The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-08-18
LATEST FROM TIE GOLD MINES
So4, 900 in Treasure.


The Pixies Peak Express arrived ct S..
Joseph on the 18th with Denver city news
to the 9th inst. The Gazette says there
we're Sic, 900 in dust came BY Express, and
s. 900 in the hands Of individuals.
The Denver City Nevs has the following
summary Of mining intelligence:
We are able to give but little except what
will be found IN the letters Of our CORES
pondenss. We see many daily returning
from the California Gulch and other mines
on the head waters Of the Arkansas, on their
way to the States.
Mos. OF those We have talked with have
done we'll. workedltheir claims, and taken
Oh. from FIVE hundred to as many thousand
dollars TO the man, and then sold out At
fair figures. Ii is acknowledged at the same
time that the above named gulch has not
proved as generally rich as was at frss ex-
pected, and in many Of the best elaimes the
richest pay '.streak' has been worked out.
I The guleh and the fats are still paying we'll
however, and no doubt will continue to do 30
/ for year or two to come.
/ Parties are constantly leaving California
Gulch, and crossing the snowy ranges far
Their west, where it is reported that Eve other
gulches Of equal richnes have been found,
but as TO the truth of the reports there 10 yet
We think great uncertainty.
| On the Blue River and its vicinity, pros
poets are daily Frightening. Several Of the
| guiches are turning out very rich, and the
bank diggings along the river are paying
| well.
| In and around the Gregory mines the mills
are getting into operation, and generally
doing we'll. The Consol,dstsd ditch 10 fur
| nishiug large supply Of water in the dry
gulch and Placer diggings. New leads are
found almost daily, and there is steady
progress in every branch Of mining industry.
Along main Clear creek the mines are yield
| ing astonshingly. Some verv rich leads
have been found, and several quartz mills
are being set up in that vicinity. The yield
ofthe bar is still increasing, and many that
were last year abandoned upon the belief
that they would not pay, are now being
worked to good advantages, yielding
from five to twenty dollars per day to the
| man.
From Boulder we get but few items Of news.
Several quartz mills are running, and it is
said paving, but how much we are un-
able to learn. The large mill Of ID. ID.
White L Co is about ready for operations.
Graham's mill is paying, and several stamps
will soon be added to its present capacity.
Concerning the quartz operations the Col
den City Mountdineer says:
| While several quartz mills are operating
/ in satisfactory manner, the failure Of many
more, as yet to overcome the preliminary
difficulties of crushing the quartz to sufficient
! hneness, and to separate the gold, is pro-
ducing a false impression in the minds of
some. There is no doubt uhaterer in re-
gard to the richness of the quartz. Pu!ver-
ize small portion oft, from almost any
lead, in a mortar, and it will yield very
richly. We have already chronicled the
fact, that in Leavenworth lead, Mr.. Samuel
Harsh recently took S31 80 from only three
pounds of rock. In the Lake Guleh, last
week, one of the St. Louis mills during the
first run, produced $500 from cord of Sc
leeted quartz. There isa gentleman in
Mountain City, prepared to stake large
amount that from the quartz in his posses
sion he can select cord which will yield
50 900. These are Of course exceptional
cases but that quartz Of sufficient richness
to pay abundantlv, exists in the mountains
in almost inexhnustable quantities, has beer
absolutely demonstrated. The present DIFF
fcul,ies in the way Of the quartz mills which
are properly constructed, are such rs are
inevitable from the nature Of the case, anC
such as time and experience cannot fail ts
obviate.