The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1865-07-15
The C9ur DsAlene Mines...The Ex.
citement Increasing.

The excitement in Lewiston, consequent
upon the gold discoveries in Ceur d'Alene
mountains, has been steadily on th increase;
whether from adequate cause, the reader,
upon receiving such facts as we are in pos
session of, must be his own judge. -r
But one man, that We are aware Of, has
come to Lewiston during the week from the
Ceur d'Alene mountains. This mana
Frenchman-tells straightforward story,
and the fact that he is going right back set
ties its truthfulness, in our mind. He came
liz for supplies, yesterday-started out in the
evening, and has not been seen in town
since. We presume he is now under way,
returning. He states that the gold of the
basin he is operating in is coarse, and that
the basin is quite extensive. He had fire.
quently got dollar to the pan. He seemed
to impart what information was drawn
from him reluctantly. He would not, or
could not, disclose the exact locality; but it
is understood to be not over sixty OF seventy
miles from Coeur d'Alene Mission. This
mans statements, so far as they 60, may,
we believe, be depended upon.
A Mr.. Donnelly came in, yesterday, from
the Spokane river. He represents the excite
ment all along the road to be more intense,
if possible, than here. Packers, who wero
charge of Indians, and turned OF in search
of the new gold fields. The fever had
become general among those whose original
intention it was to go to Baskerville, and
Kootenai was dropped from mind among
them as q by-gone. Mr.. d. met thirty or
thirty-fve bound from Lewiston to Ceur
d'Alene, and several different parties from
Walla Walla. As parties have been for over
q week leaving here daily, and others are
constantly starting out, he could not havs
seen but a small per centage of the full
number on the road. Mr.. Scranton, of this
place, came in from Baskerville last Saturday
nearly a week earlier than Mr.. Donnelly
and he gives about the same version Of
affairs. ~ .-..fl f. .... .......- ID. ..-.-..
Here we will let the matter rest, hoping
by our next, to be in possession of decisive
facts.-M. l. Radiator. .-ar ia
ACCORDING to ssLangley's Directory,o San
Francisco contains population of 142, 900
souls, has IL, ,443 buildings, and l ,654 estab-
lishments where liquors are retailed. There
are three persons, on the average, employed
. in each liquor establishment, making 1862
6 employed in that business alone. From
e these figures, it will be seen that in nearly
q every eighth building there is liquor saloon,
that there is one saloon for every sixty eight
/. inhabitants, and that about every twenty
second person makes living for himself
land family, if he has one,) out of the liquor
. business. While the bibulous appetites of
! ! men are thus provided for, there are 648
hotels, boarding houses and restaurants, to
9 provide solids for the inner man. Thus
where there is one public drinking place to
: 68 inhabitants. there is one public feeding
g place for each ia. A stranger in the city
e can find two places to drink in easier than
II he can find one where he can get dinner.
s COOLEST YEr.-Everybody wants notice
of every mining claim-gratis, of course
J. Few of those who are on the speculate eve,
d think of the county paper, except when some
b dead-head notice might help them. The
: coolest yet, was fellow who jumped a claim
4 of ours, the other day, and then asks us to
e give it notice, as he wished to get capita
, interested and make something out of it,
10 Humboldt Register. 20
I'll The BIC ExroRArIoN CoNINc.-A dispatch
= to the Salt Lake papers, from Julesburg
Il dated June Oath, says; s'Thers Is an i'm,
"a mcnse emigration passing west-over foul
" thousand wagons have passed in the las
twenty days. There are great man,
a women and children. Gen. Connor, staff
f and headquarters started this morning fo
n Fort Laramie. All quiet along the road"
1t EScLIsH sportsmen are beginning to nam,
p their race-horses after the famous battle
i fields of our civil war. Among the favor
y itee we find those of Chattanooga, Richmoa,
8 tand Autietam. iss ~ hfrt 80 ID d