Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-07-30
WHOLE NUMBER sol.

tier The influx cannot fall short Of Eve
hundred per day, balanced by an eflnx OF
about one hundred Many Of the latter
go away convinced that Rocky Mouhtsin
god-mining is one grand humbug Some
Of them have prospected two or three
weeks, eating up their provisions, wearing
out their boots--and finding nothiug.---
Others have worked for the more fortunate
for 81 per day aud their board and lodging
certainly not high wages when the ouali-
ty of the living is considered And feel
certain that, while some---perhaps many
will realize their dreams Of wealth here. a
far greater number will expeud their scantv
means, tax their powers Of endurance. and
then leave, soured, heart-sick, sprit-broken.
Twenty thousand people win have rushed
into this ravine before the LIST Of Septem-
Der, while do not see how half of them
are to lind profitable employment here
Unless, therefore, the area Of the dlggings
shall meantime be greatly enlarged --of
which there is no assurance cannot iniap.
inc how half the number are to subsist hero.
even up to that early setting in of Winter
wlich must cause a general PARALYSIS OF
mining, consequently of all other Rocky
Mountain industry. With the gold lost
wrested from the earth still glittefing in
my eyes---and one company has taken out
to-day, at cost Of not more than $25,
lump CONDENSED by the use Of quick-silyery
which looks like q steel-yard poise and is
estimated as worth $510--I adhere to my
long-settled conviction that, next to ont
right and indisputable gambling, the hard
est (though sometimes the uuickest) way
TO obtain gold is to mine for it---ihat q
good farmer or mechanic will usually make
money faster by sticking to his own busi-
ness than by deserting it for gold-diggiag
and that the man who, having failed in
some other pursuit, calculates on retrieving
his fortunes by gold-mning, makes mis-
take which he will be likely to rue to the
end. of his days.
We had famous gathering few rods
from this tent this evening. The estimate
of safe men puts the number present at
l,50O to 1000 Though my name was
made the excuse for it, brief and forcible
addresses were made by several others,
wherein Mining, Postal and Express facili-
ties the Pacific Railroad. the proposed new
Rocky Mountain State, Temperance, Gamb-
ling, &c, &C., were discussed with force
and freedom. Such a gathering, of men
suddenly drawn hither from every section
and nearly every State, in glen where thhc
first axe was raised, the first tent pitched
by white men, less than six weeks ago,
should have inspired the dullest speaker
with earnestness if not with eloqnence.
Mining quickens almost every depart.
ment of useful industry. Two coal pits are
burning close at hand. A blacksmith has
set up his forge here, and is making good
thing of sharpening picks at so cents each.
A volunteer post Office is just established,
to which an Express Office will soon attach
itself. A Provision Store will soon follow;
then Groceries, then Dry Goods; then q
Hotel, &c, until, within ten years, the
tourist of the Continent win be wMrled up
to these diggings over a longer but far
easier road winding around the mountain
tops rather than passing over them, and
will sip his chocolate and read his N. York
paper-not yet five days old--at the Gre
cory House," in utter Inconsistencies that
this region was wrested from the Elk and
the Mountain Sheep SO recently as 1859. !.