Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-04-13
THE ~swEETwATER MINES A
GRAND HUMBUG.

many have already turned their pros
pectiag steps from this sectio" Us coaa--
try, and others propose doing likewise
when tue season shall have become
fairly opened. Having Published the
good stories and encouraging accounts
from the reputed new Eldorado, and
given our readers what items of infor-
nation We could regarding il, we now
place at their service what the Herald
develops rs n Sweetwatsr summary.
The Herald charges that certain in-
tsrested and INSCRIPTIONS parties in
Salt Lake got up the whole thing, and
through tho mediumship Ola young man
named Allen, n very prolific writer and
correspondent, they sent forth from the
city Of the Saints all these glowing and
golden colored accounts which have so
electrified the fortune seekers Of the
great interior as well rs of the Pacific
coast. Says the Herald: :
The prolific pen Of said correspondent AL.
len, was set to work indicting glowing letters
concerning quartz and placers, towns aud cit
les Of magical growth in the Sweetwater
~country-whieh letters as we said were written
secretly in Salt Lake City and were sent broad
cast throughout the country. An old dilap-
dated printing Office was husseled into quar-
tiers at Fort Bridgcr-whieh is still hundreds
Of miles away from the Aforesaid mines, and
frnp, kSkonnn q ma hnHaa nanar anfsiad fka
'S~Sweetwater Mines" is gotten out and put
in circulation. The facts are simply, that
there are no such mines rs "Sweetwater
mines" save in the Imagination; and all
these grand fictitious projects gotten up
at n distance in connection with anything Of
the sort, prove, so far as we can learn, to be
nothing less than downright ~swindlcs, or the
most audacious attempt to entrap the pilgrim
army Of this season into a snare, from which
they cannot extricate themselves short Of
the sacrifice of their last dollar and their out
fits. Even though the progress Of the Pacific
Railway should, on its nearing the main
mnge, start a lively burg at or near South
Pass, that will DO u year hence, and we pre-
dict for every thousand persons who rush to
those dcns Of robbery, dissipation and crime,
there will be nine hundred and ninety 60
away beggars where one Of them makes a
stake. '.aG
But asain, and finally, VIC say that so far
As the much talked Of "Sweetwater mines"
are concerned, we denounee them, upon all
the evidence before US. although willing, as
VIC ever have been, to give every region and
River sell, only worse, II such u thing could
be. Our readers will bear in mind that this
whole project Of the Sweetwater humbug was
divulged to the public not until the winter
had so far set in that no one would venture
to 90 and see for themselves until the open.
ing Of spring. when thousands, everywhere
having been fed for months on the many in
famed letters, circulars, and articles OF the
"chief cooks"-would be ready to rus in q
body to the promised land Of milk and honey,
and upon that tide these sharpers would sail
In and bleed their victims in their old way.
That there will be found. eventually, in the
Swcetwater and South Pass country along
the main range, valuable mineral fields, we
have no doubt whatever. In fact, it is almost
certain that such will be the case; but that
there is at this time any such place us "South
Pass City" or any such mines rs Sweet
water mines" that should induce men to rush
blindly there with hopes Of gain, we declare
to be false, and trust that we speak this warn
ing in time to save from ruin the hosts Of
good men into whose u~nsuspccting cars so
many exciting but false rumors have been
sounded"
We give the above ideas Of the Herald
for simply what they are worth, let them
be induced through motives Of sectional
jealousy or from whatever eligible
cause. As we said before, WI are de-
sirous OF keeping u readers posted on
the subject, therefore give the stories
on both sides, leaving everybody free,
of course, to choose which suits them
best. In speaking heretofore relative
to the Sweetwater excitement, we have,
while ever willing to look with a favor
able eye upon all true and valuable
mineral developments, especially IN the
vast interior to tie eastward, always
advised everybody to "look before you
leap" aud to hasten slowly" We
have reminded them of the disastrous
rushes Of the past, to =" Frazer river
Caribou" "Kern river" "Gold
Bluff" and other Kindred sells and soul
narrowing humbugs, and now simply
reiterate our former remarks. During
the present golden era, opened and in
~augurated in ls49, there have been but
three grand decisive rushing excite
meuts 10 the way OF truly precious min
eral discoveries and Developments,
which had honest legitimate truthful
foundations, and these are California,
Australia, and Washoe. We most
earnestly hope some day in the not
far distant future, to record something
similar in the midst Of the great Amer
lean continental interior, but such de-
sirable development does not seem TO
loom up very brightly rs yet.