New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-24

Interesting from the Kansas Mines.
From letter in the st. Louis Republican, dated
October l. Gregory Diggings, we extract the fol- |
lowing:
! How numerous the host that penetrated this part
Of the mountains during the summer just closed
has been, becomes evident from the thousands that
yet remain, in spite Of the steady efiux that has
taken place for the last ten weeks. DR.. G. A.
Hnberts the Recorder for the Gregory District, and
editor pro- tenn. of the Gold Reporter, has Of late
undertaken the aborious task Of ascertaining the
number OF miners at work during the last week of
september in the various diggings in this vicinity,
ana the respective yields Of the claims worked BY
.ne several companies. The figures he collected,
and the aggregate of which subjoin further below,
can be considered az representing an exact refec-
ton Of truth. The Dr.-a native Of Jefferson Co.,
MO-, but more recently resident Of Pekin, HI
: IS highy educated, accomplished and conscen-
tious gentlemen, and entered upon the labors Of |
gathering statistics with determination Of making
them accurate as possible. According to bis re-
port, there were on the 9th ult eleven hundred
and four men at work in four of the main pulehes
: viz RusscIs, Nevada, Illinois and Missouri fats
The bulk Of this number, s9l was engaged in Rus
sells guicl. The balance is almost equally d.
vided between the remaining three. The aggregate
amount of gold taken out by the ,l0i miners rep
resented weekly average value Of IA .259 90.
The mining population of the Gregory gulch
, proper, is estimated at about three hundred. In
the Lake, Iowa, Leayenw0rth, Patch and other
adjoining diggngs there are altogether over eight
hundred people at work; so that we have an ag-
gregate number of nearly two thousand three hum
bred individuals, for an area of about six square
miles.
am inclined to the conviction that the Nevada
gulcl will prove to abound much in gold-bearing
/ quartz as the Gregory gulch. But few of the Ne
vada leads contain, however crevices filled with
pay dirt, it was the with most of the Greg
DRY veins in the early part Of the summer They
hence their riches will be developed with the intro
dnction of machinery only. There is also low
mountain Of almost pure quartz in the Nevada
n guch, that has been denominated the " Gold Hill u
1; by the miners. In whatever spot its quartz has
been tested, it was uniformly found to be exceed
;, lngy rich, yielding, as your townsman, DR.. Willing,
contends, five cents worth of -four gold to the
ounce Of rock. A. W. Forney, from Putnam county,
Indiana, took out nugget of almost solid gold in
II l02 dwts.
ut Quite number Of miners have determined to
brave the rigor of the winter in the Gregory and
mr. adjacent diggngs. Most of them will be engaged
. in tunnelng-a kind Of work which they expect to
e' be able to carry on in spite Of the seyerest posi-
BILE fross. The tunnels to be dug for the pur-
p, pose of more easily reaching the subterranean lay
/; ers OF gold-bearing quartz. Some of them are IL
- be hundreds of yards long.
ne The steam quartz mill of Messrs Conklin & Co
he mas already made few experimental runs the re
Mt suits of which afford, however, definite basis Of
which to rest calculations to the true richness
Ill the Gregory quartz.
The number of simple grinders and crushers 70
tn reducing the quartz to powder is now ten. Mos
D be used only as long nothing better be hat
They are worked with both water and ox-powe
st The capacity of those operated with water is abor
sixty bushels per day. In consequence of the in
), perfection of the working process, but two do
w. lars worth of gold is obtained per bushel. TIL
TO capacity OF the ox-grinders does not exceed two
3D. three tuns per day, from which s25 worth of gol
re is secured on an advance.
". From the Rocky Mountain News of the 9th
Re- October extract the following
nu Mr. IT. NJ Wood has shown the editor of the Nau
en- i1ggctt recently taken from the Russell gulc
; "hich weighs one hundred and twenty eight penn
on per pvt s1l5 81. III. W. gave $50 for it, ar ar
a. Georgia.
n.y. Thorne's Iheate1 opened on the night of the ;
VI lhst Win the " CroIs of Cold" followed by
list popular song by Miss Wakeiy favorite dane
all BY Nile Haydee concluding with the farce Of ii
81 " Two Gregories.'
eu' On Thursday morning last we had fall of snow
Vef lasting for several hours and covering the groun
lis in many places to depth OftwO inches. It melte
rapidly, and before night had all disappeared
the mountains there was much heavier fall 4
much that it still covers great portion OF tn
by mountain region. The night following we had
on severe frost-ice forming an eighth of an inch
~. thickness
y. .io The heavy snow of the 29th ult. temporari
te stopped mining operations throughout nearly all
nto the mountain region, but the melted rapid
to- and after two or three days cessation work Wi
ia resumed with energy and better facilities Il
''' washing, owing to the increase of water in ii
gulches and small streams, from the melting snoy
In the Tarrya!l district the mines are steadily il
as direction. Many of the successful miners have lie
' for the States but we learn from Mr. Holman, on
III OF the original discoverers who called upon us
18th Tuesday last, that between one and two hundre
men still remain in the diggngs, every one of whol
=. is doing well. Mr.. G.. Chambers, another of III
party whs made the first discoveries in the Sout
ht Park, also called upon us recently and gave us
nj, impressions of the mining country. We have bee
VI acquainted with Mr.. G. for some time, and kno
,ue him to be most reliable authority in mining ma
by ters he having spent several years in prospectr
country is Of great extent and most astonishin
ol richness He is of opinion that the great field
1o surface mines, or washings, will be in and mes
"a and Grand rivers. He says he knows gulch d
ny gngs that will pay an average of 81 to the pan.
hu From the Gregory and neighboring districts v
~ learn some most important items from Mr..
Nv, Witse, who came down day before yesterday.
, says important discoveries are being almost dali
a made. Prospecters learning better the natul
f OF the leads, and as consequence finding rio
w. sc'dtchers who fourshed in May, June and Jul
- last, and failing to find three or four dollars in Il
ai first pam left the country in disgust and reporte
on the road and in the States that all was hui
~ y. bug
ny On September 9th, Milton Thomas took from
81. aa claim in the Nevada gulch nugget weighing
,ns hundred and four pennyweights pure gold, exec
~ ~ valued at sos.
sta October lst, Irish company, working in tt
s'e Russell gulch, found nugget worth s23 o.. {
-, the same day McCarroll & Co. found in the sar
ant gulch nugget of pure gold weighing Sis 81.
ous Last week three men took from the Kansas lei
tse in two days over ire hundred dollars. The go
.Ia in this lead is coarse, and the hard quartz We
w rich. It was estimated that the above two day
ZEN work yielded over one hundred dollars in the quar-
a in addition to the clean gold. The lead is open
ihs one place only. Big wages are being made on Il
on Maryland" lead, but We cannot get the exa
an figures.
re. LEGAL BUSINESS IN THE KANSAS MINEs.-In
md letter from the Gregory Dggings to the ST. Lou
,ns Republican we find the following:
led The variety of interests created by the openir
ted of the different mining districts, and the utt
ant absence of all laws adapted to the wants of Il
ioI mining community, induced the latter soon aft
'od the discovery of the dggngs to assemble in ma
ing meeting and adopt, in its sovereign capacity,
of body Of laws and regulations, under which t
rs. several rights of the miners were to find mutt
Ne security. After the lapse of some time, the mul
mt meantime, necessitated supplementary series
1as DEGREES of the mining people, which, togetl
with the original ones, derived their authority rc
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