Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-06-23
Latest from the Gold Mines--State.
ment of Horace Greeley
and others.


We have an Extra from tie Leav nworth Timer,
giving the news received by Express, from the
Gold Mines. The Express came through In eight
days, losing one day on the route. The Times
gives many tiers, based on its own correspond
ence and private letters, and grows very jubilant
We only give :he letter of Greeley, Richardson
Willard:
GsrdoRY's DIaGINGs,1
Near Clear Creek, in the r. MountasnsD
June 9th, 1889.
The undersigned. none of them miners, nor di-
reCtly interested in mining, but now here for the
express purpose of ascertainng and Sc ting forth
The truth with regard to a subject of deep and
general interest, as to which the widest and wild
est diversity of assertion and opinion is known to
exist. unite in the following statement:
We have this day personally visited nearly all
the mines or claims already opened in this valley
(that of little stream running into Clear Creek
AT this point;) have witnessed the operation Of Dig
cling. transporting and washing the veiD-stsne, "a
partially decomposed, or rotten quartz, running in
regular veins from southwest to northeast, be-
tween shattered walls of an impure granite,) have
seen the gold plainly visible in the rifles of nearly
every sluice and in nearly every pan OF the rot
fen quartz washed in our presence; have seen gold
(but rarey) visible TO the naked eye. IN pieces of
the quartz not yet fully decomposed, and have OBJ
tanned from the few who have already sluces in
oneration, accounts of their severe products, as
follows:
Zeigler, Spain & Co., (from South Bend, Ind
have run a sluce, with some Interruptions, for
the last three weeks; they are four in company
with one hi red man. They have taken out little
over three thousand pennyweights of gold, est
mated by them as worth at least $4,000, their first
davis work produced S2l; their highest was S495.
l. N To- NOT,
Indiana, ) have their sluice six days IN all
with four IN en-one 10 dig, one 10 carry, and two
10 wash; four days last week produced SCOT;
Monday of this week, $3.50; no further reported.
The have Just put in a second sluice, which only
began to run this morning.
Foote & Simmons, (from Chicago, one sluice,
run four DAYS; two former days produced $40;
two latter promised US, bat not received
Defrees 4 Co., (from South Bend, Ind ~ have
run a small sluice eight days, with the following
results: first day, 500, second day, $50; third day,
Se5: fourth day, S305; the four following days
were promised us, but, by accident failed to be
received Have just sold half their claim a full
claim is 80 feet by 1907 for $500.
Shears & Co., (from Fort Calhoun, Nebraska)
duced $50; second, First full) day, S343; third.
(to-day) $50; all taken from within three feet
Of the surface; vein foot wide on the surface:
widened TO eighteen inches at a depth of three
feet
Brown & Co., (from De KaIb co.. Ind,) have
been one week their claim; carry their dirt half
q mile; have orked their sluice day and half;
produced $500; have taken out quartz specimens
containg from 30 cents TO Sl3 each in gold; vein
from TO 10 feet wide.
Casio. Kendall & CO.. (from Butler CO.. Iowa,
reached Denver, March 25;h; drove the first wag-
on to these diggings; have been here five weeks;
worked first on a claim, on which they ran a
sluce, but one day; produced s225; sold their
claim for 81 800; are now working claim on the
Hunter lead; have only siuiced (this) day;
three men employed; produced SS5.
Bates & Co., one sluice, run half day; pro-
duced Sl35.
Colman, King & Co., and sllice, run half day;
produced SO.
Shorts and Collier, bought our claims seven days
since OF Casio, Kendall & Co., for 81 800; $500
down, and balance as fast as taken out; have not
vet got our sluices into operation; Mr. Deau,
from Iowa. on the 9th instant washed from
single pan of dirt taken from he claim, $3.50;
have been offered $1,000 for the CHIN.
S. G. Jones Co., from Eastern Kansas, have
run our sluis~s I-y", -iti' tfrrr IIrvi, yield
S225 per day; think the quartz generally in this vi
cinity is gold bearing; have never seen piece
crushed that did not yield gold.
A. P. Wright & Co., frousElkhart county, Ind;
sluce but Just in operatioR have not vet ascertain
ed is products; our claim prospects from % cents
to ST. % to the pan.
John H. Gregory, from Gordon county, Geor-
gia; left home last route for Frazer river
was detained bv succession OF accidents at Fort
Laramie, and wntered there; meanwhile, heard
of the discoveries of gold on the South Platte,
and started prospecting tour on the eastern
slope OF the Rocky Mountains. early in January;
prospected in almost every valley, from the Cache
la Pondre creek, TO Pixies Peak, tracing many
streams TO their sources; early in May arrived on
Clear Greek at the foot Of the Mountains 30 miles
southeast of this place; there fell with the Def
rees e. Zeigler Indiana Companies, and VIM.
Fouts, of Missouri; we all started up Clear Creek
prospecting; arrived in this vicinity May g.; the
ice and snow prevented us from prospecting far
below the surface, but the first pan Of surface,
dirt, on the Original Gregory claim yielded S4.-
Encouraged by this success we all staked out
claims, found the ''lea!" consisting of burnt quartz
resembling the Georgia mines, i'll which had
previously worked. Snow and ice prevented tie
regular working of The lead till May 10th; from
then until the 33d, worked it five days with two
hands, result, 972; soon after sold my two claims
for $2l 900, the parties buying TO pay me after
deducting their expenses, all they take from the
claims 10 the amount of $500 per week until the
whole is paid. Since that time have been pros
pecting for other parties al about 5000 per day.
Have struck another lead on the opposite side OF
the valley, from which 1 washed Sl+, out of a sim
gle pan.
Some forty or fifty suces commenced, are not
yet in operation; but The owners inform us that
their prospecting" shows from 10 cents 10 So TO
the pam As the s'leads'' are ali found the hills,
many of the miners are constructing trenches 10
carry water to them, instead of building their
sluices in the ravines and carrying the dirt thher
in wagons or sacks. Many persons who have
come here without provisions or money, are com
PEELED 10 work as common laborers, al from ST TO
So per day and board. until they can procure
means of .ustenance for the time necessary TO pros
pecting, building slulces, etc. Others, not finding
gold the third day, or dislking the work necess-
airy TO obtaining it, leave the mines in disgust, af
ter very short trial, declaring there is no gold
here in paying quantities. II should be remem-
bered that the discoveries made thus far, are the
result of but FIVE weeks labor.
In nearly every instanbe, the gold Is estimated
by the miners worth $50 per ounce, which for
gold collected by quicksilver, is certainly high
valuation, tho ugh this is undoubtedly of very great
purity. The reader can reduce the estimate if he
sees fit. We have no data on which to act in the
premises.
The wall rock is generally shattered, so that it,
like the veiEstone, is readily taken out with the