The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1858-11-13
Worthy Of Consideration.

Peak, written by Mr.. s. to the editor of
the Junction Sentinel, newspaper located
at the town of that name, at the junction
Of the Republican and Smoky Hill fork,
in Kansas. His statement is very unfa-
vorable. We publish it, that all sides
may be heard, and that our readers may
have the means of arriving at the truth
in the premises. We are all in want Of
gold, and we sincerely hope it may prove
abundant at Pixies Peak; and yet We
must not shut our eyes to the fact that
conflicting statements are made by those
who have been there. Truthful men rep
resent that fair wages can be made in the
mines; and men whose characters for We
racity are equally good, say that gold
does not exist there in sufficient quanti-
ties to pay for working.
We are conscious that if we would fill
up our columns with fasorabls news from
that region, and follow it up from week
to week, we could sell any number Of
copies of our paper. and could make
good thing of it. Thousands who read
our columns, and know we mean to be
truthful, would rush to Kansas, and we
should be enriched by the rise of town
but there is another thing to
be considered. By our caution, and re-
fusing to exaggerste in the past, We have
established character for our journal as
a truthful one, and that character we are
not willing to hazard by running off in
any of those wild adventures. True, we
might do as others have done. As soon
as there are indications of the excitement
subsiding on any question which engrosses
the public mind, we could labor to get up
another on another subject; and another,
and another, from year to year, so long as
the public would be "bamboozled" by US;
but we were taught in youth, that "Hon-
esty is the best policy" and are resolved
to be guided by it, let it land us where it
will.
No man has read the conflicting ac-
counts from Pixies Peak without doubts
crossing his mind whether gold will ever
be found there in sufficient quantities to
make it an object to 60 there to delve for
it. That gold is found there, we think
there is no doubt. So gold was found last
summer in Iowa, and pearls were found on
the Walnut, in Kansas; but the former
would not pay for mining, and the latter
were nearly valueless. .
Messrs. SMITH and PARSONS have given
the public the most impartial statement
which has been laid before them in regard
to the gold region, but when their account
is analysed, doubts, instead of being re-
moved, are CONFIRMED.
Nearly fifty persons went out in body
last spring to explore those regions, de-
termined to find gold if it existed there
They have spent a whole season in the
search, and just as winter is setting in
three of them returned. Their stock Of
gold-their summers wages-their hopes
of the future are all preserved, not in {
heavy bag filed with gold, but in COOS
quill, AND THE QUILL IS NOT FULL. W.
may not be correctly advised in this re-
gard, and will be happy to make correc
tons if we are in error, but if we are cor
rect, this speaks volumes upon the sub
ject.
The future is expected to develop
moro favorable condition of things; bu
who is there who can afford to pay $25
hundred for -four, and for other necessarie
corresponding prices, spend one month il
going to the mines, one month in return
ing, and be to sucL an enormous cost il
getting there; and when there, not able
labor over four months in the mines durin
the season, and then make but "four or fiv
dollars per day?" The whole winter mu.
be lost from the inclemency of the climate
owing to its great altitude, and all tn
discomforts in superlative degree mus
be borne through the whole period tn
adventurer is absent from the settlements
and all for flour or five dollars day !"
| A majority of those who have gone
the Peaks, and who are preparing to g
would feel indignant to be offered do
lar day and board for years services
and yet, of those who have returned, {
those who will return next fall with the
constitutions broken with hardships, ho'
many will have cleared above expense
twenty-five cents per day?
Though we do not intend to throw col
water upon those who are adventurer
and wish to explore that region, an
whose hopes Of golden realities are a
dent, yet we do wish to present to thel
for consideration, correct view of tt
matter, so that, should they be disa]
{ pointed, the disappointment will not ia
so severely upon them as it would und
) other circumstances.
We find in the last Missouri EIposito
published at Lexingtan, the following e'
Iitorial bearing upon the subject, and gi,
. it for what it is worth:
THE PIKE PEAK GOLD ~ MINEs.-W
|. were favored with call on Tuesday Ia:
a from w. B. WALLACE, Esq, one Of Il
editors of the Alta California, who a
rived direct from San Francisco by Il
> Overland Mail. Mr.. W. left that city {
e the I'd of September, and after remainir
. in Salt Lake City some two week
4 reached st. Joseph on the 23d ult.
Mr.. W. informs US that he had, ju
previous to leaving California, returne