New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-16

nortb or south Of this point. II may De Dorta Of
laramie even. AL thai Las yet been doGe
toward the thorough Development Of tie sol1-pro-
oucing capacity Of The Rocky Mountains IS very
much what .iebhog 81 elephants ear with pin
would be toward d.ssecuDg him.
But will disenboweiag t5e4e mountains IN quest
Of gold pay' A very pregnant qles.ion an
swcr-It will psy soIe; i, VII AL % pay others
few will be amply and suddenly enriched By ind
ing leads" and selling claims:" some BY washing
II ,se clsims;" other some By supPyin The moun-
tsins with the -four apparent necessaries OF Mining
lfe-Whsky, Coffee, Flour AID Bacon;
others by IObbDg the miners Of theH naru
earnings through the fundamentally OIL
cards. roulette, and the little joker
but ten viii come out here for gold for every one
who carries back 50 much as be leit home Wiln,
and thousands who hasten hitner flushed with hope
and ambition viii lay down 10 their long resi- BE-
meath the shadows Of the mountains, with ONLY The
wnd-swept pines to sigh their requiem wilma
this last week we have tidings Of one young gold
seeker committing suicide, in 6t Of insanity, at
the foot of the mountains; twO more iJlnd IN
ravine long dead and partially devoured by wolves;
while five others, with their horse and dog, were
overtaken, come days since, while on prospecting
tour not far from Gregory's, BY one Of those ter
rible fres whicb, minded by the culpable reckless
ness Of some camping party, fluids ready alimen. IN
the fallen pine leaves which carpe, almost the
entire mountain region, ard are famed to fury by
the fierce gales which sweep over the tlll-tops,
and thus we're all burned to death, and so found
and buried, two or three dogs since-their homes,
their names, and all but their fearful fate, un-
known 10 those who rendered them the asst SAD
Offices. All long will their families and friends
vsinly await and hope for the music OF footsteps
destined 10 be heard no more on earth Thus,
Death seems to be mole busy and relentless on
these broad, breezy plains, these healihfnl, lnvg'
rating mountains, than even N the crowded cty or
the rural dstIict thicksoVn with venerable graves
1t is my strong belief that Gold is scarcely less
abundant in the Rocky Mountains than IN CAlior-
Dia, though it seems, for many reasons far less
accessible 1t s, ]. Much further from the iea-
board. or from any uavigable water or means Of
easy approach 9 Belted by deserts and by re-
gons on which little or no rain falls IN Summer, so
that food and almost every necessary OF lie, VIII
here be permanently dearer than In California;
g. So elevated (GO0O feet and over above tide
water) that little can be done al mining for iuil
bali of each year; and A. SO much OF the gold as
has been broken down and washed out OF the veins
BY watercourses has been so swept along and dis
persed by The fierce mountain torrent: that very
little Of it can be proftably washed out; hence,
mining here must be mainly confined to the veins,
and will thus involve blasting raising by windlass,
&c, &c, and so require large investments OF cap
ital for IFS energetic and successful prosecution.
While therefore | believe that these Mountains
will soon be yielding gold az the rate OF many
Millions per annum, say most emphatcaliy to the
poor men who want gold al d are willing TO work
for it., Thisis not the country for you Far better
seek wealth further East through growing Wheat,
or Corn, or Cattle, or b. any kind of manual Ia
Dor, than come here TO dig gold. One man may
possibly acquire wealth faster i'll this gold lottery
than in New. England or Kansas; but let one thou
sand poor men come hther to mine while the
same number resolve to win q competence by emf
nent industry and frugality in the East, and the
latter will sssuredly have more wealth at five
years end than the former-and will have acquired
il with far less sacrifice of comfort, health and life
And here LET me say in closing up the subject,
that think the Report made by Messrs. Richard
SOD. Willard and myself, of WHIST we saw aud
learned at GresOy's DiggiDss, Is fully justred by
more recent results. For example: we gave the
first four days product of ". Defrees a Co from
Indiana drumming one sluice) at sos, $50, $50, and
S3O5 respectively-the four following days not re-
turned. | have since obtained them; and they
range as follows: S257, S2cl, SOB, Sl93-or
Sass more than those of the four days for which
we gave the returns This Company then sold out
their claim for $1,000, and on the Sth Of June
opened sluice on another which in four days pro-
duced as follows: S3l, S205 $751;, S2l3. An
other Indiana Company, miscalled Sopris, Hender-
son Il Co. in our Report, ran two suices on the
9th and 10TH realizing about $3.50 per day, and on
the 18th had three suices in operation for the first
and cleaned up SlOO9 (re,lly worth about 5000
from the product of that days labor Of twelve men.
Some scores are doing well, though few quite as
well as this; but Of the thousands who are doing
nothiDg--at least, realizing nothiug-who shall re-
port Some of these issue daily from the msun-
taDs out of provisions, out Of means, out OF heart
and. between this and snowfall, thousands like
them will come out, still more hungry, weary, for.
lorn, and take their way down the Platte as g.unt
and diiconsoate as men ever need be- But tbs,
and much more, will not dissuade new thousands
from rushing to take their places, SO long as II Is
know that the Rocky Mountains contain gold.
P.S.-A friend just in from the Mountains. who
Id fha fam