, 1859-10-17
Notes In tho Gold Region.


RCsssl's GrLcu, {p1KE's PEAk,) Sept. 1867
But few new discoveries have been 1nade since
Hast wrote. One river iu California furnishes
q larger extent Of mining than is yet discovered
but :hipk this is little more Compact: the
gulches pay more regularly; the quartz veins
are closer together and perhaps richer. It is
supposed that crushers. properly managed,
rotten and dccomposed tbau that Of California;
but am not prepared positively to a.lsi.c the
bringing out Of that expensive article Us yet.
understand tl,at from iiye to twenty-five cents
is obtained from the pound, by prospecting. |
have not had the lime nor tue facilities Of thor
ouehl5 testing that matter. Some are turning
the clear creeks. and two companies have he.n
streams up on the mountain.. No very large
pieces have been found. The gold is pure, nu,iye
qua-'z s&'d. porous aul light III its appearance.
Son.e W srots arc rich, paving one dollar 10
the pau; but rare indeed. This is net farm
ing country, yet from tests that are being made
ain satisfied that many ar.icles Of food can be
brought to reasonable growth here; but around
l'ike'ss Peak aud on the Arkausas-abour the
ruins Of old Pueblo. considerable mar be done
in that line. This is good grazing country in
Sumner at least, and | aut Informed hy Her,
Mr. Fisher and others who spent the la.t winter
Mt Denver Ctr, tia: it WIS not a lard oue.-
Some arc even making calculations for remain
luz Ill 4Ht Au0AkAsAS QuIluH k4E coming HE0tCf+
l, ior one, won'd prefer seeing that matter test
ed first, for ind it quite cool cren ut this sea-
son. Since July The 4th, we have had small
thunder showers a!most every afternoon, gen.
orally clear in the forenoon.
We have here, as to game, Tho elk, the moose
nrd the small buffalo, tile mountain sheep. the
black tailed deer, and tho grizzly, brown and
black bear. The fish are mostly speckled trout.
found in few places. The timber is small CON.
pared with California, but in places Very thick
and klrubby, mostly pine in lis sEecies-and
being dense, will. IN dry times, burn a. our
praigies. These mountains, as you are awsre,
uFe unusually broken aud abrupt, with f.x cx.
ceptions. so that Shareholders have rot to mack
mules Of themselves, If they invade Ibis region.
The miners labor under great disadvantages,
on account Of the scarcity Of water-nearly ali
the streams being quite small, md no large
ones. Instead Of heary mountain alide., ,cause,l
by winter floods, and the rircr-waehed deposits
ID the Sierra Nevada, these are mostly volcanic
blow outs, shonng the effect Of great heat both
10 the galches and ia the quartz leads. The bed
appears 10 be a soft, rotten granite. The toa
strata arc mixture Of coarse sandstone, burnt
fragments Of granite, hurn-b -blendc, aud all full
Of isi1-glass aud sulphurets of iron. 4 little
lead and copper have been found. i perfect
beaver dam, in our deep dfggiuss. we discover
ed last week, in which found bearers tooth,
Many people are still arrivIog. aad more are
leaying Tor the States. forgot to stale that tue
bones Of the two young men lost on The divide,
At tho head Of Cherry creek, oa the a3th Of
May last, hare been found and buried. We not
Iong since conveyed the 1eu,ains Of u Mr. Hum.
phre5 Of Alton 10 their last resting place.