Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-06-03


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The mininq reports continue to be as contra
Ha6fy as eves. For instance, Jones q Rus
sell .scoud ESpress arrived at Leavenworth
on the ssth oil |, making the trip from Denver
CITY in ~ daya, and bringing but one Passsn-
Ger. The Lesvenworth Times says;
Upwards of 50 600 in gold dust had been
s, mt TO New Mexico ior provisions.
Not returning emigrant was found on the
route ...,..r....
Al the time the Express left, MAY iStbJ
p,eat reports Of rich gold discoveries IN the
were in circulation, and the towns
of Auraria and Denver City were nearly de-
serted by the rush mountain wards.
The health OF the miners was good, but re-
ports of suffering on the plains were terrible
Those at the mines were in good spirits and
Iull Of fcon6dence Many had done well.
The new diggings are in the vicinity OF
Boulder City, aud are undoubtedly very rich.
On the other side, Capt N Robbins and Mr..
J w BOyee, Of S. Joseph, Mich, have arrived
at Chicago from the mines, and their account
taken from their lips, by the Chicago Press, i'
as follows:
We were there three weeks in the mines, and
spent all the time prospecting. We had two
experienced California miners with US There
v as a company OF us to the number Of nearly a
hundred, and we divided into small parties, aud
started in different directions. We were over
the plains wherever we could hear Of gold, up
to the caRons in the mountai1s-everywh where
that there was the slightest rumor Of hope Of
finding gold, On the low grounds and IN most
of the streams we could find the "cOlOr." The
,'color" is used by minors to designate barely
perceatibe infusion Of gold in the soil or sand
but nothing that will pay nor anything like IT,
ia the IN uhlains we seldom could raise the
'.colot" at all, aud when we did, it was in such
small quantities that il was utterly worthless
We first looked 10 find gold on Cherry Greek
aud the more noted miuing regions, 30 much
talked about before we went out, but we iouuC
Just nothing at all. People didn't pretend t'
mine there, or that there was anything mOr'
than the "color" in places. We then went NJ
on Clear Creek, IL miles west Of Denver City
! to Ai1aphoe, pronounced RappahO.) At Den
yer City they had told US we could get from 5!
to S25 day at ArraphOe, and we found we coul'
hardly get from five to twenty-five cents day
| Indeed that's too high figure. The most gol'
we saw any one man have was about dOlla
that his whole company had dug. We sav
storekeeper who had four or five dollars, an,
| that was tue m st gold we ever saw any on
man have in the Gold Regions. r
Finding at last that there was no gold to b.
| found any where, and nothing to be expecte,
but distress if we stayed longer, we turned 70
home ar then we began to see people in trOu
| bic. We took out SIX months provisions j
| February, but we could not stand by and Sc
m IN starving, and ii was s on all gone and "
D id out SIS in cash besides for provisions
get us back We kept 3 or men all the tim
we were there aud that was only the beginning
We saw men in the mountains while we wer
prospecting who hadn't anything bu, Veniso
to eat all winter. They were old miners an
were waiting tor the emigration TO bring lher
the means to get away On the way back W
saw great deal Of suffering among the peopl
coming down the Smoky Hull route. The
would strike the head of Beaver Creek and fo
low it down to where it empties into the Piatt
There was 200 miles where there was no wat,
on this route, aud there was the most draadi'
suffering. We saw several such parties
We saw one party that had been compose
OF thirteen, who had been five days withoI
water, aud ten of the thirteen were left dea
on the route 1t was awful. The day beioI
they met us they had actually killed and cate
and drank the blood 0f hound, belonging
| one OF them, to sustain lie. Only lhree
them were left alive, and oh they looked no
rid, emaciated and worn out, and just ready
die We were just sitting down to eat our diI
ner, when they came up, and they didn't wa
for ceremony, but rushed up, TavenOus for ii
victuals One Of these we had seen on our wa
out at st. Joseph looking finely, and the ne
thing we saw of him he was coming down tn
creek looking so awful. We saw one your
man there lying alongside of the road, unab
n atis syhn ,uQs inst kant alive hv lhn mann
team to fetch him through to Fort Kearney.
" neither he lived through we don't know
All along the route as we came back, we sa
distress and ruin. There were picks, shovel
pans, wagons, the bones of mules, horses an
oxen, that had died, and were JeVoured By th
wolves This was so principally above Ii
emigraut crossing of the Platte. Some hors,
and oxen and mules were there just barrel
alive, and more that were skeletons