Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-06-03

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ence viii justify. But read the extract
l dom think there is a place Known here
where a man can make or average over 81 so
per dav with a sluice, and by this you can
Judge how rich the mines are, as l am aware
YOU have had some experience in gold countries
Unless better diggings are found, I think any
man who Is doing well in the States will re
gret the hour he left, and carne to this country
to do better. l would advise all persons to
stay where they are. These mines Will never
pay a man to work them when provisions are
as high as they are here, Until farmers come
here to settle down and find ready sale for
their produce-provisions come down to their
proper value, bacon s or 9 cents per pound,
flour Sc per sack, &c.-then, and not till then,
will it pay any man to work.
For a criterion / will just relate how the
poor devils that come in this spring are maxi
their fortunes Only Yesterday three men came
up TO me where was at work, and applied for
work. They were out of provisions, hadn't any
money or friends, as they came through on Wal
ker's line and were anxious 20 do something
Not finding any one that could afford to pay
them to work, they went n with q miner to
work for their board. A person can get any
amount of men to work for twelve and fifteen
dollars per month. [ have not heard of a man
paying over that for the last six weeks.
Persons that write such hattering news back
to the States, are men that have an interest in
some little one-horse town. and think it very
likely that they can grab greenies as they
come in. 1t is the opinion of a great many
that large or heavy god will be found i'll the
mountains this summer.
From the St Joseph Journal May 2ethl
Messrs. William and Charles Fry, two engi-
neers well known on the Missouri river, passed
down late yesterday evening, in the steamer
Sioux City, just from Cherry Greek, having
come the entire distance by water.
They went out to the mines early this spring
prospected all through the richest diggings with
old California miners, and were not able to
maze ten cents per day.
They worked diligently for = period of forty
days, and enc had ~fortv-ive cents worth, in a
quill and the other had three cents worth as the
fruits of their labor. They say there is some
gold their, but in such fine particles that it is
absolutely impossible TO make wages gather
ing it with machinery or otherwise.
After having tested the mines fairly, they
pronounced them a humbug, built a mail fiat
boat, eleven feet long by three and a half feet
wide, drawing four inches, and launched it i'll
Cherry Greek, came dow that stream to Den
yer City, which place they left on the 4th inst. :,
thence down the South Platte into the main
Platte river, then to the Missouri river. making
entire distance Of eight hundred and fifty miles
by water, in twenty days They arrived at the
mouth of the Big Platte inst as the steamer
Sioux City was pushing out, Tuesday morning,
sold their boat for fifty cents, and took passage
on that steamer.
In a letter published in the ST. Louis Dem
ocrat, Mr.. Vaness, of Jackson, Michigan,
says;
/ started in March, with mule teams, and ar
rived at Denver City early in April. On my
arrival the spectators in town lots swarmcd
around me and tried to induce me to take some
shares in their new town. l told them l did
not wish to speculate, but wanted to engage
with my party in mining. l asked them if
they knew where there were any diggings that
would pay. They said:
"Oh, yes re can show you rich diggings not
far from town."
Iasked them how much it would pay to the
pan. They said they could show me diggings
that would pay ten cents to the pan. l told
them if they would do that I would give them
ten dollars for their trouble. So they agreed to
go and show me the next morning. I called
on them in the morning. and ready to go to
the diggings, but they said they could not go
that day, and made a great many excuses. was
satisfied that they were humbuging me, and
offered to them ten dollars if they would show
me where I could find dirt that would pay even
five cents, then three cents, then one cent
They could do neither, for the very good reason
that there never have been diggings found
in that country anywhere that would pay one
cent to the pan nor even onc-fourth ola cent.
] prospected the country all around, visited all
the claims and diggings, and positively assert
that no man has ever made more than twenty
cents per day in the best ~diggings in the Vi
cinity of Pixies Peak or Cherry Greek and all
the streams, but the particles are so minute
that it is with great difficulty they can be col
lected, and mining can never be made to pay
there. Denver City and Auraria consist of a
few log houses or huts, and there were less in
habitants there when | left than when I arriv-
ed. The towns are being deserted by all ex-
eept those who own the lots, and they are hang
ing on in hopes of selling them.
ST. LOUIS, May 26.-James Maginnis, of
Lockport, n. Y, just returned from the plains,
publishes a statement in the Democrat, pro-
n~ouncing the Kansas gold mines the most stu
pendous humbug ever perpetrated upon the
American people.
He says it was COTTON UP by land spectators
and sustained by parties interested in the from
tier towns, and merchants with heavy stocks of
goods.
Maginnis' statement is supported by another
from Mr.. Van Ness, of jackson, Michigan, who
positively asserts that, having prospected
throughout the country, and visited all claims
digging, no man every made more than 20 cts
per day, or found dirt yielding more than one
cent to the pan.
ST. LOUIS, May PIP. VI.
About three hundred returned Pixies Peak
adventures arrived here to day. They pre-
sent a sad appearance.
1t is reported that several hundred returning
miners have pledged themselves to destroy 81
Joseph, as a retaliatory measure, for ali--d
impositions practiced by spectators and others,
of that place, who are charged with having
circulated false reports, to induce parties to
emigrate, so that the traders might have an OPP
portunity to make money by selling outfits of
provisions, &c.