Nebraska advertiser., 1859-03-03

Our Private Opinion Publicly Expressed"
On Monday last Messrs. r. C. BERGER,
J. S. HARDIx, and WV. THoRKE, arrived
at this city direct from The gold mines
We can give their story in a few words
by saying that they fully confirm the ac-
counts we have heretofore published
They bring the best Of evidences, the
gold itself;
They came the new and direct route to
Brovuville, and pronounce IT unsurpassed.
Great preparations are being made by
many Of our citizens for an early start to
the mines. Numbers are here already
from the Slates-one company from
Maine, and another from Michigan
ready 10 START the moment they dare trust
the season. Those who do not propose
going are busy as bees, in various ways.
The farmer is arranging to cultivate eve
~ inch Of ground possible; the merchant
is determined every var shall be sup
piled, and hOtel-keepers making prepare
lions for a heavy run Of custom.
The Nebraska City Ners, on the 22d
ult., issued an extra, being the account Of
a returned townsman, who went out a
South Platte route and returned by the
North Platte route. He is very decided
IN favor Of The South Platte routes, as in
fact are all, without exception, who have
travelled both.
We have heretofore given news from
the Nebraska gold mines, as we received
1t by letters or from those who had been
there and returned, without particularly
advancing the impressions upon, or con-
v%ictioLs Of our own mind in regard to the
matter. We therefore at present very
briefly give orr " notions, or ideas of
the new Ell Dorado.
We have been perfectly satisfied since
the first season we came to Nebraska, by
information received from a reliable
source that there was gold in, and along
the base of the mountains Immediately
West Of this region of country. The in
formation was received from one who had
spent twenty years in that country, and
who expressed great confidence that il
would be soon proSpected and developed.
We were therefore prepared to place con-
hdenee in all reasonable reports that have
been Of late Published. We never belle
we'd that gold existed there, or any where
else on Gods earth, in such abundance
that men could scoop il up with a shovel
or dig il ont in chuncks as big as a mans
head, and thus realize a fortune in a day
week, or month, with no more labor than
turning the hand over And the return
or dissatisfaction of any. or all who
have gone 70 the mines with such inflated
ideas, does nc. in the least weaken oul
belief ia the existence of gold, and tina
too sufficiently extensive to pay well, hare
working, industrious men, for labor they
Iaay eKpeBd. There are many and un
thought Of h~ardships connected with thu
adventures Of gold seekers, that unfortun
Stely too many attacked with the gold fe
yer never think of. The man who goe
10 Pixies Peak, Cherry Creek, or ever
California or Australia, with expectation
other than that he isto endure hardships
privaGons, bard labor, and in many in
stances almost starvation, is doomed L
DISAPPOINTMENT, certain. Fortunes in an,
country. and in any pursuits, are made il
nO-Other way.
At present, and for the present season
there are many discouraging and disad
vantageOus circumstances surrounding
gold seekers in the Nebraska mines.-
Country there is new, and in the rough
and remote from any natural thorough
fare by which the thousand and one nue.
needed and essential conYeniences can b
supplied. Although timber of a goo,
quality abounds, there are no mills yet il
operation. Everything to be eaten-ex
cept wild gane-drank or worn, must b
.wagoned from the various points on tn
Missouri River, or from New Mexico. 4
lie thus surrounded, is not by any mean
pleasant. and cannot fail to take the wir
edge of the timid. For those who Wi
60 TO the Nebraska mines with the deter
.minaiOn 10 dig The gold out of the groun
b hard Hicks, and endure hardships, Their
are, in our opinion, not only good wage
in store for them, but fortunes. The gOl
1ishsers, but Il requires labor to get it,
These are our private opinions, forme
from all the information we have bee
able TO obtain, and we give them for VIVA
they may be worth.
To those now in this part of the con-
try, and who have passed through IN
roughest Of the vicissitudes incident
a frontier country, and are beginning