Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-23
Latest from the Pixies Peak Mines Over
$4,000 In Treasure Received-Failure

Latest from the Pixies Peak Mines Over
$4,000 In Treasure Received-Failure
of Quartz nIilIs-New Gold Discoveries.
The st. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette says, of late
date:
The G. o. G. and P. P. Express arrived in
this city yesterday from Denver, with dates
to the 1lth inst. Over $4,000 in treasure
was brought; we did not get the exact figures.
We compile the following interesting sum-
mary of mining news from the Denver Nei0s;
From California Gulch we hear of tre-
mendous stampede for reported new diggings
further west, one what is supposed to be the
head of the Rio Grande. In one day, no
less than thousand men left the above named
gulch, TO scramble over the snowy range, on
their way to this new Eldorado. .a'
In the California Gulch, and neighboring
patch diggings, the claims are getting well
opened and paying remarkably well. Full
reports of operations will be found in the
letters of our correspondents elsewhere A
fall in the waters Of Blue River has enabled
miners to advantageously resume operations
in and along that stream. Miners seem well
satisfied, and we hear ofthirty to fifty dollars
per day being made by some men.
Returning prospecters bring reports of
most astonishing discoveries away beyond
the Blue and Arkansas mines, but their exact
locality we are unable to give.
In the Gregory mines great number OF
quartz mills are being set up. Some of them
are doing well, but many in their first at
tempts to operate do not meet the expecta-
tions of their owners. The great cause oi
failure we believe to be in the inexperience
Of the men having the mills in charge which
time will remedy.
Mills in various districts, that were set up
by experienced men, are doing well; turning
out from one hundred and fifty tos six hundred
dollars per day.
To prove our asserted cause of the failure
of mills, we will mention the fact that two
mills working quartz from the same lead
produce widely different results. While one
perhaps save nothing, another yields thirty
or forty dollars to the tun of rock crushed
Supplementary mills, or pulverizers, on the
principle of the Cohilian mills, or the old
Spanish rastras are absolutely unnecessary,
as attachments TO all the ordinary stamping
mills. A crusher or grinder, and that only,
will reduce the quartz to an impalpable pow
der, and free all, or nearly all, of the gold.
Quite an excitement was raised on Satur-
day last respecting some new placer golC
washing, found Just above the city alonf
Cherry Greek. We have not learned tht
name of the discoverer, who only learned a
this late day what has been known of tn,
"early emigration" for more than year past
Monday morning opened with rush to th'
diggings. Clerks in some of the stores STAN
peded, and theatrical company that hat
ordered bills printed for a tour to the mount
aims countermanded their orders and pro
ceeded in body to the new theater of opera
tions. Claims were bought and sold at ad
yancing figures, and in one instance at least
we heard 6f trade in which pair of mules
and bank claim were the articles Of barter
Claims have been staked for six or eigh
miles along the creek, and prospecters ar,
still moving up IFS course. That money will
be made Immediately by working any of thes'
diggings, we have great doubt; but that they
viii pay well when water is brought to then
can be brought into play, we have great faith