, 1859-05-24
From the Western Gold Fields.
-: NBWs CONFLICTING.
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.tGRTCULT TEK.sL CR.1R.kCTEK OF THE
E0E.t-TRX.
Nr, G. parisson; formerly Of this city, writes
the Missouri Democrat from Arrapehoc, under
date Of April 2yth, rs follows:

NF- Y. QAEl4*o1. Io1IueTly ot t0lA Clly, "Easfs
the Missouri Democrat from Arrarshoc, under
date Of April syth, rs follows: :.
But what is Of more interest to |
many Of your readers is the character "f the |
gold mines III this quarter. 1t is with difficulty
! can speak Of them correctly, go various anu |
conflicting are the stories bear. Tint they |
are not so good as represented by the many let
ters received in tue State the past wiutcf,> can
safely say. That most Of the emigrants aTEiv- |
ing this month-and they are counted b. thou |
sAnds-arc much disappointed, can so Be Sad I
with truth AT the same time, j. j. also true
that immense quantities Of gold lie hid in the
streams, the bars, banks and mountain canons
Of this country, but in such minute PARTICLES or
scales as to make it Improbable to gather them
with any machinery yet invented, and with the
high rates Of provisions and everything else
which has to be bougb: 1t thia remote distunce
from civilization: few parties are making !
fair wages at different points l have F1sited,
with slulces, ino other machine has yet been
found TO payl but Il fur larger number, with and
without s5ulces, are making next to nothing.
ASA matter Of course, nlnny hundreds ure now
returning home, after irial Of few days. sad
ly disappointed. a still larger number, howey-
er, are daily coming in, who hare yet to make
trial Of the mines. 1t has air4, been but few
days since it WAS possible to get into The noun
tains to dig or prospect; and within that time
hundreds Of tile hest miners, and many also who
know nothing of mining, hare left their winter
quarters for various parts Of the mountains,
leaving part OF their company in the villages
and mines Of the plains, to await their return or
reports Few hure get returned, but such rs
have report much more favorable diGEings thutl
any yei known outside Of the mo1ntains. !,
myself, just saw one person. Geo. Kyes, from
Calhoun County, Michigan, just in List night to
this village, from fifty miles in the mountains, in
nqr.hwts{ direction. towards Longs Peak.
wlo showed me el.ie obtained BY him in eleven
| pantulls, showing some ,h!rtetn cents to tue
p.lnfuli. 1t WIS larger gold than that found ut
the cherry Greek or other dig.,g- Of tllc p'ans,
but still quite small, nothing larger Than the
head of pin, fattrd ut that. ! daily hear Of
| even better than this. such would ,,ay. saw SO
to tl3 per day; but il is NJ sulall luat,r IL
walk that distance into these nIoun1ains. though
the snow hus mostly now left them, and by uo
| other n,eans eau they Le reached.
| The country is almost entirely unfit for agri-
| cultural purposes. 4 few of thu creek bottoms
have soulc soil, but it is geperu>ly sou suuds.
light and puur. 1t is also too dry and cold,
though am. with others. tryang1t III places,
| and may soon be able u report nurc favuraby.
lFsom tlc St Jo+cfh Journal VI
| The steamer c. ". 1.ambart ca1le down early
yesterday morning trom Omaha, bringing Col.
J. ID. Henderson. better known a Col Jack
Henderson, CAPTAIN TLomas II. Scott, lat. of
steamer Twilight, j. {. Sanders, mountaineer
| and Government guide uf ii. titeen years stand
ing, aud Oscar B. Totten, OF St Louis, who
just in from. the Pixies Peak and CHERRY Creek
| sold mines, having lett Denver City on the I'd
inst, and arrived ut Un,:lha on Saturday last,
making the trip through in thirteen days.
The diggings in the ucsg ghborhood Of Denver
City will pay from Il to 81 per day to the n,rn.
The Colonel and purity hrst wctt to Boulder
City, prospected up Boulder Greek for eighteen
miles, and found diggiugs that would pay from
t3 to t.; per day 10 the HAL, but Il Mr. brook
fnf3 aFt}f F$f has th IneR 3HHf1
the same mines, and claim that Is per day cao
be nsade From Boulder Greek the Colonel
and party next went to dear Long Peak, where
he luet with purties who bud found good 31u
digglngs.
/ The Colonel left his party in those mines do
ins well. The gold is coarse. mixed with quartz
| nbout the size Of grain Of corn. The dlggins
extend along three fats, which, on an average,
! are four miles long and three wide. 1 waSun
road has been opened from these mines to
Boulder CITY, The Colonel says that the valleys
adjacent 10 tile mines ure beautiful and ronan-
tic beyond description. uleanderea by crystal
streams. dotted with lakes filled wih trout, sur
rounded by high mountains covered with pines,
and abounding with elk, deer and antelope.
The first engrants who arrived this season
were hand-cartn,en and f0otmeu, who could ca
silly have got employment had not provisions
been 50 scarce. These became discouraged re-
turned without prospecting, and Of course gave
| doleful accounts.
