Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-04-30
White Pine.

| \ ork Sun, from WHOSE letter VIC inaho
the following extracts. The district ex-
tends for many miles around Treasure
Hill and though the ground is now
covered with snow, and no mining oper-
ations can be carried on, the miners start
right out with picks and shovels and To-
cate their claims.
/ Disconsolate, weary and savage, wan
dered the streets, observing the changes
/ that have taken place in little more than
a week. There are more tent-covered
houses innumerable new board shanties
have started from the frozen ground
shops, gin mills, and gambling hells have
| been built. There, is new assay office
here, another. There, a hotel ; here, a
log hut. There are twice as many men
! talking in knots, if they can endure the
/ piercing wind which seems to blow from
every quarter. 1t reminds one of Butta-
/ 10, where, when man comes to corner,
he instinctively buttons coat and smash
es hat tight down on his head. The ar
rivals number don't know how many
\ day-perhaps two hundred but they
are changed in character More of them
4 are old miners, more are blacklegs and
desperadoes, and more are women OF GER
tain character. More are keen specula-
tors aud moneyed men from Frisco
More drunkards, and the material from
which drunkards are made, throng the
bar-rooms or lie in wait in every conceiv-
able place, hoping to ensnare Hat. =
1t is only the blessed, cursed wind that
keeps the monte dealers and sweatboards
players within doors, but there are enough
of them there. "Stakes" of considera-
BILE amount, earned by the hard labor Of
weeks, are lost at faro and monte in half
an hour, by brawny whiskered fellows,
who know where more can be got.
The scarcity of horses is noteworthy ;
it is because horse here would eat his
head off in month, with hay at $3.50 a
ton and IS week board. Dogs are
more plentiful they furnish good revolt
yer practice to the miners, Some of the
signs stuck upon the habitations are
worth transcribing. You have
-" Red dorg Bill ; old frens CALL"
Restaurant all drinks and miner;
fits" Gle means miners outfits"
Branch of Frisco Hotel-meals all
hours"
Essay offs, correct returns"
Information given relating to all claims
= lodes, and mines" This fellow is 8
sharper)
"Franz Unterschleifer from Freiberg
Another swindler-no such name on the
Frieberg record.)
: DR.. S, E. Grain, graduate of tn,
| College of Geneva, New York, and Ii
) centiate of the Medical Board Of Victo
ria, Australia, gives particular attention
, to women and children" This is just s
, little funny when one enumerates tht
: women and children residing in the re
gion.
2 For a cup of coffee and piece o
t beef spoiled in the cooking, this CORES
t pondent paid dollar and half in coin
G Roast chickens sell for two dollars each
d apples and potatoes thirty cents apiece
/, and water, melted snow, thirty cents
It bucketfu1.
The White Piners are hard presses
for amusement in their evening hour:
and are perforce driven to entertain
themselves with whisky or gambling
u Only week or two ago, however, 10
- Coburn, a pugilist well known in Ne
York and Frisco, gave several sparrin
exhibitions, in which he encountered al
,, the leading men of fstic ambition in thi
region, and gained some money thereby
There is now room where the gloriou
hurdy-gurdy rules mellifuous. Thehu
:, dy girls are almost without exception {
~ German nationality, and honest Of d.
~ pertinent. They seat themselves on
. bench on one side of the room or a
= around it, and are ready and willing t
II dance or waltz with any rough mine
q who applies, for the customary fee of
y dollar, to which sum, however, must
- added the compliment of treat, 50 tn,
" he who would dance with hurry gi
must needs expend at least $3.50, I
: the credit of these girls be it said thu
" they never get drunk, are always we
. behaved, and save money either to sen
home or take themselves there. Even
~ drinking their thriftis displayed, for the
:: drink nothing, and earn so much mo
:. from the bar. A row originated in tn
! place recently, which resulted in DAM
Flynn, better known as " Brocky," beir
r. shot by Pat O'Brien. The wound,
:, man died next morning, while the mu
:" derer fled on stolen mule, and has n
- been heard of since. A good or ev
- tolerable company of negro minstre
would do a driving business hove &