Nebraska advertiser., 1860-03-15


on Saturday, says the ST. Joseph Gazette,
bringing news from Denver and the Gold
Region.
The Express. brought 50. 1877 in dust,
and there was about 81 ono ID the HANDS
of passengers. Ii left Denver on the 22d.
There was no letter mail.
From the Rocky Mountain gsws we
clip the following Intelligence:
A company has recently been organic
ed in this city, with a view of exploring
the Colorado from the Blue and Grand
rivers down to Fort Yuma, and perhaps
the rivers mouth, ID the Gulf of Califor-
MIA. They design setting out in a few
days; will travel overland, by way of the
Park and Blue rivers, until they reach
navigable waters, when they will embark
ID boats. ~
From a gentleman just in from the
North Fork of South Platte, we learn
that Capt. C. P. Hall IS rapidly progress
ing with the construction of the bridges
on the Colorado road. He has completed
three over Cub creek, Of 90, 80 an IS
feet ia length respectively. aud 0 over
Bear creek 1875 feet long. All Of them
are built in the most substantial manner.
The work Of opening the road is also
progressing at the rate of about one mile
each day.
Three or four large buildings have
gone up on Ferry street within the las.
few days.
For two weeks past there has been an
immense rush to The Norwood mining
district, some twelve miles northwest
from Mountain City. There are three
gulches of almost fabulous richness. ex-
ceiling anything before found in the
country.
Mountain Cffy. Feb. 20, 1850.
Enron News: Considerable excite
ment has prevailed for the past week
about some new mines which lie some
twelve mines in a northwest direction
They are not, however, a recent discove-
ry. They were discovered last fall by
several different parties.
Each party supposed they were the on
1y ones that knew anything about them,
and took good care to cover up their pros
pect holes, so that everything would re-
main secure until spring. But somehow
It leaked ont. and men have searched
around amid the deep SHOWS that v
that country until they have found the
place. The reports and excitement are
much greater than circumstances will JUS
tify.
The richness of the country is not yet
a~scertained; / have seen between five and
ten cents washed from the first pan Of
dirt hat was taken from beneath the
grass roots. l have been informed by
gentlemen, whom | think reliable, that
they have washed fifty cents to the pan
repeatedly. at a depth of four feet from
the surface, but no such results have been
obtained by the recent prospecting tho
it is impossible to give the country any
kind of a test. The snow lies in the gull
ches TO the depth of from two to six feet.
and every attempt to find where tie gold
lies is like a star in the dark.
Hundreds have rushed to the new
mines with high hopes, ard hundreds
have returned with lowered heads, crying
.'sold" and "humbug." This, / suppose.
will always be the case, every time that
a new discovery is made. Men build too
high hopes and become discouraged too
easily. | have been there twice and am
sure that 1t is a good mining country.
fully as good as this, if not better and
the gulches as good as Russell's; but
whether they will excel it or not remains
TO be proven.
The leads are very numerous, and the
blossom rock looks and prospects we'll.
Not a piece has yet been pulverized and
tested that did not yield gold. The out
crop blossom is much more burnt than it
is here, and where the leads have been
opened the rock is more decomposed. The
prospecting of leads is very limited. and
very little is known about them. only that
they are easily found and readily traced.
1t is perfectly useless for people living
at a distance 10 rush in here for the pur
pose of testing those mines and if thew
do, unless they are practical miners and
understand what they are about, it will be
ten chances to one If they do not call them
a humbug. 1t must be remembered that
it is winter, and those mines lie at the
base of mountains on whose tops the snow
lies all summer; therefore II is much col
der there than in the valleys or ever
here. Very little can be done until spring
and until that time every one had better
be patient aud wait. c. W.
LATEST.
BY the mails from Denver, we have
dates to the 1st inst,
The express brought about $4,000 in
gold-met several parties going out,
among them Capt. Gregory.
The news is interesting. We CLEAN
the following from the Rocky Mountain
NetOs /;
The quartzIeads in the new district
beyond Gregory's, promise even richer
than those of the last naned neighbor-
hood, The quartz seems more decom-
posed, and the leads of greater width.
We learn froma gentleman just down
from the mines, that one shaft OIL the
Gunnels lead has reached a depth Of 81
feet; the quartz now pays from 5000 to
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