Show mom wom from prom the he omaha Nebra december ath latest from the kansas gold mines SOUTH PLATTE mouth of therry of Cherry creek i november 9 1858 from the uncertainty of news and the mea gre accounts from the gold region of the south platte PJ atte also tb the e interest felt feit feltch kh it by the people this side of the great plains induce me to publish the pith of my observations having spent some little time in viewing the general gendral land surface alid and gaining b what information I 1 could otherwise than by observation of the gald bearing country the first gold is found upon the banks ol 01 the platte as low doali as st vrains fort and the lands grow richer as you approach the mountains the streams which form the tributaries tributa ries to the platte are rich in the auriferous metal the quartz rock or natural deposits of gold have not as yet been discovered the prospecting and little working which has hits been done is ii confined to this immediate vicinity the season is too far advanced to admit of profitable working though thou h I 1 have up to the time I 1 left seen men mate make four and five dollars per diem them with a pan on what is termed dry creek about six miles south of this point or up the river the dirt yields from three to thirty cents per pan it is very fine and requires much m tich itch care with such implements to save the metal it is said to be bethe the finest gold ever discovered and worth irom from nineteen to twenty dollars per ounce it is found on the gravel bariks banks among large boulders and arid from bix bix six SIX inches to three feet under the surface experienced perien perlen ced miners say that from ten fo to twenty dollars per day can call be taken out of such places with a sluice arld and tom torn in seasons when the water is plenty gold in this country is hiner finer than in cal cai california i fo ania or australia but far more universal beisig belig scattered over a large area of ground it will amford afford profitable employment to thousands timber is abundant principally paly pine and cottonwood cotton cotlon wood some portions of the river bottom are susceptive of cultivation also the kan in the mountains the streams present hile fl ns water privileges and the climate certai fily tily good the lofty mountains protecting the immediate rie jie mediate diate country from the high winds which rueh ruth over the plains Pro provisions are high but flour will be brought frim new mexico for twenty dollars per barrel barm in the spring A J DAVIS FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS FROM mr hoage says A green greenhorn boril dug today to day in four hours and washed in a tin pan three dollars and fifty cents in the yellow dust mr hoage further says that a man can make on oil any of the above streams from five to twenty dollars per day with wilh a long tom the georgia company took out four hundred dollars out of one bo ho leand I 1 should not think they removed more than forty loads of earth to do it we are employing the language of mr hoage himself and permit him to tell his own story which is plainly and pointedly told he lie says saya in ia addition that when the people get their eyes open to the vast richness and extent of the new gold discoveries they will be greatly as in any place you please to dig 12 adds mr hoage you can find the dust in quantities never less than two cents to the pan he speaks speak of the quality as fine float gold 5 and seems to admire the appearance ince of the yellow stuff very much further it is the tap 6 opinion in ion lon of all miners that the th thing T is rich in the e avines ravines and at the beads 0 of f he the creeks and streams above alluded boand to and of all streams east and west of this range of mountains moan additional discoveries SILVER MINES I 1 IN N nebraska capt A J smith whose return from the gold mines we noticed last week informs forms us that a company of 0 georgians who have spent considerable time in prospecting in in the mines of nebraska discovered in the vicinity of the medicine bow dow ri river e a tract act I 1 of df country cour coul itry thirty miles in extent eo richa rith rich h silver cle cie 01 e tb that they determined on trence grence to the gold diggings in its vicinity it was supposed that the silver mines alluded to would pay equal to the beet beat mexican mines as it was found ini in immense quantities in the region we have described the locality of these thesa mines is about five hundred miles a little littie northwest from this city cly 0 cP ease page Pase sir air g ve ua us a shilling ton won for tor cuaty to bury a lawyer 19 here flere tali tahe taie e fice dollars and arid bury forty of them |