Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-12-30
Important from the Gold Mines.
CORROBORATIyE LETTERS FROM
EIGHT MINERS.


The Kansas City Journal Of Commerce,
Of the l2th and 18th, and the Lcavenworth
Times of the 18th, have come to hand
overhowing with gold news from Pixies
Peak, the Platte, and Cherry Creek
Tho intelligence comes principally in the
shape OF private letters from miners who
went out early in the fall from Kansas
City and Lcavenworth, aIsl therefore may
be considered more r0fiable than the grea-
ter portion OF that heretofore publish
! ed.
November p
l saw what gold was ,washel fror- six
pansfull ofearth should Judge it to be
worth 50. There is gold here and in guam !
titles to pay largely in the spring, when we
can slmces. We have had severe snow I
storm for the last few days, but it is more
mild now. There is timber and grass on I
this river, and we think our animals will
winter well. Men here are making from
s3 to SO per day.
G.N. WOODWARD.
November 2.
We arrived on Cherry Creek on the
evening Of the 30tllof last month. and on 3
this stream to-day, where we expect 10 I,
spend the winter. Some of the boys went
out few moments since with a pan, and
N one pan ofeath thee found about twenty /
'ents worth of gold. i have little doubt |. !,
'f their being plenty of gold here. but lie
md the weather too cold for mining. ir
III. Z. lloGERs.. 70
November 2. I
| have only time to say come along :
he gold is here, sure l will have house !.
the spring. A garden is impossible =
ring everything. You will need all here. =
We reached here to-day have Just :
'ash.l one pan and found between five n
nd eight cents. .
DAv. KELLOGG. :,
Correspondence Of the Journal of Commerce. ca
SournP PLATTE, November 2. ar
We have found gold on all the streams tn
here we have prospected. on the Fontaine tn
u BouIlle, on Cherry Greek all on the pc
latte. The question is at length settled ia
ith us. it isa fixed fact that there is cold tw
re. / do not say that we found It in Sc
neither do l believe that it is
re in very large quantities. but yet suffi- Sc
INT to pay the laboring man from So to IN
~ por day. Not more than fifteen rods ag
'm where / now sit, the Lawrence Com. OF
ny are now taking out from 50 to 50 tht
r day. ole
My impression is that no amount of tuI
Dor will ever develops riches such as
vo been found in California, and vet we
ieve there is gold sufficient to Justify ha'
thousands Of emigran:s that will to
ne in next spring. Fo
at the crossing of Cherry Pill
eek one Of our men washed ont. as we Diet
re incoming. some eighty cents, and that. OF
). IN an old prospect that han been desert ini'
by the Georgia Company. ing
HAMr. L. Book. mo
November 5th, 1853 pjs
VIZ DEAR FalExp:- We are net sorryles
coming ont here. for in the frst place GUS
: the most lovely country yon. eve. saw. day
Our right there IS rang6of mountains and
ere the-P PlattetRiser el6ergess II must sam
. most besatifsl sight in the summer. nt.p
1T y found everywhere you stick your will
vel. paying from five to ten cents the win
while prospecting, and there is no the
bt bat what i will pay from ten to twen- I
lollars per day to the man. ont
IS | remarked above. gold is here sma
n.y. aod - soon Is gold makes it ap- two
rance, the whole world will b. in Of t
e Of astonishment at the riches that --b,
be taken out Of the earth. tim