Des Arc citizen., 1859-02-11
[Ffom the Council Bluffs Bugle, of Jan, 20. ANOTHER BATCH OF GOLD NEWS. Highfy Interesting Letter from NIT. AaEen--The Round Gold
 Discovered.

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 I
 Through the kindness of Mrs. Allen
 we have been permitted to publish the 1 following private letter, for the benefit and information of our readers.
 MT. Allen is known all over this State to be q man of truth and veraciiy. He has been member of the House of Re 1 lpresentatiyes, and was an Alderman oI and Postmaster in this city, which offices he resigned when he left last fall for the Nebraska gold mines. The letter wa: written 10 his wife, and not intended fo' publication, and hence if he were q mar who would try to mislead others, itcanno' be supposed tha, he would deceive his owr family:
 AuRARrA, N. T., Dec. l, 1858. DEAR WIrE AND DAUGHTERS: an now seated in my own log cabin, and it only had you all here would be truly happy Ihope by next summer to have you here. There are but two white wo. men in this country that know of. We have had large deputation of Arapahoe l Indians, ou whose lands we are. They are very friendly, and appear to be pleas ed that we are here.
 have been about thirty miles south ol here OF Cherry Creek, prospecting fol gold, and banned out forly-fve cents worth in one panful of dirt. l. is very fine. l think with the right kind of tools person can make from five to twenty dollars per day @ l Wagstaff's boys are about thirty miles below here, but 1 have not seen them. l understand they brought q letter for me which got lost on the way; and am sorry it got lost, as l have not hearda word from the Bluffs since left. have just com. pleted d bedslead for Jim and |, and have 1 filled the bed.tick with prairie feathers. (Gfass. It is now showing hard, and | looks like we were going to have a deep one. Jim has just written to Wiley. In l this letter I send you little gold dust. Il lis worth about seventy-five cents. This got out in two pans of dirt. Show t tc Dr. Craig; he can tell whether t is as l good as California gold. know where there are diggings that the gold is larger than this. 1 have seen some about the size of common white beans; but Il is i'm possible to do anything like work in the winter; but as soon as the spring opens we will be in certain. You will no doubt see | some who have returned from here dissat- isfied with the country and everything out here; but such persons would not be satis- fled in any place. This 1 can assure all of my friends, that any one who will work can make money fast; but there are some here that will not do we'll in any place. But here all that is wanted is industry to insure a fortune.
 While I am writing to you half a dozen Arapahoes are sitting beside me talSng their language and calling me chief, l have been elected director of the Town company and president of the Claim com pany, and the Indians seeing whites come | to me on business, think certainly must be chief, and have dubbed me chief ac- cordingly One thing l want youto be sure and tell all our friends that come out in the spring, that old Californians have no advahtage over the rest of us, from the fact that the diggings here beatthem out they are not confined to any part cular location; but are scattered all over the country, for distance of over two hun l dred miles The whole country appears to be impregna,ed with gold. We have organized claim laws for forming and mining, which think are very good and liberal. We have preaching every other
 Sunday by Methodist brother by the
 name of Fisher--a very clever and good
 man, though "Fisher for souls" he i' Ihere like the rest of us fishmg for the I "filthy ucre." Those who come on I should start early in the spring. There
 are about eight hundred persons in thi
 country.
 If the girls could only be here to SCI the Rocky mountains m the morning o
 the evening, when the sun is shining, the would see one of the most beautiful sight abey ever beheld. l. is about eight mile Ito the mountains. The first tier Is cover "A ed with pine timber, and looks as black 9 can be. The second tier is covered wit
 snow the whole year round and lookin at both, with the sun shining upon th
 peaks of snow, the craggy rocks, and ul
 on the pines below. forms the grande . sight ever saw. It costs fifty cents
 get letter from here to Fort Larami and the same to get one back from ther 3 It used to cost one dollar.
 We eare going to have train come : Juiy and bring out our families. If ar 6 come out soon. write me a letter and ser a Fit by them; if not, send your letters n mail 10 Fort Laramie. s o
 remain yours, ahectlonately, o HENRY ALLEN. s We should educate the whole man U the body, the head, the heart: tine body to al q the head to think, and the heart to feel.