New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-21

The st. Louis Republican Of the 18Th MS:
long letter s pubIished this morning from our
correspondent u Denver Ctr. = of III vefv iafas
dats Taken 10 connection With oeliey sccoanie n q
full Of interest," to the whcle country, = sIne -
tities in the Pixies Peak region. Ia pFivs1s -.
we are told that the Express Company I'm - -
able to transport from thirty to forty thoussd a.
lars per week. Several thouMsa doEsss u eold
dust could now be forwarded II thers NJ nDnsy ksss
TO buy it, ~ cs4
We make the following extracts ffym d. lsstsr
sluded 70 above, which Is dated Denver Gsy, Juns
A.: s5s
Several days ago We were startled By rYUA d
several strikes Of vastly rich leads OF quartz eoA =
the North Fork Of Clear or Vasquez Greek, . tt1a-
fayy from the Northwest TO the South Platte. pinR-
edistey set out to sound the matter and found tHv
news for once 70 Be baeed on reality. Mr. GregDyr
of Georgia, and several parties from Indiana MIns5
and Iowa, while prospecting the billy banks Of ~
above mentioned stream, had come across nunbsr
Of streaks Of burnt quartz, which induced them 10
use their picks and shoves and pans forthwith. The
first pan Of surface dit yielded over four dollars
worth Of Particles Of gold Of the finest description
and the digging being carried deeper through the
rock beneath, "a lead Of rotten qsrz encased id solid
rock of the species, Of Width d abolt ten, sud 8
hight Of an esuA number Of inches, was struck,
varying from ffye to fifteen dollars TO tAs pan. 4
number Of claim. At staked ont By the dis
coverers, and the WORKING proceeded with BY msans
Of whatever imperfect implenents they had y CO..,
z3and. AZ " III ls25 IL.
Mr. Gregory himself took neseiy q sthouAud dcllan
ouof his claim in less than week. A party of 1vs
from South Bend Indiana, viz :t~o brothers Deffees
three thonsand dollarsin sH days that d froM tke
22d tohe 2sth day ult at the ayessss rsss Of 3z5e
day. As soon as the news OF their gsod fostane
reashsa as sss and sa adjoining town e
Diggingsr ensued Hundreds Of psuspecten at 0seo
commenced to overflow the narrow valley, on ~
mountainous bordering Of which the quarts lead was
located aLnumber Of them were q lucky - yAsk
predecessors, and at the time LaHved thess some III
more abundantly yielding leads had been discovered.
on which large number Of claims were alreadT
taken. Owing to the altitude and steepne0 a. IL
location OF the leads their WORKING is carried % w.
the greatest difficulty only. When arrived tAese
but two sluices were in operatlon and the dirt ~
brought down on the miners shoulders from an aldr
tude in some instances Of three hundred et II
few days, however, some twenty sluices will be run
and number of dirt slides fxeds and the yield per
day. which is now about two thousand dollars out of
all leads, will then reach eight or ten thousand. ~
about three weeks from now, yon. may confidently
look for the first heavy shipment Of dust from ths
region. K.4
The Gregory diggings are located about thirty
miles due West from Denver City yet the mountain-
Gus character of the surrounding country renders y
necessary pass oyeat least forty I've miles before
reaching the first lead. The leads, IS indicated b
the burnt surface quartz already mentioned run n
South. western and North western dfTections, and
extend for miles. Whether they are goId.bearing
throughout has, of conrse, not yet been tested. 8
number of old CalifoTnians are at work in the dig
gngs and proclaim their utmost confidence in tbs
speedy discovery of abundance Of gold, equal to
that Of the richest valleysof California Water, aa1
and fine wood is plentiful near the diggings.
The excitement about the quartz leads 10 intense.
