Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-02-13

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this morning. on acsouu, Of their great
length, and the press Of other matters
mon our columns. The accounts, Ii.
mi. instance are - usual somewhat
conflicting, one person representing
that the published accounts from the
mines are in . great measure hum
bug, while Others confirm the widest
stories and most extravagant letters
which have been written. One OF
these letters is written by Dav. kel-
log, whose favorable communications
TO various Kansas papers. we have
heretofore published. 1t is written to
IN intimate friend, the brother Of the
editor Of the Waukegan Gazette, and
10 daGed at Montania-a paper town at
Cherry Creek-on the twelfth day OF
December last. The letter is written
in lees of strained style than his pre-
vious ones, and from the fact that 1t is
addressed to an intimate friend and
not Intended for publication is proba'
bly, reliable. He first relates an I'M
happy misfortune which befell a num-
Der Of his companions who we're out
on hunting expedition. Being over
taken in the mountains by snow
storm, and the weather growing sud
denly intensely cold, five Of them we're
40 seriously frost bitten that it became
necessary to amputate their feet and
hands. He states that the miners at
the Creek are all in comfortable win
ter quarters, and arc daily receiving
accesions to their numbers, and pro-
ceeds a. follows:
Hope my dear telioW yom wiH not take the
bait and come out here, as IL wiH not pay.
fhst IL. 90 far as / knop nor, and have been
able TO ascertain. Should anything turn up
however. to induce me to see the thing in
. favorable light, | will be a. ready TO post
nv friends to that effect, a. | am now in
warning them to look ,ceL before they leap
would say this much however, now, we
all think there il more gold here than We
know, or have any idea Of. but the quantity
and certainty Of it's paying sufficiently to
induce the emigration that will undoubt-
sdly Get in here in the spring, is quite an
other thing. Taking this view oft, is why
don't don't blow 80 hard as some others
here have done, whose letters have been
published in the papers throughout the Uni
ted States. Next spring, when the miners
who are here have fair chance to prospect,
will test the matter much more satisfacto-
rily. will then be able to give yon an
opinion worth something.
He further says:
Three Of tho Lawrence boys, who went
Into the moutains last year with an Indian to
look for gold. cay they know where there
are better prospects than here. One Of them
made tl6 in day with pan, and says the
gold 10 coarser than here. In view OF these
assurance, some fifty Of us have determined
70 start in the spring. on pOnies-armed to
the teeth-into the Yute nation, which is
across the mountains where the gold was
found, as we have made up our minds that
it will not pay to stay here. sure.
An account OF the other and favor
able side Of the picture we find in the
GIenwood, Mills County, Thought.
That paper, dated February the 5th,
states that its editor has just received
. call from the Hon. ]. S. Brocket,
formerly Member Of the Legislature
Of Minnesota, who is on his way to
Warrington, Washington CO., where
he expects to meet his family aud pre-
pare for an early start in the spring.
He left Cherry Creek on the oath day
Of January, twelve days later than the
date Of Kellog's letter. and made the
trip in thirty.one days, with two yoke
Of oxen, bringing his cattle in in ex-
cellent conditiou. He submitted for
the inspection Of the editor of the
Thought, various specimens of both
shot aud scale gold, and..lnformed him
that gold bearing quartz had been dis
covered on Kallson's Creek, which was
pronounced, by those who knew, as
equal in richness to those of Califor-
mia.
He says that one hundred houses
have been erected at Auraria and that
nearly as many more are under way.
He also states that he met company
from Taylor county, Iowa, who had
been induced to cross the Camauche
Bluff and take the North Platte route,
leaving Omaha one day before. Mr..
Be- company left Plattsmouih, on the
25th Of Deccmber, vas within 80 miles
Of Cherry Greek, then about two
months on the road-was delayed Is
days at Loup Fork and nearly two
weeks at the crossing of the Platte
At Fort Karney. They wished Mr.. B.
- he passed alongj the road east, to
warn all the Iowa boys not to take the
North Platte road as they would find
trouble on the Loup Fork and Platte.
These two accounts are a fair speci-
men Of others in our possession. There