Show Q 0 LD V 0 lm vo iTH EGOLD FEVER IN KANSAS LEAVEN leavenworth WORTH sept sapt ept apt 12 1858 herald this this thib town ia and nd in fact this whole I 1 country is all excitement and a litle less than one half the population are getting ready to start now dow now row and the balance say hey they are goring ing to tostin start in the spring companies are fit nt tin ting out all alon aion along the river and in almost every cou country gitry town one company starts I 1 rom law irence rence on the and thur differ different ent ones in I 1 this town are lo 10 start between this and oct alst aist i some of 0 our best business men are packing up whilst others are replenishing their acks to supply lythe the demand dema iid tid but perhaps you ask me what I 1 know knois about eold sold being found there about one year ago I 1 iwas was in lawrence when A a lot of delaware in indians were returning from frain the mountains they had bad had been out hunting and arb broucht brought back some specimens of gold with I 1 them one orie of the indians indiana told some men in lawrence lawrence that be he take them where they could hind find lenty plenty Jenty of it they did not say much abo about ut it then but last spring they got the guide gulde and started this much I 1 kno know krow w ji leports from them and others that started vince pince are all very flattering flatte fiatte rink one man dug dugout out soo boo SOO iii in two weeks others are averaging 20 per day etc good reliable men who have hive returned from the for provisions mining implements etc all report very favorable and bring obeda y t dust adivi j with ip i til th them pi 4 I 1 ba baw saw w a specimen of the dust gold at J Hemin grays banking office here herb and nd also gold this evening from the same region our bankers have caught the fever J C Heming hemingray ray Tay soon boon gen win wm lahamer also starts on the of october both these gentlemen are in the banking business here now ill pil tell you the most reliable to me news new a I 1 have I 1 saw a letter today to day ilay from J A wyble esq formerly an extensive merchant in this place to his brother here he was on his way to salt lake but heard of the gold mines at fort laramie changed bis his course and was then about 85 miles from the cherry valley diggins di ins ile he wrote very favorably and urged hib his brother boget to get out there as soon as as he be could hig hii brother has a fine far farm m about 3 31 1 miles from this city and I 1 am well weil satisfied he be would biot io lot advise alvise him to leava unless the ive lve were very flattering natt ering numbers of my iny acquaintances are goin going co and ill arrange with some of them to keep you posted yours truly B F A rbee f cleveland ela eia herald sept 22 1 7 r correspondence ot of the evening rost post the na lii iki of 0 the goldfeder gold rever reter the skeptic skeptical e 1 inverted con rented Int intelligence ellig ence of the G gid gold ld fegion I 1 from various extent and nich Rich richner nes of th the e minesh mines companies r forming outfitting outwitting Out fitting points point llo Ito Iloa luon tes tei I 1 1 I leavenworth K M T sept 13 1858 1808 gild roid cola gold eold bight I and aud yellow fellow hard and cold 1 is the topic of conversation along the missouri i riven river from omaha to kansas c city ii we live on oti excitement X ci lii in this country six weeks ago ic the english swindle and le election news were the current express expressions expressio io ns or on all the street corners then awful adful hard times and money tighter and tighter were w ere the pie pleasant a santi santa ej ejaculations 1 that greeted our ears next came i tery V very ery st sickly fever or ague in every family lyl lys 1 did you ever krow su such buch ch a seas season orp noia noto we hear A another nothel letter from the mines 2 q I 1 ten donais dollars a day without tools when do llo you start for pikes peak kansas is coming out alt ali albright al right etc etc the wel wet t weather of the early season has givert wart wayt warm sunny dayland days and cold bights the illious bilious fever is consequently subsiding sub Bub siding but the gold fever has taken its place and is raging with unexampled violence when th the e first intelligence from pikes peak and lara mies peak was received a few weeks ago people shook snook their heads cautiously and add said an excellent thing to promote immigration an and d build up kansas but as for gold talk that to somebody else now the doubting have all disappeared the news received within the I 1 ast last week through half halt a dozen different channels is so positive and emphatic that nothing seems left to hang a doubt upon and iid lid the public is st ionin lonin in the faith that the gold mines thines of western kansas will successfully rival those of california the th e sources from rom which information hz has been received are quite numerous A letter fr rom rpm in an old bid business busine s man inan of Leaven leavenworth woith mr Vy blell ri edher ed here yesterday it was written at cherry fh