Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-06-17

The details Of the news briefly teegraphed
few days ago, really look if Paying leads
had at last been found, though the Aatterng
news has still to be taken with some grains of
allowance
The dates from Denver City are to June 4th
the last Express having been run TO Leaven
worth in sevea days! Three different samples
@ Of gold dust we're brought to St. Louis, of over
s4OO value, and forwarded to the Assay Office
< at Nee York. The varieties were thin gold as
first discovered, the Platte River gold, and the
gold from Gregory's diggings. The Leaven-
worth Times states that Msssrs Smoot h Rus
sci received over $1,000 in dust, nuggets and
quartz gold. Miners were jubiiant and the
towns mostly deserted for the mountains The
Denver City agent of Messrs. Smoot & Russell
expresses the iu belief that in two weeks he
would be able to send them from five to ten
thousand dollars Old miners, he states, pro-
nounce the mountain mines discovered as sur
prizngly rich and at GregOry's Diggugs those
who have their claims fully open are making
from $50 to 500 to the man per day!
The st. Louis Republicans Denver City
correspondent writes under date Of June 4th
that on sounding the motter he found the re
ports Of the discovery of several strikes OF
vastly rich leads Of quartz gold in the North
Fork of Clear or Vasques Creek, to be based
reality The following particulars will be
read with interest:
A Mr. Gregory, of Georgia. and several par.
ties from Indiana, Illinois and Iowa. while
prospecting the billy banks OF the above men
toned stream, had come a number of
stresks OF burEt quartz, which induced them to
use their shovels and pans forthwith. The first
pan Of surface dirt yielded over four dollars
worth of particles of gold Of the finest descrip
ton, and the digging being carried on deeper
through the rock beneath, lead of rotten
quartz, enoased in solid rock Of the species,
o. width of about ten and height of an
equal number of inches struck, which was
found TO contain large quantities of gold, vary
ing from So to Sl5 to the pan. A num-
Der of claims were at once staked out by the
discoverers, and the working proceeded with ny
whatever imperfect implements they had at com.
mand. Mr.. Gregory himself took out nearly a
thousand dollars ont of his claim in less than a
loesk party of five from South Bend, Indi
aua, viz two brothers Defees, two brothers
Zeigler and one Chess, obtained nearly three
thousand dollars in six days, that is from the
221 TO the 2Sth day ult. at the average rate OF
$3.50 day AS soon as the news of their good
fortune reached this and adjoining towns, an
Unprecedented rush for what has since been
baptized the Gregory Diggngs" ensued- -
Hundrpds OF prospectors at once commenced to
overflow the narrow valley the mountainous
bordering of which tue quartz lead was located
lumber Of them were as lucky as their pre-
decessors and at the time | arr we'd, some six
more abundant yielding leads had been jiscov
cred, on which large number of claims were
already taken. Owing to the attitude and
steepness of the location of the leads. their
working is carried on with the greatest diff
Guilty only, When | arrived there but two
slu'ces we're in operation, and the dirt was
brought down on the miners shoulders from an
altitude in some instances of over three hun
dred feet. In few days. however, some TWEEN
ty sluices will be run and number of dirt
slides fixed, and the yield per day, which is
now about So 600 out of leads. will then reach
eight or leu thousand In about three weeks
from now, you may confidently look for the first
heavy shipment of dust from this region.