The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-12-11

will give you here, and for gold, the incest
you ever saw: Hams 65c- per pound ba
con SOC; tea So tobacco 50 !; coffee 90c;
dried apples Soc; peaches Csc; dried cher
ries 81 butter 81 ; cheese 75c; picks $40
each; shovels the same; axes s. helves
$3.50: pick handles $3.50; whiskey from
IS to $40 per gallon; nails Soc /; candles
75c; cream tartar 50; soda 81. Clothing
sells well hats and caps are good proper
ty. Blankets sell at from $40 to $50 per
pair. The prices give you above are by
the pound. Flour is selling for $50 to
$50 per 100 pounds. Potatoes, onions
and beets, which are brought here for sale
from Bitter Root Valley, and Salt Lake.
sell for Csc per pound. In fact, most ev-
erythiLg. sells here for good prices. | pay
seventy dollars a month for log house,
that have my goods in. Ny family is in
the same building. There are 10 parts
tons. People here live as they can, not
as they would like 10. "
The mountain tops around US are cover
ed with snow, and have been for some
time, but in the canon it is warm and
bio piles of god-you bet You will be
surprised to think there are 80 few people
here. | will explain to you. In May last
there was a new discovery made on a
stream called Slinkwater. abou, seventeen
miles from here, in similar canon, and it
proved SO rich and so extensive that there
was general stampede from here to that
point, Al! left here except those who
had the richest claims. They continue 10
work on, and some take out as high as
$500 to 800 per day, but all are doing
first rate-mueh better, old miners say
shan in California. Wages are from IS
to SIS per day. and plenty of work. Board
from 81 so to So 90 day, and sleep your
self as best you can, which is rough
enough, tell you. The mines on Stink
water are now worked for ffteeE miles in
length, and new discoveries are being
made every day. There are mines at the
foot of Ball Mountain, twelve miles from
here, also on Horse Creek Prairie, TWEEN
.y five miles from here, and all pay the
miners from $40 to 800 per day to
man.
1t Is eStlID6icu tIdI luelC 6iO i'Oih'
three to FIVE thousand people in Stinkwa-
ter miues. Every one can do we'll here
if he will work Saltwater is the fast
town. All the gamblers and pimps are
in that famous city, and out of some
claims they are taking pounds instead of
ounces, of gold daily. These are facts,
and | presume this country will prove the
richest poor mans mining country ever
discovered It don't need any machinery
for the gulch mining, which is extensive
here. Every day new discoveries are be-
ing made. 1t is hard country to live
in. but there is plenty of gold here; no
rubbing it out, and NO humbug. 1nclosed
send you by, who leaves here in the
morning, ten small specimens OF gold as
they were taken from the mother earth
This gold passes here for eighteen dollars
per ounce. These ten specimens weigh
little over ten dollars but these are no
specimen. to what they are taking out
here, some weighing from 50 TO 200 and
800 dollars each. We are within $50
miles of Fort Benton, on the Missouri, and
$50 from Sal. Lake City, aud about 600
miles from Salmon or Boisce river miues
where they are taking ont as dig piles Of
gold as here. The route | came is only
about 200 miles from here to Leaven-
worth.