The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-06-25

the miners here now labor under m.,
obvious disadvantages, which must disnc
pear with the growth of their experisna.
and the improvement of their now ma
machinery, they at the same time en;OU
advantages which cannot be retained ~
definitely, nor rendered universal. TIL.
are all working very near small MONIES.
stream, which affords them an excellsn,
supply of water for washing at a var"
cheap rate; and, though such streams a..
very common here, the leads stretch ov.,
ruggy hills and considerable moup,s;n.
down which the vein-stone must be cav,
ried to water, at serious cost. Il Do,
not seem probable that the Thousands 81
claims already made or being made on
these leads can be worked SO proftablv in
the average as those already in operation
We hear already of many who have WOW
ed their claims for days 10y panningl with
out having raised the color" as the pbrss.
Iis-that is, without having found anv
gold whatever We presume thousand,
ara destined to encounter lasting and u,,s,
disappointment, quartz veins which bean
no gold being q prominent feature of the
geology Of all this region.
We cannot conclude this stateuo,,
without protesting most earnestly asaip,,
q renewal of the infatuation which i'm.
PEELED thousands to rush to this region +.
month or two since, only to turn back bs.
fore reaching it, or to hurry away imms.
diately after, more hastily than thew came
Gold mining is business which emf.
nently requires Of its votaries capital, ex.
Iperience, energy, endurance, and in which
the highest qualities do not always com.
mand success. There may he hundreds
of ravines asrich in gold as that in which
we write, and there probably are mapy:
but, up 10 this hour, we do not know thai
any such has been discovered. There are
said to be five thousand people already
in this ravine, and hundreds more pouring
into it daily. Tens of thousands more
have been passed by us on our rapid Jour.
ney to this place, or heard Of as on their
way hither by other routes. For all these,
nearly every pound of provisions and
supplies of every kind must be hauled by
teams from the Missouri river, some 200
miles distant, over roads which are mere
trails, crossing countless unbridged water.
courses. always steep banked, and often
miry, and at times so swollen by rains as
to be utterly impossible by wagons. Part
of this distance is desert, yielding grass,
wood and water only at intervals of sew.
eral miles, and then very scantily. To
attempt to cross this desert on foo, is
-suicide-murder. To cross it
with teams in midsummer, when the
water courses are mainly dry, and the
grass eaten up, is possible to those only
who know just where to look for grass and
water, and where water must be carried
along to preserve life. A few months
hence-probably by the middle of Octo.
ber-this whole Alpine region will be
showed under and frozen up, so as to put
| a stop to the working of sluices, if not to
mining altogether. There, then, for Pc
/, Rod of at least six months, will be neither
(; employment. food, nor shelter within FIVE
; hundred miles for the thousands pressing
hither under the delusion that gold may
t be picked up here like pebbles on the
sea-shore, and that when they arrive herr,
even though without provisions or money,
their fortunes are made. Great disap.
; pointment, great suffering, are inevitable;
few can escape the latter who arrive al
Denver City after September without am.
pie means to support them in very deal
, country, at least through long winter
We charge those who manage the tels
graph not to diffuse part of our state
ment without giving substantially the
whole; and we beg the press generally
to unite with US in warning the whole
people against another rush to these gold
mines, as ill-advised as that of last sprinI
: "a rush sure to be followed, like that, b.
stampede; but one far more destructive
} of property and life. Respectfully.
HORACE GREELEY,
A. D. RICHARDSON,
HENRY WILLARD.