, 1860-06-21

prospecting u AANAAA t@9At AA'V ANAkAEt
that there are NOW about three Thousand persons
in the whole circuit Of country known as the
"Arkansas," aud by sone, formerly, the
"Cherokee" region. He informs me that there
are several extensive gu1cles, bars. and patch
diggings developed for miles about there, and
every few days there are more discovered.
The " California Gulch," he states,is situated
two or three miles up from the river, and is be-
lieyed by all hands there, whether actual work
ers or not, to be the resy yica<s& yet developed
in This whole country. He saw himself the Earl
Brothers sluice out $50 in q part Of day from
between eighty and hundred buckets Of the
dirt
Several parties aud individuals VI boss claims
arc opened, and upon the said gulch where the
"st1eak" runs, are making one. hundred dol.
lars per day, two or three being engaged, one
digging out, one carrying The buckets, and one
washing it out. Various persons who have
como up here Of wrote up to their Denrer friends
within the past week, do. entirely more than
corroboEate The figures Of Dr.. Peck-and some
reliable persous here report seeing few hands
take out three hundred dollars Of dust ont of
their sluice boxes and rockers rs the result of
days working. There is, at present, here
md throughout the Gregory mining regions
western diggings. Many are foolishlY leaving.
and many thousands are foo1isly desirous Of
selling ont and leaving their pretty good Claims
in the Gregory and TaErya!l diggings, expect
ing that if they get to prospect in the Arkansas
diegings, it may be that shfy will make their
$l00 per day to the hand, -
hare called this idea foolish" for two
reasona-drst, because those pereons may have
inst as good and permanent a thing in and ua-
der their own claims here where they now are,
if they would only keep on aud work them,
content to realize from three to thirteen dollars
day, as the case may be. Secondly. because
hitting upon rich, fat gulch claims is like erery
it may be that after theY forsake or fool away
their tolerably good claims elsewhere,
they can find even IS good in this same Ar
kansas region, unless they buy out those who
have been there during the Spring, and who
hate By ch sga proRHeg a; las; oan IND
number of gulches.
There are dozens Of persons on the California
guEch who would not "sel out'' their claims
now for, some fifteen hundred: some two thou.
sand, and aome i've or ten thousand dollars,
while there ire hundreds there who have claims
few miles distant from those richly opened
claims, who are not as yetmaking more than min
er's wages-say six, ten and sixteen dollars per
man. There are also hundreds there who ha*e
outside distant gulch claims which they are too
indo!ent to open and work, that might perhaps
pay fifty Or a hundred dollars per day. Or might
not perhaps pay them "grub wages"-that is,
il those diggings, three dollars day and
board.
ln the Tarryall and Blue River mines just
now, am able to positively state that hundreds
are making. great things. Several, in both
diggings, fifteen miles apart, The Snowy Range
intervening, are making, twenty, forty aud
small s1uice Hundreds and hundreds. how
ever, in the Eatd placers are not doing anr thing
ab0ye very good wages-partly because they
bave not Jet fully found ont the run Of their
claims, or reached as low as the rich dirt, and
partly because hundreds grow too suddenly
discouraged when they can not Immediately
see others upon rich claims happening to do
SO. In Russelps guleh, Gregory . diggings aud
that region Of the mines, there are perhaps
twenty-five thousand pcrsons-thousands of
whom are working on their lead, gulch and
patch claims aud making fine wages-:some
to the man, while threa or four-ffths Of these
Same are not making over FIVE to twelve dollars.
Thousands are there, also, who have Claims,
but put off and put off opening and workiu Z
them. not being fond Of rolling up their sleeves
| to hard workout waiting and watohine out
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big percentage down-and then start of to some
other section, prospecting for something new
| apd rich-or do anything ut all, so as to make a
| soDd thing without having to labor for it,
The quartz mills are doing first rate in Greg
| osy's nj present-some mills yie]d three and
four hundred dollars worth Of dus: to each day q
run. The average yield, at present, Of the very
medium style Of mills yet in operation, is est.
mated at $3.50 t. the days run. If large mills
now in aud scores on the way, get once into ope'
ration, and are managed by Intelligent engineers
| or workmen, they muat certainly yield i've to
seven hundred dollars per day, from Ut least the
| richest ten or twenty leads now tested.
