, 1859-06-01
NEWS FROM PfKE'R PEAK.
Horrible EuHcrfuea' OF Ncturnfng
EmtGrant&- =,
Great Waste of 1.ite and Property.
No Gold


of St Joseph, Michigan, started with eom-
pany from ST. Joseph. Mich. Feb. 1st, 1883,
for likes Peak, mud arrived at Denver cltyt
April .4th. Returned, arriving at St. Joseph,
Missouri, May rs, and ut Chicago last evening.
Thc;r accoun. il as follows, Is we took it fi"sn
their lips:
We were t1,src three weeks in the mines. and
spent all the time prospecting. We had two
experienced California miners with US. There
was a company of us to the number Of nearly
one hundred. md VIC divided into small parties,
and started in different directions. We were
were over the plains wherever VIC could hea: OF
gold, up To the c1nons in the moantains-crery-
where that there Was the slightest r'iaor or
hope Of finding gold. On tho low grounds End
in ilos: Of the streams We coud find the ''en;er
Tic wor,l I" roler is used by miners 10 desiss-
hale a barely perceptib1e Infusion Of gold IN
the soil or sand, but nothing snat will l'ay
nor anything like it. In the mountains
VIC seldom could raise the ''cofor'' ut all, aud
when we did, il wr< III such small quantities
tint il was utterle worthless. We first looked
to find ynd III Cherry Creek ard the morc nut
ea minin. regions, 81 much talked about uct"Te
we'wen, out. bnt ne found just nothing nj all.
People didn't pretend to mine there, or Hut
there was anything more than the 'coior' in
| places. We then went up OH Clear Greek, l..
miles west Of Dcnscr City, to Arraphoe. PRO
| nounced Rappa!o.) Al Denver City they lad
told us We could get from 81 to ST. day at
Arraphoe, and we found VIC could hardly get
] from fivc to Twenty-Five cents day. Indeed
that's too high figure. The most gold I've saw
a.ly Que man hare was shout dol'ar-th:t his
whole company had dug. We sawn storc'ccpcr
| who lad four or five dollars, and that was Tie
most gold wc ercr saw any one man hare in the
Gold Regions. ....
Nh. I.orcE. When wc started back ] lad
about p cents worth, and hare about ~ cents
worth here yet, as tue result of lny trip. ls1r.
Boycc showed our reporter few grains o! line
,c:ic ;oid 1uixcd with dirt, which he carried i'll
qui'1.j There is what man makes BY going
10 Pixies Peak. At -arrapboc our company Ill
yidcd to explore tie mountains in search "f
gold. W. went in different directions, fullow-
iuy this Clear Crrck nearly to its source. Same
of us had our PROVISIONS &c, packed on mules.
and sop,c packed them Gil their backs.
C.,rf. Ho'i;"s, And tel ,on that's no easy
work. We travelled for sixty miles, gu'a=
weck 1T . time, over mountains and streams aud
ranune, but TIC could and nu gold w"rtil su:
thing Ut all. The weather was IsIc. and there
never was better tine for prospecting. We
didn't yet discouraged, bat were in excellent
SPIRITS. and c:cn HON. t!u.,'t feel dissatisfied
| We l.,vc learned enough TO repay It's for "ur
trouble and disappointment
.I,:. E"y|. calculate its worth 4 1hu':sand
Gv11ars to MT and it nnly cost me six hundred.
| have this ten cents worti. Of gold.
Fiudiu. at last That thctr wis no guild 10 BE-
found anywhere and notblngt 10 bc expected hut
distress il we stayed lonycr, ne turned t"r ''omc
aud then VIC began to sec people i'll trouble. We
took out six months provisions iii February, bn'
NC could not stand by and sec sle Starving and
it WIS soon ati gouc and We paid ont s.. in.casll
besides 1or provisions 10 Sct Us back. We kept
; ar i men I'll tAa 1isne We were there. aiIL
tllst w;,> only tlse beginning. We saw men in
| tho mountains wllil' We were Prospecting who
hadn't anything but Eenson 10 eat ali winter
They were old miners a:,I We're waiting for the
emigration 10 bring them tn. means III re: away.
On lie way back We ssw great deal of suffering;
an,uns the people coming down tllc Smoky Hill
ro,,t Th.rx,n1, s,r: . t1,,. head f1,ca,.rrrcc,
ind iouy il down 10 where it e'nptics into the
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Of grant crossing Of thc Platte. Sumo horses q,
in oxen and mules were thcrc just barely ali,
at and more that were skeletons.
tao Many Of tic e1uierants who arc well sup11i
o,t with provisions, are going on through fr<
Pixies Peak to California or Oregon, and
10 Northern Mcxico on fltibustcring c1pe
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