New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-16
Nsh @rIsans Dailp Grsstsnt.
Later from western Ksnsas.
MINING INTELLIGENCE.

MINIsG INTELLIGENCE. sY
From the st. Joseph Gazette we extract the fol
lowing:
The Central Overland Pixies Peak Express ar
rived in this city yesterday evening, with dates
from Denver City to the I'd inst. The express
brought Capt. A. D. Miller passenger from Utah,
and s62es In treasure Our files Of papers are fnlI
from which we have collected the following sum-
mary OF news, embracing all that Il of importance.
Inc Rocky Mountain News Of the I'd instant says
concerning the weather and mining:
u. The heavy snow of last week has checked. for q
LIME y mining operations and blockaded up, or rem
aereo almost impossible with slosh and mud most
a. sn sae mountain roads. AT Gregory the fall was
s'a o1e 70 Two feet, and ON the mountain passes
W. sae sun deeper Even at Golden City, on the
pam the snow at one time attained depth Of six
inches, Ies The snow has continued to fail more or
iess every day, in the various districts 81 lie NOM
tains visible from this city
This severe weather has discouraoea rnar,, "
the new eomers, and started a few Of them on
their h0mewaYd way $3.50 va ..
Work In the gulches and bars has ceusraIiv
Creek, which is very low, and lie shaw ne,ts Il.
most 80 rapidly as It falls. The mines at Union.
Spanish and other bars along the stream ara doino
remarkably we'll Mr.; =. Dougherty, with foul
men, Z taxing out from fifty TO one hundred dollars
two dollars. On the Spanish bar three men tool
out elghty-fye dollars In one day last week, 4
On the mountains in the same vicinity rich Ieai
was struck on Thursday last, by Thos. Pollock. j
is called the Pollock lead. and prospects fifty cent
to the pans within six inches of the surface.
We have not heard from the other mining dis
triets since the storm.
a correspondent of the same paper, writing from
Mountain City, under date of the sd uIt., SAYS.
In every portion of the country on the western
slope Of the Snowy Range, and west and north O
Gregory Diggings, we found gold, and in many
places foundit in paying quantities. That roman
tic and beautiful country known as tile Middle PARK
furn ynld far Il. ~
men, but also some of the best farming and stock
growing lands ever saw. &
Another writer from the same place, under d
day earlier date, says: !" Gulch mining has had to
yield 70 the weather, that very little gold has
been taken out for few days past, the work win
be commenced with renewed zeal as soon as the
snow disappears
The work on the leads has considerably abated
since it became possible to take gold from the
gulches. So much OF gold in the leads is contained
in the quartz, from which it cannot be extracted
without machinery, that 1t win be impossible fol
the miners to continue the work on the leads until
operation, but they are all owned by individuals
who are crushing exclusively for themselves, and
altogether from the Gunnell lead s
From the Daily Mountain Herald, new and well
appearing sheet just started at Denver City, we
select the following news:
We have been informed that Mr. H. Annis, who
has just returned from Boulder Diggings, brings
news q very promising discoveries In company
with party, Re last week went out.prospectine
some mines which presented favorable indications
When six miles beyond the Twelve mile dgpinqs
they struck lead one foot below the surface, and
the. first pan of pulverized quartz yielded three
dollars. He also says that Mr.. Waterman found i
piece ofrock, mile and a half beyond, weighing
about one hundred pounds, in which the golS
could be seen protruding in all directions. There
can be no doubt but that many new and valuable
leads will be found this season. in this direction.
RuMoRED MASSACRE Intelligence was yester
day brought in by the Apaches and Cheyennes
that the Kiowas had nlassacred party of thirteen
white persons, on Smoky Hill route, about ont
hundred and fifty miles from this city. Fears were
at first entertained that it was a portion Of Greer
Russes exploring party, but it is stated that the,
could not possibly have reached that point The
rumor is not generally credited