Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-02-16

The miners are beginning to work,
and find the mines full - rich, If not
richer than FIRST reported.
IT. following which We clip from
the St. Josep. County Forum, shows
that the "Hoosiers" are there, and at
work:
We acknowledge the receipt of .
specimen Of "Pike's Peak" gold sent
as by D. NJ. Ross, Esq. who is there or
near there and has had some expert
ence in digging for tne precious stuff.
He states 10 letter to his brother,
James Ross, Through whom We recei-
we'd our specimen) that an iu iustri ous
man can wash out with pan three
dollars day on an average, but has
known Of few cases where they have
washed ont as high as ten dollars.
Mr.. A. J. Dawson, under date Of
December 18th, 1853, in a letter to
his friends, makes the following state
mcnt:
A great many claims here where
we are settled, pay 10 cents to the
pan, and some still more, and then the
quality Of tie gold is 60 fine as to be
more valuable. We are all sanguine
of rich discoveries in the spring, and
being out here We shall have the ad-
vantage Of an early Prospecting.-
Valuable diggings were discovered last
at the Table Mountain, twelve miles
distant, which are said to pay from so
to go cents to the pan on the bed rock,
and to average 10 cents all the way
down a depth of about Is feet. Many
have gone over to take up claims
The Cache lie Pool mines are 80 miles
distant, and are of the same kind
known as shot gold. They are said to
be very rich. Dry Creek mines, few
miles above us pay well. In fact all
OF the diggings where:.they have been
worked to any advantage, have paid
good wages.
Mr.. Sam. S. Curtis, a son of our
Representative in Congress, writes to
his brother in Omaha, letter under
date of December 18th, 1858, from
which we make the following extact:
81 think wen will make next sum-
mer, mining, from twenty-five to sew
enty-fve dollars per day, but what l
write to the papers consider as GER
tain. 1t is very hard work, and after
| had washed out one pan full, con-
cluded that it was HERE, but that l
was not adapted to digging it.
For my own part l am not going
back to the States to live for five years
at least.
Mr.. Noel Lajeunesse, in letter to
his father, under date of Dec. "a,
1853, says;
There is gold here in abundance,
they are making from 50 to 81 per day
at present four miles above this they
are making from 80 cts. to SO cts. to
the pan, averaging $40 per day.
The following letter which We find
in the Leavenworth Herald, speaks for
itself:
LEAvENwoRrH, Dec. 90, 1853.
DEAR GEN II arrived in Leaven-
worth yesterday, and as everybody is
contributing to your paper something
from Cherry Greek gold diggings, |
thought l would tell you what did
while | was there. Igot there on the
soth of August, and prospecting
around through the country for some
time, and at last l strnck a vein, about
two and a half miles from Cherry
Creek, that exceeds anything that has
been discovered. l took out OF this
vein in 25 days $4,000, and the vein
did not seem to be exhausted in any
way. J. HARTMAN.
Mr.. M'Donald, who went out from
this city last September, writes home
to his wife, that the miners are making
from So to So per day. lie thinks he
can make fortune in a short time,
and believes his going to the mines
was the best strike he ever made.
Mr.. Levin, who went out in the lat.
ter part Of October, writes home to his
wife in this city that he has just got
his house completed and is now ready
to commence mining, that miners near
his claim are making from IS to So
per day. Mr.. Levin is an old Callfor-
MIA miner and says that he has nc
doubt but he can make in the spring
from $40 to $40 per day.
How TO GO TO BED.-Dr. Hall in.
structs his subject to undress in q
warm room, heat his feet thoroughly,
draw on his stockings, rush into cold
room, pop into bed with his stockings
on, cover up head and ears. and remain
covered up until he begins to get warm
then poke his nose from under the GOV.
erlid and pull off his stockings. The
Nashua Telegraph thinks this is abou,
the most cowardly way of going to
bed we ever "heard tell Of"
"Our advice-don't hang around the
fire unbuttouing, and unlocking, and
uniaclng, but go to your cold room
with your clothes all on, all standing,
as the sailors say-if there IS pane
or two Of glass broken out so much the
better-go to work with moderate
haste-disrobe yourself to the "Duff y
stockings and all-pu'tiug every
garment just where you can lay you1
hand on it in the dark-draw an your
night shirt pop into bed, straighter
right down, draw the clothes up round
your neck, but don't cover up you,
precious nose, and if you don't sleeE
warmer and
-r Lie anugger
| Than the other bueger,"
who has followed DR.. Halls instruc
tons, just charge Us with q night
lodging"