, 1860-04-17
From Pixies Peak.

THE SCErorSp1SG MINES.
Since our last issue We have spent couple
Of days in looking around through the noun
tain mints. There are four or ire thousand
preparing ia begin as scoa Us the weather is
more favorable.
Fer two or three weeks past the weather has
been sluallF aud cool, SO that little could b.
done in the way Of washing. but the time il BE-
ing improved in digging bitches, building dams
on without much impeachment from iuclelnent
weather, except that no washing is done. The
rock aud dirt IS taken out and piled up in read
mess for warm weather.
Three quartz mills are rnnuing. and doing
good serTice. Two Of then, hare recently
changed hands one OF them, lately set up, and
just started running By Mcssrs. Clark, |.nde-
$l5,001, very respectable advance on first cost,
q 500, at the foundry in Chicago. The mill il
seven horse power engine, with six stamps.
Ii is = beautiful piece Of workmanship, and
works to Perfection Tbs purchasers were A.
e4auder ! Co., who have clain.s on the Gunnell
Lead, from which they hare already taken ous
aid piled on the surface sevcra; hundred cords
of pay dirt ID rock, that will yic1d from six to
eight hundred dollars per cord. They will, 10
dHubt, realize more than tie eAtrA cost OF their
mill before they could transport one from th.
Sfatt5
The 1'rosscr mill which has fur some time
been out Of repair and working badly, was last
week taken in hand by Mr.. Frazier-the Chica*
20 machinest, of whom we have before spoken
who has again made j: as good or better than
new
Tie Gunnell Lead is opened in q number Of
places, to drpth Of sixty to ninety feet. Shafts
have been sunk along it for some thousands Of
feet, aud are progressing steadily downward.
The Sccrcto Lead, about which there was so
mach excitement Il few days since, is being
opened along its entire known length. No
dirt has been washed, or quartz crushed front
prospects arc rich near the surface. No shafts
haveyet been suik4to d greater depth than fifteen
feet.
Many other laads of great ralue arc being
opened, nnd immense quantities Of quartz aud
pa! dirt taken out, We hare not space 10 par
iicularize, but will name the Clay Co.. Nam
moth, FISK, Aux, Foot i Simmons. Dohtail,
German, New Casio, I.eayenworth, Bates, Mil
1er, Gregory, Maryland md Kansas leads, alllof
which, and many others that we visited, are
turning out well.
We also visited number Of tunnels that arp
being driven in the mountains 10 search for
leads that hava no external indication. In one,
belonging to ]. $. Morton l. Co., two leads have
been found in q short distance, both Of which
prospect rich.
Guleh mining is being generally resumed,
though in many places the ice mud frost is
gESss impeachment. IN Spring Culch, aud Rus
is from two to fire dollars per day to the man,
though some claims in Russell's are yielding u
high Us eight dollars per DAY. Iu the Georgia
Cou1pany's clalms-they hare always yielded
the best-the average to the man is between
eight aud ten dollars, and on a few days that
have been unusually mild and favorable an
ounce has been obtained.
1t must be remembered that, generally speak
ins, the present day's s work in The guIch mines
i in reality only few hours, say from 10 L.
II. to T. H., or from four 10 six hours, when
the sun is highest Tnl ice nclts.
New bitches are being dug to turn tho water
in the Eulches, dams bailt, and general prepaz-
asiors nlade for vigorous action; 80 that q few
weeks must see large yield Of gold, unless The
weather should become very severe.
TIE KILLING or JACK 0'NEIl-It again be-
comes our painful duty to record the killing, in
cold blood, upon public street, aud in broad
daylight, Of another we'll known citizen. Jack
N'Neit was shot down. on Friday morning last,
time, along the middle Of Ferry street, when
Rookc7 appeared at the t!oor Of the Western
Saloon, and fred upon O'Seil with shot gun
charged with buclshot, cleTen Of which took ef-
feet in the right side, from which tie died in q
few minutes.
No interest seems to have Icen taken in
the affair; why, nc are unable to saJ. Our
citizens seem to hare passed., in one short
week, from the extreme Of vigilance to the ut
ter appathy Of Indifference. 0n one day, .
citizen Is shot down horror sei7es taa public
mind, and all business is suspended. every pre-
caution aud vigilance practictd, until the mur-
derer has paid the penalty Of his crime. Scarce
fortnight has elapsed when 4 precisely similar
tragedy is enacted, With the same apparent cool
ness and prcn,ediI2tioD, and citizens look On
with stolid indifference.
TnE ARKANSAS DIGG.xGs.-Hecent 1atte1iu2
reports from the Arkansas, we fear are going
to cause stampede from tha Gregory and sur.
rounding mines. Some miners are selling their
claims aud others are leaving without selling;
but few hare yat got of, but many arc talking
2nd preparing to Leave. We fear the conse.
Quencs will be a general rush when the move
ment begins. Reports Of twenty aud thirty doll
lars per day are common, but We have no hesi-
gentleman Of our acquaintance, who3has pros
pccted the country, aud left the newly discov-
cred diggings within the last ten days, says
there are "teu dollar diggings" with rockers,
when the ground thams. The ground is hard
frozen and the country is covered with snow
and ice except along the river bottom. Very
little country Is really known to be rich. 0per-
atoms are confined 70 the bars Of TIE river. and
the ground has igst "a be thawed By building
fises where it is designed to DIG.
The recent opening Of tie rich mines on the
Arkansas bids fair 10 turn large travel
through Colorado, and will necessarily build up
large trads At that place. Already, near tTo
hundred houses are up and completed, and
many more Ender war. Colorado is tho Sec
ond city in size in the Territory.
Mass MEk11yc-At = mass meeting held at
Auraria, it WAS voted {14a to se) that from this
time Auraria proper shall be known as Denger
City, West Disision) and the the Board of Dr.
reetors were authorized to change the name on
the plat accordln sly,
Pn1cEs or Provisions. Flour {State) is worth
ea5 per 1ooibs; Corn meal, 81; bacon. CSC
per Il; sugar, 55e; beans, 1s}c per b; Onions,
SIC per IL; potatoes, 15c per IL butter, &c;
lard, aoc; broad, 15c; fresh beef, l2c: tllow,
csc corn, 15c; mo1asses, IS per gallon; whls-
key, 4! to II per gallon; lumber, $6o per m
nails, y to 5pc per II.
Flour Is getting very scarce, and We fear will
be nucl. scarce- before supply arrives. We
do not bclive there are two hundred sacks in tile
city for sale.
We learn, SAYS the Sta1 journal, that F.
". Eates, Postmaster at CarlinYille, left for
parts unknown, but probably Texas, last week,
taking with him government funds to the
amount of sope 34e0. The circumstance Causes
1 great regret among bis numerous friends and