, 1859-01-25
The Gold Stories.

Edit0r1 FFesS and TFiouae.
AS you have published several articles con-
cerniug the gold regions, which had the effect
to excite IN tbs minds OF many, tho desre to vait
them in the spring, aud az many are now pre-
pnring 10 60, ana will leave good situations and
make great sacrifices to prepare their outfits,
respectfully ak Jon to publish the following
editorial, which cut from 71s Chit, paper
published at White Cloud, in the North. Eastern
part Of knnsas- Your readers will zee that
lhre are two sides to this subject
J. N. DAT.
Blue Island, Jan. 81, 1859.
Ekws rRox 7nE ..GoLn RxG1oss-No one
would be more gratlbed than ouraelE, TO know
that the gold stories constantly arriving from
our Western frontier were realities. Il would
be- great benefit to Kansas, 50 we'll as to other
portions Of the Union. But if Kansas cannot
bo made prosperous without humbugging people.
she had better go slow, and blde her time. We
c1nnot help thinking that Pixies Peak and Cher
~ Greek are bumhugs, notwithstanding nearly
every paper We pick up. is filled with glowing
accounts from there. We are acquainted with
number Of persons who have gone there, and
they invariably send bad reports. Another
thing locks suBpicioua. The favorable accounts
all appear in papers published in towns which
aspire to oe Quitting points for the gold re-
gions.
We conversed with a gentleman, only few
days since. who had stopped At Cherry Greek,
on his way from California overland He found
parlclea of gold there, md has no doubt that
small quantities con be procured, but does not
think that digging will pay.
Henry SterTet. who went with company
from Oregon, No.. last fall, has returned. He
reports the diggings ''suction.'' A little
9otd can be found. but nothing that will pay.
tbs entire company ore sick OF it. sud intend
to leave it IS soon u the weather will permit.
Several Gre going through to California, and the
others are going home. Many OF the miners, he
orasr to draw erowds Of eod Id hantsEa IN the
spring, when they expect to cell their claims
0nd Cabins tor large sums, and return home.
Cherry Greek is 6. a.Ilttle stream, which map
can easily jump across, and is dry good part
Of the year.
Others Of the company have written to their
friends in Oregon, telling how they have been
humhugged. One of them a1ectionately wishes
oil those papers in very hot country, which
pdblished gold stories, and induced them TO 90
cut there.
We are hearing plenty of such news as this.
We should like to be convinced Of the truth Of
the great gold discoveries in the Kansas gold
region; but We ore not yet Convinced. and IN.
til We ere, We shall not advise any one to 90.
LATEsr.-Asa W. Hayward has just returned
to this place, from Salt Lake. He 8nd Wm. '.
culver went out last GUNNER. Culver remains
at Salt Lake in the care Of the Mormon women.
Mr. Hayward passed in the vicinity of the gold
regions, and confirms our belief that the excite
meut is oil humhug. He saw many persoDs
from the diggings. and they were "down in the
mouth" lie says particles Of gold can be
iolnd anywhere between the Platte River and
Salt Lake. but it will nat pay to gather it. Drifts
can be- found, which will yield from fifty cents
to one dollar. but that is far from paying. We
had imagined that there was less gold excite
ment IN our town than in any other community
IN the United State but be says that if there
had been even one-thrd the excitement in the
neighborhocd Of the diggings as there is in
" a1te Cloud, he would have remained: Tor be
had desired to remain, if there hud been the
slightest encouragement for him to do so. 1t
may be judged, from this. how plenty the gold
is there The snow WAS five feet deep at the
Greek and the Peak, and all operations we're
suspended; ret, when he arrived at st. Joseph,
news came shortly after him, telling how the
miners were making from $l0 to SIS per day
Such is the truth OF the gold stories! He fur
thermore says that there are number OF trad.
ers out there. who last spring took ont large
stocks Of goods, in anticipation Of yoBt emf
grafton 10 Utah and California. But the Nor
mon war stopped that, and the traders we're left
With the goods on their hands. They first started
the gold excitement, nnd are keeping it up, in
order to draw people out there, when they can
sell their goods at enormous prices. The biggest
stories are sent in By these men or their sgents.
And the newspapers ase doing their utmos. to
gull the uasuspec,ng into going TO the digsings,
that the trading spectators may save them
selves, who went there, in the first plnce, in
order to skin needy enlizrants iourneying
across the Piains. Those papers which doubt the
stories, or diapnte them, are hoeted ut. 1t is a
matter of indifference With us We shall use
our feeble Efforts 10 keep people from going
there to be ssludsd, u1t,E We have sufficient
evidence OF the truth Of the gold storiee.