On my way back to this point met at least two
thousand individuals bound in their direction. Denver
City and Auraria now lock a. dull as New England
villages on Sabbath day. Everybody joins the gene
raj rush. .~ i. ma q
All Of the facts recited in the foregoing can war
rant to be correct. Most of the gold washed ont
have weighed with my own hands. Up to the mo-
ment of doing this, and examining personally the
leads, / had myself the greatest doubts as to the
truthulness of the reports that induced to UNDER
take the trip. But having seen, now believe like
st. Thomas, and endeavor to promulgate the result
of my observation through the columns of yoar
paper.
In few days shall undertake second trip and
furnish you with more extensive and detailed data
as to the new avenues of wealth thus thrown open
to the g0ld.seeking mutitudes that are now con.
gregated in this latitude.
Few, if any Of the new comers from the States
have been turning back during the last ten days
They all make for the mountains.
In conclusion, may yet say that Mr.. Martin Field,
the Postmaster of the Express Company, of late has
visited the Jackson dggings, located on the South
Fork Of Clear Creek, and returned with beautiful
specimens Of nugget gold found in that neighbor-
| hood, and that this morning miner arrived from
Jumps, the weight of which ranges from two to six
| pennyweights The Gregory gold is all but imper-
cepbIe to the naked eye, when mixed with dirt and
| has to be quicksilvered
Provisions of all kinds have been very scarce, and
consequently high, up to yesterday, which witnessed
the arrival Of the first supply train sent ont by Messrs
Russell JONES' of the Leavenworth and Pixies
Peak Express. 1t numbers twenty-five heavily loaded
wagons the contents of which will undoubtedly tend
to make the satisfaction of physical wants easy
| and less expensive.
| The Leavenworth Times of the 18th says
Another of Jones Russell's Pixies Peak Expresses
70 ~. -.
18th, at o'clock, having made the trip in the ms
paralleled time of SEVEN DAYs-yes, reader, sepen
days from Leauentco1th to the Gold Mines. The
news is all of the most aattering and encouraging
nature as our correspondence, which we lay before
our readers in an extra, fully demonstrates.
Rich leads and discoveries are the order Of the day.
The whole district is turning out to be prolific Of
gold. Claims which were considered worthless three
or four weeks since are now commanding from five
to twenty Thousand dollars
The snow has disappeared from the mountains and
the miners have ample opportunity of working to
advantage. All the towns are deserted in the rush
to the mountains. ,- e74 .s4
Messrs. Smoot & Russell received over a thousand
dollars in dust and nuggets and quartz gold, (of
would have received much greater supply, were it
not that the miners refuse to sell for less than $40 per
ounce As they have food in plenty and abundant
supplies, they are Indifferent about selling the dust at
| any price.
The Times publishes letter from Denver City,
| from which we extract the following:
The excitement about the Gregory diggings ia still
on the increase. Authentic information has been
ceved here to-day of the striking of still richer leads
by prospecting party, conducted by Mr.. Gregory,
and the sale Of the aters claim on the original Gre
CORY lead for not less than $2l 900 to party Of FOUR
of whom three, viz: Amos Gridley, E. B. Henderson,
from Cass county, Ind, and Vim. Allen, from Full
| ton county, Illinois, are known. The brothers Do
frees, who aso1had two claims on the Gregory lead,
sold their interest for $500 and $1,000. One Of the
Zeigler brothers sold claim which he had bought
week previous for $50, for s6O00 number of other
sales of less magnitude are also reported. Marshal
| Cook, of Doniphan, bought claim Of Gregory for
$780, and Samuel j. Jones, weltknown railroad con-
tractor two of another individual for three mules
and 5000 cash respectively.
The exodus to the diggings is daily extending in
volume Denver City is all but deserted. / do not
think that more than three hundred are now living
within the limits.
Mr.. St. James, Mexican trader, of Scotch descent,
now domiciled in this place, bought this morning
something over two ounces Of nugget gold, consisting
| of Jumps weighing from two to seven pennyweights
each. They had been brought in from the Jackson
| diggings.
| The arrivals from the States still continue to be
large, but returning emigrants have become rather
| scarce article. Whoever lands here now, at once
steers for the mountains.