Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-01-06
Cola, Gold! Gold!

Opr Kansas and Missouri exchanges glitter
with this bewitching word, and the heads oil
thousands are being turned from the every Gay
pursuits of life to dreams of the yellow dust
The several hundred miners already ln the goiu
fields about Pike Peak have turned letter writers
for the winter, and they invariably give glow
ing accounts of their prospects, or else the oth-
er side does not get into the prints. Returned
miners tell the same story, and we could hl
our paper from day to day with fresh accounts
from the various diggings, some more and some
less enthusiastic, but all sufficiently SO TO IN
duce q tremendous immigration thitherWard IN
the Spring That new California has been
discovered there is DO doubt, and its extent and
richness astonish the natives. Some $4,000
only had been gathered it is estimated up to
the lst of December, most of the parties early
on the ground having been employed in pros
pecting, and by far the larger portion OF the
gold seekers having arrived after the suspension
of operations for the winter. The district over
which gold has already been found in prospect
ing is three hundred miles by fifty, and the
usual depth of finding it is from two to five
feet As yet no deep diggings have been found
Gold has been found everywhere along the
Platte, upon the bars, and also abundantly
along the Upper Arkansas, and all California
miners there, some 800, say the prospect is far
better now than it was any time in California
the first year.
About the best discovered diggings are in the
mountains about As miles west of Pixies Peak,
and about 100 above the confluence of Cherry
Greek with the Platte From two to ten dol
lars a man per day is stated to be the genera
yield of the mines where rude implements only
are used. Quite an excitement was created II
Leavepworth on the 23d ult., by the arrival o.
]. Blackstone, one of Russell & Co.'S wagon
masters, with several nuggets of gold obtained
from deposits in sand at small lake six mile:
from Ash Hollow, on the Platte river. He wen
to get a drink from the lake, and was surpriseC
by discovering deposits of gold in the sand
over $50 worth of which be picked up in few
hours. One of the nuggets he brought in wa
worth over $50. Heretofore the gold has Onl,
been found in dust or small particles.
Cherry Creek is in Kansas, about 40 mile
south of the Nebraska line, aud the mouth i
7s miles from Pixies Peak Denver City, a
the mouth of Cherry Creek, is the county sea
of Arrapahoe county, which takes in the gol
region, and was organized by an act of tn
Kansas Legislature two years ago. At tn
6 Hraaly Of Aurari
is located, which bids far, it is claimed, to be
come the great city of the gold country. 1t
about the geographical centre as now discover
ed, and is surrounded by good agriculture
region. There are already $50 houses, or place
where people live, in the city, and paper to b
called Ihe Auraria Herald is to be started in tn
spring. Mr. Oscar B. Totten, well known i
st. Louis, writes as follows from Denver City
Nov goth:
The gold is here, and men are now maxim
from eight to twelve dollars per day, with pan
and rockers; but the best prospects have bee
found in the mountains, and cannot be worke
this winter, on account of the weather and wa
ter.
That this will prove a second California,
have no doubt; and think we will have pop
ulation of some so 900 persons by next fall
All that are now here are satisfied with tn
prospects and the country. The farming lam
is good, rich in soil, and extends in the Platt
and Cherry Creek valleys from 100 to $50 miles
There are also other creeks putting into tn
Platte, the valleys of which are equal to th
Missouri river bottoms-well timbered and wit
plenty of of good water The officers appoint
ed by Gov. Denver TO organize county, hay
selected this town for the county seat, which
located at the junction of the Platte and Cher
~ Creek, and at the conveyance of all tn
roads leading from the States and from Fol-
Union to Laramie, Salt Lake and Fort Bridge
There are now from 500 to 700 persons in tn
valley, all of whom are well pleased with th
prospects, and think this the new EldOrado {