Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-02-01
PIXIES PEAK.

Ho for Pixies Peak There is soon t,
be an immense migration, especiail,
from our Western States, 10 The new Do
RADIO. The extensive failure of crops il
1858, the universal pressure of debt, the
low prices realized or promised for the
fruits Of the husbandman's labors, the
deaf-ess of enterprise, the absence o.
| thrift, render such migration inevitable
/ There IS scarcely village west of Ohic
IT which some are not fitting for and I'M
patiently awaiting the day when a star
may be prudently made for the neighbor.
! hood of Pixies Peak. We shall be dis.
appointed if less than fifty thousand per-
sons start for the new gold dlggings
within the current year. Many 90 tc
/ Dig, perhaps quite as many 10 speculate
on the presumed necessities, or fancies
or vices, of the diggers. Liquors, tobac-
! co, implements OF gambling, &c, &c.
will be sent along in profusion. while
food, clothing, animals, metals, &C., &C.,
will be dispatched IN quantities. If the
/ Pacific railroad were this day completed
/ on the central route, we are confiden,
that the eastern third of it would pay a
fair interest on its needful cost during
/ the year 1859
OF course, there is gold in Western
1 Kansas on the eastern slope OF the
great mounta nous basin which divides
/ The waters Of the Atlantic from those of
the Pacific, as well as on the western.-
We hold II, indeed, highly probable that
the western or California slope, being
far more abrupt and steep, is richer In
| gold, on or near It's surface, than the
eastern. There VIII probably be "big
strikes or rich pockets of the yellow
/ found on this side, as there have been on
/ the other; bu: we think they will be less
abundant or less considerable than those
OF the Pacific slope. Bat the general re-
/ suit OF these as of the other dggings
/ wall be that very few operators therein
/ viii rapidly amass wealth, a somewhat
! larger number will return with some
/ thing more tEan they carried away
/ while the great body of the gold-seekers
VIII return more empty IN purse, ragged
in wardrobe and bankrupt IN morals, ;han
when they set of. Nlneteen-lwentieths
/ of those who go to Pixies Peak might do
! better a. far less cost aud riSx. and with
Infinitely less prIvaton and suffering, by
smpIy staying where they are, aud de-
voting their energies 10 the growth of H.
dlan corn and potatoes.
Lei none Imagine that we make these
! T marks with the hope of arresung the
/ Pixies Peak exodus. The passion for
adventure, the Insauate thirst for gold
Will not thus be allayed. Not the needy
the bankrupt. the thriftless only, but thou
sands who have good homes, loving fam
/ lies, falr prospects. and everything es-
! Sentat TO human comfort, Will swell the
/ current that seis so strongly toward the
new land of gold. The accounts likely
10 reach Us of the starving of cattle aud
/ freezing OF men around this side of Pixies
! PeakWlll not arrest this migration: why
should we hope that our renonstrances
were we inclined 10 make any, would
prove more efective2 But no-let every
man follow the bent of his own genius
though that lead him TO some point with
n the shadow of Pixies Peak. Repent
ance Is a wholesome though not a facina
! ting exercise, and TO know ones self a
fool IS often the beginning of WISDOM
Many man who has spent his little all
~ hid goose chase for gold, has re-
/ turned 10 the shelter of the roof-tree
that covered his cradle, so ripened in ex-
perience and 50 repIete by the wisdom
that IS taught by suffering, that the eve
ming Of his days passed far more content
edly, happily, on the wages Of day labor,
than they would have done on modest
! patrlmony had be never learned by pri-
vatlon 10 appreciate the blessedness Of a
/ civilized home. So, friends who are
tired Of the tame ways Of pIodding, every
day industry, Ho, for Pixies Peak n.
/ \. Tribune