The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-06-25
GreeleYis Report.
GREeoRY's deems, near Clear Creek,}
in the Rocky Mountains. June q. '59

Inc unQerslSueuI nOno Oi tnem miners, |
nor directly interested in mining, but now
here for the express purpose of ascertain
ing and setting forth the truth with regard |
TO a subject of deep and general interest,
as to which the widest and widest diver
sity of assertion and opinion is known to
exist, unite in the following statement:
We have this day personally visited
nearly all the mines or claims already
opened in this valley, (that 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 southwest to northeast between
shattered walls of an impure granite
have seen the gold plainly visible in the
rifles of nearly every sluice, and in nearly
every pan of the rotten quartz washed in
our presence; have seen gold, (but rarely)
visible to the naked ege. in pieces of the
quartz not yet fully decomposed, and have
obtained from the few who have already
siuices in operation, accounts of their sew
eral products, as follows:
Zeigler, Spain & Co., (from South Bend,
Ind, y have run sluice, with some inter-
ruption, for the last three weeks; they are
four in company, with one hired man.
They have taken out little over three
thousand pennyweights of gold, esti-
mated, by them, as worth at least So, 600;
their first days work produced $2l; their
highest was $495.
Sopris, Henderson & Co., (from Farm
ington, 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 1907. Monday of this
week, $3.50; no further reported. They
have just put in a second sluice, which
only began to run this morning.
Foote & Simmons, (from Chicago,) one
sluice, run four days; two former days
produced $40, two latter promised us. but
not received.
Defrees & Co., (from South Bend, Ind }
have run sluice eight days, with the fol-
lowin g results: first day, 500; second day,
$50; third day, $95; fourth day, $305;
(the four following days were promised
US, but, by accident, failed to be received. }
, Have just sold half their claim, "a full
one, SO feet by 1907 for $2,500
7 Shears & Co., (from Fort Calhoun, Ne
braska,) have run one sluice two hours the
r first (part of AZ day, produced $50; sec.
t ond first full) day. 343; third, (to-day,'
3 $50; all taken from within three feet o.
the surface; widened to eighteen inches
D at depth of three feet.
D Brown & Co., (from De Kalb Co., Ind,
t have been one week on their claim, car.
! rying their dirt for half a mile;-havt
worked their sluice a day and half-pro.
!, duced $3.50; have taken out quartz speci.
mems containing from so cents to $1d
;. each in gold; vein from eight feet to ter
~ feet wide.
n Caste, Kendall & Co., (from Butler Co.
Iowa. reached Denver, March 18th
drove the first wagons to these diggins
have been here five weeks, worked first
It on a claim on which they run sluice bu
e one day-produced 1925; sold their claim
Z for 50, 500; are now working a claim OF
y the Hunter lead; have only sluiced one
: day, three men employed, produced $85
Colman, King & Co., one sluice, rur
t half day, produced $75.
# Shorts & Collier-Bought our claims
# seven days since, of Caste, Kendall & Co.
d for $500; $500 down and the balance
n as fast as taken out Have not yet GO
g our sluices in operation. Mr.. Dean, from
e Iowa, on the 9th inst, washed from sin.
Q gle pan of dirt taken from the claim, SIT
: 80. Have been offered $4,000 for the
= claim.
S SG Jones & Co., from Eastern Kansas
e Have run our sluices two days, with three
n men; yield S225 per day. Think the
: quartz generally, in this vicinity. is gold
!, bearing. Have never seen piece crushed
S that did not yield gold.
d A.P. Wright & Co., from Elkhart Co.
s. Ind. Sluice but just In operation; have
g not yet ascertsined its products. 0u
claim prospects from twenty-five cents tt
$1,25 to the pan.
s John II. Gregory, from Gordon Co.
8 Georgia. Left home last season en- rout,
9 for Frazer River; was detained by sue
cessiou of accidents at Fl Laramie, anC
= wintered there. Meanwhile heard of tn,
e discovery of gold on the South Platte
IL and started on prospecting tour on the
eastern slope of the Rocky Mountain,
s early in January. Prospected in almos
e every valley from Cache La Poudre creek
Is to Pixies Peak, tracing many streams IL
their sources. EARLY in May arrived on
e Clear Creek, at the foot of the mountains
80 miles south east of this place. There
70 fell in with the Defrees & Zeiger Indiana
j. companies, and William Fouts. of Mis-
II sour. We all started up Clear Creek pros
= pecting. Arrived in this vicinity May
'. the ice and snow prevented US from pros
n pecting far below the surface, but the frs
% pan ofsurface dirt, on the original claim
yielded 81. Encouraged by this success
'e we all aked out claims, found the dead
= consisting of burnt quartz, resembling tn
IS Georgia mines, in which / had previ
ously worked. Snow and ice prevented
70 the regular working Of the lead till May
} 10th. From then until the 23d worked
!, it FIVE days, with two hands, result, 1912
q Soon after l sold my two claims for $2l,
s 600, the parties buying to pay me, ate
70 deducting their expenses, all they tax
ID from the claim to the amount of $500 pc
n week until the whole is paid. Since tina
IS time | have been prospecting for othe
/ parties at about $500 per day. Hav
struck another lead on the opposite sid,
of the valley, from which I washed 81.
out of asinGle pan.
lie Some forty or fifty sluices commenced
ia are not yet in operation; but the ownen
b. inform US that their prospecting" show
lie from 10 cents to S. to the pan. As tn
ly .leads" are all found on the hills, man,
I'd Of the miners are constructing trenches 4
is carry water to them, instead of building
G. their sluices in their ravines, and carrying
lie the dirt thither in wagons, or sacks
b, Many persons who have come here with
to out provisions or money, are compelled Il
D. work as common laborers, at from 81 h
ID So per day and board, until they can pro
Of cure means of sustenance for the time nee
l. essary to prospecting, building sluices, etc
ID Others, not finding gold the third day, Of
Or dislikiDg the work necessary to obtain it
lie leave the mines in disgust, after very
lie short trial, declaring there is no gold her,