The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-06-18

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THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE MINES.
We give much Of our space to-day, to
recapitulaton of the late intelligence from
the Cherry Creek Gold Mines. We give this
news as we received it, leaving our readers
TO judge Of its reliability for themselves
they can place their own estimate upon its
value. We confess to a full belief in the
startling news, cxtravagant as it may seem
TO some. At the same time, we hope 10 one
will hazard a trip to the mines, upon the
strength Of this late news. If the reports
are true, as we believe, few days will
bring in evidence that no one can dispute
the glittering dust itself. If the miners are
taking out gold in such quantities rs report
cd, heavy shipments will soon find their way
to the States, and the vexed question will
be settled forever. Nothing but such sub
stantial, indisputable evidence as we have
mentioned, can or should restore confidence
or belief in the existence of gold in paying
quantities, on the Eastern Slope of the
Rocky Mountains. The public will not be
compelled to wait much longer for evidence
that will settle the matter definitely, or at
least to the satisfaction of Nil who have
contemplated a visit to the country, about
which such conflicting stories have been set
nloat, during the past few weeks. Unless
"thc dust" begins to find its way eastward
on or before the first of July, We shall give
up all hopes Of the mines, and conclude that
the whole thing is magnificent fzzle.
We ask for the intelligence published else
where in our columns, q careful, candid and
impartial reading-and then wait for fur
thor developments. The Leavenworth pa
pcrs are more enthusiastic than ever before
in regard to the mines. The st. Joseph
Gazette, though inclined to place conf
dence in the late reports, advises everybody
to &c wait till the doubts are all cleared up"
The Vest, after stating that the I. S. Ex-
press Office, Of that city had received and
forwarded Con the 18th inst) 81, 100 in dust
in small packages to be sent to different
parts Of the country-to Chicago, Cincn-
natl, etc."-pronounces " Pixies Peak re-
atty and says this receipt of dust sis what
VIC call substantial, indisputable evidence
Of the existence of gold, and of the folly of
those who, having arrived ut the mines,
were disheartened and left and Of those dis
courased by the persons who returned with
out reaching the mines"
While we, with many Of our citizens, place
implicit confidence in the reports now COM
ing from the mines, still we wait with 1e-
vcrish anxiety for evidence which will end
the dispute, and establish the worth or
worthlessness Of the diggngs to which tens
Of thousands have rushed. With the Chi
cago Press and Tribune, we say this much,
in advance '.The reasons given for the
outrageous deception that it is alleged has
been practised, are insufficient. If the ia
vorable reports with which tho newspapers
have been filled for months, prove to be
fabrcations, the motives of those who are
responsible for them must receive some 9TH
or explanation than that with which We are
now acquainted. Men capable of COMPEL
inr the movement of O,0DO to lO0,0 600 men
toward distant point through savage
country, needed not to be told that unless
the cmigrants found good pccuniary reasons
for remaining in the places to which they
had been a.lurcd, the spectators in claims
AMI town-sitcs would derive no possible
advantage from their presence. They knew
that the country was not needed nor desired
for agricultural or commercial purposes
that nothing but tho belief in the existence
of gold therein would induce emigration to
1t, and that nothing but aremuneratlyc
yield Of gold for a given amount of labor
would keep emigrants there after they had
arrived. We do not see, then, when the
speculation was to come into whom the
corner lots and vaiucess claims were to be
sold. Hence, we distrust as pure feOrica-
tiOns, or an accumulation OF hearsayS,'
all the stories that have been told of the
forged letters by which sons have been
dragged away from homo to join their pros
porous fathers, AMI wives encouraged to
make Il journey Of seven hundred miles
over tho plains for the purpose Of sharing
wealth with Cr,c:us like husbands. They
urc not natural or probable, and they must
be cxagcrations. We are not believers either
in that kind Of total dcprayity that would
amuse itself at -Nrapahoc, Denver City or
Auraria while chuckling over thc:weariness,
starvation, namrless misery and death which
a causclcss and fruitless emigration of an
army of persons to those distant places
would be sure to bring in its train.'