White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-01-06
WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS:
THURSDAY, !: January 6, 1853.
Nrvs FROM n Com REeIoxs.-ND


to know that the gold stories constantly
arriving from our western frontier we're
realities. 1t would be great benefit to
Kansas, rs well as TO other portions 0
the Union. But if Kansas cannot be
made prosperous without humbugging
people, she had better go slow, and bidc
hef'tine We cannot help thinking that
Pixies Peak and Cherry Creek are hum
bugs, notwithstanding nearly every pa
per we pick mp, is filed with glowing
accounts from there. We are acquainted
with a number of persons who have gone
there, and they Invariably send bad re-
ports. Another thing looksEsuspicious.
The favorable accounts al appear in pa
pers published in towns which aspire to
be outfttipg points for the gold regions.
We conyersed with gentleman, only
few DAYS since, who had stopped at
Cherry Greek, on his way from Califor-
MIA overland. He found particles Of gold
there, and has no doubt that small guam
titiesIcsn be procured, but does not think
that digging will pay.
Henry Sterret, who went with COM
pany from Oregon, No, last Fall, has
returned. He reports the diggings a
suction ,, \ little gold caa be found,
but nothing that will pay. The entire
company are sick of it, and intend to
leave, as soon as the weather viii permit.
Several are going through to California,
and the others are coming home. Many
Of the miners, he says. are in for keeping
mp the excitement, in order to draw
crowds Of gold hunters in the Spring,
when they expect to sell their claims and
cabins for large sums, and return home.
Cherry Creek is little stream, which a
man can easily jump across. and is dry a
good part of tho year.
Others of the company have written TO
their friends in Oregon, telling how they
have been humbngged. One of them af-
fectionately wishes all those papers in a
very hot country. which published big
gold stories, and induced them to go out
there.
We are hearing plenty of such news as
this. We should like to be convinced
of the truth of the great gold discoveries
in the Kansas gold region; but we are
not yet convinced, and until we are, we
shall not advise any one to go.
LATEsT.-Asa w. Hayward has Just
returned to this place, from Salt Lake
He and WIN. V. Culver went ont last
Summer. Culver remains at Sal. Lake,
in the care Of the Mormon women Mr..
Hayward passed in the vicinity of the
gold regions, and confirms our belief that
the excitement is all humbug He saw
many persons from the diggings. and they
were all "down in the mouth" He says
particles Of gold can be founa anywhere
between the Platte River and Salt Lake,
but it viii not pay to gather it. Drifts
can be found, which viii yield from so
cents to 81, but that is far from paying
We had imagined that there was less gold
excitement in our town than in any other
community in the United States; but he
says that il there had been even one-third
the excitement in the neighborhood of the
diggings as there is in White Cloud, he
would have remained; for he had desired
TO remain, if there had been the slightest
encouragement for him to DO SO. 1t may
be judged, from this, how plenty the gold
is there. The snow was five feet deep at
Cherry Greek and the Peak, and all ope
rStions were suspended; yet, when he
arrived at St. Joseph, news came shortly
after him, telling how the miners were
digging from SO to SIS per day! Such
is the truth Of the gold stories He fur
thermore says that there are a number Of
traders out there, who last Spring took
out large stocks Of goods, in anticipation
ofavast emigration TO Utah and Cali
foruia. But the Mormon war stopped
that. AMI the traders were left with their
goods on their hands. Thsy first started
the gold excitement, and are keeping it
up, in order to draw people out there,
when they can sell their goods at enor-
nous prices. The biggest stories are sent
in by these men or their agents. And
the newspapers are doing their utmost to
gull the unsuspecting into going to the
diggings, that the trading spectators
may save themselves, who went there, in
the first place, in order to skin needy en-
igrsnts journeying across the Plains.
Those papers which doubt the stories, or
dispute them. are hOoted at. 1t is mat
ter off indifference with us. We shall
use our feeble efforts to keep people from
going there to be swindled. until we have
sufficient evidence of the truth of the gold
stories. q
RHA man was arrested in Forest