Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-24
TEE NEW ELDoRADo.

The latest advices from Pixies Peak, if reli-
able, as they seem to be, confirm the former re-
ports of rich gold deposits being found in the
mountains. Notwithstanding this fact, how
ever, emigrants in destitute circumstances have
returned to the States who left the mines after
| these discoveries had been made, being COM
PEELED to leave, as they allege, because the dig
gings referred to embraced but a limited space,
are high up in the mountains, difficult of &C
cess and hard to work, and every foot already
appropriated, while provisions were scarce and
extraordinarily high, and no employment of any
kind to be procured-and the only hope OF
new corners and hundreds already there was
the chance of further discoveries. However
true these last favorable reports may be, they are
discredited by most of the Kansas papers, and
they are no more e1travagant than were those
which for a time came from Cherry Greek and
and other localities, lured thousands from their
homes, and have since proved utterly false and
deceptive.
We subjoin the latest advices, received by
the regular express running between Leaven-
worth and the mines
LEAvENwoRTH, June 21.-The Overland Elk
press has arrived here, eight days from Denver
City, bringing a largemail, and $1,000 in dust.
The previous extraordinary reports of discov-
cries at Gregory's, Jackson's, and other mining
camps, is fully confirmed.
Horace Greeley had arrived out in less than
seven days. He had visited Gregory's diggings,
and had signed a public communication endor-
sing the richness of the claims. Thousands
were pouring into the new pIacers.
Forty sluices would soon be in operation at
Gregorys. The results of the operations OF
thirteen companies, given in Greeley's publish
ed letter, show that the highest days yield
has been $50. A company from South
Bend, Indiana, had taken out 5000 penny
weights, with a sluice, in three weeks. Gregg.
rvs two claims sold for S2l 900. Other de
tails are in a similar vein.
Returned emigrants are departing daily from
Ieavenworth, bound to go through at all haz-
ards The excitement was becoming intense
| Messr. Jones and Russell contemplated enlar-
Chg their facilities, in view of an increased de.
mand for transportation.
Emigr2nts are charged not to start without
4 or 6 monhhs supplies, as the snow sets in il
the mountains in October, and adequate pro
vision should be 12ade by persons leaving thi:
season, for wintering in the mining region
and thus prevent the recurrence of suffering
and rriyation.
On the other hand, the Metropolitan, a paper
published in Kansas City, after a lengthy re
view of the late favorable news, mot including
that by the last arrival, however, utterly ds-
credits it, and concludes its article with the fol-
lowing paragraph:
We have talked with men every day direct
from the mines, many Of whom have prospect
ed there for months, and that, too, during the
last summer and fall when there was no snow
to interfere with their operations, and they
unanimously pronounce these reports false
| One man told us he was at Gregory's diggings
only a few days before these huge piles should
have been taken cut, and the miners were then
below the bed rock, and as yet had found no
gold. We will not say there is no gold there,
nor that it may not be found in paying quanti-
ties. But il looks a little strange that such re-
ports should follow right upon the heels of
those thousands of returning miners, all of
whom are satisfied that it will not pay. Be
sides, the stories do not hold together. They
are large and marvellous, and are so very like
Leavenworth. Remember she is 10 her death
struggle, unless she can make something out of
this Juror. Rather than give up, she will mag
nifty mole hills into mountains, and grains of
dust into thousand dollar slugs. Again, we
say, hold on"