Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-03-03
~ From the Wooster Republican.
THE GOLD REGIONS!
DO THEY PAY.

DO THEY PAY.
Letter from Wooster Boy OMer Let
ters and Opinions of Experienced
Miners and those who hare erplorso
the Pixies Peak Country. Deg +
The Gold Fever still RACES in some parts
of lhe State, but we think the excitement
is now subsiding, and the sober second
thought is taking It's place. Those news.
papers, that have published most of the
flatiering letters from Pixies Peak, are now
expressing great doubts as to the proprie-
ty of young men or Others, leaving the
substantial comforts of home and plenty,
for the very doubtful chances of success in
the mines. Although most of the letters
published are filed with glowing accounts
of the mines, still we have no doubt a
large number Of letters that never come to
the public eye, give entirely different ac-
of affairs. Certain it is that there are
many in the mines who are dissatisfied and
going home, while others only wait to see
what spring may develop.
We have been permitted 10 copy below
an extract from letter written by Mr..
Westley Spear, formerly of Wooster, now
in the Geld Regions,) to his brother in
Wooster. We copy only that portion of
the letter which speaks of the prospects of
making fortunes in the Gold Mines. The
following is the extract:
MoUNTANIA, Jan. 4th, 1859.
DEAR BRoTHER:- 4
Il would like to know what the excite
ment is with you about this country and
The gold. From what have heard | sup
pose it is great, but can tell you, if there
is not more gold found in the spring than
there is now, it will not pay to stay here
have been out prospecting and hunting,
aciM an old CnlJornian, nearly all the
time since here. 1t is true the 'color'' can
be found by digging any place, but it is
.foqt gold and very scarce. 1t will not
pay for working, but | think there will be
places found in the spring, up in the
mountains, that will pay big. The noun
tains as yet have not been prospected, for
we cannot work here in the winter The
vallies have been all dug up, but not
enough gold is found to pay. There are
six or eight hundred persons here HOW,
and still more coming. Now if you are
aching to come out here just hold your
horses, ard do not believe all the reports
you hear, for there are lots Of toyns start
ing up here, and anything will be written
back 10 get folks out here. If there is not
more gold found next summer than there is
now, | am coming back, or going some
place else. ! will quit writing moment,
and go out. TO bole have sunk, and
wash out pan and send you the gold, so
you mag see what it looks like, and how
much we get out of pan. - Well, l
am back again, and have washed out two
pans and have got,about tgelye and half
cents, which will send toyou. Now there
places where We cannot get more than
two of these small specks in pan, and
other places where We can get more than
| send to you out of one pan, but it does
not pay person. 1 mould advise all
friends of mine not to come here until
something better is found.
y
r..- WESLEY SPEAR.
1t will be seen that Mr. Spears ac-
count is anything but fattering, though
perfectly candid and reliable. His oppor-
tuniies to know have been good as he has
been over most of the mining country with
an old experienced California miner. His
account also agrees in the main with Mr..
Millers, whose letter we published sew
eral weeks ago. Mr.. Spear is very well
known to the citizens of Wooster, and 10
many of the people of Wayne County as
entirely reliable.
We also copy from the Stark Co., Re
publican an extract from a letter of Mr.. ].
H. Snyder, formerly of Stark County
Speaking of Pixies Peak tide, he says:
Now hope your friends and neighbors
will not throw themselves into the crater
of Kansas gold speculations headlong, and
never seek to learn anything more than
that there is gold at Pixies Peak. If they
will look around and count up tie number
of Caifornians who returned and made
fortune by the trip, they can readily guess
that not all who go to the diggings and
return, bring back as much as they take
away. and not more than one half make
more than fifty cents per day, i. e., one
half Of all that 90 and return make an av-
errge of about fifty cents per day from the
time OF leaving to that of returning, and
one third make less than twenty-five cenls
per day.
Gen. Larimer, formerly of Pittsburgh,
writes January 18th, from Denver City, TO
the Leavenworth Times, that the country
is beautiful, soil productive, game in abund-
ance, and health perfect, but that il is no
place for lazy men, and that gold can be
got only by hard work. The letter also
speaks much more of what is 10 be done
than of what has been done. al,i .l'-
The Editor of the Cincinnati CONNER
ciah, after reading numerous letters pro and
con, says: --.-
There is gold, but whether it will pay
for the hardships and toll, the physical ex-
posure and pecuniary expense of seeking it,
remains to be considered. Those vino pro-
Cure proper outfit, team, wagon, a few
months provisions, and supply OF OILS
and rough clothing, and expect to fare hard,
to endure cold and wei, hunger and fatigue,
and to work strongly and persisten,ly and
he content with making money-say about
as much, all expenses paid, as they could
make with the same effort anywhere that
daily labor ix in demand-will Drobably