Mcssrs. Mann & Dnris's mill {from your city
| will shortly be in operation in Leayenworth
Gutch. The mill Is snid to be a truly tine one
nnd a credit to the manufacturers. 1t has q
! battery of eighteen stamps.
few DAYS ago, washed out from one pan of dir
fifteen dollars. They sunk their shaft ffteer
feet deep, and their lead proves enormously
rich in lle places opened. From two pans d
the pay dirt, from the aboye dspth, they washed
out 1880, and from the ne It three pans washed
the amount weighed $3.50. Several piles O
quartz taken out Of this lend is believed 10 yiclG
SO cents to the pound On an average Some O
tho quartz has yielded $3.50 to single pound
The above crerice Of rich pay dirt has al
reatly been dug ten feet through, aud ret il
holds out rich. Some Of our quartz leads ex
tend rich for miles, while others are very "spot
ted" and pay in few places enormously well
and then oil at once become lost. As sooD ai
sufficient machinery gets established near ou1
extensive leads, to c1us4 out aud dnadlqansdt
and properly stcrfts the gold, We heliese tter'
will be astonishing proceeds from week to week
In the Nevada Gulch, Morton 4 Co. sold ou
their interest in that tunnel for $500 tacA ant
the Pittsburgh Co. theirs for $4,000.
In the Illinois Gulcl,, on the Blue, the mine
are doing fnely-from four to eight dollars Il
:he hand. On q portion Of this gn1ch they hsy,
lately made ns high as twenty-five dollars pc
day.
There ara upwards pf thirty fire thousaut
people, / should think, st present oser the min
ing regions, The minority are steadily ut worl
and quartz miners all the time making th
steady, sure thing. The majority are rowing
md rumnating about what they shall do ant
where they shall 60. Those 'pilgrin,s,'' as the.
call 'etp, lately from the States, move ia band
far hare not appeared to haze COLLECTED thei
IDEAS from the bewilderment Of the noYel1ie
around them on every side. Thousands of thes,
emigrants, who talked big on the route, an'
arrived here with the bona f1de intention q
mining for their gold, Jet, scmo how Or other
become foolishly and family discouraged befo1
two days sitter their arrival in sight Of an ex
tensive mining district, because {theY thiak
they cannot see any way by which they can i'm
mediately squat down upon somebody's ric|
cinim. which is paving, aud which cost III,
owner time and labor to deye1ope; aud also be
cause (they think) thty canaot strike the ricl
stEeaks at tho first attempt, in case tbey hunt
ed the claims up and opened them. My opinion
Is that there are hundreds ot placea east IN
west Of the Snowy Range. in the ridges and "a
| vine gulches Of these mountaius, which ma
prove fully as rich and profitable to work in o
tbe rery besi 1!ready opel=a aud held ut hig
figures; aud thst there Is fair tield 'it.~ IT, fes
hundred thousands of peTsons to dig gold there
if they will only prospect for thcu. aad rItch Il
miner fashion after they fiud them.
Iwould like to give you statements md exac
statistics of mining matters and things; but
see have not the tpaeo this time There is
great deal Of gold being taken oat Just now
every single day; but as the parties ure locate,
and stocked with outfits, Of course it must nc
-eecsed they will come dowa CT sccd dog
JH 70 this city, to scatter and foil
.nwu pss a.~'r-uor get srnd 1, into th
"a" Sta;.. for H. mere -lessure Of having BIZ
export of eold announced es.s - Express TIP, Pc
thetelegrspbic wires for the Assoc i1ess.
Mining for gold is pretty hard bu6iness-S"o
less here and there, IN easy spots and placers
| where it once in 4 while is found here In pro
fusion. 4 great many who come here expce
TO make much money, and, indeed, get inule
diately rich-in the mines, even-riihout arort
inc to get it; and they seem to forget The ol,
doctrine that it takes some tine aud labo
to succeed in anything.
Ifyou should Aear, This summer, auy returne.
Pixies PeakerB assert that there il not pint
Of gold hers i1 rey erttnsire sifuations, pleas
stop his month Instantly, By telling him IL