Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-05-23
COOP NEWS tRoM lIpEADwooD.

GOOD NEWS fRoMlpEADwooD.
Ben. Northington has sent to US che follow.
ing interesting letter from Deadwood Basin!
where helis busily engaged id mining. with
thanks to him for his favor, we now Law IL he.
fore our readers:
DEADWooD BASIN, May 19, 1868.
EDITOR IDAHO WORLD Three numbers
OF the WORLD came duly to, hand by the inde-
fatlgabie Expressman, Tassell, WIZ, is making
regular and punctual trips here weekly.
Since my last letter to you there has been
good deal OF mining going on, and nearly all of
!ne Ola i0caters Of last year are doing much
oetter than they expected to do. Judge Gray's
Company are doing very well. The Dutch
: cialm mas PAID at the rater-of twenty-five dol
lars day to the hand for the last three weeks
ana promises to keep up this lick for the sea.
son. Mr. head is making good wages in the
sane guicn. Compromise gulch has prospect.
Gu rlcn wherever tried, but there is no water
IA ~ yer. Two men took out $40 one day last
week there, with one rocker. Hyland's dig
gings, on Horse Ely Flat, are good He has
not yet made clean up, but the shareholders
are in firstrate spirits over what thew have
seen since they have been worked. jackson
offered one OF them $1,000 cash for one-fifth of
hfteen hundred feet, and the man laughed at
MN. Wright q Co. have three claims in Kew.
stone gulch, from which they are taking out
iots OF dust, and they will hereafter do much
Detter, as the ditch is in, and they can get all
the water they want Water is cheap. every
tning OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES cents for day and
nignt Our ground joins their claim below, and
when we get their water we will also do bet
ter than we have done. Emery gulch is good.
L hree companies are at work in it. and are all
doing well. Elwood gulch also paws very good
Madden d Mcintosh have not cleaned nm vet
but are confident of rich one when they do,
OF Boulder gulch l know nothing except what
hear, and that is, it prospects and pays well
Bill Houten is making plenty of money out of
MS NIL ground, and hear his partner has re.
fused $1,000 for one-third of three claims.
Bill Hupper has found quartz vein which
crops out exceedingly well, and q lot of the
rock, which he treated by a simple rough pro-
cess last Saturday, yielded sixty-two ounces to
the ton. 1t is situated in or crosses keystone
gulch, near the head, and the ledge will soon
De traced and tested more satisfactorily.
nave now given you all of the special in
formation which / have derived about these
ligglngs, that occurs to me as write But
WIZ mention that many of the miners here
mink the river will pay at least FIVE or six dol
airs per day, and should this prove to be the
act the diggngs in this Basin will not be ex-
lausted within the next ten years.
We are all ut present praying FIR the ap-
'earaace OF fresh meat in camp, and if some.
BODY would drop in here with twenty or thirty
lead OF fat beeves or mutton the lot would |
ind ready sale and hungry purchasers. FRO
ner d COLLEEN started from Idaho City last |
Wednesday morning, with beeves and mutton |
or Deadwood.-ED.1
Our Deadwood Cityis improving and in the |
asst two weeks 1t has made big strides towards /
mountain city style. Galation had good sup.
'ly of goods on hand, but they are going off /
Ike hot cakes. Burnett has firstrate restau.
ant established, and serves up the best kind /
4 dishes. under the circumstances, tn suit us
ard-workiug miners, at all hours of day and
light. He is making money fast, aud he de-
erves his success. This will be- q big camp
ct, and we shall all be happy in it
The weather has not been of the italian
ort lately. 1t has rained every day for the
ist four days, and is raining yet. But the
aims give us water, and it don't stop us from
working, so we are grateful for it and content
/ don't hear much of politics here, for we
re all too busy to pay much attention to them,
ut think this camp is Democratic. As am
inging the pick every day, Sunday thrown in,
don't get around to hear or see what is going
n in party matters.
l have heard men in my visits to the camp
urse this Basin, and swear there are no good
igging in it. But never see these GROWERS
ut prospecting. or tryisg to find any claims
'r themselves. The fact is substantially es-
lbllshed that there are extensive and rich
iggings here, rs the dust freshly taken out is
ere to show for it, but nobody can expect to
ave good claim if he doesn't seek and regu- :
lrly obtain one, or to make money out of a
lain il he doesn't work it.
/ advise no man to come here to mine unless
g is willing to prospect and work hard; but
, any one who will labor as l say, this is a
pod mining region to operate in.
l shall write you again soon.