Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-11

is now on his way across the plains, who is
capable, and goes for the purpose of telling
the world what there is there. just before
he left the settled portions of Kansas, he sent
to the Tribune the following summing OF up
what information he could get: -
1st There is gold at Pixies Peak. 2nd.
Very little has yet been dug. ord. a con,
siderable, though very inadequate amount Oh
prospecting had been done. attn. "A sIea'
deal more will soon be done. oth. AS yet'
this prospecting has not yielded enough 10 Pay
the board of those employed in It, Yet e"
who have had extra luck would seem 10 ha'e
done pretty well; and some of them, unless
they lie outrageOusly, are now making n'e "
eight dollars per day to the hand 'th. II
is not known, to this hour, that any extensive
placer has been found, and nearly every MINER
is still prospecting for better dlgSlngs otn:
Hundreds who rushed madly oil on gold
hunt across five hundred miles of unnhablted
and woodless country, in February or March,
have either died outright of starvation, or have
suffered and been famshed to the last limit OF
mortal endurance, and all who have started IN
their tracks, with but a few days provisions,
and scarcely any other resource but the
clothes on their backs, have probably suffer
ed, or will suffer anything short of death, and
some of them will probably die. 9th. There
is as much uncertainty and dlstrust IN the
gold region as here, and many who have
reached Denver City CT Auraria, have turned
back in disgust 10th. Many VINO had gone
part way have been discouraged by the re-
ports of those we met, and are heading to-
wards the States again. 1lth. There Is no
demand for labor in any part of the alleged
gold regions. 18th. 1t is not yet decided
whether any considerable amount of gold can
be mined with profit in the new gold regions.
Months more of patient and well directed la
Dor must be had to settle that point. 18th.
AS yet, less than $4,000 in all has been re-
ceived on this frontier in gold, the product OF
Pixies Peak regions. 14th. 1t is highly de-
sirabe that the capacity of the new gold re-
gion should be tested and ascertaned. Those
who are nationally employed in this work de-
serve well of the country, but there are peo-
pie enough in or near the new gold region for
all reasonable purposes. 10Th. 1t is not
mere folly, it is criminal madness, to rush off
to Pixies Peak, gold hunting, without ample
provision in the shape OF food, clothing, blank
cts, mining implements and money.
In addition to this, OSCAR B. TorTES writes
to the ST. Louis Democrat his actual expert
ments, from which we condense:
On the Platte and tributaries, we found
from one to five cents in the pan, and with
water at hand could make from three to five
dollars per day; but water,being so difficult
of access we deferred mining till we could get
into the mountains.
About the Goth of March, Col. Henderson,
w. Ii. Wignall, G. w. Wainwright, and my
self, penetrated about sixteen miles into the
mountains. We found snow in the gulcheS
from three to five feet in depth; we shoveed
off the snow, built fires to thaw the ground,
and dug up eighteen feet, finding the gold to
pay from one to six cents to the pan from
within two feet of the surface down the whole
distance. Our party Immediately struck off
claims and commenced getting out lumber for
sluices, and making all preparations for min
ing. AS the weather was unsettled and
stormy, and being short of provisions, Col.
w. ii. Wignall and myself returned for sup
plies to send them.
also saw some fine looking quartz lodges,
(and having n,iled two years in California
consider myself a judge and so we'll satisfied
was our whole party that we then found gold
in paying qantities, that Col. III. and myself
have returned for our families. Among those
who have party there is Mr.. Il. +. Langley,
of California, who has mined for years in that
country, and is perfectly satisfied with the
prospect he has got at this place. do not
make this statement to induce any person to
go. make these assertions, which time will
prove correct, ior the purpose of showing the
nature of this stampede, and freely assert that
those who have returned with such alarming
accouts Of no gold there, give nothing from
actual experience, for every reasonable man
knows that they had not had time to develop
the mines