The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-10-23

The st. Joseph Gazette, gained the fol-
lowing item Of news in regard to the gold
mines, from some gentlemen who came pas
seneers in the last mail coaches, from Salt
Lake City. Tho GaSstts says: sour in
formants fell in with gold hunter just
from Cherry Greek. lie lives in Douglas
County, Kansas. His statements had every
appearance Of sincerity, and were fully
credited by those who conversed with him.
lie had been in the mines prospecting four
or FIVE months, and his observations were
therefore extensive. Some seventy. live
people were in the mines, who were making
from one to twenty dollars, each, per day.
The largest amount which he had heard OF
being taken out by q single person, in one
day, was twenty lone dollars and fifty cents,
and the largest specimens only one dollar
and half the average returns Of days
labor being about five dollars. This it
should be remembered is done without tools
adapted to the work. Those who are ex-
perienced in mining can form fair estimate
of what might be done with approved mining
utensils. This report, it would appear to
US, is certainly encouraging.
"The mail party met about seventy wag-
ons between here and the crossing Of South
Platte, and some on this side of Kearney,
on their way to the mines; one company
from this city, the names of whom were
forgotten. They were getting along well
and were in excellent spirits"
In addition to the above, we clip the fol-
lowing from the Leavenworth Journal
These statements are somewhat ut variance
with the one we published last week, from
the St. Louis Democrat
Mr.. Phillip Peers, gentlemen who has
been in the Rocky Mountains fer the last
four years, has just arrived in the city,
direct from Pixies Peak mines, bringing
with him fine specimens of gold obtained in
the dleglngs. Mr.. Peers corroborates the
statements we have heretofore published,
and brings with him incontestble evidence
of the existence of the "precious metal'' in
that region.
The richest 'diggings' yet discovered are on
the South Platte, about three miles above
Cherry Greek. The surface of the country
at this point is rolling prairie.
The miners informed Mr.. Peers that they
were making from three to four dollars per
day. They were not, however, devot.ng
much attention to mining, but were prepur-
ing for winter. 1t was the intention Of a
portion of them to retire into the valley,
some sixty miles below the mines, and re-
main there till spring. They were generally
very well provided.
Snow had fallen in the mountains before
Mr.. Peers left.
The miners are sanguine that the mines
will pay. It's believed that they are us rich
us the California mines.
The gold in the possession af our inform
ant, IS very tine-twenty-tro carats, we
should think, and our experience in the Cali
fornia mines, and familiarity with the pro-
ductlon, justities the conclusion.
Mr.. Peers unhesitatingly awards to this
city the merit of being the best starting and
Quitting point, and on his return to the
mines in the spring, starts from here.
Quite large number of emigrants were
met on the way, destined for the gold region.
MIR. Peers thinks it is too late in the season
to venture there, but expresses entire conf
in the mines.
En- PEASANT, we will he take occasion to
say to those papers, the St. Louis Democrat
among the rest, which have published Il
statement, charging the Lcavenworth and
St. Joseph press with fabrcatlng gold
stories, that they will have fine 'opportu-
nifty" to correct them. Mr.. Peers state
ment Can be relied upon as correct in every
rarticular,