Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-07-01
The Pixies Peak Mtnss@--Repofk of
Horace Greeley and Others.


As has been stated in our telegraphc co
umns, the express from Pixies Peak arrived a
Leayen#orth on Sunday evening last, brin1jgt.t
50, SOS in gold and the following Report fron
| Measrs, Greeley, Richardson and Willard
] eg =GREGoRY's DIGGINes,
Near Clear Greek, in the Rocky Mountains
| June 9th, 1859.
The undersigned, noFe eC them 1niffcrs, no
directly interested iii mining, but now here fo
the express purpose Of :tscettaining and setting
| forth the truth with regard to subject Of deer
and general interest, as to which the widest
and widest diversity of assertion and opinion
| is Known to exist, unite in the following state
hfeflt
We have this day personally visited nearly
all the mines and claims already opened in this
valley, that Of a little stream running into
| Clear Creek at this pointl have witnessed the
operation of digging, transporting and wash
ing the vein-stone IA partially decomposed OF
rotten quartz, running in regular veins from
southwest to northeast, between shattered
walls Of impure granite,) have seen the gold
plainly visible id the rifles Of nearly every
sluice, and i'll nearly every pan of tie rotten
quartz washed in our presence have seen gold
(but rarely) visible to the naked eye, in pieces
Of the rock not fully decomposed, and have oh
famed from the few who have already sIuices
in operation, accounts Of their several products,
as follows
Zeigler, Spain & Co, from South Bend, Ia,
have run Il sluice, with some Interruptions, for
the last three weeks there are four in COM
plny and one hired msfn. They have out a
little over three thousand pcnnyweights of gold,
estimated by them ;os worth at least $1,000;
their first days work produced 81 their
highest was $495. -s'f
Soprs, Henderson 6v Co, from Farmington
Ind, have run their sluiee 6 days in all, with
four meu-one to dig, one to carry and two to
wash ; four days last week produced 1907 :;
Monday of this week $3.50 no further report
ed. They have just put in a second sluice,
which only began to run this morning.
Foot & Simmons, from Chicag9-6ne sluice
run four days-two former days produced $40
two latter promised us, but not received.
Defrees & Co, from South Bend, Ind, have
run small sIuice eight days, with the follow
ing results: First day, $50 second day $50;
third day 800 fourth day $3O5; 1.-THE four fol-
lowing days were promised us, but by accident
failed to be received.1 Have just sold half
their claim IA full claim is 80 feet by 100 for
$1,000. ...-. .......-
Shears & Co., from Fort Calhoun. Nebras-
ka, have run one sluce the first part of a) day
produced $50 second first full day, $343 :;
third, to-day 500, all taken from within
three feet Of the surface vein foot wide on
the surface widened to eighteen inches at
depth of three feet.
Brown & Co., from DeKaIb county, Ind,
have been one week on their claim carry their
dirt half mile have worked their sluice a
day and half; produced $3.50; have taken.
out quartz specimens containing from 30 cents
to $l3 each in gold vein from to 10 feet
wide
Caste, Keddal1 & Co., from Butler county
Iowa, reached Denver March 25th drove the
first wagotf to these diggings have been here
five weeks; worked fist on claim on which
they ran sluice, but one day produced $225;
sold their claim for s., 800 are now working
a claim on the Hunter lead have only sluiced
one (this) day i; three men employed produced
$50.
Bates g. Co, orc sIuice, run half day; pro
duced $135.
CoIman, King & Co, one sluice, run half
day produced $75.
Shorts & Collier bought out claims seven
days since, of Casio, Randall s Co, for 81,
500 $500 down, and the balance as fast as la
ken out have not yet got our sluices into op-
Grafton. Mr.. Dean, from Iowa, on the 9Th in
slant washed from single pan Of dirt taken
from the claim, SI7 so; have been offered
81 1000 for the claim
j Ohm Ii. Gregory, from Gordon county, Ga
left home last season en- route for Frazer river
was detained by succession of accidents at
Fort Laramie, and wintered there; meanwhile
heard Of the discoveries of gold on the South
Platte, and started on di prospecting tour on
the eastern slope Of the Rocky Mountains, ear
Iy in january prospected in almost tvefy
valley from Cache Ia Poudre creek to Pixies
Peak, tracing many streams to their sources
early in May arrived or Clear Greek, at the
foot of the mountains, thirty miles southeast
of this place there fell in with the Delrces &
Zigler Indiana Companies, and Nm. Fouts of
Missouri we all started up Clear Creek, pros
pecting arrived in this vicinity May 6 ; the
ice aud snow prevented US from prospecting far
below the surface but the first pan Of surface
dirt on the original Gregory claim yielded four
dollars Encouraged by this success, VIC all
steaIed out claims, found the "lcad,' consisting
of burnt quartz, resembling the Georgia mines,
in which bad previously worked, Snow and
ice prevented the regular working of the lead
till May 9th from then until the 23d, | work
ed it five days with two hands result, S9T2;
soon after | sold my two claims for sd 900,
the parties buying to pay me after deductng
their expenses, all they take from the claims to
the amount of $500 per week, until the whole
is paid. Since that time | have been prospec-
ting for other parties, at about $500 per day.
Have struck another lead on the opposite side
of the valley, from which | washed Sl4 out of
a single pan.
Some forty or fifty siuices commenced are
not yet in operation, but the owners inform
us that their prospecting" shows from 10 cts.
to $5 to the pan. AS the "lcarta' are all
found ON the hills many of the miners are con
structing trenches to carry water to them, in
stead Of building their suices in the Favincs
and carrying dirt thither in wagons or sacks.
Many persons who have come here without
provisions or money, are compelled to work as
common Iaborers at from 81 to IS per day and
board, until they can procure means OF sls-
tenance for the time necessary to prospecting,
building sluices, &c Others, not finding gold
the third day or disliking the work necessary
to obtaining it, leave the mines in disgust, af-
ter very short trial, declaring there is no
gold here in paying quantities 1t should be
remembered that the discoveries thus far are
the result Of but five weeks labor,
/ In nearly every instance, the gold is estimat-
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