Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-07-08

great Importance of strawberries, for wc had
pcnchcs and p.ums that, with the subStan-
iiais, served in ample style, filed any vacuum
in the evening, We visited the mines on
Wilson's bar, two miles below Pixies Peak,
found James o. Gtoolo ut this point, with n
| good thing he thinks, assisted by Mcssrs
D. Irvine and killan.
Friday, 10th Very warm visited most
of the mines now in operation on Pilgrim bar,
commencing with Messrs Steele kctching
Il Irvine, Mcssrs. Thornton 4 Kohus. Col.
John NJ Woods, Mcssrs Pierce g. Brother,
Nlcssrs. llucomhe e. Co., hIessrs. Kcaon &
Co., &c, &c We found The owners gcncr
ally, in the mines at work with their hands.
and as we was a Pilgrim. worshipping, Gas
they thoughts at the shrine of mamnon
some of them would hand us nugget and
say, "wc arc sorry we have no better ones
to- day, come to morrow. and we may be able to
give you something prctticr &c, but take
this pan of dirt and wash it, perhaps you will
find something, &c." In this way We lcarcd
and washed us Il small pile.
Saturday. llth. lot IN company with
Judge Irvine and Col Il. NJ Steele we vis
tied Cod Creek, Pioneer, French Bar S1uaw
Gnlch, and the icl Gate country, stopping
in Pioneer city few hours We found many
rich diggingS, judging from the specimens
shown us, and surrounding circumstances.
men wanted 10y miners at $500 per day in
"dusi" for ten hours, and not as hard work as
thousands in oar State arc doing ut 5000
per month or less After we had satisfied
ourselves as TO the wealth deposited around,
we made for Joc's cabin, arriving in time to
sec many strangers, ladies, PILGRIMS, citizens,
and chinnmcn come TO town." for to morrow
is the ''clc,r up day chat means TIE duv
the miners take tho gold cut uf their sluicc
boxes, Their weeks run. generally, and horse
rcing day, and pay day, and Pilgrims rest
day generally. and being a day of general
joliIica,ion With miners of all classes, and
everybody comes TO town.
Sunlny, l2th--I.iu!c rain in morning and
evening Saw Messrs. Stnolcs, Kctching
and Irvine ''clcar up" nine hundred and
ninety dollars, six hands, six days. Was at
.4ii,s,.s wntcrditch Office, and SAW thousands Of
dollars paid to the Ditch Company Tho
miners, rs usual, made good runs, and "lust"
was plenty and changed hands rapidly. Saw
thousands OF dollars pnid to hands for their
weeks labor, at from 50 TO Sc per day in
'dust;" saw lots of it lost on horse racing,
billiards, crib, ino, cuchrc, &c. \nd at
night the initiation Of the "iIurly Gurdy"
7 tbOt pihtH III L arc > ne" nan, NOT couple
ted by half, no covcring, no doors, and no
seats, but iliis was the time set, and Madame
. l4ckhart, (thc finest photographic artist Of
Helena, is with the tronpc.l aud %upcrincn.
dent Bani. Rohor were determined the dance
and housc-warming should come of, and at
early candlc.irhtin@, the Music struck up
"Won't You 90 with the to The dance, to-
night, ny dear" and varied with national
and secular music, but NJ sacred that we
have poor ear for discriminating airs and
as we saw minister that We knew around,
we rather guess that he hnl some of his in
the ont-iit From the number of persons
present at the dance tonight. VIC presume The
Territory was fully represented, and many
"piler;m' spectators We saw OF the Genr-
@ians, McsSrs, Ilolcombe, Pierce, Kelly. Kill
lan and Wood; from South Carolina, the
Messrs. Jos. c., JAS. O. and r. NJ. Steele,
and John Myers from Missouri, Mcssrs.
( Pope, Sanders Culp, Irvine, "hcd Fox. -
From Wisdom River or Big Hole, from the
/ Yellowstone Valley, from Big Horn, from st
!! Nlary's River or Bitter Root. fronl'thc Mus.
/ clcshcll from the l.,;sin Narias or Sinking
Water, you would see delegations, all engaged
in the "gidly dance e'-the Bitter Root boys
with the Sinking Water girls, the Big Horn
boys with the Big Hole girls, and the yellow
stone boys with the Musclcshcll girls, all at
tcntion to each other, and each trying to out
vie the other on this festive occasion-thc
opening OF the first "lIurdy Gurdcs' at
Pixies Peak Calculatins to leave for Ilclc-