The Weekly Kansas chief., 1880-05-27
Now twilight lets her curtain down,
And pins it with a star"


The st. Louis Globe Democrat has the following to
say on the insane rush of men and boys to the Gun
nisOn Country"
To Judge from the reports that reach US from Colo
rado, the mining fever is raging with n virulence
known in the history of modern deusions and owing
to the the modern facilities for transportation it
doing an amount of harm and causing a degree of
suffering worse than anything resulting from the
Pixies Peak fever of twenty years ago, the Cali
the cost of travel shut out the great horde of needy
adventurers who would naturally be attracted by
the glitter of sudden and easy fortunes and those
who succeeded in reaching the gold fields were CON-
parative capitalists. But now, with q railroad run
ming direct almost to the heart of the gold dis
coveres there little expense incurred in reaching
their fare not appalled, at the prospect of landing
penniess and helpless in place which seems near
civilization.
Accordingly, every who failed to make liv-
ing in his own calling. is on his way to the "Gunn
son country" the eagerness to get there being pro-
portoned to the ignorance of those who joining
in the mad chase Denver averages 400 per day. every
mothers son of them on their way to Gunnison, and
this is only one branch of the Half of Lead
Vile is merely waiting for the snow to melt before
moving on; Canyon City is becoming n real city,
with accumulations of those waiting for the fit
ment, and Buena Vista, where the railroad ends is
crowded with a nondescript mass of fugitives and
refugees, with more coming in utter reeklessness of
what awaits them. gentleman who recently "szed
the pile" of train load at Kansas City, estimated
that there were 500 passengers the train all bound
for Gunnisop, and that the wealth. of the crowd
did not aggregate $500 after paying for their tickets
AT buena Vista, where the teaming begins, the
feighters could engage 500 teamsters in twenty min
utes at the market rates of fifty n day, and
grub,' while unskilled labor, which is abundant,
would be willing to drop the fifty cents, and work
for the grub alone, if they could get it.
That these men are victims of q cruel deluson is
known to every one except the victims and there is
one circumstance which makes the delusion all the
more cruel. The SHOWS on the mountains have been
unusually heavy this year, and it will bo two good
months before the most experienced miner do
any prospecting among the hills While the Missis-
sppi Valley is warming under the of spring. the
treasures of the mountains hid under feet of
snow in arctic climate, where the cold makes
every night For q man with scanty means and scan
tier experience to start TO the Gunnison country is
about sensible proceeding asi would be start
a skating rink in July, or a swimming bath in mid
winter. 1t is duty to warn all intending gold
seekers that for two months TO there is abso-
lutely nothing for them to do in the Gunnson
try. There is employment for labor in Colorado,
and the best they do is to wait until they hear
that the SHOWS have begun to melt. IL they do not,
they will simply the risk Of starving to death.
of trying to how they come to starvation
without dying.