New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-06-28
From the Kansas Gold Mines.
HORACE GREELEY IN THE MINES.

HORACE GREELEY IN THE MINES
From the Leavenworth Times, of the Goth, we ex
tract the following: '4..u~@
Denver City, going through in six days and twenty
three hours.
The Express to this city made the trip in eigh
days, and were detained one day through sligh
accident. $2500 were received by Smoot d Russell
$1,000 to them, the rest in eastern consignments.
Horace Greeley confirms the richness of the new
country. He made speech to the miners, at which
some 1000 were present.
Great gold discoveries had been made at the Jack
sons diggings, which Mr.. Greeley had not visited
It is thought they will equal the Gregory dggings
Other rich discoveries have also been made.
Smoot g. Russell received $512 worth of the
ore " from the jackson dggings They also have
other splendid specimens.
Mr.. Greeley gave man $l00 to pick him out a
good claim, on which to work. He was delighted
with the country, and meant to remain there some
days.
We give in full the statement of Horace Greeley,
A. d. Richardson and Henry Willard, in regard
simply to one of the diggings as it appeared il an
extra OF our Cherry Creek cotemporary:
GREGoRYs rIGGNGs .
Near Clear Greek, in the Rocky Nonn. .sins.
The undersigned, none of them miners, nor di.
recty interested in mining but now here for the ex-
press purpose of ascertainng and setting forth the
truth with regard to subject of deep and general
interest to which the widest and widest diversity
the following statement:
We have this day personally visited nearly all the
mines or claims already opened in this valley Chat
of little stream running into Clear Creek at this
point,) have witnessed the operation of digging,
transporting and washing the vein stone "a partially
decomposed or rotten quartz, running in regular
veins from south west to northeast, between shater-
ed walls OF an impure granite,) have seen the gold
plainly visible in the rifles of nearly every suice and
in nearly every pan of the rotten quartz washed in
our presence have gold (but rarely) visible to
the naked eye in pieces Of the quartz not yet fully
decomposed, and have obtained from the few who
have already sluces in operation, accounts of their
several products, as follows:
Zeigler, Spain Il Co., from South Bend, Ia, have
run sluice, with some Interruptions, for the last
three weeks they are four in company and one hired
man. They have out little over three thousand
pennyweights of gold estimated by them as worth at
least $1,000; their first days work produced S2l !;
their highest was $495.
Sopris, Henderson & Co., from Pennington, Ind,
have run their sluice six days in all with four men
one to dig, one to carry and two to wash four days
last week produced s607 Monday of this week $3.50;
no further reported. They have just put in second
sluice which only began to run this morning.
Foot & Simmons, from Chicago-one sllce, run
four days-two former days produced $40-two latter
promised US, but not received
Defrees Co., from South Bend, Ind, have run
small sluice eight days. with the following results
first day 500; second day $780, third day sos; fourth
day, 1906 1.-THE four following days were promised
US, but, BY accident, failed to be receiyed.] Have
just sold half their claim "a full claim is so feet by
1907 for s25O0.
Shears & Co., Qrom Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, J have
run one sluicc the first (part of a) day; produced
$5l0 all taken from within three feet of the surface;
vein foot wide the surface widened to eighteen
inches at depth Of three feet.
Brown & CO., (from DeKalb county, Ind.,) have
been one week on their claim carry their dirt half
mile; have worked their sluice day and half !;
produced $3.50 have taken out quartz specimens
containing from so cents to $l3 each in gold vein
from to 10 feet wide.
Casio, Kendall & Co., (from Butler county. Iowa
reached Denver, March 18th drove the first wagon
to these diggings have been here five weeks ;
worked first on claim, which they ran a sIuice,
but @ one day !; produced 1925 sold their claim for
have only sluice one (this) day; three men en-
ployed /; produced SS5
Bates & Co., one suice run half a day; produced
$l35.
produced SIS.
Shorte and Collier bought our claims seven days
since, of Caste, Kendall Co.. for $25O0; s4OO down
and the balance as fast as taken out have not yet
got our suices into operation, Mr. Dean, from Iowa
on the 9Th instont, washed from single pan of dirt
taken from the claim SIT so; have been offered
$4,000 for the claim.
S. G. Jones & Co., from Eastern Kansas, have run
our suces two days, with three yield 1925 per
day think the quartz generally in this vicinity is
gold bearing; have never seen piece crashed that
did not yield gold
A. P. Wright & Co., from Ekhart county, Indi
ana sluice but just in operation !; have not yet as
certaned its products; our claim prospects from Is
cents to ST. 25 to the pan.
John H. Gregory, from Gordon county, Georgia
left home last season route for Frazer river was
detained by succession of accidents at Fort Lara
mie, and wintered there /; meanwhile, heard of the
discoveries of gold on the South Platte and started
on a prospecting tour on the eastern slope of the
Ricky Mountains, early in January prospected in
almost every valley from the Cache la Poudre creek
to Pixies Peak tracing many streams to their sources
early in May arrived Clear Creek, at the foot OF
the mountains, thirty miles southeast of this place
there fell in with the Derees & Zeger Indiana Com
panies. and VIM. Fouts, of Missouri ; we all started
up Clear Greek, prospecting arrived in this vicinity
May s. the ice and snow prevented US from prospect
ing far below the surface but the first pan OF surface
DIRT on the original Gregory claim yielded si -En-
couraged by this success all staked out claims,
found the lead" consisting of burnt quartz resem.
bling the Georgia mines, in which had previously
worked; Snow and ice prevented the regular work.
ing Of the lead till May 10th from then until the
I'D, worked it five days with two hands. result.
s972 soon after l sold my two claims for s2l O0O'
the parties buying to pay me after deductng their
expenses all they take from the claims to the amount
of $500 until the whole is paid. Since that time
have been prospecting for other parties at about 5000
per day. Have struck another lead on the opposte
side of the valley, from which washed sli out of