The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-11-20

ca Our uptown neighbor PROPOSES to
believe that his readers cannot fail to per-
ceive that the elaborate extracts from the
Bugle," in the Nonpareil, of Nov. 9th, all
60 to prove that he has soccupied all the
time the position we [he] now occupy."-
We hardly think so, and are sure majority
of the people do not think So IA
'For optics SHARP, it takes, / ween,
To see nhas u sof to be seeng,
CT Clothing can be obtained now for
little or nothing, as Messrs. May & We'll
inform US that they are willing to exchange
their wares for County Orders. Give them
plenty of the "trash," and let US have
display Of well-dressed gentlemen on the
"proper side'' of Broadway. , -
The Gold Regions.
We make the following extract from a
letter published in the Border Star, written
by Capt. Smith, of Lawrence, X. T., gen.
tleman who can be relied upon:
On the evening of the I'd of September
the Lawrence company pitched "permanent"
camp on the eastern bank Of the South
Platte river, miles above the mouth of
Cherry Creek-lSO miles from Fit. Laramie,
and 700 (about) from Fort Leavenworth, 10
from the base of the Rocky Mountains, 90
from Pixies Peak, and 81 from where the
Platte leaves the mountains. Prospecting
parties Immediately commenced operations,
and IN few days so successful were we
that to ourselves and to each other we said,
Alabama here We rest.) The city of
Montana was laid out and preparations we're
being made to 60 into winter quarters,
when Billy, myself and three others, on the
"a of September, started on our return.
At that time there were not over 100 men
in the mines; half Of these were at work,
making, with no other utensils than those
OF the most rude and primitive construction,
from 81 to 50 per day. In our wanderings
of $500 miles, over Mexico, Utah, Nebraska
and Kansas, We found nothing so good as
this. We found gold-not at Pixies Peak
but on the head of the Colorado, the Rio
Grande, the Arkansas, and the Platte; but
nothing on which We could rely so we'll rs
this. All the gold We found was washed or
SCALE gold-evidently, therefore, it was
washed from deposits not yet discovered
the discoveries of which will have all they
need, and the discovery is not very far off.
Had there been 500 men, instead of Al, to
prospect the country as it should and will be
prospected, richer mines by far than these
must be found.
The climate will speak in this for itself
during the whole trip not five doses of medi-
cine were taken, and nobody felt like taking
it in the whole train; and you may be sure
that my brown cheeks and hard muscles lost
nothing by comparison with the habby limbs
and cadaverous ague- pinched faces we met
here on our return. Elk, deer, antelope,
jack rabbits and mountain sheep, (carnero)
and black and brown bear abound, and to
vary the exercises, now and then a
"grizzly."
As an agricultural country it cannot but
rank high; the bottoms are of the most fertile
descriptions; the upland is auriferous, filed
with decomposed quartz and gravel bottoms
from ten to twelve miles long and FIVE
to eight wide.
Within ten miles of Montana dense
foreft Of the finest pine affords shelter to
thousands Of animals-on the Platte the
finest cottonwood, &C., and found in album
dance.
The winters are doubtless severe, but not
more so than in Vermont or Canada.
y" The St. Louis Democrat SAYS of the
overland route to California, that some of
the stations are sixty five miles apart; but
most of them are from eight to ten miles.
On the plains the corrols are either of logs
or stone, and occupied, some by a dozen
men and some by no more than four or five.
The stage was detained fourteen hours by a
sand storm in the California Desert, and
two days by reason of high water in Kern
River, at the point of crossing, which the
ferry fiat was out of repair, which was sup
piled as speedily as possible. The Compa-
ny are making preparations to bridge the
various streams that cross the road, and
have already engaged u large number of
men for instant work.
rTThe total vote of Chicago, was Is ,34S.
The vote in that city last spring was 49,
l52.
| ry The Boston Trdrelier acknowledges
the receipt of strawberries, grown in the
open air, at Lynn Centre, Massachusetts last
month.
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