New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-11
LATEST FROM THE MINES.
NONE OF THE DIGGrNGS PAYING BUT
CREGORfS
Fro~ The So Jo.cpA H,s'i ; Tvs.

Frpm IN, 81 Jo.cpA Wsd Tvs
We bsd The pleasure o. Si-t, oe Yesterday rom
Mr. H.rry Mccoy who LETT De- ver City Jare n Mr..
Mccoy is vel known TO usty persons IL this cor mu-
uity a. q Mt rmsI n every Say reliable MS 'ste
msnts far ~ It's knowledge ex ended are true o.
You'd doubt aid from Is weL-k known Intelligence ana
6rsrgy We tave question but that be ieNoed 81
tsh, cvuld be known about the mines ue 10 the time
be left.
Mr.. Mccoy left s.. joseph on the 10th of February
last Ii wer tO the mites with the ful determination
Dd oil about them before bIs return, and ne ha.
prosecuted hi mqune- steadily with tnat view during
bis four Houhs sisy there. His report Is not 60 "a
v,' shl- Is that have lately been received. He
left because he could Tot make money enough % H.
dDTe tm s;av tnst there ouly eight or ten
csnf that phy far working at all that these are IN
the Gregory oggDgs; that ali the reports shout the
Iicl Asss ui othe mines absolutry gise, that
ttt-e Ci.h ]. Hde or claims pay, an average,
abs M <5n per day to the man.
Nr McC"y thiubs that there were, when he left. a.
suy ~ - GEO 81 Gee penp sud about the mues,
mosi al wior not II crurse making anything.
The Whole 'sce OF the country had been torn up by
pr, ept ctr parties, uort OF whom hal boone dis
cuulsgrd aun gust. Al The dcgugs, except Gregor, :.
VIZ: J,ierso. Joksob, BoGldrr >outa Plsite Cherry
Geek &c.. faG been deserted, ana TIE miners were
lawn, IA neat luu brr- Mo- les than 90 3UOO
vs,oD- Nj McCcy Think are IN the road houir at
,b;, erost a. them mako Tor n. J"seDh Very
mary however have gone 10 other directions, some "a
c. pia and On on, and not few & Sonora, though
tEere last Will haTGy be able Ia pass tbe several
" ib.s ct s6vaGe InGIabs-sucb r. toe Apzches AMI
Muhaves-sLo shu~irg disposition TO be very
troublesome. ,hdDy # those who renamed at the
nes were working for what they could get-Sener-
all, for their bOarr, two uCsls q day.
In rec ard 10 th. cbarac Of the leads which have
been found to pay, Dir. McCoy says that they are
quartz leais rum ng south eat and nOrth9est and
have been traced far riue miles. They can be
traced by a blossom Of a chocoate color. aud IN the
fern of /. W Ges. TIE gold Is formed nuedla ely Ga
the leacuu;sde Cf the lead it Is impossible to tnd
even the color of gold The dirt ard quar- is the
color Of yellow clay and when 1t has beeu found 10
pay pay handsomely. but a. general thing iew are
success. ful-tot more than out 0f five hundred.
There il great scarcity 81 water which makes mining
yeiy difficult and expensive.
A lew town nad been laid out az the foot Of the
mour,eiu reading 10 Gregorys Dggngs, by conpa-
II, of lsnket- calltd Rocky Mountain Guy. Los
seln foi 80 siecv, 81 down and tie balance
in twelve ur nths.
before d., Mccoy left. IL started among the dry
pines scattered over the couty and spread IN every
Dir. ction Twenty persebs. it was SAID, had been
burned up. The ige was stii raging.
Mr.. Mccoy thinks that the mines that have been
found to pay viii support settlement of about five
THRUSH peTsous-nOt more-and he adViS.s every
body TO stay al hone.
From The Missouri Republican.
We learn from The Ledrenr0rth Times Of Monday
uat one Of the coarhcs OF toe Pixies Peak Express
Con psny arrived there the evening previous, bring
Ing dates TO the 23d MI
Horace Greeley left Denver IN private conveyance,
with weeks outht, lOr jtah Via foft LAhI1ie, oh
the 18th ut.
An lmn.n.e copfag7ation commenced raging IN the
uouuihiu plHeres Uu tie 2fh NC. IL Originated on
the dividing ridge between the Gregory aud Jarksou
diggir % End hsI turned hundreds snd thousands
# acfrr u pne land ito ocean OF hfe and swept
asay eve.y .bi, too ard tie snow range. violent
ind that prevailed tor ie" Gays Increased the We
teneIce Of the destructive element. A, Denver Chy
the exi-terce of II fe f'st announced bs dense
volumes OF smoke thai 6lec the atmosphere from the
mountains 10 Cherry Geek. M,Iy prospecting
parties had been cut of from escape aud were DE.
voued By the devastating flames. Sutocated aod
c Ldertd bodies bsd srcaoy been discovered
part, Of persons known to have perlsned IN the
flames. -,
TIE Illinois Company, in one day, took out of the
nourtan |. ad S2lS aoItn Of gold cunsistlngo nam
b.r of uugg.,s the weight oi the heavlest OF which
Wa not les thai fifteen p-nn> weights. party ffOm
Ohio struck second l. al of solid quartz impe COATED
With heavy particles vf gold, al abVu' the sane tune
TIE discovtTy was mace 20 u,iles north of Gtegorys
dgrirgs at tie foot of that snowy range. The INST
da, they took out $50 although they had nothing but
ordinary picks to work With