New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-24
NUMBER 100.
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latest from the Mines.
,vER 5000 N TREASURE RECEIVED.

From the st Joseph jazstte.i
The 6. o.. G. and P. P. Express arrived in this
city yesterday from Denver with dates tothc 18th
inst. 0TsF SD, ,UD0 in treasure was brongit: we
did not get the exact figures. We complete the
following Interesting summary of mining news
from the DeR7ef SGws:
From California Gulch we hear Of q Tremendous
stampede for reported new diggings farther Test,
on what il supposed to be the head Of Rio GraEtFc.
In one day, no less than thousand men left the
above named gulch, to scramble over the snowy
range, On their way to this new E Dorado.
In the California gnleh and neighboring patch
diggings, the claims are getting well opened and
paying remarkably we'll Full reports Of opera
lions will be found IN the letters Of correspond
ents, elsewhere. fall in the waters Of Blue river
has enabled miners to adSantageou5iy resume ope-
rations in and along that stream. Miners seem
wesl satisfied, and We hear Of $50 to $50 per day
being made by some men.
Returning prospecters bring reports of most as
tonisbing discoveries away beyond the Blue and
Arkansas mines, but their exact locality we are
unable to give.
In the Gregory mines great number Of quartz
mills are being set up. Some of them are doing
well, but many in their first attempts to operate
do not meet the expectations OF their owners.
The great cause of failure we believe to be in the
inexpeFenee of the men having the mills in charge,
which time will remedy.
Mills in various districts that were set up by ex-
perienced men, are doing well, turning out from
enc hundred and fifty to six hundred dollars per
day.
TO prove our asserted cause of the failure of
mills, we will mention the fact that two mills work
ing quartz from the same lead produce widely
ditterentresuits. Whistone perhaps saves nothing,
another yields thirty forty dollars to the tun of
rock crush Supplementary mills or pulverizers,
on the principle of the Cohilian mills, or the old
Spanish rastras, are absolutely unnecessary, as at
taehments to all the ordinary stamping mills. A
crusher grinder, and that only, will reduce the
quartz to an impaipable powder, and free all, Or
nearly all of the gold.
Quite an excitement was raised on Saturday last,
respecting some very new placer gold washing,
found just above tue city along Cherry Greek.
We have not learned the name of the discoyerer,
who only learned at this late day what has been
known of the g early emigration" for more than
year past.
Monday morning opened with rush to the dig
gings. Clerks in some of the stores stampeded,
and q theatrical company that had ordered bills
printed for a tour to the mountains countermand-
ed their orders and proceeded in a body to the
new theater of operations. Claims were bought
and sold at advanced figures, and in one instance
at least we heard of a trade in which pair OF
mules and bank claim were the articles of bar
ter.
Claims have been staked for six or eight miles
along the creek, and prospecters are still moving
up its course. That money will be made immedl
ately by working any of these diggings, we have
great doubt; but that they will pay well when
water is brought to them in abundance, SO that
hydraulic operations can be brought into play, we
have great faith.
A Correspondent from California gulch, under
uatG I'd Oh july says 4,
The amount of gold daily taken out by those
who are working sluices and toms, varies from
500 to $500 per day, to the slnice or tom. Some
big strikes have recently been made on the patel
| diggings in Sacramento district, but the eAac
| figures did not learn.
From the Arkansas mines correspondent, unde
date Of the lst ult., says:
4 Men that work by the day get from So SO TO $
| per day, when they can get work at all. Not
day passes but we have from twenty-five to hun
/ dred applications from men wanting work; SO tho
a man not having employment can hardly get
situation. All kinds of goods can be bought her
i very reasonable.
The largest days workings have seen cleanet
up were $50 and s2I0, respectively These wer
| from single days workings, but some have takei
1 out with single tun as high as Sl0SO, but sucl
/ days works are not common things.
From the Blue River mines, correspondent
from Brecknridge under date of the Esd ult., says
Negro gulch, properly Utah gulch, is paying
from ten to twenty five dollars per day to the man
/ One man reached the bedrock in the bed OF the
river at depth of ten feet. where it yields, or
| an average, sxty-fye cents to the pan. In short
/ the Blue river mines are growing better every
week. We hear of nuggets being taken out some
| where every day, weighing two to five dollars. U
| leads, we can only say that there are quite mum
Der staked off, lead districts organized, and somt
/ leads being opened which are thought to be yer.
rich but the fact is not fairly known yet. W.
| have had more or less rain every day for the las
| ten days which has p 1t stop to all destructive
/ fires for the present,