The Kanzas news., 1859-04-02

From the Gold Mines-The Other Side.
We find the following letter from the
mines in the Kansas City Journal of March
10th, and as we desire to lay before our
readers both sides af the question, we pub
lish it. 1t is written by Mr.. Brookfeld.
ex- Mayor of Nebraska City, to Mr.. Norton
of Kansas City, and dated st. Vrain's
Greek, Rocky Mountains, january 29th,
1859. Here is the letter:
FRIEND NORTON: Yours of Dec. 18th,
was received this evening. and i'll conform
ity with your request. l Immediately sit
down to reply. And firstly, if you have
any confidence in my judgement and act on
my advice, you will Immediately abandon
the idea of coming out here, without some
other discoveries are made than have been
thus far. My impression of the mines is,
that they are id hunebug-I wish that |
could write otherwise, and particular on my
own account, as 1 should be very glad to
see you and Mrs. n. here, and it would be
such good opportunity for my wife to come
out. / have already written her that if
stayed here I should send for her.
Where we are wintering is about twenty
miles north of the mouth of Cherry Creek.
and in Canon at the foot of the Rocky
Mountains, or Black Hills; we have found
here the best quality of gold that has been
discovered, and cannot make one dollar per
day. Billey Moore, Tom and myself are
working together; we have built good dam
across the creek and have our Long Tom
set; (the only Long Tom that is set and
worked in the country, it works beautiful
Fly, SO the old Californians say. There are
six old miners in our settlement / don't
think that there is another company that
came here last fall who have done more
work or have done more extensive prospect
ing than we. We have prospected some
twenty miles south of the mouth of Cherry
Greek to the neigborhood of Longs Peak,
north. Besides, We have prospected as far
into the mountains as We could get Oh ac-
count of snow.
The only hope that have now, is, that
when spring comes, we may find something
to pay us in the mountains. we be
SO fortunate, I will Immediately write you.
I suppose you have ere this, learned that
Mart has gone back, also Z. Muir, Stuff,
Faith and DR.. Mathews. This I send by
Capt. Young, of Archer, n. L. Jas. All
kin, Sam'l Akin, (Rockport Company, L.
Davenport and S. Stambau, of st Stephens
n. T., leave for home in few days; and
were it not for the dread of cold weather
and the hope that we may discover some
thing in the spring, I have no doubt but
that nearly the whole camp would leave for
home.
We were quite surprised few days since
when we read the glowing account in the
Missouri river papers, of what the miners
are doing out here. pronounce them a
pack Of lies written and reported back by a
set of petty one horse tosca spectators, and
are calculated to ruin many poor devil be-
sides your humble servant.
That there may be gold discovered to pay,
l will not deny-hope it viii. I am here,
and may as well stay until satisfied. Should
anything turn up, 1 viii inform you, and
shall depend on my wife coming with youls,
otherwise, you may expect to see me on the
Big Muddy by the 14th of July, certain.
Accept my best wishes to yourself, and
believe me yours truly, BRooKFIELD.