New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-29
Correspondence Of Tho N. Y. Tribune.
MAnxorH Cry South Roulder Csst. I
Colorado Territory Dec. q, 1902

Correspondence Of Tho N. Y. Tribune.
MAuxorH Cry South Boulder CNst
Colorado Territory, Dec. u, 1862.
I, ia some time since called on you on my way
here. l expected then to have reached here much
earlier.
I arrived here, however, with the Rocky Noun
tain and Pittsburgh Gold Mining Company's train,
ON the 18th of last month. Here this Company have
located and are putting up quartz-crushins NIL Of
City stamps, aud other builjinas; have commenced
running two tunnels end sinking one shaft. Exps'
rienced miners cay the appearances here Indicate as
valuable lodes and rich quartz US are found In any
other localities in this Territory.
This is some twelve miles from Central City,
about fly miles from Denver. and say twelve to
twenty niles southwest from Long Peak.
/ vi,ited Central City for the first time ast week,
anu tarried u moment at the Gregory House, on
Black Hawk Point where Horace Greeley tied mp
and took Lis toast and tea when herein loO8 }
think IL wac. Then this tie only public house
ia this vicinity. Now there are large member Oh
similar resting place.. Then, as / am told there
was but one email (perhsps three-stamp) quartz
mill on this gulch Now there are rome forty or
more, running night and day from ak to forty
stamps, most of them with greet success.
Near this Gregory House, well up the mountain,
il the celebrated Gregory lode. upon which soatt
has been sunk Deary hundred feet that has paid
70 well. At the foot OF the mouDtan on this same
lode ia the edge If the gucb, stands the Briggs
Mil, owned and operated by j. Smith Briggs, tor
uerly of Indiana. IL is model mill, ana ils hs-
tory, as gwen to me by gentleman VINO WAS YAK,
ing me round IL somewhat peculiar. IL Is sltuaeu
sbout one hundred feet below the above-named
C;rrgory House, and on the Gregory lode or lead.
In TIE Autumn Of lS6l Mr.. b., its proprietor, was
ulch OF suiee Mining on this very SPOT to get the
means TO return 70 Indiana being, as the phrase is
here, "strnpped,' or hard up. rice in tho stream
washed away come Of his apparatus and partially
covered I'd part Of il. After il subsidized he COM
meuced again, and in digging out big implements
discovered a lode. Soon he was able TO obtain
Quartz rom It, which he got crushed, and found it
paid well. From this beginning be went on step by
step, till he was able 10 purchase steam engine
ana erect this mill Of twelve stamps over his dis-
covery. His shaft now ID sunk some seyenty'hye
feet or more, and part of the same power that
drives his mill raises the quartz to supply II, and
dumps il down OH the very spot the tender deslfes
it, 10 be put into The erusheI. His blacksmith sbop
is NJ der the same f. and all the conveniences for
carrying on tie various operations, from mining the
quartz 10 turning cut the shining dust, are embraced
in this one building.
lite worthy, eht-rprisug and successful proprietor
eau Sit in bis CHAIR in one corner of THIS MODEL
Establishment, the like Of which cannot be found IN
all these Rocky Mountains and have MS eye upon
almost every operator snd operation at ono and the
same moment One Of his men, who seemed TO be
III some authority there, toc Mr. b. was not present
at the time, told that the quartz averaged some
1850 TO the cord. A cord is about eight tuns. The
quantity raised and crushed per week was some
five cords. II had paid Gs high as st25 per cord,
and the clearngs up FER the week would leave over
&, 900 clean cash. Success TO the Briggs Mill and
It's lucky proprietor. May many Others 70 and DO
likewise.
Tho mining interests in all this Territory are
hourishing and the projects that are IN contem-
plation tho coming Spring IL the section will DO cal
cuatsd 10 furnish an increased supply OF he precious
metals from these localities. y.