, 1859-10-26
FROM PIXIES PEAK.


TIE GULL EA1u 10 LIE ElAEAAAEEIlBLE. l
We have permission to publish the following
letter, written nt Auraria. L. T., by JouS II.
CIARk, late Of Chicago, to lis brother, BnrcE
CLARK, Esq, a highly respectable gentleman Of
Ibis city. The writer. personally unknown to
us, is said to be man Of undoubted integrity:
Aua4s1A, October lsh, 1859.
TIE MINES.
Dear Drothtr: mn surprised. md in fact
mortified, that you should still continue to ex-
press doubt as to the future Of this country.
yond all comparison tie richest il tAe trorld.
You may think this e1aggeration, but reflect
that IL is upon our quartz teads that VIC depend,
aud not upon cur bars Or guIeh diggings H.
though we harc IN abundance Of them. It was |
the latter that yielded 50 well California, and
for the reason that oil the capital required to |
work them was shovel, pan, md u rcsoEute |
arm. But they are soon worked ont las they |
are now entirely 50 in California;, and then the
main dependence Of the country lies in the veins
Of quartz. oftlese we hare tic greatest quau-
ttty and Of the richest quartz in the world, with
proof Of this, l would .tate that tie quartz Of |
California, which heretofore hus been considered
unsurpassable, yields only on an arernge about
= per ton, while our mills here, rude though
tue are, are rapidly making mon. J and paying
from $3o TO s2oo. and even higher. Harry
has got out eey cords Of quartz, for which
he llas refused $500 per cord. As to the guam
tity Ut this quartz, atl the men in the United
stutcs working together could not exhaust the
leads Of Gregory's District alone in u million
etntur1<s- II ia ine1haustible.
!As have before written you, made man
Of the leads on Eureka Hill. That map will
have arrived in Clicaso By the time sou receive
this. l refer you to 1t in confirmation Of what
| have said. It is in the possession of JOSH.
Gest, Secretary Of the Mammoth Quartz Miriut
Company. You will there see how that hill il
intersrcted by various leads. Now, conceive Of
vast area Of country over which they are
equally well distributed, and then {knowing
them 10 be as deep as the bottomless pit) cal
cu!ate, if you cal, the time and force required
to exhaust them: Every day that the mines ure
worked they sre improving. There is not man
now Mt work in the mountains that Is not max
ing money.
oTuER H1SEnALs-coAL, LEAD, SILVER.
But the mines Of gold are not our on1y re-
sources. We hare abundance Of splendid
stone coal, and VIZ discovered .cam Of the
finest camel coal ever saw. As it cEops out
/ 1t IS only about tWo inches thick, but Mould
| probubly be found thicker if worked into the
hill. In my letter to Scoyille stated that Cam
and myself were about taking trip into the
Pneries Of Plum Greek. The discovery Of that
coal bed WINS one result Of th1t ttip. In uldi-
tion TO this we found whole 1nouptuius. ind in
fact whole ranges ofthe1n, Of asplendid variety
Of iron orc. They arc, in fact, too extensive,
md simple ciain Of 1G0 acres On them would
be of no value. Thus one object of our trim was
lost. There would be no oLjec. in our claiming
AZ iron mine when my one else could profit byy
the discovery aud do the same. The coal would
be Of great value it the tein was thicker, We
have secured it ut all events, and take our
chances us to its increasing in thickness aud
value.
In addition to these large quantities Of lead
hare been found, which, from its appearance,
| am led TO believe contains 80 much silver az 10
be specially valuable on that account
You have probably heard Of 4 silver mine
being found near Boulder City. 4 piece Of the
ore was brought 10 me bya friend for cxam;na.
ton, aud found it to be precisely the suns ore
Of sitrer that George Et1cA aad myself found in
-drtdnsds. 1t is III fact tic only Silver ore that
eau be nude to udhere to u magnet, and ity
chief Use is in building engines, raiiroad track,
ETC.. ETC.! As discovered here, however, itmay
serve the returning en,igrans as some founda
ton for his cry. Of humbug, and serve as good
proof Of the old s,lyins that, "thc fools are not
all dead YETI
Notwithstanding this am perfectly satisfied
that when the country is more thoroughly pros.
pecied, silver will be found here, aud not silye.
| alone, but every other metal that was cye1
|
GEOLOGICAL s7Rrc1CRE.
