Nebraska advertiser., 1860-06-21

move from the Old Spanish FaStrU, bit b
is making money rapidly. Seven steam
mills have already reached Nevada gulch.
Five Of them are set up and will in afew
DAYS commence operations. Three mills
are going up in Lake gulch, and two
more are expected 10 arrive soon. We
also noticed one al Gregory's ioint ready
10 set up, and on our way out mes two
others gong in. Altogether some fifteen
steam mills will Be in running order in q
few days.
On Clear creek below Mountain City
are several water power mills that are
doing fine business. One Of them belong
ing IoJ. H. Gregory and recently eject
ed is making about 5000 per day, run
ming six stamps, and tended by one man,
It is arranged for nine stamps and the
power is amply sufficient for twice that
number. The whole mill as It now is,
certainly did not cost over one thousand
dollars. Near by is another mill Of same
description going up, and will begin run
ming in a few days. There are also a
number Of rastas in operation along the
creek, driven by water power, and ap-
parently doing fair work. They are
driven by a water wheel, attached to a
vertical shaft: to the arms of which large
rocks are attached by short chains, reVol.
wing in a circular vat with a wooden rim
and stone floor +; in which the quartz rock
is deposited and kept wet to the consist
ency of brick mortar by a stream of wa.
ter conducted through a small spout pass.
ing over the rim Of the wheel. These
mills do much more work than would bC
supposed on first sight, and being atten
ded with very little expense, are exceed
ingly profitable.
Altogether, the prospects are very nat
tering throughout the Mountain City mi
ming district, for an immense yield O
gold but some time must elapse yet fol
The introduction Of water and machine
ny, before the present yields much aug
mented, and until then, actual and i'm
mediately productive operations must b
confined to the gulches and a few lead:
where water is convenient.
The Consolidated Ditch is nearly com
plcted, and we are assured will be read
for the water throughout its whole length
in the latter part Of the month. It's tola
length of main trunk is over thirteer
miles, and it will supply all the mines
between Kendall creek and Russell gulcf
from the head of the latter down to it
mouth"
The Bulletin accompanying the Nswi
and of the same date, says, as to the prob
able product of gold
The best mill now in operation, is ma.
king $275, per day. 1t has but a six.
horse power engine, and six stamps
The amalgamator aud gold separator doe:
its work imperfectly, and there is scarce
a doubt but full one-half the gold is car
riedof with the tailings. Taking double
the yield of this mill as an average
low n certainly, as no mill will be Of
less capacity, and many of them foul
times as great-the one hundred mills
that will be running on the frs: of Octo-
Der will give a return of $3.50 900 daily
or $4,000 per week. Add to this the
product of The rastas and water mills, say
$4,000; the yield of the guIches and
placer digings, in and aroand Boulder
and Gregory, another $4,000; the Ar
kansas, Middle and South Parks, Bloc
and Grand rivers, $3.50. 600, add S70s
oe9for the Clear Creek mines, and we
have grand total of $750,000 per week
or $3,0O0,000 per month.
These figures we believe to be much
below what the actual result will show
The working capacity of the mills car
OF course o be known, but the yielc
of the places is wholly dependent upor
that most unstable of all fuctuating pop
ulations; a digging, laboring class of PEG
pie. Lastyear Russell's gulch alone wa
made to yield $4,000 per week now i
is but one of twenty gulchess equally a
rich, and some Of them of much greater
extent.