, 1860-03-15

ridges Of the Rocky Mountnin., for hundreds O.
miles southwest aud west Of Denver City. This
Is to-day pa'pab1e and absolute as any estab
lis5cd fact in tt'o bounds of nature! There i.
10 mist Ike about it. There is no getting round
or uader it; The fact ut present is here es
tabllshed, experimental upon acd acted upou
BY te1 thousand aud upwards Of us,san sharp,
sound and scientifically intell;gea persons u
dare be found among the Inhabitants Of our
| globe, no matter who or where or what sage or
sarant surmises to the contrary.
For tie past ten days hundreds md hundreds
ofhardy miners hare been docking from the "a.
r1ons valley towns, where they came to rcplenish
outfits, and have returned to the various dis
| tf'cts aud sections Of sle gold bearing noun
taius, where Gu gulch aud lead digginss hare
| BEEN very Lately discovered. They ha;e been
oil desirous OF planting their stakes and picks
into these new Ii Doradcs, 80 Is t. be lot be-
hind in reaplng the early golden haryests in
common With the parties who are now operating
SO successfully there. The latcss dcye1onments
of exciting Importance hare been made during
the past eight days, in the new and extensively
rich SECTION Of tie mountains known, just nav,
rs the Norwood District; Y hich has been divi-
dcd. according to the late miners law, into scv-
eral sub"dlst11cts. nov known here as February
Gulch." Secreto Guch," ~ 'Errick Gulch," &c.
The miners law, lately made few weeks since,
] Is very just and fair. The rules will not permit
any person. great or small, high or low, infuen-
t'al or humble, to stake nf more than ona claim
each, SO aa to i've ulf and each, who are on the
ground in season, far show Nor can any one
party stake oil au extra clam for his part
ner," whether the latter be bogus or boaa
-18dt' onc; eac1s man has to come and do so for
himself, and not another. This is IN important
improvement on the looseuess OF iaw during tue
past year nud seasons.
Within ten days past, gold diggines Of the
very finest aod richest stump have besn dis
cove:ed on The hcud winters IF the Arkansas.
Nh nal Aatr hat
which las been proven mud Developed within
the past ten days, extends over a space Of
twelve miles; situated north west from the
crl bratcd Itch Gregory Diggiogs of last year
and you n,as judge Of lis prospecting superi-
orlty to the latter, when assure Jou that
mostly all who had what everybody here viewed
as extra fine claims. have left those claims,
almost perfectly indifferent. md betook them
selves ty day, and wa king ali through tie night
TO secure those claitus OPENED in the subd:strict
ofthe Sur@dod discovery On Ills latter eeir.i. ri
tory, III: sn"x IN some places is fur feet deep
ground underneath btiog mt frozen scarcely ut
ali, they are enabled to dig md take out the
gold right from the very surface down--witb.i in
inuas Cases, IF most reliable authority. sue
cess unparalleled. This celebrated region is
about II miles from Mountain City or Gresory's
D,ggmgs Parts Of j! were discovered late last
full. hy Certain parties wbo kept The whole thing
absolutely private, ind swore onc another nut
to diyaige M until spring should open, and they,
tfaNktfg The winter would be very aesere, left
TOR fhe states, I" return ea'ly with outfits and
facilities 10 become uillionales at once, and
exclnslvtlyi but murder viii ont, and 50 has
this matter leaked out, or teen superseded in
discovery.
uen Sc 1rcbed in the deepest SHOWS, for the
past month, to try to find the bearings Of the
place, and now as it is found, the reports and
excitement ther=upon a,c far greater and more
universally intense thnn that about Kusselt'a or
Gsesorys, in the month Of June last. Several
wa.hed out Ut an average Of thirty to fifty cents
to the pan, right niongtrom tue grass roofs down
three Or four feet, when, and where the color
grows better. The hcavy snow lairs in The bot
toms aud gnlchcs, which will be fur the best
places. prevent as Jet tue miner to trace how
and where The gold lies and runs. 1t is like
hunting after needle in bundle of huy, nj
most: 1t is conceded by all reliable examiners
who have tested the region, TINT it is certaiuly
as rich us Kussslt's gulcl. if not extensively
more go: The rocks thsreat look very well,
and the leads are very numerous throughout.
Every single piece Of qna1tz there whicn bus
been ground has yielded the gold favorabIy.
