Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-12-03
nIorn OF The Gold Region.

The accounts from the Western Kansas golC
regions continue to be favorable. The returned
miners and explorers all bring favorable ac
counts, and an immense rush for the mines may
be set down as certain next spring. Partie:
have arrived from the mines at the most promi
nent of the Kansas towns, all elated with then
success and their prospects, and determined tC
return in the spring. The gold is scattered
over large area of country.
Two towns have already been started in the
gold region, called Montana and st. Charles
Montana is situated on the Platte River, and
st. Charles at the junction of Cherry Creek ana
Platte River A number of settlers are farming
and extensive settlements will soon be made
The country is very healthy, and abOunds in
all kinds of mineraIs-gold, coal, iron, lead, &c.
1t is predicted that when developed the country
will prove one of the wealthiest and most pro-
ductive of districts From all accounts it really
appears as if the dream of De Soto is at last to
be realized in the gold fields of the far West,
and the Missouri Democrat thus revels in the
anticipated riches
From researches so far made, from geological
evidences, from traditionary stories, and re-
mains of a former civilization, we have no reason
to doubt the auriierous character of the whole
central elevation of the continent The Sierra
San Juan is known TO contain greater variety
of precious stones, minerals, salts and earths
than any other of the Sierras of the interior
The partial exploration of its treasures prepares
US TO hear of developments among its gluehes
unsurpassed in the world. A recent lecture up
on physical geography, delivered by gentle
man better informed Of the resources of that re-
giOn than any other in America, assumes that
gold will be found there in solid mass, lust as
iron is found at the Pilot Knob or Sheppard
Mountain And we see no reason to doubt it,
but every reason to believe it. Still less should
we be surprised to note discoveries of the gar
net, the topaz, the amethyst the emerald and
the diamond more abundant than those of the
great mountain chains of Europe and ASH
In Arizona the silver mines have already at
tracted large attention, and become the object
of eager quest, and this is also a part of the
same remarkable formation-a formation en-
bracing an area of ten degrees of latitude by six
of longitude. Here, therefore, is a field ripe
with the harvest and ready for the gathering
Who shall humber all It's treasuresl How shall
we take an inventory of all its wealth And
with the opening new year. when the grass Is
green, and nature, assuming there her garment
of real lOveliness, shall invite to the explora-
tion, what scene of adventurous industry will
be witnessed in that now silent Territory More
than twenty thousand men will be toiling, Dig
ging. searching through every nook of that
great volcanic section-climbing the mountains,
penetrating the valleys, turning the streams,
breaking the rocks, burrowing the earth, polish
ing the stones, smelling the silver, cleaning the
gold from every crevice. The tIlrong of wag-
ons, and accumulation of provisions, the collee
ton of herds along the western lines of present
settlement, will resemble the outgoing of an
army of invasion. The tramp of free labor, as
it marches to the conquest of the new Ophir,
will be heard above the din of politics, and the
restless eye of speculation will wander from
government contracts, and Congressional lob
bying, to watch this exodus to the center-this
crusade against the mountains-this evangel to
a new commerce. The West-lhe far West
the great West, will loom up in the eye of the
nation in proportions of immeasurablc grand
eur