New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-14
Latest from the Kansa. Mines.

One OF the coaches of the Pixies Peak Express
Company arrived at Leavenworth on the Sd inst,
with adyices from Denver City to the 23d ult The
Leavenworth Times has the following:
Horace Greeley left Denver in private convey
ance, with weeks outfit for Utah via Fort Lara
mie, on the 10Th ult
An immense confiagration commenced raging in
the mountain pineries the Goth nlt It originated
on the dividing ridge between the Gregory and Jack
son diggings, and soon had turned hundreds and
thousands Of of pine land into of fire,
that swept away everything towards the snow range.
violent wind that prevailed for few days increased
the vehemence of the destructive element. At Den.
yer City the existence of the fire first announced
by dense volumes of smoke that filled the atmosphere
from the mountains to Cherry Creek. Many pros
pectng parties had been cut off from escape and de-
voured by the devastating flames. Sufocated and
| cindered bodies had already been discovered. A
party of fifteen persons known to have persisted
| by the flames.
The Illinois Company, in one day, took out of the
mountain lead s2ls worth Of gold, consisting Of a
party from Ohio struck second lead of solid quartz,
impregnated with heavy particles of gold. at about
| the same time: The discovery was made twenty
miles north OF Gregorys diggings at the foot of the
range. The 6rst day they took out $50, although
they had nothing but ordinary picks to work with.
| The Denver City News of the llth ult. says:
We returned three days since from the diggings on
| Rallston's Fork on Vasques river, where we have
| spent over two weeks
When we entered the diggings on the goth of May,
there about twenty men in that vicinity, only
| two quartz leads had been opened, and but three
claims of those and two on the other. In two
weeks from that time, more than three thousand men
at work, at least thirty leads satisfactorily pros
peced, and several hundred claims opened and pro-
itably worked. Hundreds of other claims are being
opened, and new leads are daily discovered AS yet,
the discoveries and mines are confined to very
small space of country. We think that not claim
has been opened outside of circular tract having a
diameter Of five miles, but the is steadily in.
creasing, and no limit has been found either side
On the Gregory lead, the first opened, some ten OF
twelve claims are opened several have changed hands
at high figures, and preparations ale being made to
work large forces day and night We know one
sluice this lead which took out in one day S49j
with force Of four men, another sluice gave yield
Of little over $1,000 for the past week; another, il
new hands, gave S607 SO in four days. In week
some fifteen twenty sluces will be in operation
and 5000 per day to each sluice may be safely count
ed upon.
After enumeratng number of leads !" that wer
, paying heavily the News says:
Throughout ali this region of quartz lead diggings
there are small streams OF water running in sma
gulches narrow valleys, containing rich deposits @
i" lead" gold wherever prospected. We have see
eight cents taken from one single pan OF dirt iron
near the surface in one of the guches and we lear
from George Russell Esq, that be has found gulc
diggings which pays $50 to the man. The great ai
vantage of those over ordinary gold washers is tina
+ water is plenty and convenient. Sluces can be sc
wherever desired without carrying the dirt any cor
siderable distance, and yielding large pay wher
there may be but two cents to the pan. Fror
+ all we see and learn, we believe that this ez
tremely rich district OF country extends to grea
stance north and south parallel with the mOuntai
u chain. We are led TO this conclusion from the grea
l. and general deposits of extremely fine gold which
r found along the streams issuing from the mount ii
= on the east. Along the Arkansas and its trbutarie
II the South Plate, Vasques ST. Vrain ard Cache.a.
Poudre rivers, gold has been found at distance ro
If where they leave the mnuntans-in fact the who
country seems richly impregnated with it, all watt
| worn and bearing evident marks of long travel,
9, must have come from rich deposits in the mountain
e The St. Joseph West publishes the statement
Mr.. Harry Mccoy, who went to the mines in Febr
~ ary last and who left Denver City on the Oath ul
a The West says:
+. He left because he couldn't make money enough
induce him to stay; says that there are only eight
l. ten claims that pay for working at all that these
y in the Gregory diggngs; that all the reports abo
d. the richness of other mines are absolutely false, al
- that these eight or ten leads claims pay, Il
. erage, about $50 per day to the man.
IS Mr.. Mccoy thinks that there were, when he LEI
e. rs many twenty five or thirty Thousand people
IN and about the mines, most OF whom weie. not
GO course, making anything. The whole face of Il
- country had been torn up by prospecting partle
rs most OF whom htd become discouraged and quit.
to the dggings EXCEPT Gregorys, vz Jefferson, Jac
~ son Boulder, South Platte, Cherry Greek, etc, hs
- - numbers Not less than 25O0 or 5000 wagons, NJ
I'd Mccoy thinks. are on the road home, most OF the
ID making for st. Joseph. Very many, however, hA
q. gone in other directions, some to California aud o.
gou and not few to Sonora, thongh these last W
~ hardly be able to pass the several tribes of sava
he Indiins-such as the Apachese ADD Mohaves-w
,st are showing a disposition to be very troubeson
Many OF those who remained at the mines were wor
ing for what they could get-generaly for the
AS board--two meals a day.
ug In regard to the character of the leads which ha
re been found to pOy, Mr.. Mccoy says that they q
- quartz leads running southeast and northwest A
~ have been traced US far nine miles. They Can
int traced hy blossom Of chocolate color, and in
to form of boulders The gold is formed immediate
os on the lead-outside Of the lead it is Impossible
", find even the color of gold. The dirt and quartz
''' the color Of yellow clay and when it has been to
ne to pay, pays handsomely; but as general thing
,u are suceesstu-no more than ont of five hundr
,ao There is great scarcity OF water, which NAL
l., mining very difficult aud expensive.
pe' A new town had been laid ont at the foot of
as mountain leading to Gfegorys dggirgs by a c.
paiy of Yankees, called Rocky Mountain City. L
were selling nt $40 apiece, 81 down, aud the bala
nj iu twelve.lnonths.
m Mr.. Mctoy thinks that the mines that have h
his found to pay will support settlement OF about
The persohsnOt more-and he advises everybody to 5
Nj at home.
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49,, THE UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT AT p RT DEPo
iea We have already stated that Mrs John First and