Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1858 — Letter from the gold Regions. [ARTICLE]

Letter from the Gold Regions.

[From the Carrollton (Mo.) Democrat.

Mr. Samuel Grider handed us yesterday a letter which he had received from his son. F. R. Grider, on South Platte, near Pike’s Peak, dated October 19, 1858. We will state that the letter was written with pencil, and, from much handling after it was received here, two or three of the sentences had become too illegible to be deciphered, which we must perforce omit. Here is the substance of the letter: "The gold mining has improved since I last wrote to you. Twenty dollars have, of late, been taken out here to the man, in a day, with long toms. There is a party of men here that have, to a man, avereged [sic] ten dollars a day for the last six weeks. Every day men are .arriving. Nine of us have laid off a town; some buildings have been put up and more will be put up this winter. There is plenty of good timber in this region, and the land, for farming purposes, is excellent in the flat bottoms. Six of the men here have Indian families, and I think that more will have Indian women beford [sic] spring. I do not write you a favorable account of this country to induce any of the boys to leave home to come here, but I write you the naked truth, and leave them to do as they please. You know that nobody persuaded me to leave home and come out here. I came here because I wanted to go somewhere and did not know where; but I am here, and I think I am in luck in being here. There is a good farming country, and there is plenty of gold, and for these reasons, it is bound to be a rich country. You can find gold anywhere you may choose to look for it. Old California miners say that this is the richest country in the world. ———<>——— ——>A verdict of $12 damages for the loss of twenty-six eggs has just been given in Hartford, (Conn.).