Show sold ia at t pikes the more recent stories about tile the gold discoveries at pikes peak are corae om what nhat contradictory the kansas city journal publishes some ome highly encouraging accounts from froia there but other accounts from the L tunes times are of a different complexion the kansas city cit journal has 1 is from the first been aci n or prat professed essed to be sanguine sanu saguine ine in in its L belief lief that these ilce mines ire are products productive 1 s if the stories to that effect should turn tun out to bo be false the journal will vill law have mu b to answer fo for that paper has originated two thirds of the publications abou ilbe il be dig digging aings anaf they tur n out a or delus delusion on the journal will be set down d own at least as careless relea ca of what it if it does not have to struggle against the cha charge rage of havill dzung wilfully ema exaggerated or invented ic tented tales tale to 10 draw emigrants to kansas and vi western estern missouri by acting cang in in tl the e belef of which hundreds hundred sma may y incur incur great loss erin and di ua in a bootless booties hunt built for gold in in the lie american desert we 1 e have strong a hopes however thit that the stories stones arminthe ire art inthe in ho main truo greatly exaggerated exa the kansas Kansis city journal gives gios the following account ot of ane origin of the discoveries dischi erie and other particulars of interest to I 1 inquirers aquire rs what hat it says about the best road to the mines milles we w 0 ourselves endorse f bom rom per bonal knowledge of a portion of the route FIRST discoveries A As long iong a ago go as 1833 3 lust eust che carriere ariere a french trapper now living sup up er d with arith the die chouteau family in ll 11 this i city was n as lost fro froin indis hi party in in that region arid and wandered d for se several eral week beeks through the country during he collected in in his shot bouc boudi li numerous specimens which he earned carried will in tu tc new mexico they rhe proved cd to be gold jn and 1 I d abart a as there corned andre and re tu urne rile ned avit anh 3 MT r carriere to search for t the he locality avas unable to find the streams where lie he had collected collect d ills his pe billions and was ii as tied up arid and severely se erel whipped by the mexicans Alexi cans under tin the supposition u it ion that he did not avih n ish to delose dC di adobe lose their location cation col C L DENTS col wm war befit be t or as lie is is more familiarly i I 1 known bill bent has been tr trad adin ing in the macinity racin ity of the country countr for many years lie ile says that the existence of gold has ha been known to the indians c ever cr since since his hia residences among them the indians however have baye always ah a s re rated aga against irist the knowledge knowledg know led are being made known to the whites TUE TUB sedo TD BIS COVEny the second discovery di coer was made by a party of emigrants to california in in 1831 18 1 31 1 1 from missouri is aoun arkansas and the cherokee nation nahon gold was w as foaud by than AN while hile pissing passing through the country countr i arid and a proposal made at that tune time to stop but bill hiving families w with ith then them and no means of affording thern shelter ora ori protection thy thoy finall finally proceeded on to california C the dev elopement elop ment of tile the gold deposits ot that SC state ate prevented ereie cited their return isal bat thur their reports further stimulated public feeling ind and not nothing R as accomplished or ht attempted temPted until last keawn avilon n hen DIS COvErly was made A party from thi cherokee country and arkansas Ar Lanias incited by tile the accounts which the cherokees gave gae of the pikes paes peal peak region fi fitted t ted 6 oat at to for r that point news of th the Q expedition being brought to lawrence K T a party p ariy fitted out at that place lato late ill in may lat last and a ti company from missouri Alis under tile the direction of a member of the california party of ISSI left the central part of 0 the state last for the same destina deatina tion thoe parties have been prospecting the country during the summer er and their being in in the country and being discovered lh ohp trappers and traders led bordeau richard cantrell an and 1 others to the waters rater of 0 I 1 cherry and longs creek the results of their discoveries we w e bai have e already given THE TIT E COUNTRY AD ITS LOL from those already returned from the TOWS mins min s wo vre have a generally owrene idea of th region rion in w hah the gol 11 is known to 5 exit piles peak which may be taken as the geographical graphical co point is 13 about 25 miles south of the parallel of latitude arid and on a direct line imp about miles south west of kansas city it is is about 50 miles east cast of Coche topi topa pass arid and about 24 miles south the 1 I he arkansas takes its rise rise on