Newspaper Article, OUR CENTRAL GOLD REGION-THE PIKE’S PEAK MINING DISTRICT.

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From the New York Herald. OUR CENTRAL GOLD REGION-THE PIKE’S PEAK MINING DISTRICT. "We publish to-day an accurate and interesting history of the discovery of gold on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, and of the subsequent operations of the gold hunters, with the latest intelligence from that region, and a carefully prepared map of the mining district. It seems that so long ago as 1848 the first trace of gold was discovered by some Cherokee hunters on the banks of the stream known as Cache-la-Poudre, one of the tributaries of the South Platte. The following summer | similar evidence of the existence of gold in | Pike’s Peak district was reported by another expedition. The facts were made known to some settlers in the Indian country who had formerly been residents of the gold mining district of Georgia, and by them they were communicated to some friends in their native State. These latter determined to explore the country where the reported discoveries were made, but were prevented from carrying out their design until 1858, when a party was formed under the leadership of one Green Russell, whose name has. been given to diggings discovered by the party. About the same time(spring, 1858) a Delaware Indian offered for sale in the town of Lawrence, in Kansas Territory, some scale gold which he said he had found on the sources of the South Platte. The news spread, and within a few months numerous companies were formed in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri to prospect the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. — The Georgia and the Lawrence companies united in the neighborhood or what is now Denver City. Gold was discovered, but in small quantities, and many of the gold seekers returned to the settlements disappointed and disheartened. "