New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-27
3,oon: their frs. days work produced gu then
highest was 1895

soPFls, likSpkHsos N 20 from farniingtcp, 'b".,
have run their sluice 'lx days in all with four
to dig, one TO carry, and two 70 wAsh. Fonr days
la,t week produced $6l7; Monday of this week $50
further reported. They have just put in second
sluiee, which only began TO run this morning.
FooTE & SIMMONS, from Chicago: One -luiee, run
four days two former days produced $40 two latter
promised rs, but not received.
DIFREFs 4 Co., from South Bend, Ind., have run
a small suice eigh. DAYS with the following results
Fn,t day, 500; second day, $50; third day SO
fourth day, 1875 the four following days were prom
ised us bu' by accident. failed to be received. Have
Just half their claim "a full claim = 20 feet by 100
tor s., 800.
SHEAR. & Co.., from Fort Calhoun, Nebrsska, have
run one snce two hours the fret part Of day; pro-
duced t3O second first full day, 1913; third today
$50; all taken from within three feet VI the surface
vein foot wide on the surface widered % Is inches
az depth Of three feet.
BRowS Co., from De Kalb, Co, Ind, have been
week their claim carry their dirt half mile;
hsve worked their suice q day and half produced
$3.50; have taken out quartz specimens containing
from 30 cents to sl3 each in gold-yeIn from TO ~
feet wide.
CasTo, KEsDaLL & Co., from Butler Co., Iowa
reached Denver, March 25 drove the first wagon 10
these disengsi have been here 1--WE weeks worked
first Oh claim on which they snice bat one day
produced 500 sold their claim for 3, 800; are now
working claim on the Hunter lead have only sluced
one thisj day three men employed produced $50.
BsTEs & c.. one sluice run half day produced
$l35.
CoLM.y, KIse & Co., one sluiee, run halt day
produced SO.
SHok1s & CoLLIrR, boRgh, claims seven days since
of Casio Kendall 4 Co., for $3.50; 800 down, and
the balance fast taken out Have not yet got our
sluices IN operation. Dir. Dean, from Iowa, on the
9th init. washed from single pan of dirt taken from
the claim, sl7 So Have been offered go, 900 for the
claim
s. &. Joss & Co., from Eastern Kansas, have run
our sluces two days, with three men, yield ss!5 per
day. Think the quartz generally in this vicinity is
g'ld.bearipg. Have never seen piece crushed that
id BOT yield gold
A. p WRIGHT & Co., from Elkhart Co., Ind Sluice
but Just in operation; have not yet aseertained is pro-
ducts. OuI claim prospects from - cents to - 10
the pan.
JoHs II. GREGORY, from Gordon County, Georgia
Left home last season, en- route Tor Fraser fVer NS
detained by succession Of accidents Fort Laramie,
and win'eied there. Mean~hle heard of the discover
lee Of gold on the South Platte, and started pros
pectng tour the Eastern slope of the Rocky Noun
tans early in January. Prospecied IN almost every
vallev, from the Cache Ia Poudre Creek to Pike.
Peak tracing many streams to their Early in
Nav arrived on Clear Creek at the foot of the noun
tans 80 miles southeast of this place. there fell in
with the Deirees 4 Zelger Indiana Companies and
William Fouts Of Missouri. We all started up Clear
Creek prospecting; arrived in this vicinity May 3; the
ice and snow prevented from prospecting far below
the surface but the first pan OF surface dirt on the
original Gregory claim yielded Si Encouraged by tins
success all staked out claims, found the lead, CON
sistpg of burnt quartz resembling the Georgia mines,
in which | bad previously worked. Snow and lee
yenied the regular working OF the lead TIL May To-
From then until the I'D worked II five days with Two
bands-r sult $972. Soon after, sold my two claims
for sol Coo the parties buying Ia pay me, after deduct
ing their EXPENSE all they take from the claims to the
amount Of $500 per week, until the whole l. paid.
Since that time have been prospecting Tor other par,
ties at about 500 per day. Have struck another lead
on the opposite tide of the valley, from which washed
$l4 out Of single pan.
Some forty or fifty sluiees commenced, are not
vet in operation, but the owners inform US that
their prospecting shows from 10 cents to 80 to
the pan As the leads" are all found on the hills,
many of the miners are constructing trenches to
carry water to them, instead of building their
suices in the ravines, and carrying the dirt thther
in wagons or sacks. Many persons who have come
here with out provisions or money are compelled to
work az common laborers, at from : to 80 per
day and board until they can procure means OF su'-
tenancc for the time necessary to prospecting
building sluices, etc Others, not hnding goa the
third day. or dsliking the work necessary Ia OBJ
tanning it. leave tie mines in disgust after very
short trial dtclaTbg there is no gold here III pay
inc ousutties. 1t should be remembered that the
discoveries made thus far the result OF but i've
weeks labor.
In nearly every instance the gold is estimated by
the miners rs worth $50 per ounce, which, Tor
gold collected by quicksilver is certainly high
yau alton, though this is undoubtedly of very great
purity The reader can reduce the estimate IT he
sees tit We have no data on which TO act IN the
premises.
The wall.rock is generally shattered, 50 that it,
ike the yein-store, is readily taken out with the
pick ard shovel In a single instance only did we
h.ar nf vall.rock too hard for this.
OF the vein. stone probably not more than one.
half is so decomposed that the gold can be washed
from if The residue Of the quartz is shoyeed our
Of the sluices and reserved TO be crushed and
washed hereafter The miners estimate tins as
equally rich with that which has rotted, so that
the gold may be washed from II; hence, that they
realize. as yet but half the gold dug by them This
seems probable, but its truth remains to be tested
II should be borne in mind that, while the miners
here now labor uuder many obvious Disadvantages,
which must disappear with the growth oil Their eS-
p, rience and the improvement OF ther now rude
machinery they al the same time ENJOY advantages
which cannot be retained indefinitely, ncr rendered
universal. They are all working very near smail
mountain stream, which affords them an excellent
supply of water for washing at very cheap rate;
and. though such streams are very common here,
the lead, stretch over rugged hills and considerable
mountains, down which the vein-stone must be
carried 10 water. at d serious cost. III does hot
seem probable that the thousands of claims already
msde or being made on these leads can be worked
so proftaby IN the average as those already IN ope
ration. We hear already of many who have
worked their claims for days (by pannine) without
having raised the color, as the phrase ls-,hat -
without having found any gold whatever. We pre-
sumo Thousands are destined to encounter lasting
and utter disappointment, quartz venus when orat
no gold being pro niuent feature of the geology OF
all this region. 90
We cannot conclude this statement without pro-
testing mo.t earnestly against renewal OF the III
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