Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-02
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Rich Gold Discoveries Reported at Pixies
Reak-The Cnnaenuenf EsrcItenaenf.

Rich Gold Discoveries Reported nc Pixies
Peak-The Consequent Excitement.
LEADvuLE, Col, April 19.-There is
considerable excitement In this city over a
PSw gold discovery that has Just been made.
The country of this latest craze is located
west of Pixies Peak, about twenty miles
from Colorado Springs, thirty-fve miles
from Canyon City, and from LeadviIle
about eighty miles in the most direct line
that could be travelled. Eighteen years ago,
it is said, the same gulch was overrln by
prospectors and miners who were enticed
there from the surrounding country by the
report that rich placers had been found.
With the exception of few encouraging
colOrS of gold nothing was developed, and
the excitement died out For years and
years nobody visited the isolated region,
save few hunters. Two years ago Mr.. s.
s. Bradbun, a former Denver druggist,
who had turned his attention to prospect
ing, was informed by a South Park ranch
man about the early excitement, and his
curiosity was aroused. He obtained the in
formation necessary to guide him to the
gulch. Starting out alone he made his way
to the place and sank shaft. At q depth
Of eight or nine feet he struck
CEMENT-LIKE GRAVEL,
and after having made several vain at
tempts to pan gold from it returned to the
valley. Since that time he has wandered
around the country without making perma-
nent locations. The more he thought about
the peculiar formation which he had dis
covered the more he became convinced that
there was something i'm it, So impressed
was this belief, he went back to the gulch
about four weeks ago and obtained a sack of
the gravel and came to Leadville, where he
had it tested with the most astonishing
results. The material yielded from thirty
to hundred ounces of gold to the ton.
Being without means he enlisted number
of Leadville men i'm the scheme
and led some of them to the sceLe of
the find. The shaft was continued to a
depth of eighteen feet, the greatest secrecy
being maintained by the people interested.
The next set of samples gave about the
same returns of gold, the average being
over 81 900 TO the ton. In sinking the shaft
the large and barren-loOking pebbles and
rocks encountered were thrown to one side
as worthless, but one of the party, curious
to know if they contained any mineral, took
away sackful with him. The assay of
these pebbles gave an average of
TEN OUNCES OF GOLD
to the ton. This proved to them that the
entire body of gravel was pay ore. The
gravel was found at depth of eight feet
below the loamy dirt, and the bedrock has
not yet been found. The expedition with
which the mineral could be mined can be
imagined. If the ore is as rich throughout
as the assays indicate anywhere from SIS, 900
to $4,000 can be produced per day TO the
man employed i'm the workings Taken
altogether the discovery is the most mar
velous and promising that has been
made for years. In the twelve To-
cations made in the gulch the dis
covery shafts have in every instance peue-
trated this gravel after having passed
through from six to eight feet of dirt. The
mineral belt has been exposed for distance
of five miles, and there is no telling its ex-
tent, or how many other gulches there are in
the country of equal resources and richness.
Quite number of reliable authorities have
visited the camp, and all pronounce it a
wonder. Among these is Mr.. Arthur Cha
mute. There is a large quantity of the ore
in Leadville in the hands of aSSayers and
Samplers.