New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-14
The Truth at Last from Pike,s Peak.

from the promised land in Western Kansas whicl
bears on its face the evidence of the good faith ant
veracity Of the writer:
i PROMISE REAEMBERED.-"P Pixies Peak, March
1s59-My Dear Brother: promised to write you q
good, long letter as soon as arrived here and
well, and to hope that these few lines will find you
| enjoying the same blessing. You know we left
Horizon for the land Of gold about the LIST of Febru
ary, and We arrived here yesterday. Ny wife stood
nearly tired out when they reached here. Jane, thu
George for me- God bless her sweet heart.
HARDsHIPs - PIcK-A BACK LoooMoTIoN. % We
had all the hardships in the world before we go
here We lost our horses at Dubuque-they wert
stolen from us. We got some extra oxen, and ios
4 them one hundred miles from Omaha. We ther
tried wheebarrows, my wife and wheeling by turns
I'll ne Indians stole our barrows. Then we walked
TIL the Indians stole our provisions, and my family
got sick, SO had to carry them all my back. Our
money gave out long before, and for two weeks we
travelled through a wilderness where the foot Of a
human being had never trod, in this condition, seeing
no living being, and without money to purchase even
cracker at any of the groceries along the line we
lived on roots till my children all looked like pigs
from roofing SO long.
| QUEER BACK BEED-"I have carried nv family
on my back till am SO roundsh0udered that can
only see the blue sky and the bright sun by looking
between my legs, and up to heavens canopy that
way. lost two hundred pounds of fesh-horse
meat-when started from Dubuque, or we should
have got along better.
No HuMBUG !-"I read in the Milwaukee News
that Pixies Peak was hnmbug. But it amt, and
the News knows it as well as do We got here in
the morning, after walking all night, and though we
are now twenty four hours in the country we are not
well of, but have good prospect.
u" There is gold here-lots of it. The
gophers dig It out of the ground by the bushel and
10 the moonlight the whole earth for miles around
"a hnau 1fpuSft Stu
pretty girl with yellow freckles. The woodchuchs
dig out bushels and bushels of it, and the snakes in
this country look like solid gold ones, from crawling
among gold chunks. It is found in all sized pieces,
from the size of hens egg up to the biguess of a
large stone, and Of the finest quality.
PILES AS BIG AS HAY STACKs-ts We have raked
together what lay loose on acre of ground, and
have twenty-five piles about big as large sized
hay stack.
INDIANS AND FINE TOOTH CoABs.-"Last night
Two hundred Indians came to rob of set of silver
spoons and fine comb that my wife had to use on
the children, and barricaded our house with rocks
OF gold unit they could not gain admittance, and
were forced to beg. to make friends with US. The
chlef laid down his weapons and came into our
camp, when my wife used the line comb on his head
Till his gratitude was lively as his head was and
he was SO tickled that he offered to marry my wife,
and show me where gold was in plenty. loved my
might die before got rich and feeling that must
make some property to leave my children Iconsented
to the match, and she has gone off with the Indian
who is great chief, and taken the fne comb with
her.. Come out with your wife, and bring fine
comb, brother George
BETTER DIGGISGs BEYoND.-"I am going to leave
these dggings for better one. 1t is too much
trouble to tug and pry up the great big chunks Of
gold that weigh half fun more, and are SO thick
You cannot get them out without danger of breaking
your legs, and am going up to rayine, where all
have to do Is to go to the top of high mountain and
roll it down to the river.'
How He KEEPS DOWN THE LIGHT WEIGHTs.-''The |
country here is fine, but the winds are awful NV
boys got SO light with eating roots that can only
keep them by me, or together, by piling Jumps Of |
gold about as big malles, on their shirt tails as
the little innocents sit down on the grass to play
grows here. can raise twenty bushels |
Of wheat to the acre. Oranges, lemons aud all such
colored fruits grow wild here, while melons, pears
apples, peaches and apple dumpings are so plenty
that they find no market
AFFEcTIoNATE INvITATIoN.-"Sell off what stuff
you have in Wisconsin, and come ont here. You can
get rich in little while, and 60 back in such STYLE
that i will astonish the natives.
Tive my love to all the folks around the corners
and put notice on the schoolhouse that they can
e. an OUTFIT In Chicago for 5000. Come out here,
dear brother, by all means.
Yours afectionately,
JOHN SMITH,