St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-11-27

Correspondence /
From the Gold Mines.

T., From the Gold Mines.
2 tAs there are quite number Of oar former
ei, izeus ut the Salmon River mines, The follow
lug letter written by Mark D. Ledbester to W.
q. Mitchell, Of this place, will. be read with
interest
'' ''.' il" PIXIES PEAK GulcH,
NsAa DeER LopaE VXIE+Y,ios}
August 3lst, 1862
FR1Exn W'+L.-As q party will leave
here to mmr'w tor I'v4 v;ar Ft. Benwn,
embrace The opportunity to send you
";f word I'o~ 7; our company Is getting al~ng>
wrote y"u from the sunn,itof tie Rocky
slountains, which letter I hope s"u have
received, ,"s We arrived at Deer Lodge
Valley all safe and s'~nd. few days ago.
W. head of this place and started for it.
;lcrs Iosaw young man by the '.,ame Of
|aA'iks' llarki"<, with whom was scquaint-
i at St. k,u", who showed me some
laims So. twelve of. vs. made claims on
tie .-stbc and ;to-morr~E5 will commence
work. We i'.teud to form Company and
work to-e'her this fall Vanderburg, the
two H"yts and myself are in the company,
the balance from Sauk Valley. ....~ =. -
The claims abt'Fee Us are: paying from
SIS 1882 per day, aud those betos from
g. to SIS per day. We cannot tell how
.'urs viii turn our We will have to work
haI1 for two weeks before We can get our
sluices up. We may make a g'od thing
ont ofi,, and perhaps not make our hoard.
Some Of the St Paul cuupsny arr: fur
ther up the Valley. but thrr~-fourths Of
the whole party will start tor Oregon on
the 6l atoof September When they saw
what work was to be performed to get the
g"Id. they concluded to 70 to Oregon,
where they tbon4 4ht they could get money
with less work. ,. ,..
The other day one man was shot, an
other hung and another sentenced to be
hung The three had stolen some hor-
ser from Bitter Root Valley, one hundred
miles from here THY xere taken four
miles trom this place The trio was TAX
,ng il. very. easy in the shade, PLAYING
cards, when the Sheriff came up aud told
them: that they wer. This prisoners One
started '*ou che run aud the Sheriff Shot
him dead When he started he had a
pack Of cards in his haLd, and whsn shot
xlasled the cards 50 hard that they, re-
ma;ned i" his hand after be Was d 'ad, ,,and
he was buried with them IN his hau ! --
'ihe."ne that was hung. jumped otf OF the
wagon az soon as RE nre was put around
his neck The other has since been re-
leased: ::uch is the way they deal with
h'eyss in this sc"un''ry. r~9,t,.: @..s:o
Provisions are very reas'nsblc-dour.
$40 per barrel; pork az ascts per ID;
fresh beet rs ct. For ch'.ice pieces aud
such beet - you sdo,n't sxct ee,rry- day
lie cattle as general thing, are too fat
to eat One p,anz BY the name Of Grant
has | 900 head Of cattle iu I'ear.Lodge
prairie The boys seld cattle to him tor
S8v to $7j per y"ke. Wayo's sold for
S.,t. S35 81 a",~---
| have Just heard zvf sn,e very rich
one hundr$ 4 miles from here -
'ur party will send out a man to pros
!; ert it.; but the miners will lie so about
~,ch disEings,," that nan has TO 90 aud
STE for himself. -
I'll would n,t, advise any one to come,
except those who want to go u Oregon.
,h'y wight 90 through this way to see
f"r thcmsrlvrs Perhaps he next thing
y.'u viii hear i. thu" almi' Found for
arib,o' would sdvise these Who cpses
ne Fla "s ,to. >cpn,e ia, strung patties,a
he lt,di1|lns sre getting woke up, 90
t.e Southern routes we hear that they
re killing the whites. " y ~
80 The rcepAt 'he'e ii that Mcclellan and
forty Thousand uuen were taken. prisoners
ncar :R,chus'i,dg a.? havsi hot seen IL lcttsr
~ PAPER Ieiuce xe lett 81. Joeelh,a There
are u grru' lnany secrshers in this country.
| will write agal" soon., ........
Yours Truly, ~'''&~'t " MARE
AtPss.-l se,'d you specimen 1t RRold
,whish I have just paased oas-my 6stt
pa"ning. .aynI,;:,..s, Zaxt.,
- DIRECT, neer Lodge Valley. .ie WanA
Wxlla aud He'll Gate.