Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-04-15
Pixies Peak Gold Mines.


seems difficult to be got at, SO varied are
the statements relative to them. A cor
respondent of the ST. Louis Democrat
writing from the mines Feb. 20, gives
a discouraging account of the state of
affairs there. He says:
Your correspondent left L eaven-
worth city in company with three others,
on the goth of September, 1858. We
reached here in forty-six days, having
come by way of the Arkansas, and found
miners making, as they said from S. to
IS per day with rocker. This of course,
we wrote home, but after sufficient
length of time had elapsed for our letters
to reach their destination, we discovered
that when miners rocked out this amount
of gold it was done from pay dirt, that
had most generally taken up the better
part of two days in stripping i and col
leeting il preparatory to washing. There
is nothing to deter miners in their WORK
if they can find diggings that will pay.
l had occasion TO 60 down the river this
afternoon, and found just two parties at
work, (six men in all, the one ayerag-
ing 81, and the other S1,25 per day to
the man, but understood from good au-
thority that gentleman by the name of
Bunker, lower down the stream, was
making from 81 TO So per day. Out of
this, however, he deducted one-third of
his time for stripping. When have in
formed you that there are at present no
water privileges here, you must take
into consideration the fact that the dirt
has TO be carried in buckets for distance
Of from twenty TO. one hundred yards.
and washed in 3 rocker, and then YOU
can draw a fair aud beautiful differences
of the gold mines which thus Tar have
created so much excitement throughout
our country.
i A prospecting party, headed by George
Thomas, Esq. of Reckport, Mo-, return
ed last evening from tour into the Bayou
Salado, and on the head waters of the
South Platte. Mr.. Thomas, a gentle
man of intelligence, whose energy as
prospector is unrivaued, and whose iudg-
ment with respect to a gold country is
unimpeachable, informs me that there
is no gold either in the mountains or out
of them, South or Southwest from point
twelve miles above the mouth of Cherry
Creek on this river, and more especially
. Is there none on the headwaters of the
. South Platte q should have said no
( gold South or Southwest until you reach
j. the GaleStTo, or what are better known
; as the Santa Fe diggings.O Some par
ties interested in town sites near Pixies
= Peak report having found gold fifty miles
! Vest from the mouth of the Utah trail.
/ (entering the mountains at the Northern
base of Pixies Peak, but they have none
: Of the gold to show, and men here have
:. already been duped so frequently as to
become incredulous. This report has
/ not as yet met with any encouragement
= Notwithstanding hes-e unfavorable
Y statements, the writer concludes his letter
l. as follows
,. " In conclusion, it is to be hoped that
t. traders in the States will not get the i'm.
IA preston that this country is going to be
r. overstocked. | know of many places
= where miner with proper water privil
eyes can make at the least calculation
O. from S. TO $40 per day, the only ques
ton arising whether a sufficient number
d, OF rich places can be found to SUPPORT a
large immigration"
Us Flour is worth SIS to $50 per barre
IS at the mines; bacon 80 cts. coffee an,
sugar 90 cts. tobacco ST. (good qua
n lily } whiskey IS per gallo; molasse
T. from 81 to sc, as to quality. Game
becoming less plentiful.