The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-07-16

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would be seventy th,usand men here. iprs-
sumo be forgot about the rigoFs Of : WIN.
tar in The mountains, and, probably, should
he divide bis number BY seven, he would 81
nearer right. Judge SIXTH proposed thai
the three commissioners appointed BY tht
Kansas Legislature to lay of i've counties
At the base Of these moun.ains-if they CANT
GU. for that purpose-shOuld, like the gam
blers, be treated to = mule. RICHARDSON
said be was one of those commissioners, ant
| be had no objections to being presented will
a mule, but he declined serving as com
missioner, and be presumed nothing would
be done about organizing those counties.
counted part Of the assembly, and guessed
a. the rest, ard think there was at least &
thousand men present, and when the meet.
ing broke up, the rush for camps and the
shouting of comrades who had become sepa-
rated in the tbrong, made scene OF the
widest confusion. 1t was a strange sight
| to see thousand men gathered in mass
meeting, away out here in these rock dedles,
where, less than ten months ago, the solita-
~ reicu of Nature since the creation had
vet been unbroken. To see the order, the
manliness, the intelligence, that psrvaded
the multitude, would have made any old TO-
~ European, who had not become complete
ly fossil;zcd BY the humdrum institutions Of
his own country, e1claim--" truly thisis q
a great Country, and the Americans are q
great people,"
FRED CHAMBERS, of Carroll County, ILL.,,
one of our company, has just come up from
HESpERsos's sluee, a quarter OF mile
below here, anc given me the following
statement: From one pan of dirt, taken
from HENDERso>'s claim, he saw washed out
sir dollars 1857; the Jumps of rock in the
painful were then pounded, and dollar and
half more got from them, making screen
dollars and a hayl$7 l.2) from one pan of
dirt. CHAMBERS is an intelligent, wide-awake
man, not at all enthusiastic--a man of truth,
and one not easily deceived.
But, Mr.. Editor, here is Dr.. CAsro, just
passing up the ra7ine to stake out claim
for JONES & RussELL's Express Office aud
Trading House, and l must. drop my pen
and 60 along, to get a claim as near them
as possible, as they will be in the business
center of the community--the best spot in
the diegings for a law Office.
5 l > O'CLOCK, P. M.--Back again, all
right--,hey have taken claim $50 feet
front by 100 fee, deep, and Intend to put
up q building $50 fec. long. Our claim
joins theirs. We are known as CHAMBERS
& CO., the firm consisting Of FREr CHAM
BERs, ( FRANK STEDNAS, Of Savanna, Carroll
County, H.; and your correspondent, of
Council Bluffs. We have 80 feet front and
100 feet deep, and FRANK and have been
cutting the logs to build house, l6 by 80
feet. FRANKS axe has the handle cracked
and Is very dull, so beat him a little.
have cut down % trees since dinner, and
cut them of tue right length, and now am
Il little tired, besides clustering one Of my
hands. dom: mention this as big job,
for the timber is very soft, being spruce and
pine, and veteran backwoo dsman would
chop enough for the whole house in half IL
day. FRED and FRANK intend to make
sto:e of their part, and will stick out
" single" on mine.
You may look for me in the Bluff, abou,
the 4th OF July, after some books and other
4" chicken fxins" with which to garnish the
interior Of my shan'y. suppose couldn',
coax any Of sour girls " to come out and
keep house for me, so | shall not try. Il
intend to 60 on the independent line down
tho Platte in skiff, and expect to have
"sweet 'ime' dragging my little craft over
the sand bars; but shall have a pair of
sculIs' and where the water is deep enough,
will make it 60 "kiting." Youk know, Mr..
Editor, have pulled after whales enough
to know how.
FRED CHAEBERs has come in again from
the cattle ranch above here, and reports that
TWO boys have struck a lead this afternoon.
when promises to be as rich as anything
yet discovered. Four old Calirornians were
near them, on the other side Of
The creek, and they laughed when they saw
the boys stick down their shovel in the place
they did; they said the idea Of finding any.
thing there was ridiculous. Well, the boys
took painful out near the surface, and
gov ABOUT , cents; then they dug down three
'ee'' and took out painful from which
they got about (5o) nifty cents, and that
coarse gold-certainly not in large pieces,
but entirely distinct in its cha, ac,sr from
the Hour gold" of the other leads. But, |
perhaps, Mr.. Editor, We will look a, the
bright side Of the Picture too much, and
become dazzled-so, let US take a peep
~ tue other side. Undoubtedly few men
hero are making money very fast, Blu, the
great majority are making nothing; some
have already become discouraged and turn. |
60 back and others say that uoless they
''r'ke something soon they will 90. too. |
>urmise' are aaoas that some of the riches,
leads are greatly falling OF in their Weld
aud there are old California and Georv;a
miners hero who still say they believe the
snois thing will prove "crand szzle."
>0'n'Os but time will settle tho question.
bu'' TO say no more of gold, a rambls
among these mountains is we'll worth a trim
across the plains, even if you 90 afoo.. /
I'm glad l came. have seen soue,b;n,
ne" every day, and learned more of the
mature OF the country than l could have
from ransacking whole library Of
books. When start back, intend to TAX.
great number of specimens of rock and Of
'ae vegetable products of the mountains,
The next letter write to the No,no..;,
viii probably be penned in your sau,,um
where / shan y J