Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-19

The pixies Peak eorrespo ndent of the
ST. Ionis Democrat writing from Denver
City and Anroria, says;-
The miners are now. making the 'but-
end of-their piles for 1859. The universal
presence and circulation of bags and bags,
bottles and bottles of gold dust, specimen
nuggets, &C., &C., prevails here to an extent
heretofore unthought of or undreamed of.
Cold scales are seen in every house of
business and in every cabin, busily eln-
lptoycd weighing out the precious metal as
the only currency and medium for mcr-
chantsand traders of all kinds and char1c-
ters-even to that of q lonf of bread and a
drink Of wlliskey. Some fellows arrive
nightly from the diggings with buckskin
bags ofthe stmineral" sizing from that of a
goud-sized pickle to that of a Bologna
sausage; and occasionally. some of these
same individuals get ona spree, or buck at
'monte," or spill in on s'chuckaluck," and
rise up the next morning sans health, sans
gold-dust, and sans enough of the accumn-
lated to pay their omnibus fare back to.
Mountain City. 80
Specimen nuggets are frequently enhib-
tied, weighing from so to 100 penuywcights
but as such are no longer looked upon by
us us anything new or uncommon, have
not taken the trouble to give you tho def
mite names or districts srom which pro-
cured. Greene Russell, Esq, the best
practical miner who ever came to these
mines, and who is at the same time first
class social and scientific gentleman, left
some weeks ago for his home in Georgia,
by way of the Platte river, in light canoe,
and will perhaps be in your section before
this reaches you. He took along with him
his seasons pile, which he took out of his,
Russell's gulch, to wit {: one hundred and
three pounds of gold. This is exact and,
unqualifedly true,-anybody or any num-
Der of thousands in the State disbelicving
it, Notwithstanding. saw it with my
eyes, and so did all the principal business
men in both these towns previous to his
departure. 1t was remarked that a few
desperadoes followed his party along the
Platte for bad purposes, but their daring
and determination failed them to carry.
their purposes out.
There are the most astounding projects
for improving mining facilities preparing
Mt the present time, being chartered by the
Legislature, and giving assurance to be
practically ready for operations by the lst
of May next. There is heavy company
who have got charter fora mammoth
cons oltdated water-ditch, some fifteen
miles long and ten miles in trunk, to be
made from certain points in the mountains,
ANT through rich tracts of gulches and
along ridges where heretofore they could
not mine to any profit to themselves, on
account of the scarcity of water priYile-
ges, Mr.. Wood, the Georgia miner and
Member of our Legislature, is one of the
company. Stock cannot be purchased in
it for less that 1876 cents on the dollar, at
present. When completed, in the sum
mer, with its large reservoirs, it's locks,
cocks and pipes, in complete working or
der, it is estimated that $500 men can
work their claims all along the region
through which it is to pass, and thus it
will be the means of developing region
which is undoubtedly very rich, but
which, for the want of those facilities, lay
in its native state the past season.