsd from the gold mines Of
Western Kansas, and having seen a few and heard
many contradictory reports in regard TO them
make haste on the very hour Of my arrival to give
you the truth in relation to the whole matter left
Eastern Kansas on the 25th May last with the com
pany Familiarity known on the Plains as the Law
renee Company" for the express purpose of finding
the gold that We have for several years heard was
deposited in the mountains
NO GOLD AT PIXIES PEAK.
On the 9Th of July, we arrived at the bsse CT
Pixies Peak and on the next day commenced pros
pecting. We remained there FIVE days, and did not
find trace of gold, and at the end of that time our
old miners said they were satisfied there Wss no gold
there, as there was no quartz no bee rock except
the surface rock, which is old red sandstone and
micaceous granite and no Indications of gold about
the soil.
THE PLATTE GOLD REGION.
On the morning of July II, ''rolled out for the
Platte and at noon arrived at Jim's Camp, fifteen
miles from Pixies Peak There we were met bv
few of his men He reported that he had been pros
pecting the South Platte for two or three weeks;
that they found god everywhere" that he thought
lit might be made to pay, if his men would only
stick to it, but that they discouraged and we're
returning home aud headed "When lean get party
of men that UiH sick 1 shall return" We Camped
together at noon. and then it was agreed that we
should join our forces and send party oUer the
mountains into the South Park. We did So and sent
the party under the command of Captain Doke, md
the guidance of q Mexican. That party returned,
after an absence Of eight days, having accomplish
ed nothing. After this unsuccessful effort, the
thusiasm of the combined remnants of the ''Chero>
kee' and Ray county" companies, was at low point;
and as they around the campfire telling the |
stories and singing the songs of home it soon be-
came evident that their days OF gOld-hunting we're
nearly over, and sure enough for on the morning |
Of the 25th of July ten of the twelve wagons Gem
posing the train pulled OUT for tina States.
THE MINES AS THEY REALLY ARE.
No scork has yet been done there-no claims to
any extent have been made-the time has been spent
in prospecting with pans-a halliday here, and
half day there. No man has found piece weigh.
ng .twenty-three ounces" or one ounce, or to my
one penayVsi9ht. No man has made
zone hundred " or 'tifty =" or "tWenty" dollars per
lay ''To the best of my knowleig e, information
.ud belief" no man made sixteen dollars in one
lay. The men who were there when l left were
Forkng with pans, carried their dirt from four to
sUsHty rods, and made from 81 so to SIS per day,
The better way for your readers to judge Of the
7ied of the mines is to know the prospect of the
pan" have seen Sl.50l in single pan 3 few