The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1866-03-08
BOISE Cry, Feb. 25, 1866.

EDiToR MotSTAMEER The number OF
mills trimming at Rocky Bar, on Bear Creek,
Is three: Wilson, Waddingham h Co., ten
stamps; Idaho Company, ten stamps Pitts
burg Gold & Silver Mining Company ten
stamps; and on Red Warrior, one and hall
miles from Rocky Bar, the Victor Gold
Silver Mining Co., fifteen STAMPS; Benson
Harris & Ou,'s Mill, ten stamps. The week
before last, the latter, after six days run,
crushing fock from the Wide West lode,
e'eaned up over one hundred pounds of gold
(after retorted,) worth, say, in cash, $l6,5Oo
Wilson Waddingham is crushing rock from
Confederate Star lode, and is making almost
as we'll, The Idaho Company have fine
iode also, and probably take out an average
of $4,000 week, while their returns have
been as high as $l4,OoOin single week.
The Pittsburg Company are also crushing
Confederate Star rock, and doing well. The
| Victor Company keep their business very
close, and all we can learn is that the mill is
paying we'll. The Yuba District is eighteen
miles north-east of Rocky Bar, and there the
ledges are astonishing, and it is likely to
produce smile skepticism, and doubt o
my credibility were l to tell the whole truth
Still make not the slightest exaggeration
and do not, in fact, 60 nearly as large when
l mention the Leonora nine feet wide, and
very rich in free gold; Willamette, ten feel
wide, gold and silver; Silver Tide, twelve
or fourteen feet Atlanta, ten to fifteen feet
Cleopatra, another splendid lead Minerva
and dozens of otherss4 Some, there, repre-
sent lodes as being thirty or forty feet wide
but do not OF my own knowledge know
such to be the fact. Dudley Hoyt is reported
to have struck splendid thing in the shap,
of quartz in Yuba. l have seen assays o
rock from Yuba from $l7to $4,000 to tn
ton in gold, besides paying quantities o
silver.
at Owyhee, the redskins have broken out
and killed ranchman named Hall, an
stolen more of Hill Beachey's stage stock
Capt. Walker with forty men is out in thei
country, and we may anticipate trouble thi
summer unless a thousand or ffteen.hur
dred we'll mounted cavalry can be put int
the fed, armed and organized in q prope
: manner for fighting Indians. When will ou
, "ruIe, and thumb " discipline in fighting Ii
, dians give way to the only real mods OF ge
| ting dt them2 The only way to .chastise th
/. scoundrels is to attack them by "hyin
raids,' ever moving. If some of those ga
liant fellows who made the great Mississippi
raid during the rebellion, saw the mode
. fighting Indians and calling it 'sraid" {
a scout, they would only laugh. &ctivi
must prevail to attack and overcome Il
: ever restless, ever moving child of d
= wilderness. 1t is hard work :, wearying ar
fNiguing, for no twenty to twenty-f five mil
8 riding; o. day will catch Indians, even on foe
8 much less when they are all nounted.
They must DO first discovered by good. re-
:. able scouts, then followed and attacked su
denly, and at several points at the sar
y time to make success certain.
" The miners in Owyhee, and theranchm
l. are now in continual danger, and the ira
v elers on the roads are at alltimes expos
4. to these savages. What do treaties, a
hundreds and thousands of dollars amou
to, these red 6ends 2 They are worse tn
useless, and only serve to help them 10 60
II outfits to fight the whites. The true mode
s that adopted by our neighbors on Britt
r. territory. They treat Indians as subjects
o Queen Victoria, and as long as they beha
# themselves, treat them well, (but never q
them annuities,) claim thesol as the p
= rogative of the crown, ard then when |