One look at those mountains must satisfy auy
person that such in all probability will be the
case, md for this reason. Metals of different
varieties ore always fund among volcanic pro
ducts, aud here volcanic and other disturbing
elements have 50 disarranged the strata of rockt
that at one view we can take in ull the different
formations clear to the enrth's centre. Such =
dssjontc4 aud unnatural stratifcatiuu Of rocks
you ncrer bebeld rs is presented in tic noun
tains about Gregory's diggings. The primary
secondary, drift, etc, etc. formations are throwr
about iu inextricablc confusion; and thrown Ut
through this Heterogeneous mass by tho mighty
force tcncath, wc behold the veins OF gold bear
t ing quartz running in every conceivable tlirec
ton. Though none apparently at first, there i
still some system, and majority Of ull the prin
cipaf leads run \ e. and S.W. The protubili
ties Of course are that the other metals urc III
represented in these vast deposits, but thus IA,
the search has been for gold, and all less vasu
able metals have been overlooked
AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES.
Our agricultural resources are not SO extend
ed as one might wish them to be, but there il
still great deal of tillabie land, il fact mucl
moro than was at first supposed. While upot
Plum Greek VIC explored tie country on ono o
the mountain branches, respecting which bu
little Of anything was known. After leavin:
thc road We trayerscd a valley from fifteen t
twenty-five miles, every acre OF which mus
eventually be brought under cultivation. 1t i
without exception one Of the handsotncst yu1
leys have ever seen, aud in tile beauty mt
plcturesqueness Of its scenery doubt it il.
equal Gull be found in the United Strtes. 1t be
ing out Of The line Of travel but few white 1net
have ever visited it, and as u result it is TEEN
ing with game Of every description. AnteIop,
aud deer were SO numerous Is to excite no Re-
mark, even when they presented themselves i,
whole droyes at time. Although we saw nj
bear or panther their trncks were very numer
GUS. mud many Of them must have been mad
Thin tue hour VIC saw them. Our camp wa
| visited by either one or the other Of the las
uamed-something which our dogs did not dur,
uttack, and it being dark We could not see hin
| distinctly enough 10 venture. It is extremei,
dangerous to wound one unless tue means Of de-
spatching him are close at hand, rs once wound
cd they then take the fight in their own hands
. | and wrcak vengeance in their own wAy. Dur
| ing the night they carried of deer skin tha
VIC had drying on tree within thirty feet o
our tent
THE CLIMATE.
But to say nothing Of our mineral wealth, on
| agricultural resources, or the abundance and IN
riety Of our game, We hayc climate that Of il
; sell would be Il sufficient induceInent 10 chi
! | grate here. For the first few weeks after our
. arrival here was not led 10 notice any specia
difference between the climate here and at home
: and with the exception that our sun1mcr ha
been cooler, the rains more frequent and NOR
pleasant {never assumiog that lreaty. disma
drizzling chaructcr that thev do in the States :
oflen.) l an not prepared 10 assert that GU
summer has been any more agreeable than ii
one you have experienced at home. But, no,
TINT our fall has arrived, and that'wc arc in Ii
midst ofour Indian summer, must say that pevc
in any part Of the States in which it has bee
my fortune to reside haye ever seen sue
weather. The mir is SO pure, the mountains Il
a distance oftifteen miles, appear morc distinct
ly visbs than they would from your hous
:. were they to arise from the shore Of tho lake
: presume TO this same cause Of the extrem
! purify Of the atmosphere, oil the extrcn
: features Of the climate can be traced As Iva
yesterday remArking to Cam. hare seen son,
pleasant weather in the States, and like other
j. rassively epjoyed it, but each day for tue pa,
/. six weeks has been so delightful that it is in
possible for person not to want to tell every
body Of what . pleasant day it is. You can
help feeling it every breath you draw
; and you feel rs though it deserved met
soning 10 every one with whom YOU speak,
II this sort Of weather continues, and tn
old settlers assure us that it was nearly th
same nil last winter, Though little colder
coursc) none can help hut be satisfied with Ii
c!imntc Of the new territory.
POLITICAL CONDITION
We are SO far from Kansas, u part Of whc
we formerly wcre) that none Of her laws nj
considered as binding here. In fact she has b