Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-03-17

Here is something taken from the Shel
byville Patriot, on the gold mines:
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here is something taken IRON the Shel
byville Patriot, on the gold mines:
PIxEs PEAK Nov Is, 1858.
Mr.. EDaroR Ne and my wife left the
old Succor State on the first OF last Sep
TENDER. ana arrived here right on Pixies
Peak. on the Eth Of the same month. be-
ing just III days On the road. Short trip
say you. Bat the route travelled was not
by the Arkansas. neither that of the Platte
but just midway between the two. Uni.
ting the advantages Of each without the
drawback of either This rout. was rev,
er travelled till me and my wife pa sed
along it is much better, and much nearer;
it turns neither to the right OR to the left
but goes straight along, right to tine mines
and furnishes an abundance of grass, wood
and water so nutrrcious is the grass that
when me and my wife got here, our cattle
we're "butter fat" At the urgent request
Of the half starved miners, me and ms wife
killed them and sold the shanks at thirty
three and one eighth cents per pound the
fieshy pieces we snapped for gold nuggets
pound for pound. But amt we rich =
Tell all your folks to come my route; no
difficulty in finding il, as me and my wife
took pains to blaze all the trees. We think
ofputting up a telhgate, my wife can tend
it while work in the mines. There is
truth in all the exagera ted accounts about
gold. Just now my younges, child Ia year
ling1 brings in shirt tail full of very rich
dirt, which my wife will wash ana send
you the yield. 1supply me and my wife
with meat by my gun. Buffalo, bear, deer
and antelope are in abundance: Yesterday
| killed an antelope 800 yards. A gun
will kill further here than any place | ev-
er saw. Strange as it may appear, right on
the peak and close to our house is little
lake filled with honey few yards from
this is gushing spring of pure MILK -
There is a peculiar species of tree here,
the fruit of which is better than the best
buckwheat cakes you ever saw. MY wife
thinks she has discovered indications of a
soap mine Tom Trousers has discovered
a rosin mine and Joe Bootee is making
preparations to manufacture turpentine.
The boys are all doing well, | have 90 or
100 pounds of gold which intend sending
back to my wife's poor connections by
the first express; sickness and sorrow,
pain and death are strangers here. When
me and my wife left Pinkin Hollow, in H.
linois, she was poor little, serawny, wasp
waist creature, weighing 50 pounds now
she weighs l4o, and looks like huge mo,
lasses hcgshead, only when she wears
hoops-and then ard then. The color Of
my wife's skin has changed to deep vel.
low, some property Of the atmosphere com
munica,es this to the cuticle. This take
rs An indication Of the abundance Of gold
My wife stops me to say the shirt tail Of
earth was not rery rich, only making $l5,
80 cents, 9 mills and fraction over. Ny
wife sends her respects to you, and says
you must send the Patriot to the Peak
Ny second boy just brought in the point
Of two.edged sword, doubtless the one
that guarded the garden of Eden. There
is an old Indian here who says he well re-
members Noah and the ark. My twelve.
sons are oil hearty, and my two daughters
arc fine looking girls. Farewell,
AM.RlAH BILBAO,
AND His WIEE