The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-02-08
The other Side of the story.
The "Gotd Regions" Declared Hun.5uo-Look

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before you Leap.
| A correspondent of the Chicago Press SENDS
that paper the following, clipped from the col
| umns OF The Chief, paper Published at White
Cloud, in the north eastern part Of Kansas. We
presume it is quite as good authority for one
side of the story as the generality of sources
from which our late reports have been coming
are for the other side.
NEWS FROM THE GOLD REGIONS. one would
be more grati6ed than ourself, to know that the
| gold stories constantly arriving from our Wes-
tern frontier we're realities. 1t would be grea.
benefit to Kansas, as well as to other portions
| of the Union. But if Kansas cannot be made
prosperous without humbugging the people, she
had better 60 slow, and bidc her time We
| cannot help thinking that Pixies Peak and Cher
ry Creek are humbugs, Notwithstanding nearly
every paper we pick up, is filled with glowing
accounts from there. We are acquainted with
q number of persons who have gone there, and
they invariably send bad reports Another
thing looks suspicious. The favorable accounts
all appear in papers published in towns which
aspire to be QUILTING points for the gold re-
gions.
We conyersed with gentleman, only few
days since, who had stopped at Cherry Creek,
on hi way to California, overland. he found
particles of gold these, and has no doubt that
small quantities can be procured, but does not
think that diggings will pay.
Henry Sterret who went from Oregon, Mo-,
last fall, has returned. He reports the diggincs
Suction" A little gold can be found, bu,
nothing that will pay. The entire company are
sick of it, and intend to leave it as soon as the
weather will permit. Several are going through
to California, and others are going home. Many
OF the miners, he says, are for keeping up the
excitement, in order to draw crowds of gold
hunters in the Spring, when they expect to sell
their claims and cabins for large sums and re-
turn home. Cherry Creek is o little stream,
which man can easily jump across, and ia dry
good part of the year.
Others of the company have written to their
friends in Oregon, telling how they have been
humbugged. One of these affectionately wishes
all those papers in very hot country, which
published good stories, and induced them to
go out there.
We are hearing plenty OF such news as this.
We should like to be convinced of the truth of
the great gold discoveries in the Kansas geld
region; but we are not yet convinced, and until
we are we shall not advise any one to 60.
LArEsT.-Asa w. Hayward has just returned
to this place from Salt Lake. He and VIM. V,
Culver went out last summer. Culver remains
at Salt Lake in the care of the Mormon women.
MIR. Hayward passed in Ike vicinity OF the gold
regions, ard confirms our belief that the excite
ment Is all humbug. He saw many persons from
the diggings, and they were "down in the
mouth" He says particles of gold can be found
anywhere between the Platte River and Salt
Lake, but it will not pay to gather it. Drifts
can be found, which will yield from fifty cents
TO one dollar, but that is far from paying. We
had imagined that there was less gold excite.
ment IN our town than in any other community
IN the United States; but he says if there had
been even one-tenth the excitement in the
OF the digsings there is in White
Oioau, ne would have remained; for he had de-
signed to remain If there had been the slightest
for him to do SO. Ii NAV be
Judged from this, how plenty the gold is there.
! he snow was i've ieet deep at the Creek and
Peak, aud all operations were suspended: vet. |
shea he arrived at St. Joseph, rvs came short. |
J after him, telling how the miners were making |
rom $40 to $25 per day. Such is the truth Of /
ne gold stories! He furthermore says there
ire number OF traders out there who last
spring TOOK out large stocks Of goods, in antici.
,ation OF vast emigration to Utah and Cali.
ornia. But the Mormon war stopped that. and
he traders were left with the goods ON ,he;r
lands. They first started the gold excitement
ho are keeping it up, in order to draw people
'us there, when they can sell their goods At
normous prices. The biggest stories are sent
by these men or their agents. And the news
aPers are doing their utmost to gull the unsus.
Getting into going to the dggings, that the trad
% SPECTATORS may save themselves who vent
here In the first place, in order to skin the needy
migrants jeurneyipg across the Plains. Those
apers which doubt the stories, or dispute chem.
~ hOoted at. II 10 . matter Of indifarencs
18th Us. We shall use our feeble efforts to keen
eople from going there TO be swindled. until
. have suiIiciens evidsace Of the truth of the
bid stories.