ei i creek and contains the latest news from the gold region mr IV writes that he has satisfied himself from personal observations vat ions that the supply of gold ula uia old is very prolific and easy to obtain he lir es his bis former basir ness partner and several other old frienda to come out lutat at once and bring heavy stocks of go booi gooi od s them as well as mining tools to 1 1 s supply upp f y the stran strangers who wha are hurrying thither from front all directions A letteron lette iette similar purport fram the same location received jil iii in st joseph on friday evening b states that miners with very imperfect apparatus are arp makin making 0 3 and 10 pe per day and that with proper tools they them could realize four or five times as much several members of ehe th the la dawrence lawrence wrence company ahoi 9 went out last iasi spring have bave just returned hom home e for tools etc they report their comrades rai rAl realizing izing about 10 per day lay with t tools oos 1 of the rudest description A dih Mh who returned from the mines a few fw days since has some specimens of the gold with him in this cite cit it ja is of very ver fine quality several of th those who have returned estimate that miners with ibe lutfi out bit fil and aud tools could realize on an dei average age 50 per day I 1 the first party for the mines from this city was organized 04 on saturday evenin sr under the name of the pikes peak city mining company lany lahy gen Willia william Td La lanader niner nider farhie gormerly lon lor merly rl y of pittsburg was wai elected selected president the party will start for the gold region about the first of october hoping to arrive there in about a month should they be delayed on the w way i a 1 v however they may spend the winter at brents fort they will go gc with a mule intile train tailing taking with them outfit and provisions for six months they expect to experience bom som hardships as the weather in the vicinity of pikes peak id is very severe during the winter they design founding a towne town as well as carrying on mining operations companies are also forr forming ning in sumner kansas city st joseph omaha and at several other points some of th them ernwill will start this fall but they will generally prepare to go gut put with the opening of spring one of the papers of this city says leavenworth is the main starting point t and the trip from here to the gold region can be mad made e in less time lime by some weeks than by starting from any other point on the missouri the st joseph and kansas city papers make the same claim each assuring the public that their city is much the nearest and most advantageous vant ageous starting point the truth is 18 there is little to choose between these cities in fact there wil wll willbe be four or five points when spring opens affording nearly equal facilities as outwitting outfitting out fitting posts for the region and maps etc will probably be issued showing that each of them is superior to all the others sumner situa situated td on th ri i at ilsk its gr great e at w western al et ind and bend thirty miles above here is just breding erect inga a large establishment for the manufacture of bf overland wagons a fact which in in connee connection tion with its natural position will give that tha point import but ho no one ong town will wili be able to secure the lions share of lucrative out fitting trade it aill be divided among ithe itha several beveral thriving embryo cities that are spring ingup along the missouri A good to road ad will be apen opened ed to the gold re region early net rient het season until then the routes to it w wll wil 11 II be somewhat circuitous and will be about six BIX hundred miles long the deposits have been found in various sections and the supply of gold is ii bell believed ieves to extend through a large tract of country WAsi wasl washington lINGTON sept sapt 27 tiie THE kensas KANSAS GOLD MINES gov denver r writing to the secretary of the interior sept says a s it that hat late ate news from pi pikes kes peak leave sa room to doubt the correctness of 0 the re reported port dd discoveries of goh gob in that vicinity th tl le e ex found gold on the arkansas on the heads of the kansas and on the south fork of the river embracing an i extent of country of r more oie ole than three hundred miles the richest ini mines nes yet et found aie on cherry creek a tributa tributary rv of the south platte directly north of pikes peak govel nap nai denver has not yet beard heard of quartz veins but the best information woun seem to indicate a great similarity between these mines and the girst first t discoveries in california in view of the present condition of affairs s in that region aid to prever prevent t future difficult difficulty i gov denver advises that th elands the eberee rebe from frh preemption if they are open to settlement leaving ix g them asan as in the mining milling districts of califor ii ida afree freb for all who may see fit toen tOeD to engage gage in work working ing the mines from abd tbd emst st louis dein