oil the south side of the range rahiem in the peak is is situated and the ie south platte on oil tho the north side mr john cantrell the lawrence law i ance georgia ia and missouri com companies pinies have ha c pros pecked the south platte stream arriss 1 pally lally cherry and longs long Is creek which chich are from 40 to 50 miles from the peak almost in m a direct westerly course coarse mr air king and the cherokee company have haie in in addition pretty t thoroughly explored the ie ark arkan arkana ansa a Ei branches with w ith in in many maily instances better success tha than ii on oil the pla plane ile but sufficient has been demonstrated dt to prove ro e that lothare both are gold producing ing the buia but the arkansas two no rivers rivers head lo to geather the mountain rany range e to brates kanas kan as penetrates peni a much greater di distance tance than the ciller ather the fie country prospected embraces about 70 aniles nies north and sootuli and follon following ing less dis distance ta nce t the IQ larl streams arns greater or arom rom the south platte we e have hae as yet seen only tile the float gold old but from the arkansas we ve have buth ath the scales an and ad the aiu nuggets ets as avell ell as the gold goldia in the quartz THE COUNTRY AND AD trappers and traders however ft AN ho haie havo long been familiar nith the country speak peak of it it as in much itch more mild than tho the i country antry at the south pass immediately wet cst and south ara the parks of the rocky mountains meth are depre st anted ah d to bo be exceedingly wild mild in in m niler inter ordin aban abundance dance of ft food A for stock during the entire bre winter and are the tha ia favorite evorite winter tt inter haunts of the indians d GAME CAKE TIMBER nEB ETC tho the country abounds in in timber limber tile prevailing variety being pine immense ilminen fore ats of both the bellew and white hite I 1 being in common on the streams the ibe wild cli clerry orry and umber timber comm common oil to this latitude ire are found game ii i ly abundant abend int the black tailed deer elk antelope mount hounam aidi sheep black licar boar etc eh being found in in all portions of the country it is is a favorite resort for the fix indians as it all ards them plenty of game off their buffalo hunts and is is they get their lod lodge go p poles wv equipments for their excursions for eufra lufra 10 on the lie plains THE ROUTE TO THE MINES to the country border boid cru ilig the missouri missour i river nur in in lofta iowa and Ne nebraska nesrala braLa as far a council bluffs arid and above probably tile best route would bo be by fort laramie Li rimie although the bouto up tip the south fork of he the platte is very cry sandy arid and covered KH erod f for or ong g di distances tancos with a denso deiro g gro crowth th of the pear A halil is very ery severe upon stock as a 6 as upon men the sand rand nils hills greatly retard the progress of trains arid and tile the prickly pear furnishes hes no sustenance u hataier hat cier the lie str streams earris are numerous and when vi hen full very difficult to crois to ro all last east of the mississippi and for i a hundred miles west of it the best route by far is asby by the great santa fe road to pawnee forland For kand kund thence following R the Ar arkansas lausas to 0 o bents fort and th tho nine mine this is 13 the route Fd ly by the mountain traders for half a cerit uary and is is a aall well beaten plain wit on road the entire distance there have Ove passed averit 0 er it tile tha present season over ten tell thousand wa agoa s as faras crossing of the arkansas us alsover and over five hundred lave hiie left tins this cit city the present season for bents fort and the tha dX different ferent trading posts in in that regio region of country diw ab trip ia usually mail raabs by jants jan ts C city ity traders with ith their heavily lad hd en I 1 gonson 25 0 30 days and starting starting any time from the midd middle to of april to the first irston of october plenty of grass is is to be round fount throughout the extent of the route 99 went to a hairdressers hair dressers to order a wig on oil being measured tile the barber win avis was a liberal soul ip ic v tid d the orator to take some refreshments ui an inner room here Ile relies he showed 1101 him so much genuina itle ho q illila that Sheri dans heart hear was touched when they rose from the table arid and were ivere separating the ac latter looking the barber full fall in the face said saia yn on reflection re tion I 1 dont intend th that at you shall make my wi wig astonished an and W with it h a blank visa visage e ie the other exclaimed good 11 heavens parens mr sheridan how can call 1 chave have displeased you why look you said sli sheridan aidan you are an honest fellow I 1 repeat it you shant malo make the mtr wi for I 1 never nevor intend ed to pay for it ill go to another less 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