New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-14
FBOy THE PIXIES PEAK GOLD REGION
v,om om Own Correspondent

ampOyments OF TIC mlkfdsVfy idhnco. Io
,skss 70 them nstnctively than young duck to
xatev. Coneregate hundred Americans, anywhere
,.vopd the settlements, and they immedia ely lay out
civ. frame a State Constitution and apply for ad
ss;ou into the Union while twenty five of them be-
some candidates for the United States Senate.
The Pixies Peakers formed their first constitution
more than year ago, and are just aatng the project
Of making second. As for towns they laid out the first
hfore there twenty five persons in this whole
gon and now, cities of magnificent intentions al
most innumersble in the valleys at the foot Of the
mountains. The miners dete mined not TO be far
behind. In tits vciuy-the nucleus of the northern
mines-ihere s a city IN almost every gulch-whch,
however rough it may be the ground is smooth and
beautiful upon paper BY going to the Recorders
Office in any of the mining districts, you learn that
A. has Just paid b. hundred and fifty dollars more or
less for building lot the of Central Avenue
and Broadway.
mines after an absence of more than year. Ihe APP
palipg hill, two miles this side OF Golden City, up
which 80 many cattle and men climbed YEARLY last
year ON their way to the Gregory Dggings, is now
AVOIDED IL is upward of mile in length and appar-
emily sharper ascent than the roof Of country cot
tsge in New-York or New England should be SLOW
10 believe that any animal less agile than mountain
goat ever assembled it, but for vivid recollection of
once seeing an astonsbed aud unhappy mule with an
seitor Of The TRIBUNE upon his back toilng mourn
fully up toward the summit; while two less fortunate
iournasts on foot assisted make the melancholy
caravan.
The mountains are entered by an easy canon
pi es and fire. while babblng brook thread the val
lev below. Many provision wagons and few iuni-
gran passed on the route. One OF the latter was
driving single OK hsrnessed 70 cart, and drawing
heavy load OF supplies and mining tools His novel
oulft bad evidently subjected him to s)me ridicule
for reply 70 most respe ttul inquiry as to wheth
he had come through the Miss 'ur River with
IT, he euphstically ted that it none of our
butiness. We afterward learned that he had taken
his one OK train through from Minnesota. few
miles further we passed another novelty in the shape
hxn x-nla % of
which he was riding He had an excellent iddIe upon
his bovine steed, and guided the patient animal by
lines attached TO his horns.
The muc dy road lie frightfuly cut up by heavy hay
wagons. The haymakers cut the grass IN the Valley
of the Platte eighty miles from the market, aud seem
70 the $50 per tun which 1t commands In the dig
gpae Many quartz mills still on the road the
wagons bearing three were still hopelessy embedded
In the mud while the drivers endeavorng TO ex-
tricate the by hard lifting hard shOveng and hard
swearing A heavy hastOrm had fallen upon one OF
the ridges lust before we crossed It, and though the day
vas intensely hot, the ice was lying IN m any places
two inches in thickness. More than half the i'm
migrant wagons accompanied by families.
One Of these, from Missouri was especially
noticeable from the novel appearance of the
mother and three daughters, whose hoopless
garments hung about them like wet towels. They must
have resided III some very retired locality, for even
among the Choctaw and Cherokee Indians crnoline Ia
queen; and the women in these mountains, of what
other luxuIies they are deprived are not whit
behind Broadway Chestnut street in the amplitude
of their skirts Many ranches and hotels have been es
tablshed upon the road, and dong thriving busi-
ness feeding travellers AID Tanchmg cattle and horses
n from TO two dosrs per month. TIE landady OF
ole Of these hotes-a widow from Franklin, kansas
claims to have realized $4,000 from it within the last
year.
the wonderful changes OF year, and astonlshed at
the vast amount OF labor which has bsen done IN dggng
ND the eulches and disemboweling the hills. Every
dollar Of gold yet taken out In this section, has cost
at least two dollars and the amount OF work per-
formed upon the prares of Eastern Kansas Nebraska
Iowa, would have connected them into one conunu-
garden
miners are realizing all sums from five dollars to one
hundred dollars per day; but the number is much
greater who have not yet been able 70 pay lnelr ex
people within ten miles of the original Gregory Lead,
q much larger population than the resources OF the
region, as yet developed, will Justify
operation. About thirty are running and nearly
hundred more being set up. The quartz proves rich
yielding from $50 10 5000 per cord but It very hard
the quicksilver in use is nearly all aduterated, and
great difficulty is experienced in crushing 1t to SUI
hcent fneness and sepaI ting the gold. EXPERIENCE,
however will modify these difficulties. The mills
ony which have orasiras attached succeed in grinding
the quartz to sufficient fneness. The ROCK lsiand
Mil-the best in the mountains-has turned out $Soo
per day when in good order. 1t cost $3OOOO ON the
ground $50 per day would be liberal estimate OF
The clear profit which il is paying the propretors
Flour is selling sl6 to sl7 per hundreds Sugar and
Coffee at from 80 to 80 cents per pound ana hay al
nSc
from 81 per week 81 80 per day, and the wages OF
common loborers at 81 5O per day. A. De- H.
DENVER CRY, Pixies Peak, Aug. Q, 1860
This week at least had hoped to spare you the Pc
rusal of our ordinary catalogue OF crimes Tor thougn
holding as Journalist sort of mercantile interest 10
these horrors, the "boody business has become ex-
treuely revolving But the reign Of terror is not yet
ended.
To An ARRAY in this city few weeks since negro
known as Prof. Starke was fatally shot by Charley
Harrison, q gambler. The Rocky Mountain Ne0s, in
,ts ;ssue of last week, denounced the homicide as
Dsnton murder Harrison felt aggrieved at this IAN
puaRe and issued a handful, signed Dy one OF our
prominent citizens setting forth tnat the act was Done
In self defense. W. NJ Byers esq, the editor OF me
Nrs appended TO thi' bill an explana DRY card con-
tanning Quasi withdrawal Of the imputaton, and ex-
pressing the hope that investigation about to take
place would prove Harrison blameess
This was satisfactory 10 Harrison, but not 10 ms
brother gamblers, who were greatly lncensed at tne
refusal OF the editor to make direct reracnon WIN
ont satisfactory proof that his charge false On
Tuesday last, Mr.. Byers sitting in his ONCE en-
gagged in conversation with Gen. Larmer, EDWARD
Creighton, esq from ST. Louis, ana the Rev. MI nan
kin from W scOnsn. None Of the party were armed,
and the two gentlemen last named had but just ar
rived in this region the succeeding events must have
given them novel idea OF the state Of society at Pixies
Peak. c,u,
-Four gamblers named George Steele, Carl Wood,
lanes Ennis and John Rucker suddenly entered the
room with their cooked revolyeTs In their hands.
Mod sized Rivers by the collar and while the four
weapons were ell aimed at the head OF the astomshed
editor applied the most abusive epithes 70 MN, anu
Insisted tbat be should at accompany the 70 Tue
Criterion Saloon two squares Distant 10 meet narIl-
Resistance was ont OF the question, Ior tne ohy
weapon in the Office was a single shotgun IN another
APARTMENT Mr. Rivers was therefore compelled TO 60