New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-23
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MOUNTAIN CITY, March z, 1850.
Perhaps come items from the Kansas gold mines,
gathered from actual soourn among the Up runtains
in an expedition to the snowy range in the latter
days Of February, may be interesting to your read
ers. The Winter season in the mountains has been
very mild, allowing the people 10 perform their
usual avocatons fully as well as in the States The
work that has been accomplished in the mines since
last Fall 10 truly amazing; existing evidences Of
persistent effort al d, am glad to say, successful
effort, meet the gaze of the beholder everywhere.
The American people have made til cir mark in thi
region, and indelibly stamped upon the mountains
are the proofs of their untring industry. Over
Clear Creek, where the senior editor of The TRIB
UNE was in some danger from fording are now two
new free bridges, stronger aud better than i have
seen anywhere else in Kansas. Last year, the road
into the mountains was dreadful; 600 pounds was
as much as four yoke of oxen could haul; now
two yoke can haul q tun. Good roads are the bes
evidences of civilization it is said if so, then tn
progress in this department has been truly marvellous
Huge quantities of quartz rock lie heaped in the
rayines and the sides of the mountains, ready to
be washed when Spring opens. The Lodi diggings
have been worked all Winter; shafts a hundred
feet deep have been sunk on some leads, through
pyrites and sulphate of iron. Success almost In
yariaby attending the labor as the deeper they dig
the richer the mine. Some quartz yields $500 and
$500 to the cord, when crushed in a quartz mill.
Quartz mills are in much demand; there are now
three quartz mills in the mountains driven by steam
and six or eight driven by water. No property in
the mountains pays near well as good quartz
mill.
Prospecting parties have been very busy all Win
ter, hunting for new diggings, and / am told have
hear ofnl No H. haa 1aiI
out, and in many of the mines evidences of success
can easily be discerned.
The new mines are situate north. west of the
Gregory mines, and toward the snowy range In
gch at the foot of the snowy range found several
log houses, and miners busily at work with the
rocker.
The great ditch, ten miles long, is rapidly pro-
crossing, and will be completed by the LIST of May.
Great differences of opinion exist in relation to
the Provisional Government, the inhabitants OF the
towns generally supporting, while the miners are as
generally opposed, producing an unsettled feeling
detI mental to the best interests of the country.
The idea that obtains among the miners is, that the
United States ought to organize Territorial Gov
eminent for this part II Kansas, while they, the
miners, are doing so much to develop the country.
To supply the place of legal government, the
miners have organized Vigilance Committee, who
have already signalized themselves by hanging
man commonly called Pennsy ltuck, but whose name
is w. w. Atkins.
Tuck has always been desperate character, and
the chief of gang of rOwdes called the "Forties,
who have been a nuisance and an annoyance to the
whole community. The Vigilants, it ia said, gave
him trial, and, / am told, voted to hang him,
which sentence was carried into effect at midnight
Of the 29th of February, by q band of 300 men,
who dragged the wretched victim from his bed,
hanging him by the neck to tree, where he was
left until found in the mOrnng-dcad, stiff and cold.
hot
soDable men TO such pitch of fury must have been
very great. 1t is an example to all who disregard
the rights of their fellow-men. And now, LET US
wish that il may be terror to evidoers. Mac