New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-31

nt1tn, nom which we extract the following
STATEMENT OF Mr.. vANEss
started in March, with mule teams, and arrived 1
Denver City early in April. On my arrival the spet
ulatom 10 town lots swarmed around me and tried
induce me 70 take some shares In their new town;
told them did not wish to speculate, but wanted
engage with my party In mining. asked them
they knew where there were any dggings that Woui'
pay. They said k
1 asked them how much it would pay to the pan
They said they could show me diggngs that would
pay ten cents 70 the pan. told them II they would
DO that would give them zen dollars for Their trou
morning. called on them in the morning, and re
ported myself ready to 20 to the dggings but they
said they could not go that day, and made great
many excuses. was satisfied they were humbug.
einF me- and offered to pay them ten dollars if they
would show me dirt that would pay even five cents
then three cents, then one cent They could not do
either for the very good reason that there have
teem diggings found in that country any,phere that
scOsd pay one cent 10 the PAM nor fourth of
cent Iprospected the country all around, visited
all the claims and diggings, and positively assert
that no man has euer made more than ttuenfy cents
Pr day e hs 6est dggings IN the vcinity Of Pixies
Peak or Cherry Creek. Gold does indeed exist there
Il can Be found anywhere about Cherry Creek and
Ill the streams hut the particles are so minute that
ID with great difficulty they can be collected, and
mining can necer be made toPay there. Denver City
there were less Inhabitants there when left than
when arrived. The towns are being deserted by all
except those who own the lots and they are hanging
ON II hopes Of selling them.
II. vanesa was present at the burial Of Bassett,
the bogus poetman. He states that Mr.. Bassett had
besn engaged 10 writing fraudulent letters East He
said there were large number found in his posses.
sion, and that al the letters coming from that con-
Try giving glowing accounts Of the mines fraud
nlent and downright lies The statement of Mr.
M, hacked up BY al bis company who were with
him, Was hard pill for his Michigan acquaintances
to swallow. and many Of them came to the conclusion
that they should rcsrace their steps to the East.
STATEMENT OF BROTHER or ONE OF rHB COMPANY.
That day saw two brothers meet on the road
the one on the return had been to the mines, had
gpent tho winter there, went out last fall, had pro-
specfed everywhere, had given it thorough trial,
md aid that there mas no god in paying quantities
. b found dnyschere in that conntry-that from
hree 70 fifteen cents per day the most that could
II never can be good agricultural coun-
fythat It is not ct for white man to live inland
hat Il gold could be found there in quantities that
vould pay 1--WE dollars per day, it would BE- nonsense
months il the year that man can work there but
y i is, It y downright madness for man to 90
here, expecting to make money BY mining, when he |
an have no hope Of making over twenty cents per |
az ana i he has to pay board, it will cost him
conversation, something like the following, took
lace between these two brothers. The one "a the
eturn said
4 Ny Cod where are you going!"
II am going to Pixies Peak"
g What in the world are you going to Pixies Peak
,r wrote y0u not to Gomez
you wrote for me to come Immediately: and stated
on were making from Eve to eight dollars per day,
nd here's your letter. producing one that purported
, have been written by him, and was mailed at
luraria but was Q fraud.
The brother outward bound returned
Travelled in company with one who spent the win.
u at Cherry Greek, two days. and had many an in.
,resting talk with him. also met gentleman,
hom knew well in New York, who has been sutler
e is on his way East. He has just come down from
10 mountains, and is well informed respecting all
lat country. He pronounces the whole thing most
ttyaseous humbug, and says that they have tried
,xes lying rotten there that have been abandoned
,cause they conld not make 1t pay. He says that
is is well known by the officers 10 the army and
hers that have travelled in this country Some Of
clerks left him and went to the mines last fall but
ter their vain efforts, were glad to return. This
ntleman's name is Clark. He is now at Leayen.
'rth and will be at the Planters House in this city
q few days. 1t would be well for any that have
9 Pixies Peak fever to call and have little talk
th him.
LARGE ORDERS FROM ENGLAND FOR AMERICAN
REARMs.--The large quantity Of firearms and gun
aking machinery already furnished to England from
nerican workshops proves to have been but the
ecurser of more extended orders. The New York
urnal Of Commerce says:
We learn from Mr. E. v. Haughwout, agent for
. Ames Manufacturing Company, that orders were
ought out by the last steamer from England for |
, immediate construction of large quantities of
lchinery for the manufacture of the most approved
nerican firearms, and that the same have been mt
hof1N Of