Show from the 1 ail missouri 1 url bl alican ican letter from piles bicak it is sunday morn july 31 and as I 1 promised to write you when w hen I 1 got lit in the nines miles and my religious principles forbid my working to dayo day I 1 thought the best m wa ay of employing my time would be it in writing home we made the trip handsomely lit in litty days all our party la fat t a and 1 saucy and lit in good spirits spirit it a I 1 v ans t returned e tied it aiom om a pi prospecting tour pvn up in fit the e mo 11 nta ills a love have visited gi gieg eg orys oryl russells ssell t a jacksons the illinois chicago buckeye aid spa sti clig diggings ifrey rh e ale airall all paying haynig to those that viola you have d do 0 bedad of some big licks being made out here part is true arid and pait is 13 not th the e largest days vi ork that ever was made in in any of the mines was duoto to tour four men vi nil fill a sluice that but one day there are some however thit have claims arid and are working them that are avei aging 10 per day to the man the whole country here tor for miles is staked off lit in claims 50 by feet the general 0 opinion ti othave here is that chit there is plenty of gold but have lot liot the facilities tor for work hig there have been some rich quartz leads struck but as there are no mills for grain ding it up they can of course do nothing with them besides that the water is giving out with the exceptions ol of the cla claims line on clear creek there are sm six of us in in company we have six claims in the spanish tish diggings for which we have refused 1 one ball down the other as it comes out there are three claims below us that cannot be bought at all one man ran a sluice one hour ind and cleaned out 8 but he took that out of 0 the lead and did ilot wash anything but big paying dirt now tor for the way most of the emigrants become discouraged they come to denver deliver city at the mouth of cherry one company of twenty one persons came in tile the other day one of whom picked up a handful of sand gaud and a c washing it out outdid did not ge get t anything of urse Il liere said he I 1 to told 1 d ou oil so 1 jere is is no gold here arid and lit in less than one hour ti nineteen lueteen out of the t twenty enty one were on oil their way home there are jone thousands liou sands ot of persons come authere out here with the expectation ex ec tation of shovel shoveling it it t up the same as they would cortini dirt or coal and nd when they find out their error they become becente discouraged and break for the states again aam we met about two thousand teams on their return when w hen we were coming out for two da days sours ours was the call only wagon going west while there were al least each day returning to the states it was wag rather discouraging biscom aging I 1 assure you boll but we had started and were determined to put her through which we have dinep done and all are very well pleased with our prospects pacts now tor for the prospects of a city in the rocky mountains Mour lains denier deliver city is situated situ atad at the 00 couth of chorre creek or bwy sear it there are about one hundred houses two thirds ot of which are vacant and half fit finished Au auraile abrana raila directly opposite denver deliver city contains about fifty houses hoe situated in the prairie irle is 13 a place of little littie thre IM importance and dpra never neer will abom t to much mil L jolden ol deri city comes next this place I 1 think is is going to be the principal business point I 1 in n tl is part of the country it is is yot yet in its infancy but there will ill be on one hundred houses bouses put up this fall our company bays bava two lot lots and nd intend putting up a house on each immediately it is situated fourteen miles M from denver De nr on clear creek slid and about one mile from the loot of the mountain and has every every show allow of making a good sized inland town tova there is is still another place up in in tile the mountain named mountain ct city m which cannot succeed in amounting to much MUCK ow owing ing to the d difficulty in n gettine gett getting freight to tt it six hundred bundred pounds being a full ull load for he be best of teams its principal articles of 0 raile rade whisky cards and tabaco are carried up on oil 1 pack ack mules T there bere iere was considerable excitement created here last week caused by the indians killing a 1 couple of whites A party of three welt out prospecting ill ap the snowy range they met a party of five ute indians who motioned them back but no attention to them they pushed ahead and camped ill ii a gulch next morning they started out each lit in a diffie different rent direction olen they were mere fired upon by indiana from behind the rocks rock two rut cut of the three fell mortally wounded the other made his esca escape g by hiding in a cave until dark daik etwas it was do doubtless aless the intention to kill all of them as has been the case heretofore meyeral several parties hive have gone out into the mountains and never have ileen been heard ot of since since others have started arid and been sent back by the indians yesterday morning a party of 75 45 or men started out in of them which is is certainly the height hecht of folly for what could a few men but poorly armed to do against a tribe ot of or warriors a tribe that holds all other tribes around here under tinder their thumb besides being armed right up to the noth notch and having perfect knowledge of the con country anybody with common sense could see it was only or worse than insanity insani to attempt such a thug there is i without a doubt sone some verb very r rich deposits up tip on snake river at the hen licad waters of the colorado as aa some of the indian dindial a have brought some very fine specimens arvn and traded off for goods but it is evidently their intention to keep it themselves as kit carson is i their leader arid ard thy th y 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