The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-06-10
MAYNARD CORRESPONDENCE.
Blackfoot, Washington, Jefferson, Califer.
mia, and Carpenters Bar.

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Editor New Northwest:
That pink.ribbon mystery having leer
dissolved, turned my cayuse's ears towart
Ophir and vicinity on Sunday the 28th. Or
the little Blackfoot, 80 piles of dry good,
boxes and liquor kegs with mules undcl
them. were vending their way to the Mouth
of Cedar. Arrived ut BlackfOot we found
the town thickly sprinkled with men who
had come in to keep the Sabbath day Who'll
". and were doing it. The camp IS lvcn
ing up both in mining and mercantile cir.
cles, and some considerable money has al.
ready been taken out The clean-ups W.
heard of were: O'Rourke 4 Hogan, one Of
$780, Gallagher & Co., $l2O0, Dunn. g..
zoo Spears & Co.; $500; Mcdonald s. Co.,
three OF $3.50 each Smith & ORourke
have sold their bed rock fume in Ophir, "a
Shelby, Mccormick & Co. for 5000, and
it will now run night and day. From con.
| vcrsations with different prominent miners,
l am led to the belief that more gold will ba
taken out of this camp this season than for
the last two years. In the merchandising
line, We found G. G. Birdseye. with . tip.
top stock OF goods and 125 900 addition
on the road. +. p. Lindsey s. 20. have q
large and well assorted stock in store and
en- route, are doing their share of the trade,
and are pleasant gentlemen in or out of bus.
iness. Mcssegee & Robbins, are still doing
| thriving business, and, beside their store,
run an express and freight line to Lincoln,
ria Washington, Jefferson, and California
gulchcs. (Thcrc hasn't been a better or
more energetic Frenchman killed in the
Franco. Prussian war than that same Messs>
gee. Frank NJ. Green also has small stock
Of miners supplies on hand, but hasn't filed
up this spring. Bob" Is lively convcr.
sationalist and we'll -muscled peace maker.
In the saloon trade, Jas Mathews keeps the
only billiard room in town and rcigns over
that one the prince of good fellows. as he
is. (Go and sec him) Tibbets s. Walheiscr
(Bill contcmplatcs the soda pop business,
shortly, and will take lessons from our
BILLY" in Deer Lodge] are rinning a
bakery and saloon in conjunction and doing
well. The Haines Bros keep saloon and
Cayusc rcstaurant-both well. John Heiber
and johnny Flynn, the latter last winter of
Deer Lodge, and rara acis in politics, also
Geo. Swsrtz and his cstiMnblc lady prc
sides over goodly number of bosr,1ers at
the Carey House, which Mr.. Swartz has re-
Gently purchased from Mr.. Wilson: Geo.
sets q good table and deserves the liberal
patronage he is receiving. Mr.. 8. Hinch-
cliff, keeps busy in saving the solcs of his
BlackfoOt customers, and says he will get
his reward in the upper" world.
Nicholas Bubb and Charles Bennett are
making jewelry-one for horses and the
other for humans. Nick Bcilcnburg 10 cut
ting up condensed bunch-grass in the city
market, and has well-kept stall. DR.. Weed.
en- furnishes the pills of the town, and
makes the coroncrs Office . sinecure. This
is about the business of Blackfoot, and they
have ncighborh00d of 800 miners to sup.
port it. We ike the Blackfcet. and If We
ever 90 within hundred miles We shall call
again. ...... ......
The next camp Of any importance 70 the
north OF BlackfOOt, was named (s0mc timc)
after our patriotic ancestor who sOcked his
little hatchct into the family shrubbery, and
like Ben Butler, couldn't tell lie.
WASHINGTON GULcH
Is about nine miles from Ophir. and the
trail to it is coiled through ~ pretty land
scare a. there is in Montana. 1t is over
succession of low, timbcred. grass clsd and
tiowcr-i illuminated slopes. here and there
silver striped with lazy.running streams
whose crystal waters seem 10th to leave
their native Eden for an uncertain future In
the great ocean of the Golden Coast. The
long and luxuriant grasses tempt but small
herds. and We dropped a tear Of sympathy
for our mothers youngest son, rs we thought
of the many : : he had lost by mot having
lowing herds on these Thousands hills Had
the Divine decree set poor old Nebuclaad-
nazzcr down IN this pasture, nine years
would't have been marker" Of his grass
fed probation. Washington was discovered
in June, 1865, and many . fortune has been
taken out Of it Its chief metropolis il com.
posed of four business house. Mr.. +. A.
(bctter known a. "Tom") Cummings, u
located in good, substantial building and
has it sucked with first-class assortment
of miners furnishing g0t,ds, including edi-
bles and imbibables. Mr. P. 8. White ID
also engaged in merchandising, has large
stock, and prcsidcs over postal affairs. Mich.
ael brennan Everybody knows and likes
''Mickcy') has the only saloon In the place.
The size Of his heart makes him corpulent,
and his coffin will contain the remains Of q
jovial . jintilman from the 'ou!d dart q did
that which graced the wake Of '.Tim o.
Hara." The remaining house ID kept ~ =
butcher shop By Mr.. Newell. who supplies
home steaks ut reasonable rates. Some 50
taking in e out GOOD p.y We wsle pleased sne I q
meeting our friend Stoner, who after pay
ing visit to America, has pulled Oh his
st0' clos and 10 running N Irish buggy over
one Of the best claims Ii the gulch.
JETrERsoN GULcH
Lies directly over the hill, and : two mile
ride brought 10 TO the camp. 20 to IS men
are q work, mostly hydlaulicing. Harris
Bros. have rather tho best ground, and their
only cleanup this spring yielded $50 por
day 70 the man. Seven pipes are running
the gulch and several companies are ground
sluicing. Mr.. D. g. Warner has the Jcf.
ferson House running with full head Of
steam, and - going 70 give bis nimble.feet-
ed neighb0rs m opportunity 70 trip the
Eight fantastic In honor Of the 05th.auni.
vcrsary Of our divorce from Johnny Bull.
II ID but : hop-skip and. Jump through I
lovely park Of tall, straight pines to
CALIFORNIA auLCH,
Tributary 70 Nevada creek. whore are three
houses and . half dozen sturdy miners, the
former convincing one = . glance that tidy
hands and happy hearts dwell within, lcoN
NUAD1UM-"What h home without . moth
er," OF siitss, Or Some other body's siseerf]
and the smiling nugsof ihs latter that theJ
have good thing On bedrock. With TIN
exception Gf 40 feet, owned By N. Nead
the gulch y claimcd " the Oalifos1ia Flunl,
Company, md = paying - four propeistoii.
. handsome dividend ls = ~ eT1vel ant
II extensive. The lareo 6as beaoW CaHfoEnil
Il rroenoCts well nn6 III RnfaP NonA h rot IN