Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-15
FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS

"A gentleman VINO was TOT many years
merchant Cf this city, departed for the far
West about year ago, to sec what could
be done in the land of gold. We have
been permitted to make some extracts
from letter recently received from him
by friend in this city. he writes from
Missouri City, under date of May l9:
write you once more from the depths of
the Rocky Mountains, and the veryrhenrt
of the gold mines in this country. The
season is farther advanced, and more min
ing is being done throughout the whole
mining country. so far US discovered, and
new discoveries are being made every day.
The weather during the winter was de-
lightful, even surprising anything have
ever seen in any country; but at this time
We are having some bad weather, most
frightful winds, with more or less snow,
and yet the miners are all at work, and
most of item doing we'll. Many are
taking out from ten dollars to an ounce
per day TO the man, and then again,
many are getting from five to ten dollars
only. The latter class, however are most
~ inexperienced miners, and no doubt
may do better after a while. | speak only
of an average yield of gold here. l know
of FIVE men, a few days since, directly in
tulS Hlnlu2 utSLElCl1 WHO LOOK out Ia
in one day. We want more machinery
however, to do much in the mines, in our
country. Our quartz mines are much
richer than Gulch diggings, and cannot he
worked with any success without "Mills."
We have, however, a! this time, tbrnAt,nr
teGFe tueS all E;j;lIs or =, =; ond'u within
FIVE miles square in which we are directly
the centre, they could be worked success
fully, and make money. We have not
less than five hundred miners around us,
most Of whom would work in the quartz
mines, instead of the gulchcs, were there
mills here, or at least II sufficient number
to grind thin quartz rs fast as they could
get it out. And there is another adyan-
tage, the quartz mines can be worked at
Nli seasons and in all kinds of wcathcr.-
We TRUST, however, by midsummer, to
have sufficient number of mills to turn
out Al rich yield of the precious metal
Our town, "Missouri City for which
vour humble servant stands "God Father"
is flourishng, and Mt this time we have
some thirty or forty good substantial
buildings, and as many more going up,
and make no doubt it will in time be
quite city for the mountains, being di-
rcctlv in the centre of the best gold
miues in this country, and the only ground
that a town of any size can be built on
We have pure and dry atmosphere even
ct very low temperature you scarcely
feel the cold. :
| have done nothing yet in mining,
save in getting some valuable claims,
portion of which l shall have worked so
soon as the weather is more settled and
we can get provisions at less price
Having to pay at this time S2s to $40 per
100 lbs for flour, and such other entables as
we can gctin same proportion-Some fresh
meats which are little above the price in
the States. We are looking, however, for
full "trains" of provisions from the Missou-
ri river in few days, which will cheaper
the cost of living in this country very
much. We shall also grow many of our
own vegetables here this summer, rs
many are opening gardens, not only aloRg
the Platt river, but all the mountain sta
tions, where they can get irrcgation, and
most of the low lands can be irrcgnted at
a low cost. So that we will after while
have not only most of the substantials OF
life, but many of the dclicacies which you
now haze Nt good old Wheeling. ID.