The rocks are more tecelnposcu than in other
disgins, au.t the veins and lea,ls are here much
nloic cAsiy traced nut. get none but practical
ninera, or those who hare spent last season in
these mining regions, can or will do, or effect
anything therefrom at the Grat onset, or for n
mining here Let new camers 1uatk welt tlis
remark, and if they shall do az thousands did
last summer, learc the diggins utter short
aad imperfect trial, crriug - no golI," or "too
rnucll lnrd work and uncertainty" I want all
persons to remember buck 10 those words which
l above proguosticatc.
The travel 10 the mountain n1incs has been
perfectly astonishing during the Dart fifteen
days. In single day lust week, Isl ,ersons
passed up through the G.lden Gate canon
rl3ne, which road is but one Of three or four
several directions Of emigration. Opsning1eads
pretty extensively. Some sides and slopes OF
The n,ouutains are almost fire.: from snow aud
have had mild weather for the past FIVE weeks.
Those who are mining in the .ulchvs are making
Good wages everywhere. In Spring guIch,
lAtely, thi'e persons, each working a rocker,
weeks wo.k Of eacll-calliug their working
days about three hours long. Tier had not
been able aud prepared to labor longer euch
day than tLreo hours. The week previous the
same parties averaged Sloi, each man, Peter
Mnrr-y works not far from there, keeping two
rcekcrs gong, and is making regularly from
$50 to 49, per dar.
A gentleman Of tic very highest ard fai1est
Character, and good eeo1osisf, who hast lately
passed through tIle various mountain di.rincs.
states that it IL TUG riches: g"id country lie has
crcr been in. and be has speut ten years In Cal-
!usu.a ~. ano 4au'Iaaa- \ very 1ntelireht Moun-
tain Cits correspondent states that it il thought
the whole mi2ing district will average rich
lead every three hundred feet, and lie ,nterme-
diate spaces interviewer by feeders, like the
veins Of the hrman system, a!l IcadiGg into
larger aud more Important ones. In working
that ditch On Clear Greek lately. the luborers
struck on lead, and took cut Of q small space
some twenty beautiful gold-bca7ipx quartz
specimens, several Of which contained from $2
to !3.j) of the pure hard gold.
When things get fully fixed ont here, mining
can be readily and prodtahly prosecuted all the
year round II show whut some eau ACCOM-
plish wai!e others do net, will here state what
is everywhere known lcre-that, near the Ne
yada guicll, in tue month Of November las.,
when crerybody Was starting away for the val
IcEs or the States, poor, common looking, MD
man, who apparently had no energy Whatever
about hin. built himself rude cabin OH his
claim, and continued working thereon ever
Since, crow-baring the cartl during frosty wea-
tler. hauling it 1uio bis cabin to tl.uw before the
los fire. and washing it eiterward in his rocker.
in hlscabin. has, in thepast three months, made
thereby above his Irving the handsome pile of
$4,000, willie others lett or loafed.
1t is nlJ belief that that great natural water.
shed Te.ion or quadriEateral table mountain, so
to speak, from the four several corners of which
the CRED: Arkansas. the Rio Grando. the Platte
and the Colorado rirers take their rise aud }on
in their several opposite directions-eue 10 1he
Gulf OF Mc1ico, the other to the Gulf Of Cali
forna the other to the Mississippi river, md the
fourth to the Mississippi 1iver near 0maha, Ne.
braska say it is my belief that, cnveloped
+ aud embodied bstween those great natural start
ing points OF watersheds, kAtrs is solid noun
tlin ef 11ass gold!
Aud ii this ut first should sta1tlc or be con-
s;5arcd visionary, 1T me beg the reader to lake
good map of the af: rcsaid regions before bin
and then trace how the gold, lit dust and mug
gets, il found all along all and each Of those
four tributaries tterefrom; and then, according
| to tue simplest and most un-sclrnsitc view Of
the matter, reason to himself If there must not
Lc the i.unta;, hca, or headquarters "f NIL this
golden development, in a mass cf solid body,
| somewhere in the ncighborhood above specified.
| Snlu.e'a cataciyam breke the crust at one day,
that is certain md out Dew or hMs flown thsrc-
from these golden fragments which we now are
gathering up in gulches and streams dircrging
! thcrefrou. The ADORE is not positively certain,
nor, as | am fully aware, is it scientifically or
Elegantly expressed; but, nevertheless, lave
my faith that way.
There hare been about a hundred leads in all
| discovered and prospccted within radius Of
fire ar six miles from tue centre of Gre CORY 4
Digcing<, from many Of which fortunes have
been made. Parties IN some cases, last season,
taking out $l3 and $50 in the single pan, from
rich rockets or rather crevices.
| There Is therealouts, At present, As much
quartz rock on and piled up ready for crushing,
1 -, 7 l.. t,-n ora hrrbrai nro,fv milf. ~.