White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-14
WHOLE NUMBER, 96.
The "Gold Diggings
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PIKE's PEAK, Nov. Is, 1aee.
Ma. EDITOR Me and my w. left
the old Sucker State on the first Of last
September, and arrived here right on
Pixies Peak on the 18th of the same
month. being just IL days on the road.
Short trip say you. But the route trav-
ellcd was not BY the Arkansas, neither
that Of the Platte. bat Just midway be-
tween the two. Uniting the advantages
of each, without the drawback of either.
This route was never travelled till me and
my wife passed along it turns neither to
the right nor to the left, but goes straight
along, right to the mines. and furnishes
an abundance Of grass. wood and water
so nutritious is the grass, that when ms
and my wife got here, our cattle were
"butter fat" At the urgent request Of
the half starved miners, me and my wife
killed them and sold the shanks at thirty
three and one-eighth cents per pound the
aeshy pieces we snapped for gold nuggets,
pound for pound. But amt we rich p
Tell all your folks to come my route
no difficulty in finding it, as me and my
wife took pains to blaze all the trees.
We think Of putting up a toll-gate my
wife can tend it, while l work in the
mines. There is truth in all the exsg-
gerated accounts about gold. Just now my
youngest child a yearling) brings in
shirt tail full of very rich dirt, which my
wife will wash and send you the yield. I
supply me and my wife with meat by my
gun. Buffalo, bear. deer and antelope,
are in abundance. Yesterday killed an
antelope 800 yards. A gun will kill
further here than any place ever saw.
Strange as it may appear, right on the
peak and close to our house is little lake
filled with honey few yards from this
is gushing spring of pure MILK There
is peculiar species Of tree here, the fruit
of which is better than the best buckwheat
cakes you ever saw. My wife thinks she
has discovered indications of q soap mine;
Tom Trousers has discovered arosin mine;
and Joe Boottee is making preparations
to manufacture turpentine. The boys are
all doing well have 80 or 100 pounds
of gold which l intend sending back to
my wife's poor relations the first express;
sickness and sorrow, pain and death are
strangers here. When me and my wife
left Pinkin Hollow, in Illinois, she was
poor, little, scrawny, wasp-waist ersa-
ture, weighing 80 pounds now she
weighs 40, and looks like q huge mo-
lasses hogshead, only when she wears
hoops--snd then, and then. The color
of my wifs's skin has changed to a deep
yellow some property of the atmosphere
communicates this to the cuticle. This
is taken as al indication Of the abundance
Of gold.
My wife stops me to say the shirt tail
of earth was not very rich, only making
SIS 90 cents, 9 mills, and fraction over.
My wife sends her respects to you. and says
you must send the Patriot to the Peak.
Ny second boy just brought in the point
of two-edged sword, doubtless the one
that guarded the garden Of Eden. There
is an old Indian here who says he well
remembers Noah and the ark. My twelve
sons are all well and hearty, and my two
daughters are fine looking girls. Fare
well. AMARIAH BHLDAD,
AND HIS WEE.