Nebraska advertiser., 1859-07-14

tdtgDeS OF me HTeSS IN JfeGD 1oTf, Dos
ten and Cincinnati.
GREcoRY's DIeG1Ncs,
June 9th, 1859.
The undersigned, none of them mi
ners, nor in any way directly interested
In mining, but now here for the expires:
purpose Of ascertaining and setting fortl
the truth with regard to a subject of deer
and general interest, as to which the wi.
dest and widest diversity Of assertion and
opinion is known to exist, unite in the
following statement:
We have this day personally visited
nearly all the mines already opened in
this valley Chat of a little stream run
ming into Clear Creek at this ppe;1 have
witnessed the operation Of digging, trans
porting and washing the vein-stone, "a
partially decomposed or rotten quartz,
running in regular veins from south west
to northeast, between shattered walls of
an impure granite, have seen the gold
plainly VISIBLE in nearly every ~sluice, and
In nearly every pan of the rotton quartz
washed in our presence have seen gold,
but rarely, visible to the naked eve, in
pieces of the quartz not yet fully disinte-
grated, and have obtained from the few
who have already sluices in operation,
accounts of their several products, as fol-
lows:
Zeigler, Spain& Co, from South Bend,
Ind, have run a ~sluiee, with some inter-
ruptions, for the last three weeks; they
are four in number, with one hired man.
They have taken out a little over three
thousand pennyweights of gold, estimat-
ed by them as worth $4,000; their first
days work produced $21, their highest
was 1895.
Sopris, Henderson & Co., from Farm
ington, Indiana, have run their sluices
six days in all, with four men-one man
to dig, one to carry, and WI to wash;
four days last weekproduced $607; Mon
day Of this week, $3.50; no further re-
ported. They have just put into opera
ton a second %sluice, which began to run
this morning.
Foot & Simmons, from Chicago n
%sluice, run four days; two former days
produced $40; two latter promised us but
not received.
Defrees s. Co., from South Bend, Ind,
have run a small sluice eight days with
the following results: first day $50; Sec
ond day, $50; third day, sos; fourth day
1905. The following days were prom
ised US, but by accident failed to be re-
ceived. They have just sold half their
claim for 81, 900. A full claim is 50feet
by 100.
Shears & Co., from Fl. Calhoun, Ne
braska, have run one sluice. The first
day produced $50, second day $343, the
third day, to-day, $50; all taken from
within three feet of the surface; vein a
foot wide on the surface. widened to near
eighteen inches at adepth of about three
feet.
Brown & Co., from DeKalb county,
Ind, have been one week on their claim;
carry their dirt half a mile have work
ed their sluice a day and a half; produced
$3.50; have taken out specimens contain
ing from so cents to $13. Vein from 8
to 10 feet wide.
Caste, Kendall & Co., from Butler Co.
Iowa, reached Denver, March 25th, and
drove the first wagon to these diggings;
have been here five weeks; worked first on
a claim in which they run a %sluice, but one
day; produced 1925: sold their claim for
$500; are now working a claim an the
Hunter lead have only sluiced n
(this) day three men employed, produc-
ed SIS.
Bates & Co., one %sluice, ran half a day
produced $l35,
Coleman, King & Co., one sluice, run
half a day, produced S74.
Shorts & Collier, bought out claims sew
en- days since Of Caste, Kendall & Co.,
for $4,000; $500 down, and the balance
as fast as can be taken out have not yet
got ~sluices into operation. Mr.. Dean, of
Iowa, on the 9th instant washed from a
singlerpan of dirt taken from the claim,
$3.50, have been offered $4,000 for
their claim.
S. G. Jones & Co., from Eastern Kan
sas, have run sluices two days, with three
men; yield 1925 per day; think quartz in
this vicinity generally is gold bearing
have never seen a piece crushed that did
not yield gold.
A. P. Wright s. Co., from Elkhart CO.,
Ind, sluice but just in operation /; have
not yet a~scertained It's products; our
claim prospects from % cents to one dol
lar and twenty-five cents to the pan.
John H. Gregory, from Gordon coun-
ty, Georgia, left home last season en- route
for Frazier river, was detained by a sue
cession of accidents at Fort Laramie, and
wintered there; meanwhile, heard of the
discoveries of gold on the South Platte,
and started on a prospecting tour on the
eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains,
early in January; ~prospected in almost
every valley, from the Cache la Poudre
Creek, to Pixies Peak, tracing many of
the streams to their sources; early in
May arrived on Clear Creek, at the foot
Of the mountains, 80 miles southeast of
this place; there fell in with the Defrees
& Ziegler companies from Indiana, and
VIM. Pfouts, Of Missouri; we all started
up Clear Creek, prospecting. Arrived al
this vicinity On the sixth of May. The
ice and snow prevented US from prospect