I'll. Col. aud party left Denver City III four
mule ambulance. met Six hundred wagons that
would 90 through, one hundred and tfty more
which would 70 by the way Of Cherry Greek.
tlrouyh Cheyenne Pass, to California, and
passed fully eight hundred returning. not oue-
eighth of whom had Lecn through to tic mines.
Tie most Of them turned back ut kearher; i
| few ecntured on 10 Bear Creek, within one hun
drtd miles Of the mines, and still smaller nun.
bcr went within thirty miles,
] ii NIL Tr3f to n&.n-
turn with their families between the 1st and 9th
| Of next uunth.
Ertrdrts from tie Erst newspaper published at
! thr Hints-1At 1'ro*pt'l for Go!d-.d3rtcuhu-
I ~, .~irantdye4 ef tie to"Atry-to4+SeAtto.. td
form q .t,r: Staft 10 h cuNsd .hft7so".
The 6r.t pumber o. the Cherry Greek P;onstr,
published at Denver City, by Jnhn L, Merrck,
icrmerly connected with the b.~ood I+tss is II,
hand. dated April lS, l5:s,
We make Tie following extracts IN regard to
the mines:
THE Go1p MINES.
Until within tle last twenty days the n1onn.,
tains hare been so blocked up with snow aud
ice. as to prevent anything ike successful pros
pecting. But since thn> time We have reports
Of rich digging.. and which reports w believe
to he reliable. On all t'lc streams flowing from
,hc mountains, north If the Platte Canon, loat
gold may DC found in the beds md bars, hut nut
anv distunce in lbe banks. 'noes j; Eut tolltw
| that gold in its origina! state must be in the
mountains from which these streams flow? tn
attest this, shot gold has already been found i"F
distance Of t1rtesn ufs & Gaek Es G "d'os1 h1
| discovered which will average hye dollars PEI
dur to the man with rocker. We have well
. substantiatcd reports Of ten dollar dlrslns.s
| havirR been struck about tcn or fifteen miles
! from the 1sove named Canon.
, Ii is true that erery indication Of gold IN the
| Il
, that of Califoruia-this is admitted by many
Ca.ifoEnians who have been in the mountains
| Nnuv men are returning to tic Stutes; what art
the circumstances under which they rctEace
their steps: Simply these: they came here jns'
ut the opening of spring. expecting nen whc
| have been here during the winter to point then
out rich diggings-di*appointcd III tl's. 'hes
turn back. They have not stopped to CONSIDER
l ! that t1ep who came here US early as the first O.
last November h.d their cabins to build, ant
when that was done winter bad sci IN. and al
though on the prairirs tEe winter MAS mud ane
omen. the mountains were completely inacctsel
bI.. md have been so until within the past few
da,s. We think the reports Of gold hase beer
exaggerated, but We firmly brltrse that tt1ectr.
,, prusIrctinx in the mountains will develop rict
: and extensive diEglngs.
The weather y. present is entirely TOO colo u
admit Of successful mining in the mountains
: those WHO are there have tad TO labor unde
: every disadvantage Those who have been gu
gagged in tue mines arc generally satlsted Will
: their prospects. aud feel sangline that sun1nle
will develop rich diE.ings: For three year
after the discovery ot s"!d in calitornia. 1t "a
br many pronounced u Aunabug, and thu SAN
will be said Of thi. country. There arc gTta
mauy men 10 this country who could not D
induced to return 10 the States, 80 we'll are The!
satisfied with their prospects, The country
> however. i. yet 10 develop ltseli,
! Golp Dr>7.-For the last p, days. Messrs- ST
James md st. fralns have taken IN anu hav'
: now on hand &l5t in the precious dust AF
. Aubrus has $3.50 ....
> Il. i. Woo,ton tells u. that he could have II
. ken 81, 900 in dust if he had had uour, coffee, Su
j. gar, 4c* .
:. STATE.
;, | Under this head, an account il given OF 4 con
= | yeptop held at Aurarin the 18th Of April, i
/. | which the different counties and towns Wsr
Il | fully represented.
:. The convention passed resolutions, the primo
Ii pal Of which We copy.
+ The delegates frum the precincts Of Deuye
e Citv, Auraria. Arrarahoe. Fountain City. IL De
l. | rndo and FL Paso, OF the county Of .Arapahct
kapsas Territory, in convention assembled |
IL the town OF Auraria the 18th day Of April. lS:
N do adopt the following preamble aud resolr
o tiuns, W.:
WnIIEAA very laec number Il et!7t* T.! the Eli
u M. o;le t.!a{ tAt lyIua, nue.d ty G1v tses,
&c 1ch gold neAs n tAi. llty ant Tie d fekts 80 +
"' herr to ths fa1ss, fnsns taaes - ~ ~ , rtrSs 49,.
h'1r tit r!a!ts with the E2'a: esta,te "Hf l4.
sr.4us assise pepn.a:tn Is ru,cssl t:n -.s4t
sI.yei4r1c1t either Territorial Or SLle- u t:r LID >ri