, 1860-03-24


In addition to The summary Of mining intelli-
gence forwarded you last week from Colorado.
CITY, / haye during the past few days, after /
arrival here. and during my explorations hither |
from the Pixies Peak plncers. learned some IN
teresting mining matters st'lI later and still
more encouraging to immigration: There NE, at
digging and washing out the virgin gold in ihe |
Park diggings sew eral ra?re to the westward,
soiithwestwaId and northwestwatd. In the !
Park they are making from three or four dol, |
lars to "a ounce (S16) per day per man. Some
take out more, and some occasionally found
places where they ean,t find the soiqr, although
rich aid profitable. The gold here is Of course
scale gold, deposited in banks and bars. The
course Of the lead gold heteabouts lin the Park
proper} is puzzle to trace oil and follow after.
There are some feet Of SNOW IN places beyond
the Park. and the gold miners have. Of course,
cious metal under difficulties, az water freezes
nights and mornings, leaving but few working
hours to operate il. So far, however, even un-
der these circumstances, all seem fully satisfied
The workers On the Gunnell lead have struck
now down some eighty five feet, and find the
Of rock, aud it's still increasing in richness.
a. multitude Of prospectors and miners are
vending their way towards the Snowy Range,
the Blue, and other later diggings, using snow
shoes, and packing their provisions themselves.
Very rich diggiags have been discovered last
week near the Blue river placer, prospecting
and paying se0entyJfge cents and ypwards 10 tie
pan near Tie surface. It is supposed the bed
rock here will show up mammoth leads as soon
ns they get it reached, and get machines to
crush it..
GREGORY D1ea1sGs.
The miners here and in the various districts
in this section Of the southern mines, Missouri
Flats, Nevada Gulch, Russell's and the Norwood
District, are very busilv at work getting ont
dirt and washing it for the gold, wherever they
can !; also getting out mountains Of gold bear.
ing quartz from the Tarious leads, ready for
grinding, as soon al mora mills get in. I'm
mense piles and quantities OF g5ld bearing
quartz are now piled up ard STACKED up on the
various lead claims, waiting for the crushers;
and as soon IS the quartz mills shall be estab-
Iishel, the golden dist will begin to come out
will agreeably surprise the Oldest veteran miner.
This IS peremptory, for the article is there--it
sticks on. and shines out at every crack and
corner, and it is bound to BE- moved out Of its
berth. The way that these claims will produce
| next season will be caution to those impress
sible individuals who last year left, PronounciDg
| the Rocky Mountain gold hills It humbug."
and who near1y killed themselves in swelling
the stampede Of other such fellows as them
selves back home to the States.
| MORE COED DISCOVERIES.
Near the foot Of the Snowy Range, two
ranges from Gregory's Diggings, nearly North
westward, and 1T the last slope Of the range, q
miner by the name Of Griffith was lately ex.
ploring and hunting after mountain sheep
when he accidentally came upon slip or side
fall Of the earth or lag rocks of the ridge side
which slip or slide jay bare The wide. fresh
looking crerice, which, from its peculier ap
peafauce, at once suggested to him as being
grand prospect. He vent after his pan ant
washer, carried the burnt looking dirt to th'
rivulet below, and found it to pan fifty cents t
the rotten clay and rotten stone of the creyic
| to the rock. The crevice or lead is manlmotl
one, being eight feet wide, running Northwcs
aud Southeast, and God only knows how dee
down. a party Of men immediately took claiu
| Of the place, dnd ONE Of them, 31r. Horton, wh
came out here month ago from Omaha, with
stock Of boots, shoes, DC, has seen fit to loo
up the same ut Denver, and make the most in
mediate arrangements for going back to s.
I Louis or Chicago foundries for u large quart
mill to take the gold out Of this new and rlc
discovery lead. You may judge how shrew
business men, such as he, view the certainty I
pany ui:h Messrs. Oaks i Smith, havse had
steam saw mill running for the past season
the pineries, where they sell lumber at $50 an
| SO per thousand-and that, after cxaming til
new gold claim, he purposes stopping this sam
steam saw mill and taking up the machinery
| his mining Claim, for the purpose Of fixing
up into gold heater, or crasher in tile absene
| OF quartz mills. Some very rich leads has
lately been discovered also in the mountair
/ West Of Boulder.
