New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-11
THE MINES,

From The RocsI Mountain Netrs June H.
We returned three Gays slice from the dggings on
RAJ sion Fork on Vasques River where have spent
OVER t~O weeks.
When We entered the digepgs on the Goth of Msy,
there we're shout twenty men in that vicinity, only
tso qu6rz leads had been opened aud but three
claiur of thoee aud two the other. In
two weeks from that rime more than three Thousand
at work, at ieeSt thiry leads sa''sdc orly
prosp ct.d, aud several hundred claims Upened aud
pn tiiably worked. Hundreds Of other clams ore be-
ing opened and pew leads are daily discovered. As
yet tie discoveries ana mines are confined 10 very
small rpace Of cONGuy. We think that not clain
hls been per ed OUTSIDE OF circular tract having
diameter Of five uiles but the is steaniy increas
Jog AID no iuit has beea found on either side.
90 rbe Gregory Ledd-the fret opened -some ten or
twelve claims opened, several have changed haods
at tigh figures aud preparations are being made TO
work large forces day and night. We knos slice
On thu lead ~hicb took out in one day Siy0 with
force of four men; another suce gave y,eli oi 1T
tie over 81 900 for the past we-h another, 10 NV
hands gave s6,7 80 IN four days. In week some
fifteen or twenty suices will be 10 operation, sad 500
per day Ia each slnce may be safely counted upon.
Beais On this lead several caims are open,
and BANDS art beng put iLto work day and night
We learn f,om the that $1,000 has been Of
fered for five clsms Of 100 feet each this lead.
Tbi. II estimated Ia be- about MALT what the claims
viii yieH, II worked from the top of the hill TO the
pres,It water l-vel in the creek.
Udmans Lead L. being successfully opened and
several -luices alfea1y st, but only know the
re,ut # only 'wotbris at day work by four men
with sluce, sZ25. On SATURDAY last we the
resu IL Ote pan Of dirt washed by Mr. SOor, yield
ing slnuet so. Before washing II, be picked from
tie pal Goa pieces OF feather gold 10 the amount OF
- q6 the largest Of winch weighs 81 w.
JOnes Lead.-I~o claims ale tring worked, yield
irg from = to 81 to each pan Of dirt; some fifteen
other claims are being opened.
Mammoth Lead-Aboat 200 men are now working
on THE l. al. and few days viii rec many claims
opeueo excellent prospects are beng found along
fer four miles, 10 the n-ighborhood aim has been
opened by S king shaft % feet deep, and dit
found pay ing So TO pan
OMAHA Llad near the Mountain Lake has been
prop. ced ard twelve claims are nov being opened,
pfunilsIng G Iich yield
But,iors Leod is paying from s. to A. to the pan
vh-r-vef opeLed.
We might 90 ON and enunerste 80 other leads all
pr,rpeciirg tquay well, and on many Of which one
or elaine open 10 paying, Dat want OF space
viii OF permit.
GuIeh L7ggings.-Througbout sll this region Of
quartz lead dggiugs there are small streams Of Sater
running in sna gulches or barrow valleys, containing
rIcL drpOs!is Of LEAD gold wherever prOrpected We
have -eel seh' Is takeu from sing pan Of dirt
from tesr ~ surface in one of these gulches. and
we learn from George Ru sell esq, that ne has found
pucb dgpiugs ali pay $50 10 the man. The great
advantage 20 those ordinary gold wa.hers Il that
water u petiy aud conveIlent- slulces can
b. 81, wber, yer desired without carrying the dit
apy considerable ci-tance, and yielding large pay
where there nay be but one or two ceLs 70 the
pan. From bat can and learn We believe that
ibis extremely rich di-trct ~ country exten IL ~
great distance moth and south parallel with the noun
tain chain. We led 10 tGls conclusion from the
great and general deposit Of extremely fue gold which
found along the streams issuing from the n0antsn
% the east. Aoog the Afkaa-a- AM is trbu,aies,
the South Platte, Nasques, s. Nran aid Caehs-a-ls-
PoucIe Rivers god bse beer found At distance from
where thy leave the mountains; 10 fact the whole
country ,eeus richly iupregD-ied With II, sl WAFER
woru and bearing evident marks Of long travel .mnst
lave cone from, rich deposits IN the mountains.