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From .he ST. Jo.4 Gazette, Aug. ISL
Ne yesterday. feseirea, a call ffom III G.
Keding,e uf Andf1x County, who is just from
| the gold mines. 4r. R. left Denver on the 11th
of July, having Pent eter a month in the vari-
pus dig8sngs. He il introduced to us Is Z
'straigh ward man, and We therefore lay his
statements before ourreaders. that they may be
be found in them.
| Mr. Reding says the mines are not paying !;
that those who are digging, as rule, are not
| to use hts own approximations than making
theifC<.rn6.n TIE. best resutts- that he Wit
| messed were in the Union digeings, where thir-
| ty-cight men, in five weeks time, By the aid Of
| machinery, realized e2,s63. The Gregory dig
| eeaoagh e in that Vicinity 10 ran one rocker. He
says tue proposition, noticed in the papers, to
procure from the Kansas Legislature the prri-
lilege TO drain or turn Cherry Greek, appears
very ridiculous 10 q man who has Just witnessed
the condition Of that stream. Its bed is as drv
az tue sand-bar ccTilosite our city, he thinks It
II would be . work Of suPerer.ogation to dig any
sdisches or trenches about it for tue purpose Of
turning its watersl
Mr. K. thinks there were not, when be left,
more than fifteen thousand persons, all told.
men, women, and children, in the whole gold
region; aud these were leaving at q marvelously
rapid rate. On tue day he left, it was thought
two thousand people passed throug u Denver
Cit, on their return. They are cou,ing by all
ruutee, and will strike tue Missouri ut all Access
siblcpoiuts. Many will pass through St. Joseph
within the next few days.
There is much destitution in the mines. Many
are begging means upon which to return. There
is not = great deal Of gold there, even If the
amount be aggregated: Our informant thinks
soule Of the gold already received here from the
new mines came originally from Mexico.
Discoveries Of new diggings are constantly
occurring, and Mr. R. thinks it not unlikely
that better leads than have get been struck mar
still be opened.
The Chief Of The Arrapahocs tells the whites
that on The Southern slope of the Rocky Noun
tains there are mines Of untold wealth. But
this region is the country of the Utahs, who are
hostile aud refuse to permit white men to enter
or prospect their domain. 1t is not Impossible,
nor indeed improbable, that placers Of fabulous
wealth will jet be opened BY the Pixies Peuk
miners.
Quartz mining in this new region is, of course,
in Its incipicucy, but Air. Il. thinks that with
capital and proper appliances this character Of
gold hunting may prove successful. The Quartz
is there, and Of rich quality, and with tie ex-
pcric,,ce Of California to profit by, there is little
reason to doubt of favorable results in the South
Platte mines.
1t will be observed that the reports differ as
radically now as they have from the f 1t. 1t is
therefore difficult to estimate even the proxi-
mate yu!ue or Importance OF these new mines,
or te say whether they will hare any permanent
consequence whatever, except in 30 fal as they
bare had 3 tendency to make known the resour-
ces Of the West and attract hither thousands
who else would hare known nothing Of the val-
ley of the Missouri.