Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-01-12
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY, JANUARY L

labOrers is four dollars per day. There
have been eases where men have made
more than 500 day with rocker
Two men working with a rocker aver
aged S5G day each, for ten consecutive
days. Mr.. NJ. has three acquaintances
who have worked with one another for
over two months, and they told him
that the lowest days work was 81 18
each, and the highest was SIT 60.
They were mining on Boundary Creek,
part of which is in British Columbia.
a nugget worth $500 was found few
weeks since on Rock Creek, which is
entirely in British Columbia. All the
other aurifcrous branches of Kettle
River are in Washington Territory.
Kettle River itself is about as large as
Feather River. Much mining will be
done on this stream and its tributaries
next year. There is good grass and
rich soil in the basin of Kettle River.
One thousand persons are wintcring in
the Rock Creek mines. The Wcnatchee
is a small tributary of the Columbia,
rising in the Cascade mountains, near
the Snoqualmic Pass and running east
ward. 1t has long been known to have
some rich dggingS in its bars and III
vines. Twenty-Five miners winter
there. Flour is worth from 20 to -
cents per pound, fresh beet from II to
15 cents
j. l.. Ferguson, Esq, member OF
the House of Representatives of this
Territory. from the Counties of Clska-
tat and Skamani:, furnishes the follow
ing information. for the benefit of per-
sons travelling to that region tu Co.
lumbia River and the Dalcs:
BY Steamboat, Portland to Rockland
opposite the Dallcs, III miles, thence
to Fort Simcoc by military road, 65
miles. to At-ah-nim creek ut the ru-
ins of Pandozy's Mission 10 miles,
sometimes called Mission Crcci) 10
miles to Chy-wec. chess. - miles To the
Nah-chcss River, 5 miles to the We
mass. 10 miles to Canyon creek. s miles
to the crossing of the Yakima four
miles below kicc-tas, thence 25 miles
to the Columbia River. 10 miles up the
river to the crossing of mouth Of We
natch-cc. II miles to Euv-cn-co creek.
20 miles to the Ferry ON Lake Chclan,
Is miles to the Met-how, 20 miles tn
Okinaganc River. 45 miles to the
Forks, mouth of Similla. .mccn. and Is
miles to Rock Creek. Water and grass
abundant the entire route.
The above Road can Lc travelled
from the first day OF May to the first OF
November without the slightest dill
Guilty. MIR. Ferguson recommends for
the remainder OF the year. takin" what
is known as the White Bluff Route,
that is passing through the Canyon in
the Simcoc and Ncnnaimo mountains
and cross the Columbia at White Bluff
thence through the Grand Cou,ec. re-
crossing the Columbia River at Fort
Okinagan. A portion of the above
route is the same for persons going to
the mines by either of the various
passes through the Cascade mountains.
From Seattle by Snooualmie Pass. the
itinerary would be, followin" the Sno-
Qualnic trai! down the Yakima some
20 miles, thence caStcrlv to the Wena-
chcc, at the forks about % miles above
its mouth, thence to Etty-cn-co creek,
down which creek some six miles to
the Columbia River. Other routes by
the Passes Of the Cascade Mountains
arc t;,vorably known, and will be dcvcl-
opcd in future article.