Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-06-23
The Pixies Peak Cold News-Ts il True

recent exciting nows from Pixies Peak, which
the Leavenworth papers have made so much
fuss over. The Metropolitan published at
Kansas City, reviews as follows
Let US look at the facts. Tho first is let
ter from j. M. Fox, the agent of Jones a.
Russell, bankers Of Leavenworth He says
he has heard that miners at Gregorys dig
| gings wero taking out from 90 cents to S25
u pan; that Capt. Bates took out $75 from II
pans He had heard also that the Indiana
company were making $3.50 to $500 per day,
working four hands lie had heard even
larger stories than these, but until the re-
turn Of Mr. Field and Mr.. Willard, he could
not believe them. Now, however, he can
doubt no longer Now remember these re-
ports are from one who went to the mines
as the agent of firm of brokers, 10 specu-
late in gold dust; and are all hearsays at
that He dug none himself nor did he see
it dug, nor even see the gold. II would be
natural to suppose that an agent Of q bank
ing house, who went there with his pockets
full of rocks to speculate in the precious
stuff, would, where gold is turned out at the
rate of $500 day, begin to make some hea-
Wy shipments to his principals.
Well, he did make the shipment--a whole
express train was dispatched with it, and it
came duly to hand, two dollars and thirty
cents--the net proceeds of one pan--scoops
ed up by Mr. Field, and the only painful taS
ken out. Is it a likely story that where a
man could lift 81 rs (the whole amount Of
the panfuD merely with the little effort Of
scooping it up in pan, that he would not
repeat the operation Not very, we think.
The next item is the sale of claims. Mr..
Gregory sold two claims for 1927 ,000 Mr..
Bates was offered, but refused $4,000 for
his. The Indiana company boughta claim
for $50, and in few days sold it for 81 900.
Mr.. Fox knows that there is nothing so like
ly to draw as tho prospect of speculating in
claims. IL will bring men there with money
and that is the article now most in demand
there-and that too in a country where they
can scoop up pan full of dirt and in it find
two dollars and half, and make one hun
dred and fifty to five hundred dollars day.
The claim speculation is expected to beat
the Kansas claim speculation all hollow
MIR. Fox has also shipped quartz to the a.
mount Of one dollar, and thinks that in two
weeks he will be able to buy $4,000 worth
of gold. We must say these are bright prosI
poets, and hope he may realize them.
The next information is from the Messrs,
Parkinsons, who say they have heard, on
what they consider good authority, that
three men, in three days, took out 81 ,900.-
But that, too, is all hearsay. But they ims
mediately proceed to say in the next breath;
"The snow has been SO deep in the noun
tains that men could hardly travel few
miles in them, and how could men dig or
wash gold ?" Then, pray, how did they get
that 81 900 The Journal Of Commerce, of
osf ,ata
Matt. kidelesbarger, of this city. He also
tells of three men in one day making $3.50,
and Of five men making $500. But again it
is all hearsay. Matt tells of having dug no
gold, nor does he even say that he had seen
any. He, too, mentions the selling Of two
claims for 81 100, bat it is only an induces
ment to spectators, too many Of whom are
there already,
We have talked with men every day di.
rect from the mines, many of whom have
prospected there for months, and that, too,
during the last summer and fall when there
was no snow to interfere with their opera
tions,and they unanimously pronounce these
reports false One man told us he was at
Gregorys diggings, onlya few days before
these huge piles should have been taken out
and the miners were then before the bed
rock, and as yet had found no gold We
will not say there is no gold there, nor that
it may not yet be found in paying quanti-
ties But it looks little strange that such
reports should follow right upon the heels Of
those thousands of returning miners, all Of
whom are satisfied that it will not pay, Bel
sides, the stories do not hold together. They
are large and marvellous, and are so very
like LesvenWorth. Remember, she is in
her death struggle, unless she can make
something out Of this furor. Rather than
give up, she will magnify mole hills into
mountains, and grains of dust into thousand
dollar slugs. Again, VIC say, hold on,