The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-09-15

yards wide, 1t most. I never went through
that patch Of timber. AAer laundering over
il for solid hour, and when appearances
's ls ss. - Ys e 1 SSi. III :es
of . road made In appeazance. This pur-
sued, md Pd7s0fd, ~ c.ll4ag Vnlsae1 4 I'll,
until at The expiration Of abSut ,ssyen hours,
all told, ! landed q TIE fsot el the mountain
utterly exhausted and four miles behind the
team. This I Lost no time inJeachipx, wen
and thoroughly paid, in every PsHfiGlaF, for
that more than half days NorE. II
This Is the proper place for the miserale7l
gical formation Of the molntaips as they rise
from Goden City; and, with tie aid Of yari-
ous Colorado Publications, ] am able 70 give
it somewhat in detail: ri. ~. -,
1st. Iron copglomerate OF, pudding- stone.
about six feet wide. -
ID. Fire-clay, three and half feet wide.
hundred d AND 1 ,sifty ~ SsIa: a'xP'Y
4,h. Bog-iron ore beds, eight to ten feet
wide.
5tA. ssaAdssu6e and clnysbesk, win. small
bands ~ ,i5op ose, d1ee hpadred snt nifty
feet wide. .aIl,s sssissBO -,tnr
9th. Fire-clay bed, six feet wide.
eth. Coal vein, nine to eleven feet wide.
Sth. Sandstone, clay and soil, twenty -nIhe
feet wide. "i o. "'''' ,','. 7'i''-.'''''' ~
9Th. Gypsum and iron ore beds, sometimes
ten to twenty feet thick, with limestone in
| tcrlacatcd. ni q ~" ga 100 t'' ? h''
10Th. Silica, or pure white glass-saml Of
great extent. ~ @'"n ~. =.
llth. From ono hundred to two hundred
/ feet thick of coarse, dark red sandstone, rest
| ing in highly inclined strata upon the meta
| n,Osphic GRANTEES and mecca states Of the
Sierra Madre. p. ms 't.'"'', .Hs -
The coal found at the base Of the noun
tains has always near it beds Of fire-clay and
| iron ore, or liinonite, yielding twenty-five %
forty per cent. Of iron. ''''I',..: ''' -
Among the coal seams opened are, Muir
phys vein, sixteen feet wide, without part
| ing of sandstone Or fire-clay." '-'".
Arnoldis vein; magnetic, thickness nine
feet. ''H t.'t'i'i''''' i''l''
Golden City vein; thickness nine to font-
teen feet. "4''i'' ',''
Knapp's vein; thickness tort crop, three
Wheeler & Johnson's vein (tireenmottp1
/, tain); thickness seven feet. .
VESSELS vein; thickness six feet. "
| Coal Creek vein; thickness nine to eleven
feet. .1'f ~ ''' d" '''l''- -
The following is the altitude Of some Of
the more important placcs:h '''I' '-- 80
Denver, above the a...-........-..i,1 Gs feet.
Golden City, above the ...S ~ feet
Central City, above the ~ Set
| Besides the above minerals found in Jefier-
son Co., Golden City District, there are several
copper veins, the most noted of which are
, the West, Wharton, Banner and Excelsior
lodes, each 800 feet in length: and the
Whitehall lode 1000 feet, in heryen Dis
trics, belonging to the NonMricl Prospecting
| and Mining Company, and whose assays
show from forty ~ sixty-live per cent. cop
per, and from fifty to seventy-iiye dollars in
silver per ton. ..f- f1aur' ..,-~'lI ~.
Having passed over another slons'' hill,
We find ourselves ut the first gold diggings, a
| mile below Black Hawk, in Gilpin County
, Mr.. 4. Cameron owns the g,Ilcli here up
| and down Clear Creek for one and quarter
miles, and is engaged in genuine guich min
ing. The fiume ia nearly a half-mile in
| length, and is kept in operation day and
night. accepted an invitation to remain at
his quarters over night, and, before leaving,
had, with him, prospectcd the dirt then be
ing worked. He gave me great deal Of
information about that kind Of mining, and
loaded me down with specimens. Mr.. Geo.
