Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-06-07


We have similar accounts from persons just re-
turued TO thi. city from the gold regtoa;
Can't, n. Robbins and Gr W. j. Boycc. both
of ST Joseph. Michigan. started witt, a cs'snpanv
from ST Joseph, Michigan, Feb. lat, 1855. tor
Pixies Peak. and arrived at Denver City April
2Ith Returned, arriving al ST. Josspi,. Ma >sou-
RI, NAV 2oh, aad at Chicago last evening
Their account Is rs follows, took It from
their lips:
We were there three weeks ia the mines
and spent all the time prospecting. We had
Two eK pericHcd California M with There
vas company OF US to the number e nearly
one hundred. and We divided ,nto small parties
and started An different directions. We were
over the pIaias Wherever We could hear uf gold,
up 10 the the fnotintains-eyer. where
that there Was the slightest rIu,or hope of
finding gold. On the low grounds and most
of the streams We could find the "coior.' The
word color Is Used by miners Ia designate a
barely perceptib;e Infusion of gold Ia the soil
or sand. bui nothing that wall pay or amy thIay
lake A. la the Iuolu,aias eoaid seid,un
False the color ~ all aud when did. i, WAS
Ia such small quantities THAI utterly
worthless We first ooksd fad gold
Cherry Creek and the more noted mining re-
gio,is much talked about befure went out.
but We found JUS, nothing nj all People did
not pretend L, there. tina, there MAS
any thing more than The " colo. IN places. e
I of Denver CIty. Arrapahoe, lPoa"UEccd
/ Rappah..) A. Denver Cliy they hal told US
that could get from - 10 8 - day At Ar
rappahoe. and found co-llJ- HARDLY get
4 from nye Ia twenty five cents 4 day. Indeed
that's t'o high figure. The nt,,-f .s.,id we "a
/ any man have about doiinr-si,at III.
whole company had dug. We saw per
who had Tour five dollars and that the
most gold we ever saw any nian have In
] the Gold R-sions.
I We Travelled tor sixty miles. going week a;
time, ANS, stream, and ca,,ons.
but We could find gould worth l,.y lhIh., III all.
/ The weather tinc, and there y
better time tor prospecting. We didn GIT dis
couraged, but were ia rxccileat snrii-, and even
now don't feel dissatisfied. We have learned
enough 10 pay 10 tor our trouble AMI ,hsappoiut-
meat.
I We calculate it is worth 4 ,housand dollar. 10
us and II only cost Us SIX hundred We have
+ now ten cent. worth of gold
/ Finding at last that there no gold TO be
( found an where. and nothing Ia be ex pee, ed
! hut distress If We stayed longer, turned for
home and then Ne began TO see .uple Iii trouble.
( We took ont months provisions IN February,
hut we could upt stand by and see starving
and 1t was soon all gone and W. paid !. =
4 IN cash besides Tor provi-Ions 10 get lis back
/ We kept three TOUR all the time We were
1 there. and that was only the bcsiuuIay. Ne
SAW men III the mountain, while were pros
pectIng who hadn't any thing but FcnIsou 10 eat
/ all winter. They were old miners and were
waiting for The means To get away. On the
/ way back we Il great deal ot suffering anon :,
the peupie coming down the Smoky Hill rouIc
They would strike The he,d of Beaver Creck
,hd follow it down TO where it e,nptIcs into the
/ Platte. There two hundred miles where
there w;s no water on this route. and tn, r.,
WAS the tnust dreadful suffering. We saw sew
( eral such parties We one party that had
+ been composed of thirteen. who mad been five
J NJ han at. aud fen # .
+ left dead on the route Ii awful. The day
/ before they met Us they had actually killed and
eaten and drank the blood OF a hound belonging
+ 10 one Of them, to sustain life. Only three OF
them We're left alive, aud OH they looked hor-
rid, eDaci'ited. and worn OUT, and Just ready TO
/ die Nc were just sitting down TO din
aer, when they came up, and they didn't wait
4 Tor ceretnony, out rushed up. raveuous for the
/ victuals One ut these We had seen our way
out. at st. Joseph. booking finely. and the next
thing uf him he Coming down that
creek looking awful. We one young
man there lying alongside the road, uLabl.. To
stir. who was just kept alive by the pee :. " b.
came by. each giving him something To eat
We made arrangements with four-h team
TO fcich hum through 10 Fort kearney. Wheth-
er he lived Though we don't know.
They are treating the emIgrants very coldly
at Fort kearney. We understood they had
helped some. bat we had a man whom We hao
assisted great deal, and told him to 2,
theIe dAu ger Hrip, adu "hen he got There the
officers told him If he woul 20 and work IN
the sardcn he might have ms TODD.
All aloi1, the route came back We SAY
distress and rum There were picks sh.yuis
pans, wagons. the bones of mules horse. anr
oxen. that had died, and were devoured t,y tn,
wolves TINS was princi paliy above the EN-
igrant CROSSING of tin. Platte. Some horses. OK.
: en- and mules were there Just barely alive ana
NOR, that were skeletons
Many OF The enigrnnis who are well supplied
With provisions. are going throusi. from
Pixies Peak to California Oregon aud a fe :,
, 10 Northern Mexico, on fiiibusieriug expe,i.
lions. but not Ia Dig.
While we were on Clear Creek. We say wha,
was left of the famous Georgia Company the
story of whose wonderful success did 40 nnct
10 start the whole Pixies Peak hunshuy rhe '
were Just like the rest--had found nothing and
they "a bad plight
We talked with one of their number and he
admitted that they had not found any gold
worth anyting from the very beginning The
Th"ie story about their mining was humbug
They were parce! Of scalaways
AT 81. Joseph, Missouri, there has been ,
proclamation. directed 10 the poor emiyrapis
Who are returning. posted up about the street.
that Migrants aud every body out after mdnich,
would he arrested
NJ Brown. Of Wyanei. came up on the same
train rs did Capt. Robbins and Sir Ro,ce .,.o
returning from the " Gold Region" Has parry
coming back picked up two rIien--,he only .nr.
vi'ors "f company of fourteen, all the res,
EarInS starved 70 ,!.ath The snfFertnv r..
seaeral and very great among the en,irrant.
Frfurning on the Smoky Hill route.
Fsr't brkt Al MoBrLK.-A private e..sIatch
from getiemap in New oriean. to a t,i,ni >,
tins city. dated yesterday, saw: {" H.,rv 6,
/ tlcs was killed this morning in duel with
Sir. Smith. at Mobile" Mr. Wick was a ,.,,r