Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-04-15
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The 1eew 2idorado..
We hfve Before given what we deemed a
timely word of caution to those who are affect
ed by the last gold-huntfng epidcn1it Evi-
dence has since come 20 our knowledge which
iully confirms the propriety of our former nd
vice, and hais us now 10 speak still more de.
cidedly in encouragement Of the venture. ON
which SO many are daily e1nbsrking.. We are
well assured that the time is not ut AL remote.
when this Pikeis Peak gold region. now 30 fns.
cinatingiy pictured to strike the eve of eager
adventures, viii be pronounced, by common
consent, an immense delusion. # Is BUT very
| recently that we have had some definite init.
nations, as TO the zeelous and pcrservinr eG
forts made to keep oil unhvorable statements
on the subject out of the public Journals. We
are also satisfied that there has existed an ex-
tensive organization for the purpose Of getting
up and maintaining this new excitement, In
utter disregard Of the interests OF the persons
proposed to be operated on, and for the bene-
fst of tfse SPECTATORS and sharpers who ere IN
the plot Very smaH mole holes have bsen
niagniled into mountains by these scinfhnrs.
A few grains Of gold dust have been traslsforrns
ed into vast deposits ofshot gold, and enorinOds
nuggets have been assigned q locaI existence,
which are in fact as unreal as the efSth6hted
palaces of Aladdin.
Those who have not aaseadEy com aaftfea
themselves to this tide of adventurous exrfte-
ment, but contemplate doing 10, win lie @fss
if they pause, and give the subject more 90.
Der and deliberate consideration. AZ the very
best, they can have no remarkable success d.
hope. OF the numerous Eldorado dicossfihs
of the last few years, only California and Ats-
trailia have proved satisfactory, and Of Gle
hundreds Of thousands who have staIzed tkair
fortunes on the long, wearisome and veznffoGts
chase for gold even IN those countries eul ssaeas
lively but 9 very IN have fund their invest
ment renumerative. The same annotiEr oferf-
ergy and application TO business in other quar-
ters, would have commanded, in most cuyes an
equal success without involving 80 many pris
vations OF every sort, are insepeTabie from
these ventures
A year ago, there was grand rush for Fra
zer's River, ending in almost universal disapL
pointIfsent and great loss Of tihne and Bloney.
Yet the substantial inducements held out Ia
that region were undoubtedly superior TO any
that Pixies Peak has to offer. Gold has bUen
found in both cases: But the same Is true IL
some parts Of iowa, abodt which there vas no
little noise, several months ago. So there has
been, to a very small extent, in this county, and
in divers and sundFy points If fke EnkSed
States In regard TO the last discovered Edo
RADIO, as to which the excitement is now al
high tide, we believe it to be the great distance
chiefly, which has not only added an enchanf<
ment to the yiew, but prevented an early and
prompt disclosure Of Che real state Of the case,
A whole seasof, with great sacrifice and snf1er-
fI1ur k<.f
be required to afford full test, and to expose
the delusion. 1t is this seasons ttafd and
business to which the complotters are Iooe7ng
for their harvest. They win make hay when
the sun shines, and not care, after few weeks
more, how thorough ain exposure is made The
facts are, indeed, already coming out, that the
Pixies Peak gold regions are but an
other edition of the Iowa diggings, which af-
forded a small amount of the precious metal In
compensation for large amount Of tod and
trouble-=the latter SO disproportionate 10 the
former, that the labor has long ago been abaDF
doned. s
A bare possibility remains that new discovs-
ries; more valuable and inviting; may yet Be
made antong the n5oIntain, far beyond the
present sites of the paper cities and mining
districts to which emigration is directed. At
tracted thus far, many adyenturers will be in
duced to move ON towards arizona and Sono-
ra, and; With all the evils to the adyenturers,
some good to the country may thus result, ffi
a form not now anticipated, by the establish
mGsf of new communities and the concentra-
tfon OF larger population on the great high
Eay. to the Paei6es which must, sooner or later,
be opened. In this point Of view, we cannot
regret that the emigrant currents should for q
time take chiefly this new direction. To the
extreme Northwest, this unexpected change
will, for time at least, be no slight injury and
In the end, it may prove to
be advantageous for the growth of the country,
and for the growth and occupation and devel-
opn.elit Of it's best resources. Of this sort will
be found, We think, the chief substantial result
Of the present great Westward movement, and
to this, those who take part I'M f should look
as the only rational ground for setting out on
the long march across the plains Cineianasi
Gdeete.