The Kanzas news., 1859-07-09
WHOLE No. 100.
Good Advice.

Horace Greeley, A. D. Richardson, aud
Henry Willard have written letter fully
coFroborating the reports in regard to the
late rich discoveries Of gold iinstEHe noun
Itaias. Thein report is considered perfectly
reliable. and will command universal conf.
dence. Those gentlemen closed their state-
insht sSithSthe following excellentladviee:
/ AWecannot conclude this statenent With
nut protesting most earnestly against a re-
pewal- OF the infatuation (which impelled
thousands TO rush to this region month or
two since. only 70 turn back before reach--a
{ ing It. or to hurry away immediately after,
more hastily than they came. Gold,minines
is business which :eninehtly requires of It's
yotaries capital, experience, energy, endu-
rance, and In, which the highest qualities
do not always command success There
may be hundreds Of raviaes IN these noun.
tains as rich inVgold as that IN which We
write, and. there probably are many; but,
up to this hour, we do not know. that any
such have been discovered. There are said
to be FIVE thousand people already in this.
EraviHe, and hundreds more pouring into it
daily. Tens of thousands more have been
passed by US on our rapid journey to this
place, or heard of as ON their way hither by
other routes For all these nearly every
pound of provisions aad supplies of every
kind must be e;hapled by teams from the Mis-
Esouri river, some 700 miles distant, over
7, roads which are mere trails, crossing count
less unbridsed water-courses, always steep
banked and often rnirey, aud at times SO
swollen by rains as to be utterly impossible
by wagons. Part of this distance Is a des-
ert, yielding grass, wood and water::onlyl at
intervals of several miles, and then very
Fseantily To attempt TO cross this desert
ION foot is -suicide-munder. To
cross il with teams in midsummer, when
the water courses are mainly dry, and the
grass eaten up, is possible only to those
who know just where to look fer grass and
water, and water. must be carried along to
preserve 1ife. a few months heuce,-pFob
| ably by the middle of October,--this whole
| Alpine region viii be showed under and froi
zen up, SO as to put stop TO the working
+ of sluices if not to the mining altogether.
There, then. for q period of at least six
months, will be neither employment, food,
nor shelter within FIVE hundred miles for
| the thousands pressing hithef under the de-,
lusion that gold may be picked up here like
! pebbles on the sea-shore, and that when
they arrive here, even though without pro-
visions or money, their fortunes are made.
Great disappointment, great suffering are
inevitable. few can escape the latter who
arrive at Denver City after September with
out ample means to support them in very
dear country, at least, through a long win,
ter. We charge those who manage the
telegraph not to difuse part of our State
ment without giving substantially the whole,
and we beg the press generally to unite with
US in warning the whole people against an
other rush to these gold mines, as il-advis-
ed as that of last spring-a rush sure to be
| followed like that by stampede, but one
far more destructive of property and life.