The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-07-12
Authentic from Pixies Peak.
STATEMENT OF MEssRs. GREELY, RICHARD
son AND WILLARD.
GREGoRY's DIGGINGs
Near Clear Creek, in the Rocky Mountains

"hEIoK1 DlGGlkGS, !
I Near Clear Creek, in the Rocky Mountains)
June 9Th. 1859
The undersigned, none of them miners
! nor directly interested in mining, but nov
, here for the express purpose of ascertain
ing and setting forth the truth with regarC
to a subject Of deep and general interest
, as to which the widest and widest diversi
ty of assertion and opinion is known to ex
ist unite il. the following statement:
We have this day personally visited
nearly all the mines or claims already open
ed in this valley, THAT of little stream
running into Clear Greek at this point;
, have witnessed the operations of digging
, transporting and washing the vien-stone
! ia partially decomposed, or rotten quartz
running in regular veins from southwes
to northwest. between shattered walls O
an impure granite,) have seen the golG
plainly visible in the rifles of nearly every
sluice, a.,d in nearly every pen of the rot
ten quartz washed in our presence; have
seen gold (but barely visible to the naked
eye) in the pieces Of the quartz not yet
fully decomposed, and have obtained fron!
the few who have already sluices in oper.
alton, accounts of their several products,
as follows:
ZeigIer, Spain & Co (from South Bend
Ind have run sluice, with some inter
ruptions, for the last three weeks; they are
four in company, with one hired man
They have taken out little over three
thousand penny weights Of gold, estimated
10y them as worth at least So 900; the first
days work produced So; their highest
was S495.
Sopris, Henderson & Co., (from Farm
ington, Ind. } have run their slu;ce six days
in all, with four men-one to dig, one to
larry, and two to wash and in four
davs last week produced S607; Monday
Of this weok, $3.50; no further reported
They have ut put in second sluice,
which only began IL run this morning.
Foot & Simmons, trG,n Chicago, one
sluice, run four days; two former days
produced s400; two latter promised us,
| but not received.
Defree & Co, from South Bend, Ind
have run small sluice eight days, with
the following results: first day, s66; sec
ond day so; third day, 90; fourth day, 305;
| the four following days were promised us
but by accident failed to be received. =
Have just sold halfthe claim "a full claim
is SO feet bv I00) for 50 500.
Shears & Co from Fort Calhoun, Neb-
ra,ka, have run one sluice, tn first (part of
AZ day, pro luced $50; second. (first fulD
day, 343; third, (to day. $40; all taken
| from within three feet of the surface; vein
foot wide on the surface widened to IS
inches at depth of three feet.
Brown Il Co., from De kalb Co Ind,
have been one week on their claim; carry
their dirt half mile; have worked their
sluice a day and a half; produced $500;
have taken out quartz specimen. contain
ing from 80 cent to s13 each in gold: vein
from to 10 feet wide.
Casio, Kendall & Co, from Butler Co,
Iowa. reached Denver, March 25th; drove
the first wagon to these diggings; have
been here five weeks; worked first claim
on which they ran a sluce but one day;
are now working claim on the Hunter
lead; have only sluiced one (this) day; 3
men employed; produced SIS.
Bates & Co., one sldice, run half day;
produced s135.
Colman, King & Co, one sluice, run
half a day. produced S75.
Shorts d Collie, bought our claims sew
eral days since of Caste, Kendall & Co
for $4,000; 500 down, and the balance as
fast as taken out; have not yet got our
sluices into operation; Mr.. Dean, from
Iowa, on the 9th inst, washed from a sin
gle pan of dirt taken from the claim, SIT;
have been offered $40 900 for the claim.
| S. G. Jones & Co, from eastern Kansas,
have run our sIuices two days, with three
men; yield 1925 per day; think the quartz
generally in this vicinity is god bearing;
have never seen piece crushed that did
not yield gold.
A. p. Wright &, Co., from Elkhart Co
Ind, sluice but just in operation, have not
yet asceltained It's products. Our claim
prospects iro;;::,. 25 cents to 81 to the pan.
| John II. Grcg2:y, from Gordon Co,
Georgia; left home last season en- route for
Frazer River; was detained by a success
| sion of accidents at Fort Laramie, and
wintered there; meanwhile heard of the
discovery of gold on the South Platte, and
started on prospecting tour on the cas-
tern slope Of the Rocky Mountains, early
in January; prospected in almost every
valley from the Cache Ia Poudre to Pixies
Peak, tracing streams to their sources
early in May arrived on Clear Creek, at
the foot Of the mountains, 80 miles south
east Of this rlace; there fell in with the
Defrees & Zeiger, Ind. companies, and
VIM, Foutes of Missouri. We all started
up Clear Creek, prospecting, and arrived
in this vicinity, May 9Th. The ice and
snow prevented us from prospecting far
/ below the surface, but the first pan of sur
face dirt, on the original Gregory claim,
| yielded 81. Encouraged by this success,
We all staked out claims, found the lead
consisting of burnt quartz, resembling the
Georgia mines in which had previously
worked.
Snow and ice prevented the regular
working of the lead till May 10th, and
from then until the 23d, worked it five
days with two hands, result 1927. Soon
after ! sold my two claims for sd 900
the parties buying to pay me after de
Quoting their expenses, all they take from