Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-06-07

Emigration TO the Mines---iIining Results
notwithstanding the panic and back set OF
Pike Peak adventures, there continued to be
large arrivals at Denver City at the latest dates
A letter of May 18th says the arrivals from the
States have been very large during the last two
days Capt Russel's trains, consisting of a
long array of mules and OK teams, and about
$50 men, came in; also a number of ftrains from
Nebraska, Iowa, Eastern Kansas, and Missouri,
an estimated total of 1900 men, the great ma
jority of whom struck at once for the mountain
diggings
The Denver City correspondent Of the Gin
cinnati Commercial writes May 10th that what
ever digging and washing is going on is north
of Denver some 30 miles, and adds
On Cherry Creek, as already stated, nothing
ia the way Of washing is going on at present
1t does not pay. Any shovel full of sand on the
bottom between the South Platte and Cherry
creek will give one the color, but the most di-
mnutiye substance of gold and the idea Of turn
ing those all but invisible particles to account
has been abandoned On the South Platte,
about six miles south of this, a company from
Georgia has dug ditch, is busily at work, and
AOluu Wtll. L Nlhlltl lltlf tlllll ulNhtllt anu
found them doing well They take cut dust at
the rate of from So to 81 per day each, six in
dividuas.
All other mining operations are at present
taking place at the head waters of the north
western tributaries Of the South Platte in the
mountains of the various diggings along
and in the latter | know but by hcar.ay and
will, therefore, speak Of such of their yield
ings as have come within my immediate obser
vation
The Leavenworth and Pixies Peak Express
Company has shipped during the last week
about thousand dollars worth of scale gold
Ii was bought from number of individuals
that had brought it mostly from the noun
tains.
Wm. Fisher, a merchant from Denver CITY,
has in his possession three hundred dollars
worth of dust, (seen by me,) which he had re-
caved in different quantities in exchange for
goods. Similar amounts are in the hands OF
three more lradesmen.
Yesterday morning assisted Mr. Joe Hey.
wood, formerly a well known Cluclnnatan, but
now of California who came here on prospect
ing tour in weighing six ounces of scale-gold,
which he bought of two m, n who had taken il
out OF Plum Greek in six days
Mr. Gregory came down from the North
Fork of Vasquer Creek, with S37 worth of
gold dust, winch he had washed out of forty
pans of sand lie also had several specimens
OF quartz and shot gold, the result Of his eKplo.
ratiOns at various points
In strolling over town in the course of the
same day, / saw dust varying from Is to 60 dol
lars worth, all of which had arrived from the
mountains for the purpose Of buying new
stock of provisions. The quantities appear in,
significant when compared with the discoveries
in California. But this smallness can be easily
explained, first by the fact that the mountains
have become accessible but two or three weeks
ago, and Ia t from the inability of most miners
on account of want of MEANS to lay in a sup
ply of provisions for any considerable length
of time, which circumstance renders their re.
turn to Town, after few days work, impera.
tive.
From all appearances, it is, however, clear,
that this summer will have to be devoted al.
most entirely to prospecting, the result of which
will finally settle the question Of the paying
character Of mining operations in this lati-
tude.
Great depression Of mind prevailed here at
the time | arrived, with regard to the diggings
The favorable returns ofthe last few days have,
however, frightened up the countenances Of
all, and general rush for the mountains is i'm
minent,