The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-04-30
From the. wintersett Madisonial
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From the wintersett Madisonian.
More Proof Of the Golden Humbu2.
! Mr.. s. S. CRAspALL, one of the men who
lief; here some Eve eek ago for Pixies Peak.
returned last Thursday Evening. Rev. L.
NJ. GooDFLLow, who also went from here
with the same company, came back with Mr.
/ CRASp.LL to Council Bluffs. They were
compelled to return on account OF sickness.
They had arrived within one hundred
miles Of Fort kearney, ut which place the
rest Of the company have probably reached
BY this time. !.
+ Mr.. CRAxDALL says, that up TO the time
! he left the company to return, they mao he'
three men on their way back from the MINES
| One of these men had ten dollars worth
of dust had been in the mines hve months
thought gold enough could be loahu 10
paw two dollars per day-was gong 10 take
his family out-owned an interest IN new
" laid out town, out of which he expected
to make his money instead Of digging gold
| When this man arrive bat Counci1 buns,
tba merchants of that fast town got out the
report that he had brou hit BACK tce Mou-
sand dollars porth Of gold dust;
! This man stated that several letters hau
been published in the Missouri River papers
purporting to have b en- written oy hlm, ana
containing fattering accounts from 'he
mines thai he had never rrihen. others
that he did write, were changed by design
ing men. and then published.
One of the others had been NJ the mines
two months and stated that no more than
ST. so per day could be made by digging for
gold. and that it cost that mu:h TO live there.
The last one that they met Of the three, had
been there six weeks, and found nothing to
make it pay at all. These two men SAID
that this gold excitement was great num-
bug. e -
mont tennis. Several of the men that were
with these teams expressed themselves oe-
cidedy of the opinion that those who 60 TO
Pixies Peak, 60 there to be slorlousiy num-
plugged. ou,.ho
noner stating that there were eight or ten
forrishinp towns between that place and
Columbus. a distance Of nlnety-tive miles,
and that Mt Columbus several companies
had ferry boats. with which to carry emf
Grants across I.oupe Fork river. lie says
That instead of there being eight or ten
towns between these two places, there is on
" one, and that does not contain more ,han u
q dozen houses, all told; and instead OF
there being sererdlferry boats ut Columbus,
there is but one, which charges tro douars
for each team that it carries across the riV-
er, He also states that the excitement IN re-
lation to the mines, is much greater mere
than it ia farther West, and that the stories
circu|ated here are much more encouraging
to emjprants than those circulated west Oh
the Missouri River. -, :,
Mr.. CR,yp,L is we'll known in this city
and his statements are perfectly reliable
We commend them to persons who antlci-
pate going to Pixies Peak.
Verify, from the foregoing, one could but
naturally come to the conclusion that MIR.
CR,spaLL had ::secn the elephant,' or was
fearfully exercised least he should come on
him unawares. What blessed thing it Is,
that he was "compclledto return on account
Of Sickness for, if he had been permitted
70 see three more ''men on their way back
from the mines," the humbug would have
hem blown to eternal smash and the
occupation of those who expect to make
money out of town-ots ''instead OF digging
for gold" entirely swept away, like the mist
before therising sun. Another thing to be
regretted, is, that Mr.. {. did not sooner get
" within one hundred miles Of Fort ear
new and meet "three men on their way
back from the mines''-give his experience
to 4 world ploddins in darkness-for then
and in that case, he would doubtless have
prevented "coun,less thousands" from going
to :he reputed mines "to be gloriously hum
bugsed.'
The merchants Of this 'fast town" Of
Council Bluffs reporting that man had
arrived with give thousand dollars worth OF
DUST" when, in fact he had only "ten do:'!'ars
WORTH" is rich beyond computation. The
merchants of this :'fast town" did not know
that there was "chiel among 'em taking
notes. with determination to ''prcnt
,hcm,'' or they would not have INDUCED in
such an extravaganza. They should take
warning from this exposure, and put them
selves on their good behavior.
The "ten dollar" man who had letters
spublished in the Missouri River pape s."
that :: he had never writtcn," and "othcrs
that he did write, changed by designing men
and then published, owes it to his fair
fame, to make an expose Of the parties who
have thus tempered with his literary efforts,
and thus imposed upon the people.
Those government drivers, ''who express
ed themselves decidedly Of the opinion that
those who 90 to Pixies Peak, 60 there to be
gloriously humbugged." deserve the thanks
Of every friend of misguided humanity
Without their opinion, Mr.. CGASDALL, would
not, perhaps, been "compcled to return on
account Of sickness" Without their ''ieci-
ded" expression of "opinion," it would,
perhaps, never have been known that those
now pushing on to the mines, were really
going to be "gloriously humbusgcd!"
That Mr.. CRASDALL did not see those
"eicht or ten hourishing towns" between
Omaha and Columbus-or more than one
ferry across Loupe Forks surely no fault
of any one residing west of the Missouri
River, and can only be accounted for on the
hypothesis, of total obfuscation his part
or, perhaps, he was "sick," and couldn't
see.
The adventures Of Sinbad the Sailor,
Robinson Crusoc, Don Quixotte, CULVER:
Fremont and Lewis & Clarke, sink into
insigniicance, when compared with those OF
Mr.. S. S. CRASpALL, of Wintersctt. We
too, Commend his statements to persons who
anticipate going to Pixies Peak. There may
be gold out no there-that is, not enough
to pay for minins-but, in the name of al
that is good, what wonderful perceptive
now ers Mr.. C. must have, to have enabled
him to make that discovery, when 'withir
one hundred miles of Fort Kearney." Oh
thosa three men l-sickness t-Hteu dollar