New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-28
From the Kansas Gold Mines.

From he Joseph Aug 20
The C. o. G. and p. P. Express arrived yester
day, bringing dates from Denver to the 18TH inst,
and treasure to the amount of 000 This trip was
made by the express in five days and seventeen
hours, Notwithstanding the loss of eight hours at
one Of the stations. This is quick travelling.
The news from the mines, as CLEANED from the
Denver News, is more favorable than recent ac-
counts received here. The reports that the quartz
mills are generally proving failures, is fatty con-
tradcted. The editor OF that paper has been on
tour the mining districts and, under date of the
sth inst, he writes thus from Mountain City and
that vicinity
The first mill we visited was that of Col Gratiot
large eight.stamp mill, with Chilian rafters It
had been running but few days; has been cleaned
up but once, after its first fttytwo hours run, and
yielded in that time one ounce less than nine
pounds Of amalgam gold. This mill seems perfec
tion itself; the great and distinctive feature being
the Chan attachment, consisting OF four immense
wheels weighing twelve hundred pounds each, re-
voving in circular groove of chilled lron through
which all the quartz passes after leaving the stamp
mill. In consequence it is reduced to an absolutely
impalpable powder; aud by the passage through
the Eureka amalgamator the gold Is as nearly az
abstracted as probably can be with any profit.
Col. G freely offers his taings to any one who
wants them.
Next we visited the ST. Louis and Black Hawk
mills, of eight and twelve stamps respectively,
both of which are doing good work, and, we learn,
giving satisfactory results. Six or eight other
large mills are already running in the Gregory
gulch between its junction with the creek and the
huueNeiter t1boNo VI eiieii
working we could in our hasty visit, and being I'M
acquainted with the proprietors, learn nothing.
We heard of days work ranging from seyenty.fye
| rlp to four and five hundred dollars to the mill.
Great difficulty has been experienced in getting
to the bed rock in fact, we believe it has not been
reached at all any of the large bars except the
| Spanish, from which a great amount OF gold has
| been taken The bars are composed wholly of
| water-worn boulders and pebbles, through which
the water flows with perfect freedom, and when
pit is sunk below the surface of the creek, it re-
qures vigorous pumping to keep it clear. For tins
purpose a vast number of water-wheels have been
constructed, and ply their labor day and night.
When proper concert of action issecured, the river
| is ilumed for miles, and irregular system of mining
established, the bed and bars OF this stream will
Weld their hundreds of thousands of dollars; but
under the present system of each for himself, the
results will be renlunerative only to the few. inns
| stream very much resembles the American river N
California and believe in its yield OF gold Will
not fall short of that famed river.
The great quartz leads first cross the valley q
short distance above Idaho and so far as now
! known it intersects them in frequent succession to
lis source in the snowy range. Two miles above,
the Idaho Company, Uriah Turner, President, are
openiIg some rich leads and preparing to work the
bars extensively. Six miles further up, on the
Downieve bar, the Keystone Company, Dr. Cart
wright President have located their headquarters,
and are preparing to set up quartz mills, and also
to work out mile or more of the bar. The TWO
companies named have contracted for four quartz
mills of twenty four stamps each, to be constructed
by Maison, Wilson \ Co., of LeaVenworth, Two OF
the mills to be set up this fall, and the other TWO
early in the spring. They will use water power
the facilities for which can hardly be eSceled II
the world.