Mc(,arty, an employee, presented me with a
very nice nugget Of pure gold. Mr.. Came
ron informed me that he had taken out since
June 18th last, thiry-ivc pounds and four
ounces Of dust.
A mile brings up to Black Hawk. 1t
wuOld be AZ we'll to say, alsO, Mountain City,
rs the great mining town Of COlOrado. These
III s,<p sha cv,,1ch ,rkso1,
at the broadest places, il bat a few yards
three miles long. The population is re-
corded at 10000, and with mining as the
chief interest, Of course, none Of the ap-
pointments Of city Of that magnitude are
wanting.
From late article now before me dcscrib-
ing this city, quote as follows, my own OBJ
servations generally confirming the state
ments made:
commencing at the reduction works of
Mr.. Tcats, and following the stream up
everywhere hemmed in by mount:ins-tlere
are passed two quartz mills, one Judge Dick
works Of Prof. Hill; the Kcnzon' Proves
mills, Lyons Works, the Idaho mill, and on
Tic ltuueNIIdtc HItsise, w tIc TIT, SeNSistt
fine private residences; while in front, over
looking everything, and facing everyone, is
seen the small, tat neat Presbyterian church,
looking "a thing of beauty" Reaching the
Point where the stream, dividing, forms
Chase and Gregory gulches, a busy scene Of
life IN presented, mingled with the hum Of
which is the heavy mill note-lay and night
the same-Of the Black Hawk Comlrany's
sixty head Of eleven cent stamps.
In Chase gnlch, which Commence. here, is
the Manhattan mill at its mouth, and above,
the Rocky Mountain, Bolaail, Dubois, Mann
moth, and other mills, all ON North Clear
creek, while up the gIlch, IN the left, are the
Douglas, Sterling and Bate~ Company's
mills: the 1Etna Tunnel and Hale and Ais
toms Brewery. Other mills, NC, reaching
to Quartz Valley, are still beyond, hat we
stop.
Ascending Greflory Gulch, there is seen
in rapid succession every evidence of great
and growing interest; substantial store build
ings, hotels, livery stables. &C., the Gregory,
Smith and Parmlee and Briggs mills, the
Bobtail Tunnel, Gregory, Levitt and Bates
Lodes, Mountain City, with her mills; Cen
trail City, with her business and her hanks,
her hotels, lecture halls, and theatre, daily
newspapers, Territorial assay and express
offices, churches, schools, and seminaries,
blast and iron fnundrics, machine moulding,
and repairing shops, Miners and Mechanics
Institute, mining offices, mills. &c, and
every other evidence Of ccntering wealth and
business. Eureka, Spring, and Nevada
gulches. are Int ditto of Gregory, and all
as all are One-as Central City-the houses
and mills, especially in the Last town, being
built sufficiently close to form together one
continuous street, three miles long" Char
acteristic of the whole mines, select and aP-
pend full scientific description Of the yield
Of Gregory Lode, AZ follows:
GRDGORY.-Shafts item l35 to Az feet
crevice, 5 feet-Ore veins, to 81 inches
assay, S52 9. and SIG 3; SIS z. and - :, to
$40 z, and s, per ton, with to II Ier cent
coPper-yield (econd quality by Keith pro-
cess), $1O2 per ton; the same under stamps,
"a only; 2l6 tons, S5l per ton, ard lOO tons
1884 Ozs. &. gruse-expenses, SO to Sl2-|
mill-tailing, assay, Ozs. z, per ion-pro-
duct, total lin eight yean), Sl.SOQ, OOO The
Black Hawk Co, lone Of the companies
working) has had returned to them from
this lode and their BObtail property, Sl.35s,-
l49, operating four years to january LIST,
1868. Cali Spe. al d. Is a small but very
rich quartz nugget from this lode, presented
to the British Mining Bureau, London.
This constitutes the most important Ior-
ton Of the information obtained while in
Colorado, and all, in fact, that could with |
propricty be introduced into newspaper
article. Ny observation in the mountains
was limited, as will be noticed, to very
small AREA, but the information have here |