The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-20

TIE PIXIES PEAK GOLD MINES.

A correspondent of the st. Louis Democrat, writing
from Lawrence, Kansas on the Sth inst, gives
further and later information from Pixies Peak. He
states that several men have recently arrived there
frmng the pcrvious accounts On the Friday previous
several of the Lawrence Company arrived in this
place-Messrs, Edward French, w. N Smith, +. g.
Cobb, and others They bring large quantities of
gold with them and report that the miners doing bet
ter than when left Their report is ten days later than
mine. One mess,' with whom was well acquainted,
had made from 81 to $40 each every day since left.
Others doing better than that, and all doing
better than at my dates There is further question
to the richness of the mines and in the opinion of the
most experienced of men, we have not yet found the
average yield which the country will Afford Sections OF
the country kon to lac richer than the one in which
they are ut work but they cannot be completed till
spring The miners entirely east of the mountains
the base of a spur of the principal range. party
will be formed to follow up the streams beyond the place
where they emerge from the mountains and into the
parks" Here the main deposits of the gold undoubt-
cdy are, the gold grows coarser and rounder the
further up so. / would here remark that was
mainly induced to take the journey to the mountains
by the persa of an article published in the Democrat in
the spring of 1857 and another in the New York Herald
of about the date in regard to the existence of
gold in the mountains and | have recently noticed
another article in regard to the resources OF the san
Juan range / know the range very we'll, and shall
explore it next In this way alone will the
country be fully developed Let the journals publish
such information as they can acquire and let the men
who go to the mountains go with determination to drive
through at all hazards, and something will be accom-
plished. Men who apt to become discouraged by
SMALL obstacles will do well to stay at home. 1t is
an established fact that men of acquire for
tune if they will The papers of Leayenworth and Kan
City wrangng about the comparative advanta-
GEES of those two places Quitting posts. In reality it
makes but little difference to the emgant at which place
he procures his outfit. suppose prices about the
at the two places, and the little matter of thirty
or forty miles travel is not much in journey OF 500
miles Let fortune seekers come and purchase their
outfit wherever they can get it, and be on their way as
early hegrass up ae spring Last spring the grass
would support stock early as the 10th of April.
After leaving the Missouri river the grass will grow bet
ter every day by the Arkansas route which is by far the
best route except for Iowa and Nebraska emigrants Let
those who afford it take mules, Gnd the next best
thing, take American horses OF but very lit
tie account they not able to endure the regimen Of
the plains due regard for safety will induce the for
nation far possible of companies and these should
not he less than thirty OF course will
think of undertaking the journey until spring. aud be-
fore that time information will DO collected in tan
gble form.