Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-07-01

e. tainly high valuation though this is undoub
is edly of very great purity. The reader can r
II duce the estimate if he secs fit. We have
d data on which to act in the premises.
/ The wall-rock is generally shattered so ths
it, like the vein-stone, is readily taken out wit
t the pick and shovel. In a single instance ouI
= did wess hear of wall-rock too hard for this
: OF the vein-stone, probably not more tina
s onc-half is so decomposed that the gold can b
washed from it. The residue of the quartz i
sh0seled out Of the sluices, and reserved to b.
crushed and washed hereafter. The miner
estimate this as equally rich with that whcl
has ''rotted' so that the gold may be WASHED
from it hence, that they realize, as yet, bu
half the gold dug by them. This seems prob
able, hit its truth remains to be tested
I 1t should be borne in mind that, while tllt
mt1ers here how labor under many disaIyan
Etages, which must disappear with the growth
Of their experience and the improvements O
their now rude machinery, they at the same
time enjoy advantages which cannot be retain
ed ind 4fnitely, nor rendered universal They
are all working near a small mountain stream,
which affords them al excellent supply of wa
ter for washing at a very cheap rate; and
though such streams are very common here, the
leads stretch over rugged hill and considerable
mountains, do44n which the vein stone must be
carried: TO water at serious cost 1t does
not seem probetJle that the thousands of claims
already made or being made on these leads can
be worked so proftably in the average as those
already in operation We hear already of
many who have worked their claims for davs
| (by pahniDg) without having ''raised the col
or, as the phrase is-that is, without having
found any gold whatever. We presume thott-
sands are destined to encounter lasting and ut
ter disappointment, quartz veins which bear no
gold being prominent feature Of the geology
of all this region.
We cannot conclude This statement without
protesting most earnestly against a renewal of
the mEttuation which .impelled thousands to
rush to this region a month or two since, only
to turn back before reaching it; or to hurry
away Immediately after, more hastily than they
came. Gold mining is a business which cIni-
nently requires of its votaries capital, expert
ence, energy endurance, and in which the high
est qualities do not always command success.
There may he Hundreds of ravines in these
mountains as rich in gold as that in which we
write, and there probably arg nIany but, up
to this hour we do not know fiat. any have
been discovered. There are said to be five
thousand people already in this Tayine, 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 and
supplies of every kind must be hauled by
teams from the Missouri river, some 700 miles
distant, roads WHICH are mere trails, eros
sing countless unbridged water courses, always
steep banked and often mirey, and at times so
swoolen by rains as to be utterly ifnpassable
by wagons. s-~..a-.
Part Of this distance is q aesert, yielding
grass, wood and water only at Intervals of sew
eral miles, and then very scanty. To attempt
to cross this desert on foot is madness, suicide
and murder. To cross it With teams in mid
summer, when the water courses are mainly |
dry and the grass eateE up is possible only to
those who know just where to look for grass
and water, and where water must be carried |
to preserve life A few months bence-prob- |
ably by the middle of October-this whole re-
gion will be showed under and frozen up so as
to put stop TO the working of sluiceg if not !!
of at least six months, will be neither employ
ment, food or shelter within five hundred miles,
for the thousands pressing hither 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 provisions or
money their fortunes are made. Great disap-
pointment, great suffering, are inevitable few
can escape the latter who arrive at Denver
City after September without ample means to
support them in very dear country, at least
through q lorg winter. We charge those who
the telegraph not to dilfuse a part of
our statement, without giving substantially the
whole; and we beg the press generally to
unite with It's in warning the whole people
against another rush to these gold mines, as
ilLadvised as that of last spring-a rush sure
to be followed like that by a stampede, but
one far more destructive of property and
life. 7 Respectfully,
r.. ,s--t-. -... HORACE GREELY,
A. D. RICHARDSON,
... HrxRy XutSEu,