Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-03
nearly all the Gold regions in North Amer

nearly all the Gold regions in North Ameri
ca, says:
Next TO the silver mining in that barran
inhospitable desert, Arizona, We look up
on the Pixies Peak and Cherry Creek gold
diggings as the most miserable humbug Of
all the impudent humbugs of the day
We have nodoubt whatever, but that gold, in
very small quantities, can be found iu q
hundred different places in Western Kansas,
New Mexico, Utah and Arizoni; but, thai
it can be gathered in sufficient quantities
to pay expenses, we do not, for one moment,
believe. We profess to speak understand
ingly upon this subject.
On our return from New Mexico, in Feb
ruary 1854, we owned .one-eigLth of all
the gold and quicksilver mines in that Ter
ritory, worth owning; gold mines, in which
not a painful of earth could be washed out,
without obtaining particles of gold; and
quicksilver mines in which the mercury in
its quest state could be picked up in quilts,
as it oozed up from the earth's surface, after
rain; yet, instead of becoming a million
afro, as we should have been if gold and
quicksilver mines were as 7aluable as they
are generally supposed to be, we confess 10
the mortifying fact, that in looking over
the tax duplicate, we find more than half a
dozen property owners rated higher than
we are. People wEo start out TO hunt for
gold in the dark and dirty mine, should
remember that things are not always what
they seem; shat all is not gold that gilt
ters." We have seen gold gathered worth
nineteen dollars an ounce, that cost the
miners twenty five dollars an ounce to gath
er it, and yet strange as it may appear, the
more they collected at this rate the less
they were worth.
The Governor then goes on 10 show the
bold imposition practised upon gullible
community by the land sharks, dealers in
paper city lots, beggarly adventures, and
imprudent unprincipled spectators, scat
tered along tie frontiers, and says these
pirates will laugh in their sleevs as they
see the tide of restless adventurers from
the States making their way into their tolls,
and chuckle as they finger the money gained
from the pockets of their miserably duped
victims.
The Governor finally closes with the
following beautiful appeal TO all who are
inclined to listen to the fowery letters from
Pixies Peak.
We say to the people of Ohio, who look
upon these far off fields with longing eye,
if you would know when you are well off,
stay where you are; stay where the rain
and the dew of heaven falls upon the fruit
ful earth and causes it tc bring forth boun-
tifully and in season; stay where the rivers
and streamlets are not ashamed TO run from
their sources to their outlets without hiding
their crystal faces beneath their pebbled
beds; stay where the tall majestic forest
trees spread their ample branches proudly
towards heaven, as the feathered warbers
pour forth their sweetest melodies, hidden
in the rich, da:k green foliage; stay where
you can have schools to educate your chill
dreD, churches to christianize your neigh
bors, and newspapers to enlighten your
selves; stay where camels are not needed
to transport you over barren desserts, where
pistols, bowie knives and rifles are not need
ed to protect you from ruffians, savages and
midnight assasins; stay where the labor of
your own hands will ever procure you a
comfortable living, where all the comforts
of civilization awaits you, where all the
advantages of steamboats,, railroads, and
telegraphs are yours; in a word, stay in
Ohio, the most favored spot in the sun
light of heaven; stay at home-and you
will find yourselves richer in purse, purer
in morals, stroger in health, and happier
far, morally, physically, and intellectually,
than if You were in possession of all the
mines at Pixies Peak and Cherry Valley.