Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-02-22
fhe Pixies Peak " Gold Regions-Look before you
Leap.

70 one would be more gratificd than ourself
to know that the gold stories constantly arriving
from our Western frontier We're realIsIe At
would be great benefit 10 Kansas, as wei as 10
other portions OF the Union. But II Kansas can
not be made prosperous without humbugging the
people, she had better go slow and uIde her
ume. We cannot help thinking that Pixies
/ Peak and Cherry Creek are humbugs, notwIth-
standing nearly every paper we pick up, Is fill
Ell with glowing accounts from there. We are
acquainted with a mum Der of persons who have
gone there, and they invariably send bad reports
Another thing looks suspicious. The favorable
accounts all appear IN papers published III towns
winch aspire 10 be Quitting points for the gold
regions
We conversed with gentleman only few
days since, Who had stopped at Cherry Greek,
on his way from California, overland. He found
particles of gold there, and has doubt that
small quantities can be procured but does not
think that the dlggIngs viii pay.
Henry Sterref, vino went with company from
Oregon, Mo, last fall, has returned. tie reports
the dlggings suction" A little gold can be
/ found, but nothing that Will pay. The Co. are
sick OF 1T, and intend TO leave 1t as soon as the
weather Will permit. Several going through
! To California, and the others are going home =
! Many of the miners he says for keeping up
/ the excitement, in order 70 draw crowds of gold
] hunters IN the spring, when they expect IL sell
their claims and cabins Tor large sums, and return
home. Cherry Creek is little stream, which
man 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
hunbugged. One of these atfectIouateiy wishes
alt those papers III very not country, which
published gold stories, and induced them 10 20
out there.
! We are hearing plenty of such news as this
/ We should Ike TO be convinced OF the truth OF
the great gold discoveries In Kansas gold re-
glon but we are not convinced, and until we
are, shall not advise any one to go
LATEsr.-Asa W. Hay ward has just returne d
to this place from Salt Lake. He and Vim. V.
! Culver went out last summer. Culver remains
at Salt Lake In the of the Mormon women.
/ Air. Hayward passed In the vicinity OF the gold
regions. and confirms our belief that the excite
ment is all humbug. he many persons from
the diggings, and they were " down in the
mouth" tie says PARTICLES OF gold can be found
anywhere between the Platte River and Salt
Lake, but it will not pay TO gather it. Drifts
can be found, which Will yield from fifty cents
10 one dollar, but that is far from paying We
had imagined that there was less gold excite
ment in town than in any other town in the
United Srates but he says that if there had
been even one-thlrd the exci ement In the neigh
borhood of the diggiugs thers is in White Cloud
he would have remained for he had designed
I to remain If there had been the slightest en- :
enlargement for him to do so.
/ 1t may be Judge from this, how plenty gold
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and Peak, and all operations suspended
/ yet, when he arrived at ST. Joseph, news came
shortly after him, telling how the miners were
making from $40 to $i5 per day. Such is the
truth of gold stories he furthermore say s
that there are number of traders out there w lao
last spring took out large stocks of goods in an
tlcipatlon of vast emigration to Utah and Cali
: forRia. But the Mormon stopped that and
the traders were left with the goods on their
hands. They first started the gold excitement,
and are keeping 1t up, In order to draw people
out there when they can sell their goods at enor-
nous prices. The biggest stories are sent by
these men and their agents. And the newspa-
pers arc delng their utmost to gull the uusus
pectins into going to the diggings, that the trad
ing spectators may save themselves, who went
there IN the first place, TO skin needy emigrants
Jeurneylng across the Plains. Those papers
which doubt the stories or dispute them are
hooted at. 1t Is matter of indifference with US
We SHALL use our feeble efforts TO keep people
from going there to be swindled, until we have
sufficient evidence of the truth of the gold sto-
ries.-I From the White Cloud Eansas1 f9hi.f