New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-23
FROM THE PIXIES PEAK GOLD REGION
From Our Own Correspondent
DENVER Cry, July 10, 1860.

fashion, and TO celebrate the Fourth Of July in the
State Prison. Ire national holiday was not hon.
ored here IN the State Prison, for as yet we hap
pen to be without that much needed institution OF
civilization; but il was celebrated with good
deal OF yocerous patriotism not only by the despe-
rsdots but also by the orhy aid industrious cti-
Eens. judging from the bitter complaints current
in regard TO Indian depredations mail iDPositions,
ETC., stranger might have inferred that, like tho
| Democratic party in 1854, the Pixies Peakers had
"precious little TO thank God for this year" but
| the predominant feeling seemed to be one OF exu-
berant 10y that, however we are divided from tor
mer homes and associations, we have not yet wan
dered beyond that good old national institution, the
| Fourth Of July.
1.-The day we celebrate was observed here by
an oration-a procession, containing pleasant and
| goodly array OF Sabbath. School children-and the
| presentation of q flag to the " Pioneer Club" by
| the ladies of the city. The Pioneers" received
the gift gracefully and their President. as one OF the
most venerable of the fathers of the embryo State
having actually resided here upward OF twelve
Notwithstanding it in fitting terms.
During the afternoon, at the ace-cOurse, man,
Damed John Teef was shot by James Ennis
| Camp FlOyo gambler The ball passed through the
neck grain the spine and Teef is stu lying 10 the
City Hospital, in dangerous condition. When an
| att, mpt was made to arrest Ennis, his fellow
gamblers drew their revOlvers, and would not per.
nit it, applying many OpprobriOus eplthets to the
| citizens Subsequently, while leaving the ground,
! he was shot at and aflerward captured by George
| Wynkoop, esq, ex.Sherif of the county; but his
| comrades rescued hiW, and enabled him to escape
| from the city. few similar sceoes will be likely
to induce the formation of vigilance committee.
At Golden City the day was very pleasantly cee-
brated, IL a ball decorated with the aromatic
bOughs of the pine and the fir, fresh from the noun
| tains which Overhang the town. Rhetorical patr'
| otsm and free dinner were the features of the
| occasion In the mountains there were orations
and festivities, and the best Of spirits prevailed
| among the miners. ] allude to the animal spirits
| and not to the atrocious whisky which circulated
freely. That any one who tasted that survived, ia
striking illustration ofthe wonderful endurance OF
| the human system.
Gold dust has b. come the principal currency in
use here having driven nearly all specie out of cir
| culation Messrs. Clark, Gruber d Co., reliable
| banking firm from LeayenwOrth have received
and set up their machinery for issuing private CON
of the denominations of 800, $40, So, and 81 so,
and will turn out from their first mntng, during
| the present week, about $40, 000 They have good
facilities for assayiDg, and design to make their
coin, which will only be alleged by the silver found
mingled with the gold in its native state, of such
fneness that it will be worth its face at the mint
| On account of the Inconvenience of dust as me-
dunn of trade, their coin bids fair to become the
popular currency. No other parties here are en-
| gagged in the business.
Provisions command high prices, with the excep
ton Of -four; and the consumption OF that article
in the gold region is about FIVE numbered sacks per
| day, the supply on hand is rapidly diminishing.
| Sugar commands from $25 to S2o per hundred;
-four, from $40 to $14; nails, $lS to $50. Dry
goods and stationery sell at about hundred per
cent advance on Eastern prices; and clothing at
more than fifty per cent. There is not the slightest
danger of overlooking the markets the high prices
of freight from the Missouri Ryer-from eight to ten
cents per pound-preclude the possibility; but the
supplies seem likely to fall short of the demand, two
or three months hence. In the California Gulch,
| 1875 miles south, -four is now selling at S23 per
hundred, and sugar at S40 butthe road Is hard,
and freighters charge So per hundred for taking
| goods there.
A vast amount of building is still going on. LINN
Der cells at from $40 to S55 per thousand; brick
in the wall at $l6 to SlS, and at the yards at 81
to $l2. Rents are high many buildings payin
from 10 to Is per cent month on their first ut
A one-ttory building, thirty FIVE feet by hundred
and twenty five is leased for q year at 1850 per
month, and one and twostOry stores in the best To-
calties rent for 500 aad $50 per month. Money is
of course tight, and people wild enough to pay
from 10 to rs per cent month for all that can be
hired.
In this city mechanics obtain from 90 to So per
",
In the dggings wages are higher. Boarding is from
81 to SI2 per week. The aundresses are doing
thriving business at SO per dozen. Cattle, wagons,
| horses and harnesses, account of the great sup
ply in market, sell at about one-half the pri,es
the Missouri river.
The Spring immigration seems to be nearly over,
though many large quartz mills are still coming in.
| A few Of the returning immigrants 60 down the
Platte in boats, undsmayed by the fate OF the hmm
dreds who have been wrecked in that shallow and
| treacherOus stream trust none of them will be
quite so unfortunate as Boston physician who
escaped from the river at Fort Kearney, year
ago. without saving single article except solitary
shirt which be happened to have about his person
at the time of the skif-wreck.
The intelligence f.Om the California Gulch grows
more and more favorable. Upward of $l5, 900 liz
now being taken out daily Those diggings will do
much for the substantial prosperity of the country,
az all the gold taken out thus far has required no
more complicated nor expensive machinery than the
pan and the sluice.
| have Just seen some remarkably fine nuggets,
| ranging in value from S. to $l0-a part of $500,
| which six men took from their claim 10 the Ca,
iforhia Guch in one day. authenticated re-
ports from parties who are dsnerested, state that
one company of lS men are taking out on an aver
age, $4G0 per day another, Of IL men, from ! 100
to $500, and many others doing quite as WELL A
gentleman of ny acquaintance saw two men, who
had just opened their claim, take out $3.50 in two
hours, and in another instance, ten men take out
| $163 in three hours.
| Considerable excitement exists to-day in regard
to new diggings discovered on the bank of Cherry
Creek, about mile from Denver. Several humid
| red claims have been staked off, and some of them
are said to prospect from to 10 cents to the pan.
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