Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-25
Pixies Pork and Cherry Creek.

Pixies Pe,rk and Cherry Creek.
The following is an article from the Dayton
Journal, with an extract from the White
Cloud (Kansss) Mict, of Jan. 9th, 1859.
Some Of our young friends, who are on the
eve Of departure to the reputed new Eldorado
will do well to read AMI ponder the statement
Of persons who have returned from Pixies
Peak and Cherry Greek, fully persuaded to
resume their accustomed avocations They
believe the extravagant reports Of gold dis
coveries to be all speculative scheme, got up
by persons interested in having large
emigration go into that country the coming
Spring: .,..... ..-.s..,
The White Cloud K1asos Chief, a paper
published near the borders Of civilization,
expresses its belief that Cherry Greek and
Pixies Peak are humbugs. The editor states
that all those who have gone there, with whom
he is acquainted, have invariably sent back
bad reports. Another thing which he regards
as suspicious is the fact that the favorable
accounts all first appear in papers published
in towns which aspire to be Quitting points
for the gold regions. I.G
The editor conversed with gentleman a
few days since, who had stopped at the mines,
on his way from California. lie says there is
gold ther:, but in such very small quantities
that it will not pay to gather it.
Henry Stcrrctt, who went with company
from Missouri, last fall, has returned He
reports the diggings decided suction A
little gold can be found, but nothing that will
pay.
Asa. w. Hayward has Just returned to
White Cloud, from Salt Lake, whittier he
went last summer. He passed through the
gold regions, and became conyinccd that the
stories about it are all humbugs. He saw
many of the lniners, and they all had the
"blucs." lie says particles of gold can be
nd,anywhere between the Platte River and
Salt Lake, but it will not rcmunerate the
gatherer for his labor and trouble. Drifts can
be found which will yield from fifty cents to
one dollar, but even that is far from paying
Mr.. II. states that he had designed taking up
his quarters at the mines, but on finding out
the true state of the case, he felt convinced
that there was not the slightest encourage
ment for him to do so. -
| Such are the statements of those who look
at the dark side of the picture On the other
hand, it is as positively asserted by others
that gold is abundant, and of the purest quail
ity. Our readers are at liberty to believe
either, both, or neither sides, as they choose
Those laboring under an attack of the "fever,' u
however, would probably do we'll to take q
LIBERAL dose of the dark side. -Edton Reqister
ABOUT THE DIGGINGs.-A correspondent ir
this county informs us that, Of fifteen returned
gold hunters with whom he has conversed
within few weeks past, not one gave any
thing like favorable report. Some of them
had prospected on Cherry Creek, along the
Platte, about Pixies Peak, and on the head
waters of the Arkansas; but, although they
were fully satisfied of the existence of gold
wherever they had worked, yet in no instance
could they obtain more than SO per day
Capt. Pemberton, of Iowa Point, who has
recently returned from the mines, thinks that
mining can be made profitable only by the aid
Of machinery, and that mining in the ordinary
way will not pay at all.
We are somewhat inclined to think that the
numerous stories in circulation all along the
border, about men taking out from 81 0 to $25
per day, are correct, after all, so far as TAKING
out is concerned; but that, instead of being
taken from the ground, it is extracted from
other mems pockets mot with garden spades
shovels, picks and pans, but with spades
clubs, hearts and diamonds = White Cloud
K 0nsas CHIEF, JAM 2Tth.