New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-01
ION I'VE PIXIES PEAK GOLD REGION


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DsyvrR CITY, PlKE's PEAK, Sept. IL, 1860.
Lite last "Wednesday night two shaggy, sun
n,rnt men. in dilspidatsd garments, entered the. .
ofice of the Pixies Peak Express Company, be .r.
mo sacks upon theic shoulders hike bags OF so,u.
Dspostins these upon the counter, they caused
the door TO be locked, sclemnly enlolnf d secresy
upop the agent and his employees, and then
smotied from their buckskin pOuc'Aes S27 900 10
gujsb cold The pure dust gltt'ered with peculiar
brilhsncy-ss no retortiug process hsd ever dimmed
its original brightDess-and abOunded in shining
nuggets, the largest twice the size of silver dol
kY. The owners were two miners from California
Galch-M Rafferty, from Ohio, and George Stevens
of Philadelphia, and this was the clear profit OF
their Summers labor They entered the Gulch
early in the Spring without dollar, but worked
hard and finding that their claim was rich en-
ployed from thirty to forty men. The clam yielded
them, in gross, $45, 600. Miners upon claims i'm
mediatey adjoining, had worked as hard and per-
seyeIingly as they, without earning their board
Stevens was formerly stagedriyer upon the Salt
Lake mail route. Both were exceedingly appre-
beusive Of robbery, fearing that they might have
been followed up from the Gulch and starting at
every noise from the sidewalk outside the door.
They seemed utterly unable to conceive that the
people of Denver could learn that they had S27 O0O
without forming a conspiracy to take 1t from them
But, feeling that their treasure would be safer
when once at the Missouri River, they paid the
Company 5000 to transport 1t to st. Joseph and
ON Thursday morning went out in the same coach
With IT, That mornings express took, in all, some
thing over $4,000
Hearing nv name called upon the street yester-
day, turned around to be greeted by the rOughest
locking specimen of civilized man that had ever
seen. could detect something familiar in the eye
but under the complete disguise Of dirt, rags, tan
and matted hair and beard it was quite impossible
to indiyidualize him. He told bis name, and then
recognized in this frghtu burlesque upon his former
self an old and intelligent acquaintance from East
ern Kansas. He has spent two seasons here, hard
ut work in the mines, without earning hs board;
bat is determined to WOO Fortune ;cifh invincble
perseyt rance, until she becomes Iibre kind After
half an hours pleasant chat GIy friend who talked
hike scholar and gent, oman aud looked like
ragsmufn, remarked mat he must start on his re-
turn to the diggDge, and trudged away, cheeriuly
smoking his pipe.
Within an hour after another old acquaintance,
gentleman from Wisconsin, called upon me, Just in
from the same gnlch. lie has spent only four months
In the dggngs, and yet has realized what h. terms
competence, and is about starting for Eastern Kan
sas 10 invest his means in large farm. So unusual
IN exhibition Of good sense lis worthy of especial
commentator. He related one incident which il
owned a claim, early this season, upon the CalitOr
MIA Gulch, which yielded him $3.50 above expenses
and then proved to be completely worked out. The
claim by the side of it, above, produced net profit
of upward Of 81, 900. The one adjoining below,
not only failed to return the cost of working it, but
involved the owners in debt more than 81, 900 80
much for three claims side by side which all "pros-
pected equally well.
In the way of news, there is little of interest
transpirng. The quartz mills are perceptiby gain
ing upon the obstacles which have prevented them
hOm saving the gold but not more than One-third
are paying expenses. few, however, are yielding
large profits The aTqStraS whose first cost is
tritiDg and which do not have drop of oil about
them TO neutralize the quicksilver in its separation
0t the gold, are generally paying very handsomely
From $4,000 10 100000 week are now leaving
this region for the river, but times continue hard
and money scarce in Denver. The whole Pixies
Peak region is largely indebted East for goods and
machinery and until those obligations are PAID the
dust taken out must inevitably flow Eastward leav-
ing us IN condition of pecuniary hunger The
quartz mills brought here already will cost in the
dlggiDgs, ready to 90 into operation, more than
$500, 600.
The weather is wintry, and the mountains. thirty
miles from town white with snow. An i'm
mense nugget" of gOld-worth -, 4O0-was
manufactured here few days since 1t was so
sklliullY done as to deceive many into the belief
that it was genuine, and created quite an excite.
meDt The owner left with it, on Saturday coach,
for LeayenwOfth, where twill probably make some
noise. 1t seems to have been intended rather as a
practical joke, than fraud upon the public for no
secret was made of its bogus character. The
largest single lump taken out here, az vet came
from the Gregory DiggiDgs last season. and was
worth about ; l2S. Manufacturing nuggets has fire.
quently been practiced in California.
We have now three daily newspapers in Denver,
with population of 4,5OO Who shall say that
we are not an intelligent community Dr. Stone,
who was wounded by L. W. Bliss, in a duel Lass
Winter, is lying in the City Hospital slowly vast
ing away For ten months, upon a bed Of intense
suffering he has been learning the folly of the
duellO, and his life is now despalred Of Mcssrs.
Jones d Cartwright, the great freighers across the
plains am assured viii clear 500, 900 this sea
sOD if they collect all their biilsin the present de-
preston somewhat remote contingency. A miner
left for the States day two since, with young
"CinnamOn" bear-a whelp two months old,
taken along for pet. The cubs mother weighed
eleven hundred pounds Typhoid fever is some
what prevalent both here and in the mountains
A. ID. K.