New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-05

furnished me with spirited gray horse, which GAL
loped among the sharp rocks and stumps with re-
| MAJ kable discretion and de1terity. For seven or
eight niles the ascent was steady and gentle, along
smooth gulcbes and then, after riding up short,
abrupt bill, was upon tho rdgepolo of the Amer,
can continent-the dividing lbe brtween Kansas and
Utah. he bead-waters Of the Platte and those OF
| the Observation-Disclosures respectively OF the Al
antjc and the Pacific, ach gIsh out 10 ice-fringed
streams, within plstolshOt of the summit. The
u pa.s-s through a gar, or depression in the
range, with sharp, snow-fpOtted mountains, nearly
de, flute of vegetation, rising on either SIDE two
thousand zee. above it. IL is well beaten and easy
fof wagons. and offers DO obstacles b. a railway
80 sri. us o. those among the AleghaDles, upon tue
Pennsylvania Central and Baltimore and Ohio 70 ads.
The famous "Uic Pass" claimed to be the ca siest
through the Rocky Mountains isfour miles sou'h OF
this, o. about tn ee hundred feet lower
Tie view from the summit, down both sides, is =
series of great troughs and trenches of sprncep iae
forest, ribbeo with sharp, rocky hills. The load
continues excellent down the western slope; Out
the pines upon this SIDE from the very top vi the
dividing ridge assume a much deeper green-the
result no doubt, if their northern exposure. soon
struck aud followed down a branch of the Blue,
which has been tuned from its channel by ditch
our miles long, in the vain hope OF finding rich dig
gnes in its bed.
Breckenridge consists Of sixty or seventy scatter
ing log houses and though it is several hundred ieet
lower than Tarn all drifts of snow, from ten to hty
feet in depth, which have lain uumeed tor years,
perhaps for centuries visible upon the neighb0r-
ing peaks. 1t is believed that the snow will be from
six to ten feet in depth here IN the valley before Toe
cloe tf Winter, in anticipation of which the most
of the families and miners have already departed for
more genial localities In spite OF the frosts, tur-
nlps beets onions and lettuce have been cultivated
successfully during the Summer. Hay Domnally
commands FIVE cents per pound, but just at present
there is none 10 be had for love or money In Gc0r
gia Gulch, twelve miles distant it is selling at ten
cents Considerable gold has been taken out IN this
vicinity but the approach of Winter has nearly put
| an embargo upon mining for the season. Ia
French's Gulch, four miles from town, Few men
are still working realizing from SO to Sl5 per day.
In Georgia Gulcb, which has produced very richly,
| there are four hundred miners. In California
Gulch forty miles to the South there are only about
| the number remaining, though IN july II con-
| tanned nearly five thousand people and has turned
| out ore gold than any oftbe other gulch mines.
This is the heart of the alleged silver discoveries,
which two months ago caused so much excitement
During the present reaction every one seems 10 be
| i'm doubt as TO the real value of the ore, though
LEADS" ibnumeIable have been discovered aud
| staked-some upon the very summit OF the range
| aid more Than ten thousand claims Zone hundred
feet square) taken and recorded. There have been
few actual sales though one sanguine gentleman re
| Gently pad $500 for fifteen feet by one hundred
| } he hotel here-kept by New-YOrk family-dls-
plays silver forks among its table furniture, and ac
| msy boasts a wood hoor-the second which has
gloddened my eyes since leaving Denver The
| smooth, hard, adobe floors Of New Mexico are by
no means unpleasant; but the earth floors Of Pixies
| z, ak are damp, dreary and disagreeable. Twelve
miles south of breckenridge, if my infornants tell
the truth, there is spot from which one can throw
stone into the waters of the Platte those OF the
Arkansas and those of the Colorado. Any doubt
| ing Thomas, who don't live in glass house, is at
| liberty to come out and try the experiment: