St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1864-06-23
FROM THE IDAHO GOLD MIN

. MIN" HiJchHLL.---l arrived EAeIS
terday frotn Virginia City, and not /
very busy today I tbbhght t would
prove The time BY wwi:ii;bg YOU fex1
On my arrival at this place was 1
surprised to see the streets deserted
this time last year, all Was life and bu
but now there is but. little business &
The bar diggings are nearly .s'played c
The few miners that are. left are fur
the creek to work the bottofi. Where
have got to The bed rock, they have t:
out big pay. One company have t.
out as high as as S19To. With eight me
one d.y, but after all they are no:
ahead in pocket. Tie expense attent-
the Working Of these claims is. very g1
.Othcts Aate expended large amounts
have 5btAihed but little in return IT
Think That IT the claims we're xorke
advantage; . good thing souldstbe n
out of it: The quartz. veins are turn
out very we'll and have no doubt but b.
they will yet prove as rich as The Color
lodes. But it will take time ahd none
develop them. they cannot be teste,
afew Weeks, as the bar and gulch diggi,
Thsfe isa lack of money. or. 1 Should h
said a lack of capitalists here who gwo
willihgly invest thsit money id the derel-
mcnt Of the i6des. iftiie thvhiea met
the east were to see the gold i'll tie r.
as it is to be seen here i'll the Dakota 10
it wonid not be long before they would
rest what spare change they had. = }
have four quartz mills here-two are ste
and two water. =.
Immigrants do not stay here, they &c
the Sinking Water Mines, and when Ii
get there, they find that their bright
ticipations have fed to. parts nnkno,
They then wish themselves back in &
yirsihh5'' sf somewhere else in Dixie
They find that all is not gold that glitte
Neither can nuggets be picked up on /
surface nor found in ali places On On the i
rock. There is no doubt but that there
gold enough here to make all the people
Mirnesota WORTH their millions, bat the
is such quantity of dirt mixed with
that it would take the rest lifetime.
make one ricti. >''''.s.''
Some have done very wen, but the gre.
cr portion of the miners have hot ma
much. To speak plainly, but few Of .,
Minnesota boys are any better off th,
when they came here. Those who ha
left mining alone hare sneceeded bette
? / am sorry 10 say that quite number
our Minnesota boys have been writing Ia,
very encouraging letters to. their friend
advising the-o to come out, &C., &c. {
would not advise any one to come.
have had sew eral letters fron friends xs
ing advice. Ihave given it. If they pr i
fer the immortal Fisk's, or Gov. L.nffoirJd
reports on this cctihtty to mine, Why soe'l
it; but L can assure them (unless thers.
batter fsund) that if ,theys con
not we'll provided, they will see, tn. sol
phant'' before:fall.
We have had no reliable news 1rom Il
Yellow Stone and Big Horn rivers, but (:
rect news ff0n theirs esery aa5. keWdi
gings have been .founatxboHt 400 .hil,
from here in 4 noftherly direction Repor
say they are good. Some parties have 70,
there to see. There are quite large nun
Der waiting to hsar from the fellbx ston
and if they don't find anything good Il
party will gosto the Coatney country,
the new diggings above mantioned. ia;
The Indian excitement in the Bitter Ro
Valley has been settled.
Green Backs are worth SOTO co cents. :
Provisions are cheaper than they we,
some two weeks ago. Flour Is $s1. 10 81
per sack and other things ten t. fftesAp,
cent cheaper thad they were the las.tins
wrote you..
Judge Hoyt's lectures Oh this country @
be relied Oh. FAKE his .dyice befors tssf'
or Langfords. "a
t.f4 Yours Truly, -. IS, al:
i browns Bronchial Troches, for. Cough