GOLD NUGGET
L large and very handsome gold nugge
! weighing one hundred and two pennyweigh
[ fn,,nI 1nef uo.r f,1,St
| Thompson, in his claim on the GeEada gulpl
Also others, smaller, with proportions OF quar-
intermixed, which seems very rich and beauti
! indeed
ARRIVAL OF GREGORY AND TRAIN.
John Il. Gregory, Esq, the celebrated (b
lis winters visit to his Georgia friends. /
/ had made already handsome fortune out of h
| Gregory Digeings, and now be returns vii
! two 1uartz mills TO make still greater fortur
during 1nr eusgi~~ vear. Ills train consisted
! i've wuguns, II men, Que woman, Is Sccrsc
| mules and oxen. He fetqhes along from FOL
city practical 1nachinisi to put Vi, 6rid rEa II
mills. Lie started from st Joseph, and was
days in coming along the kca1ney-i'Iatte rout
: | We rather think he would have made bctt
/ | aud pleasanter time had be taken the Southel
, or Santa Fe route from Lcaycnworth City, "
andotte or Kansas City. There were a fe
7 wagon loads Of butter and building hardwa
= ! !
In high spirits, and is about starting up to b
3 old digeings, apparently certain and sanguil
/ Of future success IN shoVeling out the precio
dust, to obtain which humanity will travel
r the 81 end of the earsh.''
TIE LATE HANGING EXCITEMENT
". #. Atkins, alias 50 Pennsyltuck," who +
!. sided around the Gregory DigI,ngs {afounta
f C1ty,( and who formerly had the reputation
, being desperate case during the Kansas tro
e bles, and who was shot at and wounded
: Sheriff Jack kehler, in self defence and ful
c justified, Some months since, at Mormon Cit
had again been at his old tricks Of swearing
would kill three or four prominent citizens the
! as soon as be would get able, aud had attcrwar
J. | done some dangerous things, to thehourly pc
= and unsaiety Of the better citizens this youl
n man was finally hunted out by crowd Of ci
# | zens and Vigilance Committees few nigh
i he was dead. The majority Of citizens thoug
l. it was imperative and absolutely necessary
$ the public safety to have done this; while n
= ! nority party, by sort Of reaction, make col
b plants aud take exceptions to the affair.". '
d hope this will be "terror to evil doers," n
J. only in the cities Of the mountains, but also
n / the streets of this consolidated capital. The
is nothing more sure than that the ends Of r
It ributive justice, in one shape Or smother, d
3 I pensed from tue regular constituted Judge
+ his ermine, or BY the people tn nsasss, is bou
1t to jerk up the desperado-f not in one Terri
t, ~ Of the Union, it will in another
a The hanging Of hard cases in state Of cou
try like this, deserves to be looked upon If
r. fur different light from that in regular orgs
e lied State or city Of the Union, where there 8
e abundance of special officers, and an authori
= tive recourse to Justice, which must be respect
BY the offender. Not so here. We hare as ;
II / and until James Buchanan's Calumet proyid
Il for US United States Law and prisons and o
it GERS, no place to keep prisoners, md mig
J. say, no particular personages to identify the
n selves as authorities to arrest and hold the
l. We heartily hope that the late hanging Of Il
It moor, foolish character will prove terril
h warning to the class Of rowdies all around tht
t towns, who, when they become excited vi
# bad whisky parade about Tecklesslv firing til
# njstols and revoEvers, and daily and nightly
Il | dun .erug the life and limb OF every quiet a
d peaceabls citizen.
= Latest from Pixies Peak and the Go
- Mines.
~ tFr7m :he Cincinnati Gazette. March 81
Is We have letter dated the 4th Of March fri
IF | Gregory D;rgiugs The writer is well inform
J. and has penetrated as far into the mountains
e any other one. We copy what relates to
Is condition of the miners, and the attempt to TO-
le a State government: 1t has been cold all I
r. time. Tho snow has lain on the north hill sic
10 i since September, but there has been 50 Ut
s. variation in the degree Of cold that we have
r. come accustomed to it; md it has been dl
re and the air. if not quite so light would be
rs ] lightful. We have for our population in
D. mountains this winter large majority of hone
n sober, hard-workiug miners, but we have ais
ID number OF desperadoes {nost]y IRON Easte
Is kansas) principally settled in Gregory dlstri
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