, 1859-12-02

FROM PIXIES PEAK.
Correspondence Of the Missouri penoc1at1
AEs.s,s ta 4sp pssy.s eTr:
Since wrctc you last ueek there hare been
40 mining news Of unusual Importance, further
Ihan that the few hundred Of workers in each
Of the various sections and districts OF the noun
tains, have been taking out satisfactory proceeds
cvery day, varying In amount from 80 to $35 /
TO each man, according to their several kinds Of
cla'ms. Late reliable parties from the South
Park, state that tue mincrs in that section are
making not generally less than an ounce day.
Some gentlemen hare made 81 200 apiece on
the Little Blue, in the past fye weeks A de-
quartz lead has been found at the Tar
ryall diggings, winch is yery richin coarse gold.
Most Of those who hare butt themselves cabins
in the mountains will be able to work d good
portion Of the winter, excepting during the pc
rlodical spells Of severe weather, which lasts
from u few days to week. Encouraging news
still comes in from the Blue River region, which,
aud the South Park, will doubtless be the great |
theatre Of successful mining operations next /
year. An immense vein Of mineral ore, per- |
Mountain CITY. fifty feet in thickness, which |
may become Of incalculable value to the miners
here, and suffice the importation Of quicksilver. |
Some Of the very best claims have been lying |
idle for the want Of rain, and until contemplated
bitches are completed. In Russelrs gulch not
any are making less than Sie per day Jet, while
the gulehes are not much frozen: In the Me-
possession il given, during the few intervening;
days, as high Is 800 day hare been offered
for the privilege Of working them; aud re-
fused, through courtesy towards the pureh.
asefs, a
Prose- / Cas- steam quartz mill is ut present
f,.+ f. h,,r
day. There will be plenty Of business here
next season for fifty ora hundred Of them at
least. The miners still continue in the best
spirits. and little concerned whether others in
the States believe them or not. They expect by
labor and perseverance, to make fortune for
each the year next ensuing. Some bare taken
out Us high as one hundred a.d flsy dollars per
day on their claims at Gregory's. In the Patch
Diggings they are carrying on their tunneling
projects. Here are found solid masses Of quartz
TO the depth OF twelre feet, extending several
hundreds Of acres, and paylngat au average OF
fry cents to the painful Of dirt that Il mixed
with the quartz. Railroads are constructed from
the top to the Nevada gulch, where sluices hare
been running, paying one hundred dollars each.
Next summer this dirt will be worked On thetop
Of the mountain, as water ditch will bo COM
plesed to pass directly through the digglnga,
where opcEations will be commenced as early as
the middle of April or the first Of May at far
thest.
BUSINESS, ETC, IL ArRAnA AND DENVER CIT.
Business among tile merchants IN Denver and
Aura1ia Is not very brisk at this dull season. nor
will it resume its wonted actiyity before two or
three months to come. We haye here ut this
time some fine wholesale aud retail stores, con1-
mission houses, hotels, saloons and private
dwellings, that will more than comnare with my
Of the large, stirring cities Of the Missouri rscr
country. We have, at this date, IS sharp and
frhA n 10
ulators, as cunning md ambitious lawyers, Is
numerous doctors, rs stiff and consequential
gamblers, as tine looking young men, and as
handsome and stylish women, almost. as can be
scared up together in any single corporation this
side Of St. Louis or Chicago.
As soon as leisure permits, purpose sending
you definite statistics Of tic commerce, mining
and agriculture Of our country. In the mean-
time | would state, that NC have ut present 10
our twin city some tTeuty five general grocery,
liquor and provision stores, fifteen oil which
| arc general stores, wholesale and retail, con-
taining clothing outfits, boots, and shoes, hard
ware, and some Of the smaller miscellaneous
articles usually kept in country stores Also
some OF I; exclusively clothing stores, . drug
stores, good bakeries, 10 restaurants, hotels,
| private boarding houses, Is regular saloons,
| saloons with hiliard tables, 1 ten pin alleys,
| 10 doctors Offices, Is lawyers offices: s real
estate Offices, engineers and surveyors Offices,
small lircry stables, theasre, ditto erecting,
| minstrel opera house, good union school for
| boys aud girls-iu which the young areinstruct-
| ed in The elementary branches. and the more
| advanced prepared for colleges ind counting
| ROOMS. Two OF three churches are talked Of.
THE GREAT MEDICINE SPRINGS
The great Medicine Springs" are happy
| feature in favor Of the new city Of Colorato.
| They lie quarter Of = mile northwest Of the
| town. You doubtless have often heard and
| re1d descriptions of these natural fountains IN
| the writings Of Ruxton, Humboldt and others:
They are known OCCASIONALLY ;Ta y the name 9,
| and" Pixies Peak Springs" being acknoWled"ed
BY all scieh7iGc judges 10 far excel any Of the
| SPRINGS in the South or East, and second only
| to one of the European mineral springs. They
| are very picturesque and beautiful indeed. 81
is the whole appearance Vi the surrounding
| plans aud mountain ridges. The water is great:
been among New Nexicans and mountaineers
for scores Of years past. Tie water is decided
II the pleasantest and most inVigorutlnE dranght
I which ever TASTED at any springs. For lnsa'
lids off the plains it is better than all tue magic
pills in the di:psnsatoEies ot al ne schools.
| You can roll down IN amount OF glasses IN
| Vulnerable, md feel after as il you could reach
the stars. Flour wet with this wa!errises to an
incredible altitude in the poorest oven. The
Indians, for centuries, regarded these springs
with uve, believing these *'nledicane springs
to be the abode Of spirit who brethes through
their transparent waters, and By his e1halations
causes the per.ubations Of tho surface; attrib-
utinc to this water god the ordaininy Of the
success vr iaiiiul vi their war expeditions, and
believing this s'Ealley Of salt" absolutely indis-
penssble rs preliminary to the "war-path-
beads and wa1npum, red cloth and SKINS being
drink at tie heads Of the fountains-the inferior
order out of the streams further out, believing
| the Great Spirit placed The cool waters ut the
fountains, 50 that the ''big men" might lmbibc
it pure, and cool aud strong.
Immediately overhead, Pixies Peak, at an el-
evation Of twelve thousand and odd ieet aoofe
the level of the sea, tower high into the clouds,
while around the fountains, like gigantic ana-
phi1hcatre, ridge nfter ridge. clothed with the
/ Creenest pine End cedar, rises md meets the
stupendous mass Of snonntains, so appropriately
called "Rocky," which stretch far away north
ward and southwark, their gigantic peaks,
sometimes invisible among tho asr'y Of clouds
which hover over aud hide their rugged brows.
The property could not be purchased for hun'
drcl thoueand dollars, uf these gentlemen, to-
day. There will be hotel put up here, per.
| bans next year, costing ten 10 twenty thousand
dollars, with allshelatest improvements and in
tiucements to hayc ii become the great Saratoga .
of tue West, by the time rniiroadi is completed
to this important region. Here the young pot:
ipha1s Of tLe east can yeinvisorate their wasted
corporosites, climb the rugged rocks, where
leaps the live thunder" catch the mountain
trout in these mountain lakes, seek the stricken
deer, and stab the grizzly bear, dig "goold." o.
iuns," Now nm neither interested cent, nol
own single rod, in TINT rising section, but
must declare it il the prettiest an5 graudes'
neishborhood ever saw in this whole country
or ip any part Of the Union, and 1'yc Travelled
about everywhere, from the "oyater pfaeeIs" q
/ $ka uEx ofp