Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1859 — New Gold Mines. [ARTICLE]

New Gold Mines.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 9. The Sioux City <Register> announces the arrival of Major Culbertson direct from the headwaters of the Missouri, who reports the discovery of gold-diggings on the line between the Missouri and Columbia river, in the neighborhood of Stevens’ Pass. This gold is inferior in quality, being worth only fourteen or fifteen dollars an ounce, but is said to exist in great abundance. Major Culbertson brought down $1,300 in lumps the size of a grain of corn, and says that these mines can be approached within comparatively a short distance by steamboats. He also says that the headwaters of the above-named rivers are so near together, that he drank from the Missouri on the east side al the Rocky Mountains and half an hour afterward, drank out of the Columbia on the Pacific slope. ———<>——— ——>A woman in Milwaukee gave birth to four boys on the night of the 4th inst.