Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1859 — PIKE'S PEAK. [ARTICLE]

PIKE'S PEAK.

We hear that a number of individuals in Jasper county are making preparations to go to Pike’s Peak in search of gold. We fear that they are doomed to disappointment. In our opinion, more gold can be found in turning up the soil of our broad prairies, than in washing the mud and boring the earth at Pike’s Peak. All the accounts that come from there are conflicting. Some rumors— and they generally cannot be traced to a responsible source—say that the miners are making their $15 and $20 a day; while other accounts, which appear to be creditable, denounce the whole thing as a humbug, say that gold is scarce and can only be found in small quntities [sic], and that the miners are suffering for the necessities of life. We, however, publish both sides, and let the reader draw his own conclusions. ———<>———