The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-04-06

Co"rieC md Enquirer, " tho most com.
prehensive and sxact information we hsve
seen on the subject. The Pikee Peak cx.
element is now matter of interest, and
promises to be more interesting in the 'u-
ture
The PIRE's PEAK Coin ExclTEskNr.--
| is nov about seven months since Gold
was fret found in the vicinity OF Pixies
Peak. The discovery was made upon a
small stream Of about 81 miles in length,
called Cherry Greek, which rises near the
base Of the Peak, and flows in north.
sasterly direction.
Gold was found about the Is, Of Au.
gust last, aud oh the: 25th OF the came
month, VI. Bordeau and company, old
mountein traders nnd trappers, came into
Kansas city with their Wagons loaded
with furs and pelts, and surprised the
people of that place With the news that
they had made discovery of rich Gold
deposites "pon Cherry Creek, and that
they came in from the mountains for the
express purpose of purchasing the neces-
sary tools and other outfit to work the
new gold mines.
The Morning JoNyaai Of that city i'm
mediately made the announcement OF a
New Eldotado," "Gold III KANSAS Ter
ritory." And in short article, set forth
tho facts as furnished by Mons. Bordeau.
This was the first newspaper article about
the Pixies Peak Gold Mines.
In few days after the departure Of
Bordcsu sndc ompany, Mons = Richard.
Mons. Boesinette and Mr.. John C.ntrell,
another party of mountain men came in.
They gave the same statement about the
gold az made by Mons. Bordeau. and like
him purchased mining implements and
started back. This being u confirmation
Of the previous report, il was 80 stated by
the morning paper, and in less than
week the border was alive with excite
ment. Parties were immediately organ.
lied and left without delay for the new
gold fields. In a few weeks all the Dor.
der and territorial papers appeared, giving
credence to the reports first published,
and also setting forth new facts.
BY the first of October small parties
had left from nearly every town in Kansas
and Western Missouri for Pixies Peak.
About the middle of November letters
werc received from these adventures d..
rected to parents, to children and to most
intimate Friends, giving aattering accounts
about the gold, their success. and the
country. Hundreds OF these letters. tho
not written for publication we're published
in the border papers.
On the appearance Of these letters. most
Of which represented the new gold fields
70 DO fully equal both in extent and rich.
ness to the plscers of California, the press
Of the country tecmed with 6attsring arti.
Giles about the new gold discoveries. Fl.
nslly, small remittances OF the gold dust
we're made to purchase supplies. Then
many smigrants left, and in larger parties
and on the 6rst Of January, 1859, it 10
estimated that no less than fftsen hun.
dred people were at work in these mines,
and most Of them doing well.
About the middle OF January the gold
was forwarded to the mint at Philadelphia
assayed, and pronounced to be the purest
gold in North America. II then won.
into the currency of the country. The
gold that but few days previous WAS hid
in the earth. far beneath the tread of the
rowing savage. was emblssoned With the
impress Of the Eagle and the Stsrs--wss
buying broad and paying taxes.
In this connection it may not be out of
place for US to give the emigration correct
information about the routes to take .ead.
ing to these mines aafely and expeditions
ly.
For the last thirty years there has been
carried on in the immediate neighborhood
OF these mines . mountain commerce,
amounting annually to millions Of dollars.
The men engaged in this commerce are
our Oldest and most experienced noun.
taineers such men rs William Bent,
Major Stvrain, Major Dripps, Kit Car.
son, John L. Hatcher, and many Others.
These men every Spring and Fall send
out trains of forty and sixty wagons load.
ed with mountain goods to trade with In.
dians. and it 10 to be presumed that the
way they 60 is the best. safest, and most
economical for the emigration.
They buy their goods mostly in Now
York and Philadelphia, and ship them
direct to Cincinnati and St. Louis. At
81 Louis they are ro.shipped upon the
Missouri river packets. and sent forward
to Kansas City. Independence, Westport,
Atohison, and Nebraska City. They then
load their merchandise into wagons cap.
able Of carrying from sixty to sixty-nvc
hundred pounds, and take il across the
Plains, either on the old Santa Fe route
which has been Travelled by these caravans
for the last thirty yosr,. or by what is
known as tho Northern or Fort Kearney
route, leaving the Missouri River at Ateh.
ison and Nebraska City. These are the
snly roads across the Plains that can be
travelled With wagons. To get there from
this city, or from any of the New England
States TO these gold mines, the most direct
and cheapest and safest route to take. is
to steer straight for Cincinnati. and from
thence to St. Louis. where emigrants will
always find frat class packet boats, and
the trains Of the Pacific Railroad leaving
every day for ell the above places. Ar.
rived at st. Louis. il then remains for the
smierant to decide upon which route to
take across the Plains, the Northern or
Qonthsra