yein ocra siept sept 24 the wyandotte kansas gazette of the says i j i i yesterday Yeste iday ten fen te n thousand dollars ingold dust arrived arrived from pikes peak oie ole ope ome man mail bro brought in iii as the rc of a i few faw weeks 0 work O r k A small boy had bad 1000 which he says be he dug down and found and tho the little fellow says he be car cat get all lie he wants re these statements state ments are reliable partle Partie parties I 1 pire are ire daily returning rig for fot winter I t er I 1 provisions AMI A mr jones an 0 old oid d mountaineer buhta 1 an eer ei expended 1000 of the shining dust in I 1 independence de pen dence last week for his bis return 0 outfit mr jones ia is well known in the vicinity arid ani being an in old californian his 9 statements a that the kansas mines are far ahead of those of california must be believed some specimens is ifs of this gold havell bavell have a ready reached this city several days ago we vew vow were ire are sh shown quite te a handful of trie the scales and dust an and d yesterday aday mr cook of thie firm of cool batyst M matthews of this city rity exhibited to us its a fine specimen it was sent to tb ahls this city by mr mf cooks brother itis a ragged about 40 ani ahi and contains cont coni gins ains a afew few lumps of quartz we are ont oat heeve of f an intense L gold oid old excitement in the west wehl the presence of large iraq q quantities a n t ties of the tho pre precious bis material iii lil in tre tee the neighborhood ei lib orho od or af pikes peak is now conceded on all ali a 11 sides and afia during the coming comin winter 11 i anter 9 va thousands of adventurers from the western s tern states will be ve pouring along C the blead headwaters wates vates of the arkansas river nv er THE TRE GOLD 1 several hundred hundreds of persons have gone frd fram the border counties of bils Blis missouri and from from karias eab and nebraska to fo the south platte 01 old pid diggings determining to brave bra e the dangers and har hardships ships of the winter months rather than wait we hear of others otheus who are preparing to start ind of very incoy mancho ahot will b beott a as soon as poss possible ibie ible in the spring indeed if ther the present excitement should continue there will wilt be a 4 for the seabon season we W phi b koi lei I 1 linbo be surprised if llie emigration to C clieny lerry creek cr pek were to equal that to california in 1649 50 when the whole world seemed to be moving westward the batet latet reliable accounts from tb the e mines state that the miners are averaging from eight to twelve dollars per day new kew disc discoveries verles are being made almost daily dally and andja it is 15 now rei rel rendered dered almost certai certain n that these mines are fully as rich A aa as any discovered in n california or elsewhere the west st 30 joseph seph mo sept 28 from the journal of 0 ri it the tha ryo ylo following allowing is an in extrait extract extract cf vf a letie r from a correspondent at st louis wa who has just ye yea e turned h t f I 1 while at kausas kansas city I 1 was wag agre agreeably 1 ea bly 8 burm burr j ed to meet an honest friend Mr dmartin JMartin arh w who S 0 wis ju stan iown town iram irom from fram pikes pe akin in the he extreme we i sart that fiat territory where the ithe newly discovered gold raio ralo region is helsin one blaze of excitement miners n erb era make 5 per day just jast dir dip with their hands and al nd those that thit possess shovels mak 15 5 to 20 he predicts that six will uness might crusade from the great west to these mines and that it will depopulate california of nearly all her miners before one year rolls round as it will be of easy eagy access to them on their thein way home to the eastern states 1 ile he left about labout 80 men working there and intends interi ads returning aa as soon adon j as he makes boma soma seii to take on there j GOLD GOL D FROM MOM PIKES PEAK mr cook COOL of the firm of cook mathews of this city exhibited to us this morning amine atine specimen of gold said laid to have beery been found in the new auriferous region at pikes peak it was apt B e nt to this city by mr cooks brother itji it is a ragged lump wort worth we suppose about 40 and abid contains a few lumps of quartz it if stich such specimens as this are numerous or even fre quent in the new region it is 18 an el dorado that will soon contain its ita thousands and huh him deeds of thousands of iotis lotis diggers i al the excitement this thia new gold region in kansas and the western portion of mis mib soun boun is 13 iri lri intense tense and fresh tresh companies of diggers are starting every week from the border towns for the purpose of trying their fortunes in the wilderness where the yellow metal ia 13 said to exist in kansas city and leaven worth nothing is talked of but pikes peak no one wants to go anywhere but to aikels pikes peak and no inquiries ar are e made except con berning the shortest route and the most moat advis t able outfit for pikes peak est st louis even 1 ing nevi neli 8 sept 23 |