The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1871-02-17

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LITTLE FALLS SNAKE RIvER,|
January -, 1870.
promised to write to you. I have said
every day II will write Tomorrow" but
tomorrow never comes. So write to. day,
and beg pardon for the past
We arrived here Nov. %. We bought a
piece of ground for $50-worked it ten days
made $11. We quit working that piece
Four of US then bought 1900 feet of ground
three miles below, for $500, getting it low
on account of the rock. Our derrick cost
$3.50, and we have been hosting out rock
and stripping ever since. Some of the al-
amant grows big hcrc-weighing from ten
lbs. to 20 tons, but we make them light out
with the derrick. It is called first -rate''
claim 1t is good for about $6 per day for
the next two years. can't say much for
the mines here. There have been some
good claims here, thongh, but think they
are worked out. The rock is the trouble.
IT our claim was easily worked we could
make all the money We want.
We have about four inches of snow here:
weather warm now, but there have been
some bitter cold days. We have killed
eight deer, and ducks and chickens till our
stomachs got foul.
We commence washing to. o.morrow. II I
can make little stake by the time high
water comes will emigratc to Montana:
haven't enough of Montana yet.
Where are jeff Standifcr and Jack Rey-
nolds? Tell Jack I have "Watch' yet
He gets better US lie grows older, and in the
year 1900 will be the best dog on earth-if
he lives /"
If any of the boys talk of coming here,
tell them not 10 believe all they see in print
about the mines here. These editors won't
do.
We arc located at Little Falls of Snake
River, 1876 miles below Taylor's Bridge, and
$50 miles from Boise. Our address is Little
Falls, ola Rock Creek Station, Snake River
Mines, care of Capt. Blcdsoc.
III Am the Rear Guard"
Apropos Of McMahon's reply, 1.-THE Cui-
rassiers are no more" an anccdote is related
of Marshal Ney:
1t is we'll known that this officer fought,
during the retreat from Russia, with most
heroic courage, keeping always by the side
of his soldiers. That he survived the balls,
cold and hunger that battlcd necessarily
his corps, was the result of miracle.
One day, as Gen. Dumas occupied the
village of Stolluppcnen, he was informed
that peasant wished to sec him. The
peasant" was brought in. He was covered
from head to foot in sheepskin clothing.
"Whcre do you como from? What do
you wish" demanded Dumas brusquely, in
Polish.
The individual threw off his bonnet.
The General made gesture of surprise.
''You, Marshalw
1t was Ney. lie remained standing and
silent.
II believe that you command the rear
guard" said the General.
H." said Nyc, ''am the rear guardw
A correspondent of the New York Tti-
'une proposes Rocky Mountain canal.
He says:
A ship canal from the Missouri river to
The Salmon and Columbia rivers, will re-
luire about eighty-fivc miles of canal and
about four locks. The Rocky Mountain
ascent in that neighborhood is very grad.
aal. When travellers are on the summit
hey do not realize that they are on an ele-
Vation until told it is the highest land in the
bass. The canal would require locks around
he great falls of the Missouri. Above the
'alls the river is deep and broad for about
80 miles, near where the Wisdom river
lows into the Missouri. The most direct
cute for canal is from Horse Prairie
:rcek to the Salmon river, which is deep
md broad, and down the Columbia to
2ockland falls, where q lock would he
leeGed. Then there would be one unob.
tructed water course from st. Louis to the
oacific coast.