New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-06
PIRES PEAK.

The Casesgo Tr.tHae pubhshes letter from Nr.
Dawson formerly OF the editors of tha. paper,
dated at hrapsho, fcot OF the Rocky Mountains, May
= IN which he says:
Il have seen mnch ,hs, would inseres. yoa and
your readers since cane here three weeks since;
have been up Cherry Creek from Aurari< and Denver;
been delegate 10, and drawn up the preamble and
resolutions tor the nrt Convention ,o adopt
10 form Pew State here, called Jeffsrson have Wit
tess.d the hanging Of murderer by judge Lynch;
.een Capt Bssseti shot down in cold b BY Scudder,
both from ST. Louis: have waded the Platte hundred
times with my long rubber bocts have " chased
"th- sD,elope over the plains, and brought
down a huge buffalo, beside much stner
small game I have been away up IN tho
Rocky Mountains twice-up Nssques Fork Of the
Plaiie-almost up smorg the lute lndisns 1 C,ah,
beside camping near this with Mexcans Arspahoe In.
dams Cheyennes, koways, Comanches, Apaches and
Sioux all of which gathered here in considerable
pun bers and none of whom can speak English My
trips through the mountains, amid snow halt
leg deep on the ground, ana sncw-storm overhead,
among Grov,s of all the varieties ot game peculiar 70
his region were most interesting, and l may some-
tine give you an account thereof. The moSs interest
ing feature however, was the discovery by the Chi
csgo Company, with whom | have been here for =
fiti of better prospects for gold mining than hSi
before been made known. These gentlemen
are the most substsn,isnial and best mnners
here. Their fiIst attempts on the stream proved
failures, but their discovery OF coaiser gosd
Al pout - miles above this, in the mountains Tor
near 20 miles rorh.wes, of Denver at the mouth OF
Cherry Creek on Nasque's Fork OF the Platte, IA
likely TO turn out better. They are packing mp s l
write, 10 start to-day 10 give II blsl Probably .
hundred Others will follow 20 with them. Il s but
a short distance from Longs Peak small stream,
which they have called Chicago Creek branch OF
this will furnish them water Pine in abundance sur
rounds the locality flock Of $50 bghorps or noun
tain sheep, feed near IL, which, with backt AL aud
Virginia deer, antelope elk and bear wall furnish most
of their food Mr. Focte shot large gray wolf and
small black maen the other day ,another Of this conf
pany shot antelope gazelc with revolver this
morning, on a plateau theu csmp. l have Its
head and horns together with some ot the finest horns
of elk box deer mountain sheep, etc, l ever saw.
These with other specimens have gatherei would
be rare addition To the Chicago Academy of Scr
ence illustrating as they DO, every branch OF natural
history in this region of the Rocky Mouu,sius.
Large numbers daily going home and arriving,
Provisions extremely scarce and higl-a large ma
crify of the emgran.s having come wiihou, supplies.
Some have s,arved Ia death on the way, aud Others
are starving here. Nobody for anybody else-t
is everybody for HIMSELF and the det isk the hind
most The country is very healthy, but when one
gets sick he has little or no attention. have had tho
pleasure if such II may be callei, of feeding many
that were starving, dividing my clothing with the
naked and freezing and healing the sick, disabled aud
neglected Many are returning by IA, botomed boats
on the Platte 1 have one built for my return trip,
but may be induced 10 stay short time longer Ia
learn the result Of mining in the newly',scovercd
mountain d,ggngs.
"Iuust my letter will induce none to emgrate here
tH s0mclhiRg better IS kHOrR.