Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-04-21
fFom De Nnvsukse Nswa.l ]



We give beloe Z Itttes \ ten s3m Ilites
Peak, by a well knDFn cit|len Of lIoricon
now At fike's peat Even word can 81 re
lied upon aa true, asfhe wriler is ven tnawn
in Wisconsin asa4hAn who has thc r6Aiess
regard Cor the truth. There is evidently
gold there. 1T
PKS's PEAK, March l, 1859. Z
Nv DeAn bR0THER
promised to write you q good long letter
as soon as lafrivsd here, aad take my pen
II baud 70 LET you know that we are ali vel, ,
and to hnpe that these few lines will iind yo1
enjoying the same blessing. Yon know we
left Horizon for the land Of gold about the
LIST Of February, and we arrived here yeu
terday. My wife stood the journey first rate
but my FIVE oldest boys were nearly tired
out whom they reached here. Jane, the liza
tie sic, is happy as a lark, and says, "tiss
sasls Gee=sse le= ne" asa hless her sweet
Heart, fef fgEtEFI rF
We had al the hardships in the world be-
lore we got here We lost our horses at Du
bnque--they we're stolen from US. We got
some oxen, and lost them one hundred miles
from Omaha. We then tried wheelbarrows
my wife and wheeling by turns, ill the
indians stole our barrows Then We walks
ed, till the Indians stole our provisions, and
my family got sick, so ! had 10 carry them
all on my back. Oar money gave out long
before, aud Tor two weeks VIC Travelled
through wilderness whore tho foot Of a
human being had never trod, ia this condi>
tion, seeing no living being, and without
money to purchase even a cracker at any Of
the groceries along the line We lived on
roots till my children all look like pigs, from
roofing 80 long, and have carried my fami
lily on my back tnat am so round shoul.
dered that can only sec the blue sky and
the bright sun, by looking between my legs
and up TO Heayen's penoply that way. |
lost two hundred pounds Of Hesh-horsc
meat-when started from Dubuque, or we
should have got along better
| read in the Milwaukee News that Pixies
Peak was humbug But it ain't and the
News knows it as well as do We got here
in the morning. after walking all night and
though we are now twentyllour hours in the
country, are not well oa, but have good
prospect
There is gold hcre-lots Of it. The goph.
ers dig il out Of the ground by the bushel.
and in the moonlight the whole earth for
miles around looks like heaven with it's
myriad stars, or like pretty girl with vel
loW lreckles. The woodchucks dig out bush.
els and bushels Of it. and the snakes in this
country look like solid gold onos, from crawl
ing among gold chunks ltis found in all
sized pieces, from the size of hens egg up
to the bigness Of large stone, and Of the
finest quality. We have raked together what
lay loose on an acre Of ground, and have
twenty-two piles about as big as large sizI
ed hay stack Last night two hundred In,
lians came to rob us ofa sett Of silver spoons
and fine comb that my wife had to use on
the children and we barricaded our house
with rocks Of gold till they could not gain
admittance, and were forced to beg to make
friends with US, The chief lay down his
weapons aud came ipto our camp, when my
wife used the fne comb ON his head till his
gratitude was as lively us his head was, and
he was 50 tickled that he nifnrnd 20 mara