The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-02-03
THE 9TH EK SIDE or THE STORY.
The Gold Regions" Declared q
Humbug.
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP!

n AAADuk.
LOOK BEFORE Y0U LEAP
&%SsA ~ sl9
correspondent OF the Chicago Pres
sends that paper the following clipped iron
the columns Of The Chief, paper publishe,
at White Cloud, in the north. eastern part
Kansas. We presume it 10 quite ~ good gu
thority for one side Of the story as the gen
erality of sources from which our late 70
ports have been coming, are for the othe
side.
NEws rRox TIN Coin RsoIoNs.--No on,
would be more gratifed than oursslf, K
know that the gold stories constantly ARR.
wing from our Western frontier were real
ties. 1t would be great benefit to Kansas
as we'll ~ to other portions OF the Union
But # Kansas cannot be made prosperous
without humbugging the people, she had bet.
help thinking that Pixies Peak and Cherry
Greek are humbugs, Notwithstanding nearly
every paper we pick up, is filled with glow
ing accounts from there. We are acquaint-
cd with a number Of persons who have gone
there, and they invariably send bad reports.
Another thing looks suspicious. The favor
able accounts all appear in papers published
in towns which aspire to be Quitting points
for the gold regions.
| We conversed with q gentleman, only a
few days since, who had stopped at Cherry
Creek, on his way TO California overland
He found particles OF gold there, and has no
doubt that small quantities can be procured,
but does not think tina. diggings will pay.
Henry Sterret, who went with company
from Oregon, Mo-, last fall, has returned
He reports the diggings sssuction." A It,
| tie gold can be found, but nothing that will
pay. The entire company are sick Of it, and
intend to leave it a. soon ~ the weather will
permit. Several are going through to Cali
fornia, and the others are going homo. Many
of the miners, be says, are for keeping up
the excitement, in order to draw crowds Of
gold hunters in tho spring, when they ex-
pect to sell their claims and cabins FOR large
sums, and return home. Cherry Greek is
little stream, which 3 man can easily jump
across, and is dry good part of the year.
Others OF the company have written to
their friends in Oregon, telling how they
have been humbugged. One Of these affec-
tionately wishes all those papers in . very
hot country, which published gold stories,
and induced them to 70 out there.
We are hearing plenty Of such news AZ
this. We should like to be convinced Of the
truth OF the great gold discoveries in the
h0uDao kuiu SoRtuu out VIC oTc HOt y0b con-
WINGED, and until we are, We shal not advise
any one 30 20.
LArET.-Asa w. Hayward has Just re-
turned to this place from Salt Lake. He and
VIM. V. Culver went out last summer. Gull
yer remains at Salt Lake in the care OF the
Mormon women. Mr.. Hayward passed in tho
vicinity Of the gold regions, and confirms our
belief that the excitement 10 oil humbug. He
saw many persons from the diggings, and
| they were "down in the mouth" He says
particles OF gold can be found anywhere be-
| tween TIE Platte River and Salt Lake, but it
will not pay to gather it. Drifts can be
found, which will yield from fifty cents to
one dollar, but that is far from paying. We
had imagined that there was less gold excite
ment IN our town than in any other commu-
nifty in the United States but he SAYS II
there had been even one-tenth the excite
ment in the neighboahood Of tho diegings
there is in White Cloud, he would have re-
NAMED; for he had designed to remain il
there had been the slightest encouragement
for him to do so. 1t may be judged from
this, how plenty the gold is there. The snow
was five feet deep at the Greek and Peak,
and all operations were suspended; yet,
when he arrived at St. Joseph, news came
| shortly after him, telling how the miners
were making from $40 to $25 per day. Such
is the truth OF the gold stories lie further
more says there ares number Of traders out
there, who last spring took out large stocks
OF goods, in anticipation Of q vast emigra-
ton to Utah and California. But the Nor
mon war stopped that, and the traders were
left with the goods on their hands. They
FIRST started the gold excitement, and are
keeping it up, in order to draw people out
there, when they can sell their goods At enor-
nous prices. The biggest stories are sent in
by these men or their agents. And the news
papers are doing their utmost to gull the un-
suspecting into going to the diggings, that
the trading spectators may save themselves
who went there, in the FIRST place, in order
to skin needy emigrants journeying across
the Plains. Those papers which doubt the
stories, or dispute them, are hoosed 1t. IL
Is a matter Of indifference with Us. We shall
use our feeble efforts to keep people from
going there to be swindled, until We have suf-
fcient evidence Of the truth Of the gold sto-
rias.